Congress should investigate the foreign investments in various Musk ventures, to understand the extent to which Musk's interests may diverge from the national interest.
James Packard Love
@jamielove.bsky.social
I work at https://keionline.org/jamie. Best known for work on intellectual property rights, and find most interesting ways to reform incentives and also build out global norms and mechanisms to increase the supply of public goods. Economics background.
Complaint Says Dozens of Congressional Candidates Failed to File Financial Disclosures - The Washington Sun share.google/fgJs3r724xrC...
Complaint Says Dozens of Congressional Candidates Failed to File Financial Disclosures
A new complaint by Campaign Legal Center knocked candidates for failing to file legally required reports detailing financial assets, liabilities and more.
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Twice I was on flights to Geneva from Washington, and Nancy Kassebaum, then Secretary of HHS, was on the flight, in economy. Once sitting right next to me. www.mediaite.com/politics/rfk...
RFK Jr. Reportedly Used $9,000-an-Hour Military Jet to Attend GOP Campaign Events
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been granted access to military aircraft for domestic travel, including for an Iowa trip where he appeared alongside Republican candidates ahead of the midte...
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The rate at which available biosimilars are actually dispensed to patients over brand-name counterparts fell to 23% in 2025, down from about 40% in 2024. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
Exclusive | Cheap Biologic Drug Alternatives Stall, Threatening U.S. Healthcare Savings
A new industry report shows 90% of major brand-name biologic drugs losing exclusivity over the next decade have no low-cost competitors in development.
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U.S. Department of Justice statement of interest in the OpenAI copyright litigation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This week I have been researching various legal and policy issues relating to the WHO pandemic agreement. Twice Meta and once Anthropic paused or stopped responding to a query, due to a safety trigger. This is a message I received from Anthropic.
Corruption is going to be a significant campaign issue this year, in part because it is so obvious, in part because it so closely tied to Trump and his family, and in part because so much money is involved, while the country does not seem well run.
The study, called An Aging World: 2025, found that global demographics are rapidly changing, with the world becoming older fast. In fact, for the first time in history, the share of people older than 65 surpassed the number of people five or younger last year. www.ibtimes.com/older-people...
Older People Surpass The Young In The World For The First Time In History: Report
There are now more seniors in the world than young children. The world will only get grayer as more time goes by, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
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Research led by Robert M. Kaplan, Aditya Narayan (Stanford University School of Medicine): Nearly 70% Of New Drugs Now Win FDA Approval With Just One Study studyfinds.com/drugs-fda-ap...
Nearly 70% Of New Drugs Now Win FDA Approval With Just One Study
A new study tracks how FDA drug approvals shifted from multiple trials to just one, and who's paying for the evidence.
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The idea for a gene-editing treatment came from an unusual source, a genetic mutation in the ANGPTL3v-like protein 3 gene, which is responsible for regulating LDL and triglycerides . . . that drastically lowers or even eliminates a person’s risk for heart disease. www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/h...
Snipping a gene to reduce bad cholesterol for life looks possible | CNN
Gene editing reduced cholesterol by about 50% in an extremely small sample of patients over a year of follow-up, according to a new research update.
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Maybe Musk is next. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE
Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot.
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Corruption is going to be a significant campaign issue this year, in part because it is so obvious, in part because it so closely tied to Trump and his family, and in part because so much money is involved, while the country does not seem well run.
The government will use a “comply or explain” approach, a nonbinding code allowing firms to either to comply with the code or publicly explain why they will not comply. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...
Japan to require AI firms to disclose training data
A draft code has been drawn up amid growing concerns that texts and images may be used to train AI models without consent, potentially infringing on copyrights.
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ROSIE: “.. I'm back in the spotlight all thanks to President Ompa J. Loompa, who is watching us this evening from inside a catering cart. You know, I couldn't have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back just like you did with fascism and the measles." $DIS
Trial comes after President Trump’s recent executive order on “Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness,” which aims to increase clinical trial participation and accelerate innovative research models and drug approvals for psychedelic drugs. news.va.gov/press-room/v...
VA launches psilocybin trial for Veterans with treatment-resistant depression
VA launches new clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin to treat major depression in Veterans, including those with concurrent post-traumatic stress disorder.
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A little to post this here but: for the third time in less than a year, President Trump on Monday issued an executive order that calls for American children to be routinely immunized against fewer diseases, as they are in countries like Denmark. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/w...
Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Fewer Childhood Vaccines (Gift Article)
It is not clear whether the order, the president’s third to address the topic in less than a year, has any legal power.
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In July, BLS estimates show employment falling among women while rising among men, accompanied by a sizable decline in women's labor-force participation. Men, 16+ +124,000 employed. Woman, 16+ -211,00 employed
*I agree with you, but the worldview of "AI Miracle Doom-Shoggoth" doesn't mix at all well with the worldview of "AI civil asset forfeiture" "Your criminal AI bit me, so I'm confiscating your giant data center," maybe that works, or maybe Pavel Durov just shoots you the finger. #LawAndDisorder
eschneider@eschneider.bsky.social · last mo.Charging "things" with crimes is pretty common. That's the whole basis of civil asset forfeiture.
IFPI: Principles to govern eligibility of recordings developed with GenAI for inclusion in official music charts. Framework will establish boundary between human-led creativity and works that are purely synthetic, or generated by unauthorized AI models. www.ifpi.org/ifpi-rolls-o...
IFPI Rolls Out Global Principles for the Eligibility of Recordings Developed Using AI in Official Music Charts Worldwide - IFPI
~ New principles to be applied across IFPI’s network of official charts ~ 30 July 2026, London – IFPI, the organisation representing the recording industry worldwide, today announced the roll out of a...
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The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country
The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.
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More Trump socialism. Government taking ownership stakes in the means of production. thehill.com/policy/techn...
Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…
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...Palantir CEO Alex Karp went further, telling CNBC earlier this month that something had gone “completely wrong.” He said he was channeling the voice of American businesses privately “livid” about paying so much for tokens that create no value. apnews.com/article/ai-t...
Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad
A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.
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Is NY Times going to report on sex lives of every democratic candidate, going back decades? Is there any sense that the sex lives of politicians are not the most important issues? I get the fact that voyeurism appeals to some, but the associated hypocrisy alone is off-putting.