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
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/
🚨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
Hi Mastodon! I'm trying to rebuild my business here because Twitter is bad now, but I need help sharing it. I'm a jeweler! I specialize in fused glass and particularly Pride designs. My work is available at https://www.nora.jewelry/
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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.
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.
Master of the Eyerolls.
I have started to keep track of "Free Speech Tsar" alternatives here: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/05/10/free-speech-tsar/
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics