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.
Happy 20th anniversary to the Streisand Effect, courtesy of @mmasnick and Techdirt.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/20/twenty-years-ago-today-barbra-streisand-sued-a-photographer-and-the-streisand-effect-was-born/
ooof this sucks—disney+ is cancelling and memory holing a bunch of shows, including *The Mysterious Benedict Society* https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-remove-series-streaming-disney-plus-hulu-big-shot-willow-y-dollface-turner-hooch-pistol-1235372512/
Some more details on how Instagram is planning to build an ActivityPub compatible service... https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak
@Teri_Kanefield Wikipedia always has had a nice map of which states are signatories and which are considering legislation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
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
@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: https://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):
https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2023-digital-economics-and-artificial-intelligence
New episode of Linux Matters: Soaking Up the Cider 🎙️
Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years
Google says you'll get lots of emails before your account is deleted.
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
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
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