Sydney woman exposes ATO scammer with hilarious response
BUSINESSMAN Linden Phillips was sentenced last month to seven and a half years in prison for unsuccessfully trying to dud the tax office of $835,000 in fraudulent refunds of goods and services tax (GST).
A few days earlier, Justin McCormick copped a year in jail after conviction for dishonestly getting less than $110,000 from the tax office. McCormick, like Phillips, had registered a fake Australian business number and claimed GST refunds on purchases never made.
Getting away with murder: Time to go after the tax evasion 'sharks'
Colbeck doesn’t hold back in criticism of adjustment to PwC’s fine
Interim rail chief reveals during budget estimates that planning for Sydney-Newcastle line hasn’t started as MPs compare situation to episode of Utopia
Russian morale has broken against the steel hearts of Ukraine The Telegraph
Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia WaPo
Exclusive Data: Twitter Is Shrinking Under Elon Musk Big Technology. “Power users — the top 10% — account for 72% of all time spent on the app, slightly more than the 70% they spent inside X in October 2022. This indicates that either a new group of power users replaced those who left or that power users and casual users left in consistent numbers.” Also, Threads is nowhere. What a shame.
Inside the deranged mind of Twitter’s ‘For You’ algorithm Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin. My experience is that the algo is actually better under Musk than before (although “better” isn’t the same as “good”). Presumably the algo has enough information on my preferences to deviate from the “bro-y” defaults Silver encountered.
* * * Artists Can Now Sabotage AI Image Generators to Fight Art Theft Daily Beast. Now do text
Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users Bleeping Computer
The Internet Could Be So Good. Really. The Atlantic. Interesting:
Through all of this work, we came to a big realization about what our conversations had that many online conversations do not: clear roles for key participants. We had conversation organizers, facilitators, curators, prompt designers, and analyzers to find and make sense of patterns of experience that emerged across conversations. Inviting individuals to play these roles in a social dialogue network is an opportunity to participate in civic and democratic processes. Some online spaces already have moderators or admins, but we began to wonder what it would look like if we built a platform that resembled the conversations we had around our digital hearth. And that is the path our teams at MIT and Cortico are now on.
Obviously, such an approach requires participants to have shared values and commitments. Many of today’s trolls and fly-by meme makers aren’t really looking for civic discourse.