I don't know who needs to hear this But I can still ride a bike with no hands (A bit wobbily, for a modest distance, but hey it's been several years since I've been for a bike ride)

⚠️ Unnerving and unsettling @nytimes.com investigation on the latest Pharma Corporate Capture scandal: IRBs 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

Turns out some gamers are grocery store employees. Biden's FTC challenged the Microsoft/Activision deal, but Judge Corley (whose son works at Microsoft) believed Microsoft's self-serving testimony that it wouldn't hurt gamers. Since then, MS hiked Gamepass prices, laid off workers, etc

Fantastic article from Oshan Jarow. Been thinking about lots of similar things lately. Now that the road to medicalisation is paved these are the real pertinent questions to be asking.

Today I watched testimony by DOJ's first witness in the hearing to decide on remedies for Google's illegal adtech monopoly. A publisher called Advance Local. Right off the bat, it was clear this is a very different case than search.

I do think it matters that Erika Kirk spoke about forgiveness and love (besides just a sense of persecution).

Our new paper "Key competencies for psychedelic treatment in real-world mental health care settings" has just been published in General Hospital Psychiatry. Full-text link below.

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The firing of Phil Donahue foreshadowed this moment. The arc of consolidated media bends towards authoritarianism We have to undo the bad policy choices that destroyed the democratic guardrails from the New Deal era

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my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the US v. Google search antitrust case and just how badly the court missed the opportunity to contend with Google’s power in the genAI market. genAI won’t magically unseat Google’s market dominance, as the court suggests, it will only deepen it

Considering the phase 2 LSD for anxiety study has been published and is in the news a bit right now, here's a piece from last year where I spoke to the CMO of MindMed about the trial's somewhat unique protocol. Bit more detail here about how the dose sessions worked than in the actual study.

On Thursday, we broke the news that FDA had published the Complete Response Letter (CRL) it sent to Lykos Therapeutics 13 months ago today, when it rejected its MDMA for PTSD new drug application. Today, we take a much closer (~5,000 word) look... More: psychedelicalpha.com/news/unpacki...

Annals of Anti-Monopoly: I will be in DC on 25 September to give a talk at George Mason University. The public is invited. Teaser: why was George Washington furious at the reactionary politics of his fellow Virginian George Mason? Was Washington on to something? Is it time to…cancel George Mason?

Expert on judicial humility is speaking at Fordham on 9/19; one business day before the adtech remedies hearing starts www.fordham.edu/school-of-la...

I ... don't recall seeing a motion like this before but I am enjoying it:

While certain DOJ officials engaged in one kind of pay-to-play antitrust, Judge Mehta condoned another Under the Mehta Mafia Doctrine, so long as monopolists make mafia-style payoffs, via rent-splitting, they can use profit-fruits to extend monopoly Vitiating deterrence also undermines rule of law

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

BREAKING: FDA Publishes Lykos Therapeutics’ MDMA Complete Response Letter (CRL) psychedelicalpha.com/news/breakin...

"Neural responses correlated with impending motor action almost everywhere in the brain. Responses to reward delivery and consumption were also widespread."

DOJ's final proposed remedies in Google adtech case storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Your outie is kind. Your outie is decisive. Your outie can parallel park in less than 20 seconds. Your outie ordered a Chrome divestiture and is beloved for reopening the internet. Your outie follows Supreme Court remedies precedent, instead of just quoting it.

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #207 - Lykos Rebrands to Resilient - Pharma Pushes Back on Norway’s Ketamine Reimbursement Decision - AbbVie-Gilgamesh Deal Viewed as Validation - Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition Heads to HHS - Much, much more... psychedelicalpha.com/news/p%ce%b1...

This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.

Headlines make it clear: the housing market is broken, and families are being priced out. That's why, at this year's Anti-Monopoly Summit, we're bringing together experts, lawmakers, advocates, and more to discuss paths to creating housing everyday Americans can afford.

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Some 2 in 5 of all the local officials who administered the 2020 election left their jobs before the 2024 cycle, new research has found.

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The DEA has transmitted a request to loosen federal restrictions on psilocybin, the main compound in psychoactive mushrooms, to federal health officials for a scientific and medical analysis, according to emails reviewed by Law360. My latest: www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

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Are biglaw capitulations a great excuse for the legal profession to DOGE its own ethics rules? Incredibly, someone wrote an op-ed arguing that we should relax "or eliminate" ethical restraints on law firm financing to... promote ethics? Law360 just published my rebuttal 🔗👇

Must-read. Scorching. Names names. 🔥 unherd.com/2025/08/what...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... with @sisco.bsky.social

Google Meet have conflicts decide which meeting is more important

Spotify give artists feedback on their songs

Charles I 1630s is the best historic precedent for our moment. That King relied on tariffs, fees & selling monopoly to avoid Parliament & its taxation power. Parliament, angry, eventually declared war on the King; he was put on trial and convicted. www.parliament.uk/about/living...

National Guard as standing army? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

During the US New Deal, I show how a group of relative newcomers to the research division of the National Recovery Administration saw the negative effects of its anti-competition quasi-cartelization policies, and these same people went on to convince FDR to go full trustbuster come 1938.

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l... … The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

Trump's FCC chair is poised to unleash centralized control of local media www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/s...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

Uh www.axios.com/2025/08/06/t...

Wait for the surprise... ☺️ #cat #catday #bluesky

yeah this was always the point

"Right to scam" is how a lot of people already seem to feel. The phrase describes a logic of sly domination