Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I just discovered that my micro-paper “Betting on Conspiracies?” was published in the Journal of Brief Ideas (JOBI) on September 12, 2021. (I had submitted my brief idea back in mid-July, but a notification email from JOBI got caught in … Continue reading →

This is post #9 of a multi-part series. The penultimate part of Professor Jack Balkin’s paper “How to regulate … social media” contains my favorite quote about Facebook (Part 8, pp. 88-89, footnote omitted): “Facebook’s history as a company has … Continue reading →

I just realized that I have not blogged about “Hispanic Heritage Month” in the eight years that I have been curating my “prior probability” blog. To help remedy this omission, I thought I would begin by sharing the poster art … Continue reading →

This is post #8 of a multi-part series. In Part 7 of his paper “How to regulate (and not regulate) social media“, Professor Jack Balkin considers two alternatives to direct social media regulation: (1) the creation of a state-owned social … Continue reading →

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On Friday (9/10), on the heels of our disgraceful surrender in Kabul, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to declassify documents related to the FBI’s investigation of the 9/11 terrorist … Continue reading →

More details here, via rasmusab. Hat tip: @pickover.

This is post #7 of a multi-part series. Thus far, I have carefully reviewed the first four parts, plus the intro, of Professor Balkin’s new paper “How to … regulate social media”. That portion of the paper is mere throat-clearing, … Continue reading →

This is post #6 of a multi-part series. Although Part 4 of Professor Balkin’s paper on “How to regulate … social media” is the shortest part of his paper (with the exception of the opening and concluding sections), it is … Continue reading →