Workplaces function better, business ethicists point out, when they make room for a certain amount of defiance. “I think you always have to make independent judgments about orders that come down to you,” University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor Charlan Nemeth said in an email. Nemeth, author of the 2018 book In Praise of Troublemakers, added that “people who speak up are often those most loyal to the organization.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trump-inadvertently-shows-value-insubordination/588733/

https://daily.jstor.org/treadmills-were-meant-to-be-atonement-machines/

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.

The statistics gathered by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2018 show Internet-enabled theft, fraud, and exploitation remain pervasive and were responsible for a staggering $2.7 billion in financial losses in 2018.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ic3-releases-2018-internet-crime-report-042219

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2014/05/04/thomas-pikettys-capital-summarised-in-four-paragraphs

It is the economics book that took the world by storm. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, written by the French economist Thomas Piketty, was published in French in 2013 and in English in March 2014. The English version quickly became an unlikely bestseller, and it prompted a broad and energetic debate on the book’s subject: the outlook for global inequality. Some reckon it heralds or may itself cause a pronounced shift in the focus of economic policy, toward distributional questions. The Economist hailed Professor Piketty as "the modern Marx" (Karl, that is). But what is his book all about?

“Transportation experts and bike enthusiasts agree that building more “protected bike lanes,” which physically separate motorized vehicle and bike traffic with planters, curbs, parked cars or posts, are a good way to reduce some of these risks. And it looks like
crowdfunding, raising money collectively and online, helps ensure that local communities will welcome this infrastructure.”

https://theconversation.com/civic-crowdfunding-reduces-the-risk-of-bikelash-114049

https://www.howtogeek.com/410387/scam-alert-fake-job-recruiters-tried-to-catfish-us-here%e2%80%99s-what-happened/

Fake recruiters are catfishing desperate job-seekers, seducing them with the promise of a high-paying job before stealing their money and identity.

https://xkcd.com/2135/

Like, whoa!

http://theconversation.com/putins-plagiarism-fake-ukrainian-degrees-and-other-tales-of-world-leaders-accused-of-academic-fraud-112826

“The bottom line is that dismantling accepted standards of statistical evidence will decrease the uncertainty that scientists have in publishing their own research. But it will also increase the public’s uncertainty in accepting the findings that they do publish – and that can be problematic.”

https://theconversation.com/is-it-the-end-of-statistical-significance-the-battle-to-make-science-more-uncertain-114161

Every day, Americans turn to their local news media to learn about the news in their communities. But how they get the news, which topics they prioritize and how they evaluate their local outlets can vary from one community to the next. To better understand these
differences, Pew Research Center surveyed about 35,000 U.S. adults, allowing for local news profiles of individual communities.

Local results are available for 99 large CBSAs, which are geographic areas that include at least one urban center (see the Methodology). Results for smaller CBSAs are grouped together based on their similarity across factors such as income, race and ethnicity, and voter turnout.

https://www.journalism.org/interactives/local-news-habits/47260/