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@marcan@treehouse.systems You are doing amazing work!

Today's special edition of The Counteroffensive is focused on Daniel Montano, a pseudonym for a former US military servicemember currently fighting for Ukrainian forces.

He took this photo in Donbas on May 11, 2023, just a week and a half ago.

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PBS interviewed Michael J. Fox tonight and I just wept at how amazing a person he is. And this one sentence he said just riveted me…

@Teri_Kanefield Wikipedia always has had a nice map of which states are signatories and which are considering legislation.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation

One of the dumbest rules. Everyone needs to do this. My students are shocked at the ways journals discourage appropriate citation.

It's time again: We're now accepting apps from co-op startups for the next cohort of the Start.coop accelerator! Are you building a co-op:

- to reshape a sector w/ economic justice
- to close racial wealth gaps
- to unlock radical imaginations

Apply: start.coop/accelerator/apply

FCC adopta new rules to further expand call blocking requirements, which it says will "ensure even greater robocall protections for consumers."

@nic I think someone could use this episode to write a paper that measures that strength of network effects in social media?

A little patting myself on the back here -

Daniel Francis and Chris Sprigman just released their open-access online textbook on antitrust law, and in the back it has an excerpt of an article I wrote about economic theories of competition during the interwar years!

The book is freely available online here: antitrustcasebook.org/

@paulgp Wow this looks fascinating, especially characterizing the text in posts across... institutions 😮

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
"Anonymity and Identity Online"

We geolocate the majority of EJMR posters and show that posting on EJMR is wide-spread at US universities and also frequent in other organizations employing economists.

Presentation at NBER SI (7/20/2023):
nber.org/conferences/si-2023-d

New episode of Linux Matters: Soaking Up the Cider 🎙️

🐧 linuxmatters.sh/3/

Google is gearing up for purging YouTube and Gmail accounts while also steeply hiking costs on .edu triggering additional a broad purge and cap across budget-strapped academia to trim its own costs. #dataflation

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