One of those times where you just have to hope that the chief economist at ~$500b asset management firm knows he is lying, and the firm making actual choices accordingly, because otherwise those dollars are not going to stay all together much longer

Rapid AI investment adds serious risk to an economy exposed to global supply-chain and geopolitical shocks. “There’s reason to think we’re seeing some of the same 2008 dynamics now,” says @bradlipton.bsky.social. Working families shouldn’t have to socialize the losses of another financial crisis.

There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

Spotlight won’t explain this, but this incident is a confused intersection of two big stories in Delaware politics over the last couple of years: 1) A competition btwn the “Old”and “New” factions of Delaware Way corporate Dems, over offices, spoils, & patronage positions.

Carping snidely at investors fleeing your purposefully obfuscatory and highly illiquid investment vehicles is definitely a sign of health and strength and not at all a repeat of the death-throes thrashing we heard from Countrywide Financial and Lehman Bros execs just before the 2008 crash

Sure let’s do stagflation, offshoring, the dot com bust, and the Great Financial Crisis all at once fuck it

That is… very bad.

Ever make a movie so cool the characters don’t even have names, but the high speed car chases have more character development than a decade of soap opera? Walter Hill did, in 1978 and holy smokes The Driver is something else, wow.

I’m no great fan of DEFAC - as a body it’s neither professionally run, transparently democratic, nor remotely accurate - but still, it’s pretty damn suspicious to remove a board member for having the temerity to ask for the state-compiled figures upon which the Gov’s budget is supposedly based

ICE locks tens of thousands of detainees nationwide in a network of 170 "hold rooms" spread across 49 states, which are forbidden from containing beds. Today, we are publishing location and detainee information about all 170 facilities. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

I don’t think that it’ll be a problem for future history books to narrate our current absurdity, particularly - history is ridiculous, always has been - but it is odd that we’re not even done w/ March in 2026, & the US govt has been humbled by the people of Minneapolis and the military of Iran.

“… a new item that everyone needed and the government cared very little about…”

QUALITY.BMF

A good rundown of Delaware’s most insane hater’s latest absurdity

truth and also a good phrase to build a cross stitch around, I. can see the all caps half hidden in a field of cattails and other swamp plants

anyway, now to turn to that new announcement about how great implementing AI tools in our LMS is going

If you're like me, you're wondering why John Kiriakou—the former CIA agent who exposed elements of the agency's torture program and subsequently went to prison—is dominating all your algorithms. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the answer!

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”

This may just be an effect of living where I do, but I'm becoming more convinced the that term "shell company (or alternately, "shell corporation") isn't useful, analytically, because and doesn't name a real phenomenon. They're all shell companies. That's what a company is: a shell, for people.

Absolutely essential info for anybody in education (even if your school doesn't use Canvas).

Most likely a must-read not only for LPE folks but also for IPE peeps.

As a rule I don’t have much sympathy for politicians campaigning or elected, but I do feel a bit bad for the guy running for state house who just knocked my door to make his pitch and then asked, casually & conspiratorially: “Hey, do you happen to know where 40% of Delaware’s revenues come from?”

Today would be a great day for filing FOIA’s to discover which crypto lobbyists have been writing bills for Gov. Meyer and/or Senator Mantzavinos, esp given the all the sketchiness w/r/t Coinbase. (The role of the DE bankers association also probably key). Cc: @molly.wiki @lorak.bsky.social

Without belaboring the point too much, these MAGA-allied crypto lobbyists' bills are the monetary equivalent of anti-vax legislation. What Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer and Senator Mantzavinos – both Democrats – are championing is very, very dangerous and will hurt many, many people.

If you enjoyed sky-high interest rates on credit cards, if you liked untraceable corporate ownership structures, if you appreciated unaccountable oligarchs, well, boy howdy you are going to LOVE state-chartered crypto banks. Who needs a national currency that holds value when there are memecoins?

Delaware's politicians are at it again! Fresh off freeing Elon Musk and other oligarchs from any accountability, now DE Dems are doing what the Trump administration can't get Congress to do, using state law to give cover to crypto grifts, a move that will destabilize US money.

Don't know who may be interested in this, but the ACLU of Delaware is looking for a volunteer archivist. I'd be interested but I'm maxed out on volunteering between work as a literacy tutor and political stuff. It's under "Administration" on this page. www.aclu-de.org/volunteer/

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Civil War Era Article Workshop Sponsored by the Richards Center at Penn State and The Journal of the Civil War Era

As a bonus, the College Board's FY 2023 990-T was also released today, so if you want to see just how much filthy lucre the most MAGA-friendly education nonprofit monopoly corporation was ranking in two years ago, now you can!

Happy "my nonprofit employer's audit report just published" day to all who celebrate projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/d...

“It is not that the Trump administration is trying to build death camps, let alone that it will succeed (its preferred authoritarian outcomes are more standard-issue), but that its general approach to policy coordination is similar to the one that produced the administrative chaos of Nazism.”

“…we live in an America whose influencers and officials are professionally obsessed with gooning towards the Führer. …The best way to get Trump’s attention - or just get ideas circulating - is through putting forward highly goonable proposals…”

This is the best theory I’ve seen of how and why all this <gestures at today’s events> is happening

Suggest checking out my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social for more details on Canvas the people who own them and how they (not the institutions themselves) aim to be the "core infrastructure of higher education" academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

According to this, Canvas's IgniteAI Agent will handle "low-value" tasks: "The new technology...can automate 'low-value' tasks for faculty such as rubric generation, content alignment and discussion reviews." Those are not low value, they are essential pedagogical choices that define a class. (1/3)

A union representing about 950 full-time faculty members who are not on track to earn tenure began their strike at 11 a.m., several minutes after the university’s lawyers responded to the union’s final offer, said Brendan Hogan, a spokesman for the union, the Contract Faculty United-UAW.

“ ‘I see.’ The history professor seemed to lose interest.”

“The executives told risqué stories while the professors complained about university life.”

In practice I think this threat *probably* means strikes on civilian buildings (and perhaps specifically office buildings), though it’s also rendering quite explicit what the Iranian govt sees as the critical sinews of the US state, e.g. public debt instruments.

“ ‘Alongside military bases, those financial entities that finance the US military budget are legitimate targets,’ Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X. ‘US treasury bonds are soaked in Iranians’ blood. Purchase them, and you purchase a strike on your HQ and assets.’ “

The University President used the the state’s privatized economic development agency, which is funded by the state liquor franchise, to give $60K to a podcaster he was making sweet love to. This is as sexy as neoliberalism can get.

If you were worried that there wasn’t yet a sufficiently Panglossian* approach to college students’ wholesale abandonment of learning in favor of gross cheating, this brief from a convenient UK outlet has you covered. *for the economics-minded, a sufficiently efficient market hypothesis approach

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I regret that the CEO didn’t get into the mechanisms they’re using to plan for increasing prices (which has to be going big into futures contracts RN while oil prices are still rising, right?)

“I fear you will laugh when I tell you what I conceive to e about the most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale; it is much stupidity.”

Today’s NYT story is pretty close to what appears have happened to the mother of the the press secretary’s brother’s kid.

One service the Trump admin provides is disappearing inconvenient mothers for angry exes

ProPublica journalists are a national treasure. ProPublica as a nonprofit entity is lucky to employ them. Management should come to a fair agreement, and FAST, so these folks can focus on their work.