Law prof at U Colorado, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/ Papers at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170 "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.”
People always seem to like to hold up Loki and Coyote as the trickster archetypes, and rarely seem to notice the far more pop cultural Bugs Bunny for American audiences.
Widow's Bay DSAI saw someone suggest Nolan made Odysseus more brooding because Americans don't have any cultural background with the trickster hero and that might be the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of cultural anthropology
so a whistleblower filed a lawsuit against Tesla claiming he was retaliated against for identifying problems with FSD Pro se and i'd bet lotsa money he used AI to draft the complaint. Note he had to correct Tesla's domicile by hand www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Medrano v. Tesla, Incwww.documentcloud.org
This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany
Gabe Ortíz“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
Kennedy "had been asked ...to tone down his vaccine efforts ahead of the midterms...Now, it was the commander in chief who was pushing to make the study of vaccines and autism more of a priority. The president steers nearly every conversation with his health secretary back to the issue,"
Trump Turns Up the Heat on RFK Jr. to Cut Back Childhood VaccinesThe president is focused on the shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to the issue ahead of the midterms.www.wsj.comit led to a bot backlash driven by online influencers, and i really think that needs to be part of this bizarre story www.wsj.com/articles/bot...
Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture WarsAI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.www.wsj.comChicago TribuneThe CEO of Cracker Barrel is stepping down nearly a year after an attempted rebrand of the chain led to a fierce customer backlash.
The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.
Over 1,700 Cargill Meatpacking Workers Locked Out After Demanding Bathroom BreaksThe largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.sentientmedia.orgEurope did clear them after my original post but UK hasn't - www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming, Benedict Wong Pen Op-Ed Urging U.K. to Block “Dangerous” Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger"Actors are often told to stay out of legal arguments... But we have spent our lives on enough U.K. sets, worked alongside enough U.K. crews [...] to know that this is not someone else’s argument. It ...www.hollywoodreporter.com
Okay so this is funny. In the original posts below, was criticizing @semafor.com's approach to writing about the antitrust challenges to the Paramount merger - treating Paramount as the innocent victim of democratic attacks. So this is new: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Ann M. LiptonI want to emphasize what's bizarre here. First, the EU and UK have a lot of objections. Second, Calif is not the only state objecting. Third, the Trump clearance does not suggest there are no antitrust problems for obvious reasons. So the slant that Calif is uniquely irrational is. A choice.
