Keith Taylor | The Peoples’ Professor
@keithataylor.bsky.social
Professor of Cooperative Extension and Community Economic Development. UC Davis | UC ANR. “We build community.”
"The electric co-ops not only drive innovations in affordability, resiliency and the energy transition from carbon-intensive to green, but have a portfolio of about 250 electric co-ops providing high-speed rural broadband," writes @keithataylor.bsky.social substack.com/@thepeoplesp...
A Reckoning for Investor-Owned Utilities?
From the Demise of Local Governance to Economic Democracy in San Francisco
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Energy bills keep going up & most people feel like there’s nothing they can do about it. @keithataylor.bsky.social with #UCDavis and #UCANR is working on practical ways to give communities more say & more options. Check out his latest work: possibilitylab.berkeley.edu/the-built-en...
The Built Environment - Possibility Lab
possibilitylab.berkeley.edu
Overdue. Each branch should develop their own capacities that enhance their independence.
Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · last yr.Amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary, some federal judges are beginning to discuss the idea of managing their own armed security force. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Can we all just admit that the tech bros were very insincere about being taxed to provide UBI in the instance that AI comes for our jobs? www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?
The concept of a guaranteed income is gaining traction as a solution to the impact of AI and way to encourage more rewarding and socially valuable work
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This is incredibly unnecessary and dangerous.
Sylvia Chi 齊思涵@sylviachi.bsky.social · last yr.There are many horrible things in the Ways & Means draft, but let me alert you to this underappreciated horror: They want to expand the Treasury Secretary's power to unilaterally designate nonprofits as "terrorist supporting organizations."
All of that capital could have been invested in making the economy better. Instead, shareholders reaped the rewards. www.janushenderson.com/corporate/pr...
Global dividends jumped to a record $1.75 trillion in 2024
Global dividends grew to a record $1.75 trillion in 2024, up 6.6% on an underlying basis Headline growth of 5.2% reflected lower one-off special dividends and the stronger US dollar 17 countries out o...
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Are you a student using AI? You’re likely to perform lower. educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students - International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
While the discussion on generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, is making waves in academia and the popular press, there is a need for more insight into the use of ChatGPT among students ...
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Less social media is good for your health www.nber.org/papers/w33697
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Excellent! Lets also do this for renters, everywhere. wgme.com/news/local/s...
Bill aims to give Maine mobile home residents first chance to buy parks
A group of residents in Friendly Village are hoping to buy the park themselves.
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Its going to get very bad if the federal government recedes from disaster recovery.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Firms don’t want to tell their employees when automation-driven job loss is on the horizon. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Whispering Progress: Fear of Automation and Voluntary Disclosure
We provide evidence that firms tailor their disclosure policies to achieve the objectives of task automation and workforce stability. Using local cable news tra
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Grocery co-ops outpaced their competition in same-store sales growth www.ncg.coop/sites/defaul...
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Safety first, as long as it's a competitive advantage techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/o...
OpenAI may 'adjust' its safeguards if rivals release 'high-risk' AI | TechCrunch
In an update to its Preparedness Framework, OpenAI says it may 'adjust' its safety requirements if a rival lab releases 'high-risk' AI.
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They don’t make politicians like they used to.
Nick Pinto@nickpinto.bsky.social · last yr.Andrew Cuomo's policy paper on affordable housing, released this weekend, was written with the help of ChatGPT and was released rife with typos, in some parts devolving into unintelligible gibberish. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
A must read from Jason Fernandes and Janelle Orsi on how the fiduciary rules around retirement accounts have perverse effects at-scale harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13...
Rethinking Retirement Savings - Harvard Law Review
At the end of 2020, Americans held a collective $35 trillion in their retirement accounts. To put this in perspective, $35 trillion is larger...
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Outrageous. Credit unions are owned and governed by their members. For mgmt to be doing this indicates that some credit unions are more in service to the mgmt than the members. Members should ask their representative boards *what gives,* and if the response is unsatisfactory, campaign for the board.
Lucy Dean Stockton@lucydeanstockton.bsky.social · last yr.😮💨 Credit unions are supposed to be the good guys. But @freddy-brewster.bsky.social found that they're just as interested in charging (and hiding) the junk fees they charge consumers (from overdraft penalties to insufficient fund fees) as the big, bad banks. www.levernews.com/trump-lets-g...
