The New York Times has a story about a Dad who took a photo of his son's penis on an iPhone and send it to the "health care provider's messaging system" as instructed by the nurse helping them. Now he is in a world of pain because somewhere in that chain, Google's child porn bot saw the image, along with some earlier ones of his kid doing kid things, closed down all his Google accounts with no recourse and then forwarded his details on the San Francisco police who investigated him. The investigation was quickly ended after the police saw the communications between the father and doctor, but Google has still banned him and "stands by its decisions" despite the police saying there's nothing to see here.
The Australian Treasury is going to "token map the Australian crypto market" according to a press release from the Treasurer today. This work will "help identify how crypto assets and related services should be regulated" and they reckon it "hasn't been done anywhere else in the world, so it will make Australia leaders in this work". The point of this "token map" is to "identify notable gaps in the regulatory framework, progress work on a licensing framework, review innovative organisational structures, look at custody obligations for third party custodians of crypto assets and provide additional consumer safeguards". I don't know what a token map is and Google has no hits on token maps except for articles referencing this press release, so good luck to everyone involved.
Slack has a large chunk of documentation explaining how not to be a dickhead using their popular collaboration tool that honestly, applies to Teams and whatever collab tools people use at work these days. Write fewer messages (a paragraph instead of a stream of half sentences - a sin I am guilty of), make them easy to scan (dot points, text formatting), use threads, use emoji reactions, take advantage of status messages, talk in public rather than DMs. Good advice.
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