It turns out the appendix is not useless or vestigial -- it's like a Norwegian seed vault for healthy gut bacteria, your inner biome's cloud backup. www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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Jerry Davis
@vanishingcorp.bsky.social
Amateur sociologist, Detroit patriot, smug vegetarian. Org theory, social movements, corporate power, finding alternatives. Opinions generated at random.
The stock market is mostly irrelevant to funding business, and VC is coming up short. Yet the costs to start an enterprise have never been lower. What are alternatives to support community wealth building and not just financiers? My latest spicy take: www.imd.org/ibyimd/finan...
A fresh start is needed after the misadventures of venture capital - I by IMD
The venture capital model has failed far too many smaller firms seeking the funds to grow but there is a better way.
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Fellow Detroit transit nerds: my birthday present from My son was a Detroit streetcar map from 1950. Great routes.
Now I want to get Nikki Haley's take on the causes of the English Civil War.
I may regret throwing out all my old paper journals when GAI creates entire online knockoffs of ASQ, AJS, ASR -- and SEO hacking sends people to the knockoffs rather than the original articles. www.businessinsider.com/seo-heist-ai...
Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era
Tech-help website Exceljet was cloned by a competitor using AI. It poses thorny questions for Google.
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The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that there are 2267 4-year colleges and universities in the US, which granted 7374 bachelors degrees in "Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies." So the average college has no more than 3.25 gender studies majors. Can we move on?
Loving the DNEP Holiday Fair at Jam Handy. Detroit entrepreneurs are amazing, creative makers!
Being deadwood is mostly great. But I miss have accomplishments to announce. So: "I published my job market paper!" (In 1991.)
If you have not done so already, now's a good time to join your AAUP chapter. www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
Penn faculty fear the donor who started the effort to oust Liz Magill is attempting to set the agend...
Marc Rowan, who co-leads Wharton’s board of advisors, is asking questions about instruction, faculty hiring, free speech, and political orientation.
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Final, 53-page report of AAUP's Special Committee on Florida, on which I had the privilege of serving, is now published. Some themes from our dozens of interviews: "[T]he reality in Florida is 'Orwellian,' and Florida is the 'canary in a coal mine.'.... Being a bystander is no longer an option."
Report of a Special Committee: Political Interference and Academic
Published December 2023.1 What we are witnessing in Florida is an intellectual reign of terror. There is a tremendous sense of dread right now, not just among faculty; it’s tangible among students
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If philosophy majors ruled the world, misusing the term "begging the question" would be a capital offense.
Top 5 metaphors: Potemkin Village Hermit crab La Brea tarpits Estuary Winchester Mystery House
The OpenAI saga suggests that employee ownership may not always yield good outcomes for society. "Even recent employees would have seen a 4x cash out at liquidation. If the company drastically slowed commercialization, then no investor would've come in." www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...
Sam Altman enters his power era
The botched coup of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly reinforced his power at the company behind ChatGPT.
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LA is a lasagne of the magical and the inexplicable. The mass transit is now great! Unless you are headed to LAX, in which case you will wither and die in traffic.
California is a land of endless culinary invention. Exhibit A: a burrito… For breakfast!
Week in review: Zephyr Teachout on algorithmic wage discrimination, Jerry Davis (@vanishingcorp.bsky.social) on the disappearance of public corporations, and Maryam Jamshidi on creeping authoritarianism in Florida. Plus, tons of upcoming virtual events (two today!) and new LPE-relevant pieces.
Weekly Roundup: November 10, 2023
Zephyr Teachout on the democratic consequences of algorithmic wage discrimination, Jerry Davis on the disappearance of public corporations from the American economy, and Maryam Jamshidi on the…
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"Is this the end of corporate capitalism?" Probably not the end--but an opening for alternatives. lpeproject.org/blog/is-this...
What's a perfect album that came out when you were 16
Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 3y agoWhat's a perfect album that came out when you were 16
Americans eat an average of 10 ounces of meat per day. What the hell is wrong with us?
