Looking forward to being part of this exciting online panel on AI in health insurance coverage disputes. The panel is scheduled for Wed. Dec. 10 from noon-1:30 central. Attendance is free and open to the public. Learn more or register to attend here: consortium.umn.edu/event/ai-hea...

Three different ways of looking at a lighthouse. This is the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse, which is no longer at Cape Mendocino. It has been removed to Shelter Cove, #California. Which shot do you prefer? #photography #seascape #landscape #pentax

More edge-of-your-seat historical thrills from Balancecraft, exploring the US effort to rebuild post-war Germany without the cartels and consolidated economic power that had enabled the fascist war machine.

New post about #decartelizationdrama open.substack.com/pub/balancec...

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery “‘I’m not going to ride on a magic carpet!’ he hissed. ‘I’m afraid of grounds!’ ‘You mean heights,’ said Conina. ‘And stop being silly.’ ‘I know what I mean! It’s the grounds that kill you.’”

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Quick Hollywood story about #LarrySummers: Douglas Urbanski is the longtime agent/manager of actor Gary Oldman. When Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher were casting The Social Network, they asked Douglas Urbanski if he would be interested in portraying #Harvard President Larry Summers. 1/3

Three of the hardest working shipwrecks in #Galway Bay. It was a long shoot, several lens and lighting changes, and they never once complained. #Pentax K-S2 with DA 15mm F4 Limited. ƒ/15, 1/100sec @ ISO 200. Photographed in May, 2023. #ireland #galwaybay #shipwreck #photography #seascape

Maybe we're ignoring the real issue: does it unnerve you that so many political appointees in the US own MULTIPLE HOUSES? Shouldn't roughly half of our policymakers be renters? Imagine if every person in charge of setting transportation policy took a chauffeured car to work!

As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.

What, don't Big Tech trials make everyone think about the rhetorical flexes of Thomas Paine? open.substack.com/pub/bigtecho...

"The 20th century model of housing abundance stood on many legs: decentralized lending, productive land use, and fierce competition between homebuilders, among other things." @balancecraft.bsky.social and Kainoa Lowman break down our new paper's recommendations for how to restore it.👇

i have taken down the internet that was working Just fine and which you were probably counting on for literally everything forgive me no clouds no flare

Judge Pitts ruled that the States can intervene to challenge whether DOJ's allegedly corrupt settlement of the HPE/Juniper merger is in the public interest. Lots of procedural details to work out, but my guess is there will be a Tunney Act hearing. He wants to focus on remedy substance, but...

Happening now: Can states intervene in DOJ's allegedly corrupt settlement of HPE/Juniper merger? Watch court hearing on zoom today at 1pm ET (10am PT) Link: cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1602081619... ID: 160 208 1619Password: 144322

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Why is there a shortage of single family homes? Many reasons, but one underexplored factor is that financing for homebuilding has changed dramatically My new paper dives into that history and offer policy solutions www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cap...

🏠📄NEW: Our latest paper — "Capital Crunch" — is OUT NOW! The paper details the policy choices that created today’s financialized homebuilding industry, which bends to the will of Wall Street, restricting single-family home supply and raising prices. 👇

"A land-value tax would discourage land hoarding, and the number of properties that can be owned by any single corporate landlord should be limited. Concentration is the enemy of supply." El acaparamiento de suelo y vivienda debe frenarse para que aumente la oferta vía @ranaforoohar.bsky.social.

From "Housing is shelter, but it is also an asset class" to "Housing should be about shelter first and foremost — not investors’ profits" in 850 breezy words, in the @financialtimes.com no less. Kudos @ranaforoohar.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/242f...

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

LinkedIn one click apply to all the jobs

Amazing semi-lost letter from Theodore Roosevelt denouncing paid critics of antitrust and "law-defying corporations of immense wealth who ... expect[] others to treat them beyond and above any possible check from law"

Beyond the Brain Reset: Óscar Soto on Mechanisms of Psychedelic Action psychedelicalpha.com/news/beyond-...

Hemp industry advocates are pledging to use the one-year gap between enactment and implementation of the government funding agreement, which effectively recriminalized most hemp-derived THC products, to craft new regulatory legislation that stops short of a full ban.

Billionaires are more publicly involved in politics than ever—and Americans aren’t loving it.

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

Closed-door MAHA summit discusses psychedelics, Maryland task force recommends psilocybin program, and new Oregon psilocybin rules themicrodose.substack.com/p/closed-doo...

Our friends at the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology are hosting an event on the legal ramifications of rescheduling psychedelics on Monday, November 17. Anyone is welcome to register🎉 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...

Greetings BlueSky! I'll mostly post photographs. This one is currently the "Photo of the Week" in the @alexandriatimes.bsky.social . #Pentax K-S2 with DA 70mm Limited F2.4. ƒ/4, 1sec @ ISO 200. #Alexandria #ALX #photography So concludes my #firstpost . Thank you for looking!

The Democratic Establishment loves this man, who, along with others, urged people to vote for Cuomo against Mamdani. They all suck. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

TIL this famous image of brain activity on psilocybin vs placebo is not only a simplified "illustration" but it's also based on a 2mg dose of psilocybin. That's barely a microdose.

GOP, after yesterday's elections

BREAKING: Compass Pathways Accelerates Psilocybin Launch Timeline by 9-12 Months More detail, including interview with $CMPS CEO Kabir Nath, in our coverage... psychedelicalpha.com/news/compass...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

Obama "asks to be challenged" Not about the administrative bloat machine called the ACA and its exploding premiums (or any other policy and governing choices that eventually led to voters losing faith in Democrats) But on whether he hypes up a catchphrase from an airport book enough

🎙️ “Escape Forward” new podcast w the great 𝗥𝗢𝗛𝗜𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗣𝗥𝗔 just out: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” 1/ escapeforward.substack.com/p/the-new-to...

Here is a point I don’t think is discussed enough: Microsoft stopped discussing their AI revenue as of Q2FY25 (announced in January). Why? Is the AI revenue not very good? This information is extremely material yet I do not see anybody else who seems concerned. www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

Q3’25 Psychedelic Lobbying Update Here, we share our analysis of the latest developments in federal psychedelics lobbying for our Pα+ subscribers. Here’s a review of Q3 2025 activity… psychedelicalpha.com/news/q325-ps...

Hewlett-Packard is just one of the corporations funding Trumps $300M+ ballroom. The move comes after HPE successfully got a merger with Juniper Networks approved — a controversy that resulted in the ousting of DOJ antitrust staff who challenged it.

The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.

For The Economic Populist, @balancecraft.bsky.social has an analysis of the legal fallout from OpenAI's Sora 2 launch. "Lawmakers and judges should not give tech oligarchs yet another free pass to trample on the rights of others at their whims."