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...

Probably for the connector to Slaterville Springs.

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.

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 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.

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...

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).

It's surprising how often this post is relevant.

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

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.)

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

Will check it out!

GPT understands my metaphors.

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

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

"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?"

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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?

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

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

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

Cool.

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

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

"I published my job market paper!"

(In 1991.)

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.

If you have not done so already, now's a good time to join your AAUP chapter. www.inquirer.com/education/ma...

Final, 53-page report of AAUP's Special Committee on Florida, on which I had the privilege of serving, is now published. Some themes from our dozens of interviews: "[T]he reality in Florida is 'Orwellian,' and Florida is the 'canary in a coal mine.'.... Being a bystander is no longer an option."

If philosophy majors ruled the world, misusing the term "begging the question" would be a capital offense.

You deserve good things.

Top 5 metaphors:
Potemkin Village
Hermit crab
La Brea tarpits
Estuary
Winchester Mystery House

I have my own spicy take on this topic, if you want to marinate in the morose: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...