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Senators Abandon National Priorities for Personal Ones

From TechCruch:

Today, Senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey are expected to announce a plan they have to re-impose the taxes on Saverin, part of a bigger scheme to go after expatriates who give up citizenship in order to avoid taxes. On top of that, they want to make it official that people who do avoid paying their taxes by renouncing citizenship are unable from ever re-entering the country again.

So, let me make sure I’m getting this straight.  Eduardo Severin was born in Brazil and lived there for the first 16 years of his life. He has lived in Singapore for the past few years.  He created Facebook with Zukerberg, and with the impending IPO, is about to owe about $67 million in taxes.  So he renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying the taxes. And now he needs his own law.

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by Jim Caccamo on May 17, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on May 17, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/05/17/senators-abandon-national-priorities-for-personal-ones/

Vogue’s Human Move

The New York Times’ Eric Wilson recently reported that Vogue magazine will institute a new policy in which it agrees to stop using models under 16 years of age and models “who, from the viewpoint of the editors, appear to have an eating disorder.”  The change, which will apply to all of its 19 international editions, is being done, according to Jonathan Newhouse (Chairman of parent company Condé Nast International) to “reflect their commitment to the health of the models who appear on the pages and the well-being of their readers.”

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by Jim Caccamo on May 16, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on May 16, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/05/16/vogue-bans-anorexic-models/

Happy Mothers’ Day (Don’t Forget to Post on Your Mom’s Wall)

Was a time, not so long ago when electronics where pretty much a guy thing. Even a few years ago, electronics manufacturers had a hard time figuring out how to sell anything but a television to women. But now, the tide has turned. Nielson released a new survey of American mothers that shows moms are pretty solidly wired.
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by Jim Caccamo on May 13, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on May 13, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/05/13/happy-mothers-day-dont-forget-to-post-on-your-moms-wall/

Applying Sherry to Meetings

Just a thought.  Earlier I posted about Sherry Turkle’s distinction between “connection” and “conversation.”  Yesterday, while discussing university politics with a colleague, it struck me that Turkle’s insight about technology helps me understand why so many of the endless meetings we have (and you probably have at your work too) amount so little.

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by Jim Caccamo on April 25, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on April 25, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/04/25/applying-sherry-to-meetings/

Reducing our intake of Phatic

MIT Psychologist and longtime technology researcher Sherry Turkle published a thoughtful opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review this week.  In the piece (“The Flight From Conversation“), Turkle reflects on the ways in which mobile technologies are shifting the types of exchanges we have.  Tired of connecting, she wants to stand up for real, long-form conversation.

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by Jim Caccamo on April 25, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on April 25, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/04/25/reducing-our-intake-of-phatic/

World Peace and the Difficulty of Virtues

I don’t want to pile on with commentary about Metta World Peace’s hit on James Harden this past weekend. It has already, as Bomani Jones at sbnation.com put it, hijacked news on a big sports news weekend. Two things, I think, bear noting in a blog on technology ethics.

1) People frequently act out of habit. We learn some way of acting, or talking, or responding. The we repeat it over years, and it becomes a part of us. That’s what the ideas of virtue and vice is all about. Vices (like lying, cheating, and stealing) are bad habits, habits that help us act poorly toward others, and in the process, make us less human. Virtues, on the other hand, are good habits that help us act well toward others, and in the process, help make us more fully human, more fully perfected. Classics here are prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.

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by Jim Caccamo on April 23, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jim Caccamo on April 23, 2012

https://rewiringvirtue.com/2012/04/23/world-peace-and-the-difficulty-of-virtues/

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