“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.”
— Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD in 1859
@tokyo_0 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.
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
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
xmpp: mattp@sendero.snikket.chat