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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 1d

ENO UNIVERSE playlist! A retrospective of Brian Eno’s body of work from 1972-1995 including his solo rock and ambient records and his collaborations with Bowie,Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Fripp, etc! All links and annotated tracklisting in the newsletter issue fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Fluxblog 566: ENO UNIVERSE

A retrospective of Brian Eno's music 1972-1995

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 3d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 3d

Wild chart: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 8d

The videos from the NBER Economics of Transformative AI conference are well worth your time. www.nber.org/conferences/...

Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025

www.nber.org

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 13d

Quite possible, although there are many types here.

Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 14d

It looks like he didn't share it on Bluesky, so I will. @afinetheorem.bsky.social has written an excellent review article covering 7 recent books on the economics of AI that serves as an excellent overview of this topic. Highly recommended!

kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookR...

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 21d

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Barred From Stalking Us Across the Internet, Returns for Some Advertisers Plummet - UCLA Anderson Review

Small businesses hit particularly hard when Apple made it easy to opt out of app tracking

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 22d

I can confirm that the cuisine in France is on another level

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 27d

Full link to paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Very preliminary, comments welcome!

The Impact of LLM Adoption on Online User Behavior

The adoption of AI tools, and especially Large Language Models (LLMs), has the potential to significantly transform how users engage with information online, po

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 27d

While 2022-2023 was an early period for AI, these data give us the first broad look at how online behavior is changing as consumers adopt LLM tools. Our results suggest that LLMs may pose a thread to search engines and to education websites, as well as to the long-tail of niche content producers.

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 27d

We study overall traffic and find LLM adopters make fewer visits to smaller (low traffic) websites and receive fewer ad exposures. We also show that education-related websites are particularly affected and find mixed effects on UGC content platforms (Reddit, StackOverflow, Wikipedia).

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 27d

We use a difference-in-difference design comparing trends in behavior of early LLM adopters to trends of later adopters. Our primary finding is that adoption of LLMs (such as ChatGPT) leads to a significant drop in online search, particularly longer queries and queries phrased as questions.

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · 27d

🚨*New research*🚨

Together with Tai Lam, Nicolas Padilla, and Anja Lambrecht: we study the impact of LLMs on user behavior across the web. We use a large and detailed panel of user-level online browsing from 2022 – 2023 and study how consumers' behavior changes after they adopt AI tools.

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scari @cari.bsky.social · Jul 24

saw this tweet and checked my calculator history and I'm losing it

tweet from @glamdemon2004

Feeling self conscious after learning that there’s a history feature on the calculator app… I’m scrolling through it thinking yeah I probably should have known that one

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Sep 3

The GOAT

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Sep 3

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

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podbastard @podbastard.bsky.social · Sep 3

youtu.be/FGUjkvqkmQI?...

Look Around You - I'm Rapping

YouTube video by TheOncomingStorm

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Eight rules to regain trust in universities. All can be done today. They're absolutely not the core beliefs about the role of the university for some faculty right now, but are essential if we're to contribute to the trusted production and diffusion of knowledge. kevinbryanecon.com/trust.html

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Sep 1

Some news: I will be spending this entire 2025-26 academic year located in Paris, visiting the local universities and participating in the research community here.

If you work in Paris or are just passing though in the next year, please reach out, I'd be happy to meet up! PhD students especially!

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is a very serious problem, not only directly because of the corruption alleged, but because it undermines and harms confidence in the entire process.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says

Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize the merger case that led to his firing.

www.wsj.com

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Aug 19

Working for the University of California while also living in France - I have reached truly elite levels of spending time dealing with inscrutable bureaucracy and filling out forms.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · Aug 7

Killing SB 79 will make Los Angeles a less affordable, less sustainable place -- it'll keep us on the same trajectory we've been on since SB 827 and SB 50 were killed almost a decade ago. Why is the mayor going out of her way to oppose it? There's no excuse for this.

LA New Liberals @lanewliberals.bsky.social · Aug 7

‪Call @mayor.lacity.gov‬ to tell her to support - and stop telling other lawmakers to oppose - SB 79 and statewide standards for transit-oriented development! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

TALKING POINTS: Call Karen Bass to support SB 79

Call Karen Bass to support SB 79! (213) 978-0600 Script: Hello, my name is ____, (and mention if you are an LA city resident, consider sharing the neighborhood you live in). And I’m calling Mayor Kar...

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · Aug 2

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Terence Tao (@[email protected])

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Aug 1

I can't stress how damaging this is.

Destroys trust in core government statistics.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Jul 29

The Justice Department fired two of its most senior antitrust enforcers after internal disagreements over how much discretion their division should have to police mergers.

Top Justice Department Antitrust Officials Fired Amid Internal Feud

The dismissals come after disagreements over settling a case against Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which hired allies of President Trump.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Jul 16

Berkeley professor's ex-wife arrested in connection with his murder in Greece

Authorities arrested several suspects in connection with the July 4 shooting in Athens.

www.latimes.com

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