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Mon, 18/06/2018 - 13:03

Toby, Toby! Here boy!” called my dog, Alfie. It was time for our walk. I ran in from the backyard where I had been digging up weeds. Alfie and I walked to the park. Peeing amongst some weeds along the way Alfie commented on the weather. I was distracted as …

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Fri, 15/06/2018 - 18:50
CANADA July 7 -8  Mariposa Festival Orillia, Ontario July 11  RBC Ottawa Bluesfest Ottawa, Ontario July 12  RBC Ottawa Bluesfest Barney Danson Theatre Ottawa, Ontario July 13 Stewart Park Festival, Perth Ontario July 14 Stewart Park Festival, Perth Ontario July 14 The Heartwood Restaurant, Combermere, Ontario July 18 Lula Lounge, Toronto Ontario July 19 Ellena's Cafe, Napanee [...]
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Mon, 04/06/2018 - 04:06
The Role of the State in the Future of Money
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6:00pm, Wednesday, June 13th

Room H713, The New School

72 5th Ave (corner of 5th and 13th), New York City

This friendly roundtable debate explores the rise of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and related digital financial technologies, and their relationship to legal authority and state power.

Co-sponsored by the New School Public and Urban Policy Doctoral Student Association.

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Thu, 10/05/2018 - 10:45
One of the first budgets I covered as a journalist spelt the end of the career of the man who delivered it. John Dawkins, who had been finance minister in the formidable first Hawke cabinet of 1983, had finally achieved his ambition of taking the treasury portfolio after Paul Keating […]
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Sat, 28/04/2018 - 12:22

I recieved a call from my boss yesterday. Who my mother rudely described as, “mouthy”. I asked what she meant by that and she said they, “sounded like they would not use one word where many would suffice”. Indeed.

I might use the expression, “Wordy” but probably not. My mother …

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Sat, 07/04/2018 - 01:57
Permalink to this post AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook — either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people consent to the access — and then use a well-trained categorizer […]
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Sat, 07/04/2018 - 01:57
Permalink to this post AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook — either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people consent to the access — and then use a well-trained categorizer […]
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Wed, 28/02/2018 - 21:59
Remember when Michael Jordan went from dominating basketball to embarrassing baseball? Today’s subject is a little bit like that, only without the Bugs Bunny team-up to make it palatable (I asked, he’s a busy rabbit). Still sports-related, mind you. https://youtu.be/iWURvRHDlJU?t=3m59s WHOA! Are you into top gear yet? Back in 1994, the clamorous Tony D’Allura was […]
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Sun, 25/02/2018 - 20:10
Another parliamentary inquiry into how to rescue public interest journalism has come and gone, having raised barely a ripple. Is it because nobody cares? Is it because there’s no money in it? Is it because there really isn’t a problem to begin with? Or is it because we’re stuck inside […]
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Sat, 27/01/2018 - 10:39
In Memory of Tamara Lothian

Tamara Lothian passed away in 2016, leaving behind two nearly finished books. The first of these works, Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy, was published in 2017. On January 26, 2018, Duncan Kennedy, Mark Barenberg, Christine Desan, Robert Hockett, and Sanjay Reddy discussed Law and the Wealth of Nations, their friendship with Tamara, and what we can learn from her work. The panel was recorded and the video will be available soon.