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Monthly Archives: April 2021
CEO Pay Surged in a Year of Upheaval and Leadership Challenges
WSJ [paywall] – “The executives’ compensation for 2020 is on track for a record even as shareholders voice displeasure with some pay packages. CEO pay surged in 2020, a year of historic business upheaval, a wrenching labor market for many workers and unprecedented challenges for many leaders. Median pay for the chief executives of more… Continue Reading
ITER, The Grand Illusion: A Forensic Investigation of Power Claims
“Is nuclear fusion a likely solution to climate change? Is fusion a viable energy alternative? For 70 years, fusion scientists have promoted new design concepts, pointed to computer models, and unequivocally stated that fusion is the answer. But where is the experimental evidence that the scientific method demands? And why has energy from nuclear fusion… Continue Reading
More Colleges Say They’ll Require Students To Have COVID-19 Vaccines For Fall
NPR – “Duke University in North Carolina has announced that it will require students to have a COVID-19 vaccine when they return this fall. And the list of campuses with such policies is growing. Rutgers University in New Jersey was the first, and since then more than a dozen residential colleges have followed. The University… Continue Reading
Use the DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
Via DuckDuckGo News: “Google has created a new tracking method called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. FLoC is bad for privacy: It puts you in a group based on your browsing history, and any website can get that group FLoC ID to target and fingerprint you.… Continue Reading
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Take a couple minutes to read this work by Blackle Mori (@suricrasia) – 2021. It is a fascinating collection of links to definitions, papers, computer jargon and sites, many of which you are likely to have encountered in your work, arranged by the following categories: Above the Iceberg; On the Iceberg; Below the Water; Middle… Continue Reading
Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists
The New York Times – Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers. “…Specialized terminology isn’t unique to the ivory tower — just ask a baker about torting or an arborist about bracts, for example. But it’s pervasive in academia, and now a team of researchers has… Continue Reading
A 20-year-forecast for the world: increasingly fragmented and turbulent
National Intelligence Council – Global Trends 2040 – A More Contested World – March 2021: “…Published every four years since 1997, Global Trends assesses the key trends and uncertainties that will shape the strategic environment for the United States during the next two decades. Global Trends is designed to provide an analytic f ramework for… Continue Reading
GPO and Libraries Set Goal to Make Every US Government Document Accessible
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is undertaking a massive effort to capture and make publicly accessible every U.S. Government document through the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information (National Collection). GPO will do this by digitizing documents and making them accessible on govinfo and the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), as well as… Continue Reading
Expedia launches a new tool to check coronavirus travel restrictions
The Verge: “As more people get vaccinated against the coronavirus and spring weather coaxes people outside, we’re all thinking about those travel plans we shelved last summer. But with COVID-19 travel restrictions varying by country and by state in the US, it’s difficult to figure out what’s safe and what the latest rules are. Expedia… Continue Reading
How and when to use the Recall feature in Outlook (and other email systems)
Tech Republic – “Outlook’s Recall feature, which ostensibly offers users a way to recall emails they have sent either by mistake, with incorrect or inappropriate information or in the heat of a bad moment, has been around for some time across numerous versions. Its usage was especially common when the “press Ctrl-Enter to send” problem… Continue Reading
How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy
Vice: “Thousands of protesters are filling the streets of American cities to protest the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, and police brutality writ large. Police officers have shown they’re more than willing to escalate violence with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, vehicles, and other dangerous crowd suppression measures. In addition,… Continue Reading
