Today locked out of offices. Not just a place of work but the place we define by our teaching and research without which it is literally nothing more than a bunch of badly managed assets and a hospital.

Damn what a lineup

NEW PIECE: I'm in FT Alphaville today assessing whether the FTC's new Non-Compete ban will run up against the Fed's desire for wage growth to fall &, more generally, whether pro-worker non-financial regulation will be seen as a price stability threat
ft.com/content/6afe46…

Check out this amazing workshop on Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty And International Order being organised by Jessica Whyte and Ntina Tzouvala in Sydney in December! ppesydney.net/dollar-hegemon…

$200 million, or in other terms, the entire annual Congressional appropriation for the national endowment for the arts.

Across the country, university faculty have been calling for what should be obvious: that our students should be able to speak out on Palestinian human rights without being arrested or brutalized by police: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Per Visa: 90% of stablecoin transactions in the 30 days to April 24 were driven by bots

Dems can end a university protest 10,000x faster than an unjust war

Don't forget 'these are all out of touch rich kids' quietly fading as the encampments have cropped up at public colleges.

NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns

Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM

The Fight for $15 is changing its name to Fight for a Union

The best time to lecture others about losing all credibility is when you're siding with Mike Johnson

Cory Doctorow joins Money on the Left to discuss what Modern Monetary Theory means for building digital commons.

moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…

Yesterday Cornell University suspended four students for their participation in the protest encampment on the arts quad. Why these four? Because they were the negotiating team and they were the names the admin knew. Two are international students who are now without visas. /1

I suspect it will be difficult for university presidents who have had their students and faculty arrested to stay in their jobs. Who at the university is going to want to work with them? Who is even going to want to be seen with them?

No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have.

Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.

Never let powerful people (ie. Littler lawyers) underestimate the capacity and intelligence of ordinary people

- taken from the NLRB judge’s recent ruling against Starbucks at the store where I used to work

Sounds so familiar

What if bad people got to govern?!? Didn't think of that did you, opponents-of-technocracy?!? Checkmate!

...so as I was saying, the deficit is unsustainable and we need to cut social security