I have not read this book but this comment captures something I've certainly thought more generally about a lot of over-polished second books by famous scholars

Is it happening?

Your party gets wiped out in local elections, historical defeat, and your answer is 'fellow citizens, moar of the same'.

One of the least racist nations on earth is hilarious. Obviously not all Reform voter are racist (people have deeply incoherent beliefs all over the world & conspiracy is popular right now) but I'd put the median Trump voter against median Reform voter any day in terms of interpersonal racism

A weird fact is that every use of federal antitrust law against workers until the the big Supreme Court case in 1908 (so 1890-1908) --except the Pullman strike injunctions, which were all over the place geographically-- came out of a single court: the Eastern District of Louisiana

there’s probably a (somewhat boring) discussion to be had about how the fact that podcasts now require video production and preferably high production values has erased a lot of the accessibility that made the medium interesting and skewed yet another avenue towards the camera-ready and rich

everything has to live on instagram because we accidentally made a dogshit algorithm the biggest gatekeeper in entertainment 🙂

1 thing to think about: the push for podcasts to have video is mostly coming from the top & it’s to get eyeballs *away* from tv where crews/writers that produce actually watchable stuff have union protection. No sane listener was like “I need to see the smelly, shut-in hosts of my Jonestown podcast”

new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION! a short history of the transition from goods to services alongside some recent discussion from @rajakorman.bsky.social and @conorsen.bsky.social on What Is Going On With Healthcare www.forcesofproduction.com/p/services-o...

In terms of the decline of human and social capacity, the use of AI to quickly gather information (essentially like a search engine that summarizes, often badly) has real issues as well as some OK if limited use cases imo--but either way pales in comparison to the use of AI to "write" (anything)

Over the weekend I saw The Testament of Ann Lee, and I thought it was a phenomenal reflection on freedom and control and how inner freedom absolutely terrifies people with power Highly recommend it! It should have been in the Oscar convo instead of some of the other films.

Happy Mothers Day to everyone celebrating!

One of OW Holmes' signature moves btw was: exposing the merely formal distinctions between types of economic coordination that were treated differently by law but whose differential treatment couldn't easily be rationalized on substantive but neutral principles. Problem is this stopped w/ the firm.

Looking at my own posts to write my outline for tomorrow's actual writing

Also unlike with Israel, Biden actually did temporarily suspend military assistance to both Saudi and Egypt. He then foolishly reversed on these two positions because he wanted to placate the Arab regimes at a time when Israel's actions were becoming so unacceptable to the Arab publics.

Roughly concurrently - the firm got propertified (with accompanying control rights over production allocated to the "owner"); a bunch of production and commerce got trustified; and the national economy got firm-ified. It's understandably very hard for to hold all of it in one's head at once.

Grover Cleveland: a useless president.

whoa

Hot dogs: the most maligned food

I agree of course but markets (and indeed firms) themselves are also already not run according to the stylized as well as hazy conception of "market-based" that legal actors tend to use. We should discard that (not very coherent) picture of markets and businesses altogether

It was an honor to appear on Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast to talk about Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age. Had a lot of fun chatting about De La Soul, my experiences growing up listening to the group, and music history. The episode is out now!

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

The British have taken the locution "lived experience" and run with it to a truly astonishing degree. Not sure what's going on there

There's a House of Lords podcast for some reason by the way. It's called "House of Lords Podcast" www.parliament.uk/business/lor...

No.

The Democrats had a 50 state strategy under Howard Dean until 2009 when new leadership came in. I think about this a lot. State houses are where voting rights are made or broken.

So, we can all continue kissing mice? Great.

I (thankfully) do not work on biothreats anymore, but some of y’all know me from Covid-era twitter and before that (!) from Ebola-era twitter so if it is helpful to you: I don’t think you need to be concerned about hantavirus

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

This guy having a public crackup is a gift we all deserve

Long titles for books (and articles) are unfashionable but should be brought back. A longer title is a) more informative for readers, and b) conveys humility --or rather just normality-- compared to obnoxiously short titles

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

Btw, even the most superficially plausible versions of this claim are immediately belied by the fact that a) a large chunk of the people championing this very project are now *open* racial supremacists, and b) some of the immediate responses have been to break up obviously cohesive Black districts.

White students make up 12.5% of NYC public school students with IEPs, but they are 71% of students receiving public school funding to attend private schools. These inequalities were anecdotally clear before - now we have this staggering data. Excellent reporting by @alexzimmerman.bsky.social.

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state budget deal that included funding to expand child care and a tax on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City.

if you're wondering how the AI bubble is doing, OpenAI is borrowing USD 4bn from private equity TPG/Bain Capital/ Brookfield Asset ​Management, at 17.5% interest, to embed OpenAI products in their 2,000+ portfolio companies. literally paying Wall Street to force its products on their firms

This is an amazing video.

Yes, and it's not sensible to suggest that a median 100K income (meaning a large chunk have a HH income less than that, hopefully people understand!) means that voting for right-wingers is driven by objective economic self-interest. People constantly overstate while doing this myth-busting, imo.

People losing control in one way often try to reassert control in others, and that control isn't always in their "economic interest" in any objective sense. That's what happened with labor conspiracy after the civil war, driven mostly by proprietary capitalists rather than emerging corporations.

The state legislature tried to make a 63 percent black city live with a statue honoring a slave trader, KKK leader, and convict lessor. Now they’re going to make sure Memphians are represented in Congress by someone who hates them, and is terrified to step foot in the city. (Or any city.)

To the ferns encroaching on berry bushes in my absence: STOP THE STEAL

Just to be super duper clear: it's fine and good if *feminism* lowers birthrates. (It probably does. Why pretend otherwise?) It's NOT good if things that are bad for people and children, generally, lower them! Different causal pathways, different moral assessments 👍

There's so much negativity in the universe so I just want to put some positivity out there: I really, really love how few emails I'm getting right now. Keep it up everyone.

Just to elaborate on this, I think there is a very understandable impulse--with more than a grain of truth in it--to see a lot of what's gone wrong with the world as connected: both in terms of what keeps it going but also, crucially, in terms of how transforming one piece may unlock far more.

This is beautiful reporting and an inspiring (and concerning!) story. We're gutting our ability to adapt to climate change - but there are still so many talented, thoughtful, committed people who want to do that work, if we'll let them. www.hcn.org/issues/58-5/...

Stern on Personable Reasons, Reasonable Persons, and Legal Fictions Simon Stern (University of Toronto - Faculty of Law) has posted Personable Reasons, Reasonable Persons, and Legal Fictions on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Persons in law can be formed in four ways, explained by reference to…

The railroads are fun because you can trace, with almost geological precision, when they start remaking american judges' conception of public and private in the economic sphere at a pretty basic level

Combined AAUP and AFT statement - articulating what should be an obvious application of the most basic values, which the university admin itself purports to stand for www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

it seems sort of similar to how all the right wingers are going to find they can't solve the birthrates problem they are conplaining about by spending more time jerking off