These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Mark Ames: The One Percent’s Plan for the Rest of Us – Live­stock to be Milked for “Rent” « naked capitalism

  “Slav­ery is often por­trayed by revi­sion­ist his­to­ri­ans as some­how anti­thet­i­cal to mar­ket cap­i­tal­ism; in real­ity, slav­ery was a win­ning port­fo­lio invest­ment, the very incar­na­tion of just how evil “free-​​market” cap­i­tal­ism can be. As the authors write: “If slaves … were an invest­ment included in the asset port­fo­lio of the planter/​entrepreneur, they helped sat­isfy the owner’s demand for wealth. But unlike most other forms of cap­i­tal, which depre­ci­ate with time, the stock of slaves appre­ci­ated. Thus, the growth of the slave pop­u­la­tion con­tin­u­ously increased the stock of wealth.” What makes this graph so dis­turb­ing for us in 2012 is what it sug­gests about today’s “1 per­cent” — and how they view the rest of us. It gives form to the bru­tal crack­down on the Occupy protests — and sug­gests darker things to come as we try to free our­selves from their vision of civ­i­liza­tion, and our place in it.”
  
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• Artscroll Tal­mud Goes Digital-​​Updated « Men­achem Mendel

  
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• greater­lip­sum — Tired of the old Lip­sum? Try Lovecraft!

  
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• Lib­er­at­ing America’s secret, for-​​pay laws — Boing Boing

  “Upon the close of the May 1 com­ment period, it is our inten­tion to begin post­ing these 73 stan­dards in HTML and begin the process of pro­vid­ing a uni­fied, easy-​​to-​​use inter­face to all pub­lic safety stan­dards in the Code of Fed­eral Reg­u­la­tions. It is also our inten­tion to con­tinue this effort to include all stan­dards specif­i­cally incor­po­rated by ref­er­ence in the 50 states. That the law must be avail­able to cit­i­zens is a car­di­nal prin­ci­ple of law in coun­tries such as India and the United King­dom, and we will expand our efforts to include those juris­dic­tions as well.”
  
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• Sci­ence of the Invis­i­ble: Map­ping the Repub­lic of Letters

  It is time to sup­press this sort of research. If we’re not care­ful, peo­ple will start look­ing at con­tem­po­rary dynam­ics. Please have your Pos­ter­ity Docent ini­ti­ate Ele­phant Pro­to­col Mu now. Also: I want the lit­tle bead-​​flow animations.
  
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• The Epi­curean Deal­maker: Three’s a Crowd

  “The ten­sion arises from the fact that it is often more prof­itable to rip a customer’s face off in the short term than to defer poten­tially larger profit oppor­tu­ni­ties with the same client in the long term. When bankers whose per­sonal fran­chises, careers, and com­pen­sa­tion depends on the for­mer are evenly bal­anced with bankers whose inter­ests are aligned with the lat­ter, an invest­ment bank perches prof­itably if pre­car­i­ously on the knife’s edge of sus­tain­able prof­itabil­ity. Notwith­stand­ing indus­try crit­ics’ per­cep­tion that all invest­ment bankers are all look­ing for a quick and easy score, those of us who actu­ally work in the rela­tion­ship side of the busi­ness know that our best per­sonal out­come depends on a sus­tained career suc­cess last­ing over a decade or more. Unlike, per­haps, traders who trans­act daily with equally ruth­less hedge fund coun­ter­par­ties on a no-​​regrets, no-​​grudges basis, bankers like me in cor­po­rate finance and M&A trans­act with the same lim­ited uni­verse of clients year-​​in and year-​​out. We sim­ply can­not afford to screw them over, because they do hold a grudge.”
  
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• Beyond the Textbook

  ‘Even if you have the most up-​​to-​​date edi­tion of the very lat­est text­book, I think it’s rec­og­nize that the text­book — as an object, as instruc­tional prac­tice — is still a relic. It is a relic of a time when infor­ma­tion was scarce. It’s a relic of the way in which we man­u­fac­tured and scaled the indus­trial model of edu­ca­tion — a teacher at the front of the class­room, assign­ing the lessons and read­ings from an author­i­ta­tive text. One that was bound by print. One that was dis­trib­uted state and even nation-​​wide. One that was uni­form. Some­where along the way, “text­book” became “cur­ricu­lum” — and under today’s test­ing regime, that all became wrapped up in “assessment.“‘
  
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• Evolang cov­er­age: More on lin­guis­tic repli­ca­tors | Repli­cated Typo

  
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