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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Feb 4

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...

www.npr.org

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 25

Probably for the connector to Slaterville Springs.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 22

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.

www.imd.org

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 19

There is already a Seligman-bot trained on Martin Seligman's life's work. And the universities have an archive of materials in Gmail, Google drive, Zoom videos -- suitable for training an LLM. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.

New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.

www.politico.com

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 16

Did it come with a monkey's paw in one of the branches? This whole thing sounds kind of sus (as the kids said in 2019).

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 14

It's surprising how often this post is relevant.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Jan 5

Fellow Detroit transit nerds: my birthday present from My son was a Detroit streetcar map from 1950. Great routes.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 30

Maybe everyone with an inclination toward the arts has to read "The catcher in the rye" about that stupid boarding school kid with the red hat who lost all that hockey equipment on the train. (OK, it's been 50 years, I may have forgotten the point of that book.)

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 28

Now I want to get Nikki Haley's take on the causes of the English Civil War.

Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 28

Will check it out!

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 27

GPT understands my metaphors.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 24

Thanks for the hashtag -- I was thinking "Toucans on Lake Erie?" (which would def make Ohio more interesting).

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 22

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 22

"Hayek, meet Amazon, which knows the prices that obtain among transactions across the economy far better than the transactors themselves. And the character of supply chains. And it can run experiments to test consumers' willingness to pay. Time to update that '45 paper?"

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 19

A great podcast series for your next long trip: the-santiago-boys.com

The Santiago Boys

This is a podcast about a continent that dared to dream big - and challenge the power of Big Tech before Big Tech was a thing.

the-santiago-boys.com

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 19

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.

www.businessinsider.com

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 18

Meanwhile, these schools granted 391,375 undergraduate degrees in business.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 18

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?

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 17

Are you the real Tim Gill or an anxiety-bot?

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 16

Loving the DNEP Holiday Fair at Jam Handy. Detroit entrepreneurs are amazing, creative makers!

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 15

Also possibly a werewolf/human divide.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Dybvig

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 15

Cool.

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 15

The irony of a Florida university opining about the sacredness of free speech is...something. www.aaup.org/report/repor...

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

www.aaup.org

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 14

Being deadwood is mostly great. But I miss have accomplishments to announce. So:

"I published my job market paper!"

(In 1991.)

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Jerry Davis @vanishingcorp.bsky.social · Dec 13

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.

www.inquirer.com

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