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
@civicwhitaker what is a civic technologist?
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This is your semi-regular reminder that there are graphical interfaces to git and you should use them, because they make stuff like cherry-picking, rebasing, and resolving conflicts way easier.
I used SourceTree for years on Mac and later switched to GitKraken for Linux support. They’re both good, and both a hell of a lot better than git’s command line interface.
Don’t be macho about this—it’s much better to be effective.
@alfredohno I worry this isn't quite the solution. Won't smaller instances have even fewer resources to do moderation effectively?
What sort of content are you seeing from mastodon social that they are failing to moderate? Why doesn't curating your follow list help to mostly moderate the content you see?
Last year we announced we would be joining Mastodon to explore an alternative to today's social media.
We’re excited to announce we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta, with hopes to open to the public soon.
This is just the beginning. Read more about the launch of our instance, including how to join the public waitlist. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/
Hey, I'm scheduled to be on MSNBC's 11thHour tonight with host Stephanie Ruhle.
My part is around 11:30 ET.
The prompt: How journalists can effectively cover Trump in light of what we saw in the town hall yesterday.
With the news that Musk has apparently selected a woman to take over for him as Twitter’s CEO, I am reminded of the “glass cliff” phenomenon:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies
When/if Twitter ultimately goes under, remember that Musk created the conditions for it to do so.
Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Fix will eventually render all kinds of older Windows boot media unbootable.
How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI
After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID'd weaknesses and pounced.
@elonmusk@twitter.com @EndWokeness@twitter.com 8. If you want accurate information, please do not rely exclusively on Twitter to get it.
Musk has changed the way this website works to promote people who push his preferred narratives.
Instead subscribe to Popular Information.
It's free to sign up.
@lightweight @becha I feel like it’s such an obvious and smart decision. I personally like Jitsi as a zoom replacement but whatever the application it is very clear to me that open source digital infrastructure is this massively under-funded public good
NextGen Healthcare, a US-based provider of EHR software, says hackers breached its systems and stole the personal data of more than 1 million patients https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/nextgen-healthcare-data-breach/
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics