Jacob T. Levy
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
- Holy heck.
- Price controls on pharmaceuticals -> shortages of pharmaceuticals -> more people signing up for RFK's quack remedies. Synergy!
- If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
- The administration's understanding of the "merit-based hiring" that is supposed to replace DEI is to fire a Black woman with relevant professional qualifications and replace her with a personal crony from a different profession entirely who is literally a guy named White.
- I’m old enough to remember stuff like this
- Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
- I followed up on this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- I know NIH is ~5x bigger than NSF but I think the gutting of NSF is getting a lot less than 1/5 the attention— in the news media and in higher ed— compared with what's happened to NIH.
- Reposted by Jacob T. LevyWe are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
- I stand by my view that Act 1 of Age of Ultron is absolutely foundational to the MCU. It’s where we see and enjoy the Avengers as an up and running team whose members know, like, and trust each other, the Avengers whose division in Civil War matters. gizmodo.com/avengers-age...
