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Pick Your UtopiaThis is the start of a long weekend for some of us. Perhaps there will be time to dream about a utopian future. Medieval peasants imagined a fantasy land where all their desires were fulfilled. It was called Cockaigne, which rhymes with Spain, and it was super depressing. The Land of Cockaigne is a simple place: the houses are made from fish pies, and roasted pigs walk around with knives in their backs for easy eating. Eggs grew legs so that peasants could indulge while lying on the ground, and animals pooped in baskets for easy clean up. In an imaginary world with endless possibilities, the medieval myth of Cockaigne focused on two things: food and laziness. Don't tell these guys about the house from Hansel and Gretel made of candy--it'll make their "house of fish" look pretty sad. According to the 14th-century English poem "The Land of Cockaygne," the walls of all the houses in the utopia are made of fish pies. If that doesn't sound very appetizing, look to the roofs, where "flour-cakes are the shingles." I have an old Joy of Cooking cookbook in which many of the family recipes, including some from the family cook (from Eastern Europe, I think) include the word "Cockaigne" in the name. Have you ever had a utopian dream like this, even as a child?
Utopia: We can forget what MLK said about the content of character and judge people by their superficial group characteristics What could go wrong? Why do so many elite white people who fit the "oppressor" profile push this ideology?
Utopia: Huge, well-respected NGOs will save government from incompetence Back in December, NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker sent us details of her family's trials dealing with The California Employment Development Department (EDD) over a simple short-term disability claim. This led to a discussion of the department's inability to deal with COVID relief fraud. She sent some additional information on this. Some of the fraudulent claims came from Nigeria. Here's a little detail with which she has found an interesting connection to current news: THEN I'm sorry, but I don't understand why the person in charge of the EDD at this time would even be considered for promotion to the federal system.. . . New financial reports requested by CalMatters show that amid the chaos, the EDD and its unemployment payment contractor Bank of America split a half a billion dollars in revenue, though the bank says it ultimately spent more to cover fraud losses. Another large EDD contractor, Deloitte, made more than a quarter of a billion dollars on tech contracts and emergency contracts to build systems that state reports say buckled during the pandemic. Deloitte is a really giant international auditing and consulting firm. Seems to have a reputation as the best in the business, as far as I could tell from a cursory searcy. Or it did until a few days ago. NOW NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker found this: Hindenburg Founder Warned Deloitte 11 Times In 5 Months About Tingo's "Massive Fraud" Before SEC, DOJ Action As we wrote back in December, the SEC charged publicly listed company Tingo Group, a Nigerian "agri-fintech" company with "massive fraud", claiming that almost every aspect of the company - including its partners and its financials - was fabricated. Short seller Hindenburg Research had written about the company on June 6, calling it "an exceptionally obvious scam with completely fabricated financials". "Today, we are releasing 11 emails we sent to Deloitte's senior leaders, spanning nearly 5 months, that documented flagrant signs of fraud at Tingo Group, one of the most spectacular Big 4 audit failures of our time," Hindenburg Research founder Nathan Anderson wrote on X yesterday. Forbes is running a story about how Deloitte missed this, but it's behind a paywall, so I don't know what excuses are presented. How much do you think this will affect the reputation of Deloitte? I meandered through the interwebs and AoSHQ archives to see if there were any clues to changes in Deloitte that might give us a clue to how this massive "mistake" occurred. I didn't find much news on their audit failure on the Nigerian company. I did find the following: Deloitte is rolling out an AI chatbot that can help staff answer emails and create presentations Celebrate Humans, Not AI, Deloitte's Chief Futurist Says "Chief Futurist" Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024 Harvard Grad Who Threatened to Stab Those Who Say "All Lives Matter" Fired by Deloitte Well, that's nice. Utopia: You can run a Sanctuary State in Illinois while leaving all the people who want sanctuary in Texas
More from Ed Driscoll Incidentally, were those "migrants from Texas" dropped off busses at the airport? Why? Democrats: We Need Illegals to Do Menial Tasks Meanwhile, Abbott Seizes All City Property Along the Riverfront at the Border in the Eagle Pass Area. Including federal processing locations. Things are getting spicy. Utopia: What if American politicians talked about economics? What if they did something positive concerning economics?
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