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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · 12h

Why is this not on the front page of the New York Times? From Politico:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · 11d

Cory Doctorow offers evidence that the New Deal lives in the Digital Era and offers a model for Coop/Municipal ownership of digital infrastructure: pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/w...

Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · 12d

Ian Harnett in today’s FT; “The AI capex endgame is approaching” : “My perspective on technology bubbles has been shaped by five themes that emerged from William Janeway’s book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · 26d

Andrew Odlyzko, mathematician/historian, explains how crypto exemplifies the “post-truth” world:

www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...

www-users.cse.umn.edu

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Aug 1

Where is Jamie Dimon? Where is Larry Fink: www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...

Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers | CNN Business

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.”

www.cnn.com

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jul 23

I guess I did mean Rump for Trump.

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jul 23

Has conceding to Rump’s bullying ever got anybody anything socially beneficial?

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jul 18

Someone should tell Trump about what happened to Oscar Wilde when he sued the Marquis of Queensbury for defamation.

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jun 26

Important post today by @pkrugman.bsky.social on the NYC mayoralty primary:

substack.com/app-link/pos...

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness

Will he be a good mayor? Nobody knows. But the hysteria is revealing.

substack.com

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jun 6

@pkrugman.bsky.social is so right: “The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt….Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought”

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Jun 1

Strong post from The Bulwark on more destruction from RFK Jr:

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu

He just made two bad decisions on vaccines, and he made them in the worst way possible.

open.substack.com

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · May 18

And the damage exceeds these quantities:
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

Crippling America's Innovation Economy — Bill Janeway

www.billjaneway.com

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 24

2/ The Trump/Musk Administration is working effectively to do the same for China in so 31 weeks

www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

www.science.org

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 24

1/ In 1914, Germany was the global leader in science and at the technological frontier in such key domains as chemical and electrical engineering. It took 31 years - assisted by losing 2 world wars, hyperinflation, Hitler’s expulsion of Jewish scientists - to pass leadership to the US.

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 23

This is what you need to know about the US research ecosystem…and the Trump/Musk effort to destroy it:

www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Apr 14

NB that this letter ups the costs to Columbia if it does fold.

Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · Apr 14

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” 🔥 🔥

This is exactly the response universities need to be giving across the board.

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 6

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trum...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 4

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trum...

Crippling America’s Innovation Economy | by William H. Janeway - Project Syndicate

William H. Janeway warns that the pillars of US dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically toppled.

www.project-syndicate.org

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 3

Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.

A call to action.

open.substack.com

Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 2

No longer surprising. Get her daily letter directly

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · Apr 2

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is remov...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump r

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Bill Janeway @050343.bsky.social · Apr 2

RFKJr.’s strategy for saving Social Security: reduce the life expectancy of Americans.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 21

Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.

Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Mar 20

In fairness, there are a bunch of highly prominent libertarian Fedsoc people putting their names to this, expressing a general left-right consensus on free speech and universities. It would be nice to see Columbia university leadership pushing back instead of rolling over

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole

We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

www.nybooks.com

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Mar 18

Despite the somewhat confusing title, the body of this post is anything but confusing. It should be called "Understanding DOGE through the lense of AI Preppers." It makes so much sense of the enormous gamble Musk is taking with DOGE and the risks that come with it.

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?

There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

www.programmablemutter.com

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