Mike Palmedo

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Statistician at the U.S. Copyright Office, but all posts & replies are my own. Interested in intellectual property, innovation, access to knowledge goods, & trade.

Papers & stuff from my previous life a university staffer: https://palmedo.owlstown.net/

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I have long wondered why anyone in their right mind would pay a consultant for 'career coaching'.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... Career coaching is fascinating. I don't know if I'd call it all grift but it feels like the industry functions to support grifting off institutional decline #sociosky #econsky

The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 127, No 4www.journals.uchicago.edu A wide range of self-styled experts have emerged in recent years to sell professional self-improvement advice in fields as diverse as employment, health, and finances. Despite lacking traditional mark...

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That sounds suspiciously like something someone who would eat a human would say. (screenshot via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter)

Ew.

Two elderly dudes arguing about golf is a new low

Like, every question so far has been predictable and Biden has been prepping for this. How can you not have a well prepared, well rehearsed answer for the question on abortion? On Jan 6th? Etc...

Oof

This is just sad. Been reading the Post since I had a newspaper stand in DC as a 10 year old. www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/m...

Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Will Lewis is quickly losing the confidence of his newsroom.

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MIT Press's "open-access 📚 in the humanities + social sciences were used nearly 4X more often when compared to paywalled counterparts, and they received 21% more citations. For STEM fields, the open-access 📚 were used nearly 3X more often and received 15% more citations."

MIT Press could shift higher education’s publishing modelwww.insidehighered.com MIT Press’s digital approach has broadened readership of monographs, but questions remain on whether its “idealistic” open-access model can change the publishing industry.

"microphones that are active only during each candidate’s turn" 👍👍👍👍👍 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden proposes June and September faceoffs with Trump, who accepts dateswww.washingtonpost.com The president said he will not participate in the traditional televised showdowns organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

Hey! My band (The Goons) is included in today's Washington Post article about bands you CAN'T MISS this month. (The photo is another, younger band you also can't miss.) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

11 can’t-miss concerts in the D.C. area in Maywww.washingtonpost.com A wave of hardcore concerts is hitting D.C., plus shows by Julia Holter and Charlotte Day Wilson.

The Copyright Office has posted a blog about why we have a (relatively new) economics shop, and what we've been doing around here. #EconSky #IPLawSky blogs.loc.gov/copyright/20...

The Economics of Creativity: A Q&A with the Copyright Office’s Chief Economist | Copyrightblogs.loc.gov In 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office welcomed Dr. Brent Lutes to serve as the Office’s first chief economist. Office staff recently sat down with Dr. Lutes and discussed the intersection of economics an...

Interesting piece on #OER adoption, which apparently has a long, long way to go. blog.opensyllabus.org/oer-adoption...

OER Adoption Update: 2023 | Open Syllabus Blogblog.opensyllabus.org With the release of version 2.11 of the OS dataset, we can update our reporting on adoption rates for open educational resources (OERs) -- specifically, open textbooks and 'open access' monographs.

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O.J. Simpson Allowed To Remain Living After Coffin Doesn’t Fitwww.theonion.com LAS VEGAS—With onlookers gasping as the former football star made a big show of being too big for the casket, O.J. Simpson was reportedly allowed to remain alive Thursday after his coffin didn’t fit. ...

This man's company owns half of the satellites orbiting earth www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-co...

Elon Musk confirms that he used a secret account on X where he pretended to be a childwww.businessinsider.com Elon Musk said he had used an alternate

Seven? "$7.5 billion set aside by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law to build charging stations has resulted in just seven charging stations so far" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | EVs have a Democrat problemwww.washingtonpost.com The share of Americans who say they would never consider owning an EV has jumped, and an increasing number of them are Democrats.

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Never get tired of this headline + image arstechnica.com/science/2019...

Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treatsarstechnica.com It was for a study on how enriched environments can affect stress response.

If you read the whole story, its even worse than the headline. There were 2 cops trying to pin something, anything, on the guy. This kind of thing should be (at least) a firing offense, but no.

A Tallahassee Police Department officer can be seen on body cam pouring out a sealed bottle of liquor and tossing it in Calvin Riley's passenger seat, before arresting him for a DUI.

Video Shows Tallahassee Police Officer Planting Evidence During DUI Arrestourtallahassee.com Calvin Riley Sr.'s routine traffic stop becomes a legal nightmare. Body camera video shows TPD Officer Oliver pouring out a sealed bottle of liquor and tossing it in Riley's passenger seat, before arr...

OH HELL NO!!!! www.axios.com/2024/04/02/h...

House Republicans push to rename D.C.'s Dulles airport after Donald Trumpwww.axios.com The Democrat who represents Dulles suggested Republicans “find a federal prison” to name after Trump.

I worked at the AU law school from 2007 until last summer, when I started my current job at the Copyright Office. On Friday, I have my first conference presentation of my current research, which digs into the copyright registrations data. Just by coincidence, it will be at the AU law school.

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I'm tired of "the rematch nobody wants," and vent my spleen about it a bit @theunpopulist.net. It misreads the polls, infantilizes the voters, denies the primary results, and over-represents elite punditry. This is who the voters have chosen, and it's a small and fractured minority who dislike both.

Biden vs. Trump Is the Rematch that America Wantswww.theunpopulist.net Voters deserve more blame than the system for this dismal contest

www.businessinsider.com/recessions-m...

The key to a longer life: high unemploymentwww.businessinsider.com New research confirms it: The worse the economy gets, the longer we live. But why?

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Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

I totally thought "Plants in Space" was like ferns and shrubs on spaceships.

ICYMI: The March issue of JPE is now available online. Learn about "Plants in Space," mentoring, and more at journals.uchicago.ed.... #EconSky

Um, what?

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“There were plenty of moments during Mr Trump’s campaign events in Greensboro, North Carolina and later in Richmond when he appeared to struggle to deliver his speech or seemed to be confused.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama againwww.independent.co.uk ‘Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,’ Trump says

Donald Trump, but ham. Stolen from @blknyte3571914.bsky.social

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The biggest challenge in 2024 is to get enough people to actually listen to what Trump and those around him are openly, consistently, and explicitly promising to do once they get back to power. It is utterly deranged, and discounting it as just rhetoric would be a disaster.

I never need to know anything about Chaucer or the atomic weight of barrium, but I think it makes sense to teach literature, science, and yes, math in schools. The trouble with schools is too much math www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The trouble with schools is too much mathwww.washingtonpost.com Prioritizing higher-level mathematics over other logical disciplines is letting us become a nation that can’t think straight.

NGL, I like this guy's energy. racketmn.com/will-stancil...