This is a step backwards. A whole of government approach to competition is crucial. This administration could have replaced the EO with one of their own. They didn’t - which accentuates concerns that they’re not committed to supporting and promoting competition. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

TIL that Northern Illinois has a PhD program.

Why are local power companies not liable for deaths and extended power outages that their failure to adequately invest in infrastructure causes? Afaf

Someone appears to be confused about tariffs versus trade deficits. Hint: look at last column of left table and middle column in right table (for the same country). Sources: wikipedia & newsweek.

I'm launching Comind, an open source project to develop a cognitive layer for #ATProto.

Comind is intended to build a network of AI agents that collaboratively process information flowing through AT Protocol.

I'm looking for contributors interested in the project.

github.com/cpfiffer/com...

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

How Trump is reshaping reality by disappearing public data
W/ my fabulous colleague @ashendruk.com
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Not really sure what to post so I'll go for the usual: a new version of our multimarket contact paper is out
scholars.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
We started this project in the pre-covid era and it appears to have become a constant feature of my life

Grumps, the package for computing random coefficients discrete choice models allowing for (either or both) consumer-level and shares data has been updated. It goes with my paper with Charlie Murry, Paul Grieco, and Stephan Sagl. Paper's at joris.pinkse.org/paper/grumps/ 1/3

>1k followers on the X-rated app, 4 on here..... This has a little ways to go. ;-)