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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · Sep 12

A thread on my new paper published in the American Journal for Legal History, which offers the first ever legal history of the @bankofcanada.ca's founding: academic.oup.com/ajlh/advance...

Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada1

Abstract. The Bank of Canada is an independent Crown corporation that sees its primary responsibility to be promoting Canada’s economic welfare by maintain

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 1d

Yes to this. And I think the instinct goes beyond. Obviously less imp than news and not a regulated industry, I used the proposed EA buyout as an example in my Corporations class specifically because I knew most of my students play those video games and would feel robbed as consumers.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

Of course this is the core motivating insight for regulated industries law, which comes out of one part of the antimonopolist movement. It also is part of a lost tradition of free speech theory

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

this is not quite an anti-trust tragedy but it's certainly some kind of capital market regulation problem if people can buy assets that provide huge public goods specifically in order to destroy the public good provision

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

As other commenters have noted, telling generative AI not to invent anything does nothing at all. You can’t command a machine to not do the very thing it was created to do. It generates new data, it does not extract data!

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 1d

DebtCon kicked-off today for three days of interdisciplinary discussions on sovereign debt with stellar speakers! In case you can't make it to D.C. in person, some sessions will be streamed for registrants. More information below👇

AnnouncementEighth Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research & Management Conference

October 13-15, 2025, Washington D.C. Streaming available for some sessions

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 2d

and how did you spend your long weekend?

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s stop this arms race maybe before it kills us?

Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 2d

Does a new generation of social scientists have to publish more to achieve less? (from 2019)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Intuition says "yes", and so says data for sociology.

Figure from blog post: Shows how much 342 new assistant professors had published at the time they began their first jobs. For Assistant Professors and newly promoted Associate Professors, there is an upward trend from early 1990s to late 2010s. The trend is stronger for Associate Professors.

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely part of the appeal in hating them. They really ARE that skyscraper. bsky.app/profile/danr...

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 8d

Love to see it

Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 8d

‘Canadian Clubbed’ - New York papers blister Yankees after two big losses in Toronto

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats Natan! Great poem! I say that even though I will always... ALWAYS... hate the Yankees ;)

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Natan Last @natanlast.bsky.social · 2d

an absolute dream to have a poem in the new yorker today, on why being a yankees fan is good, actually, present cursed season aside ...

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“I Consider Myself”

“When Soto went crosstown I couldn’t / believe it, the traitor, the bat in front of / that sculpture Judge.”

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 3d

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I got lucky. Ridiculous word!

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh these are the worst kind of worldles!

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 3d

Second this, add Ghostwriter.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 5d

What an evening for a train ride!

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 5d

Reagan's diary, August 12, 1982

www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reaga...

Met with the news the Israelis delivered the most devastating bomb & artillery attack on W. Beirut lasting 14 hours. Habib cabled- desperate-has basic agreement from all parties but cant arrange details of P.L.0. withdrawal because of the barrage. King Fahd
called begging me to do something. I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did-I was angry. I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symool of his war was becoming a picture of a 7 month old baby with it's arms blown off. He told me he had ordered the bombing stopped-I asked about the artillery fire. He claimed the P.L.O. had started that & Israeli forces had taken casualties. End of call. Twenty mins. later he called to tell me he'd ordered an end to the barrage and plead for our continued friendship. Spent rest of day meeting with Congressmen on Tax bill.

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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 6d

#BREAKING: Blue Jays advance to ALCS after beating Yankees 5-2

Blue Jays advance to ALCS after beating Yankees 5-2. Live updates here.

The Toronto Blue Jays have punched their ticket to the American League Championship Series (ALCS). They beat the Yankees 5-2 in Game 4 of the ALDS.

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 6d

Blue Jays!!!!

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 8d

Love to see it

Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 8d

‘Canadian Clubbed’ - New York papers blister Yankees after two big losses in Toronto

New York newspaper headline writers had a field day in Monday’s editions after the scuffling Yankees gave up 23 runs over two American League Division Series losses to the Blue Jays in Toronto last weekend.

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats Leanna!

Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University @schulichlaw.bsky.social · 8d

The Schulich School of Law is pleased to introduce Leanna Katz as a Schulich Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. Katz, whose research connects social welfare and financial laws, will be teaching Contracts and Judicial Decision-Making.
Read her Q&A to learn more about her work: bit.ly/46BRkZi

Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 8d

This piece is the perfect articulation of both this deal and this moment in America media

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 9d

Ugh defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 9d

Playoff Vladdy is born.

Grand Slam.

The #BlueJays are up, 9-0.

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 9d

Go JAYS!!!!!

Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 9d

#BlueJays win, 13-7.

They’re up 2-0 on the Yankees heading to New York, one win from the ALCS.

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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 9d

Blue Jays beat Yankees 13-7 to take 2-0 lead in best-of-five AL Division Series

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a grand slam, Daulton Varsho hit two of Toronto’s five homers and Trey Yesavage was masterful in his fourth career big-league start as the Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 13-7 on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 9d

Democrats doing right-wing talking points on immigration and "the border" --to really an unusual degree-- was bad policy and it was bad politics.

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Janice Grant 🇨🇦 @janiceg.bsky.social · 10d

Let’s go Blue Jays! #bluejays

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 10d

#BlueJays win, 10-1, and take a 1-0 lead over the Yankees in the ALDS.

This was Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s finest day with this organization… and Alejandro Kirk’s. Kevin Gausman’s, too.

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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 10d

#BREAKING: Blue Jays beat Yankees 10-1 to win Game 1 of ALDS

Blue Jays beat Yankees 10-1 to win Game 1 of ALDS. Live updates here.

The Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 10-1 in Game 1 of their American League Series.

www.cp24.com

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