prior probability

My next paper will have to be on “The Politics of Normativity in the New Media”!

The full thread is available here, via Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa).

In honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and MLK Day, we are posting below a small sample of MLK-related postage stamps from around the world:

Via Kottke (links in original): “Cuban-born Darian Mederos does oil portraits that look like they are covered in bubble wrap. You can check out more of his work on Instagram.”

Pictured below is Betty White in one of her first film roles as Senator Bessie Adams in ADVISE AND CONSENT. Below the fold is my mom Oilda (center) with her mother Antonia (left) and me.

The Syllabus for my business law survey course is now available here: Spring 2021 Syllabus. Instead of Tiger King, ferocious lions, and zoos, this semester I have decided to focus on social media companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in order to explore the legal and ethical environments of U.S. business firms. Enjoy!

• Extinct (EX) – beyond reasonable doubt that the species is no longer extant.
• Extinct in the wild (EW) – survives only in captivity, cultivation and/or outside native range, as presumed after exhaustive surveys.
• Critically endangered (CR) – in a particularly and extremely critical state.
• Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered.
• Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 red list criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
• Near threatened (NT) – close to being at high risk of extinction in the near future.
• Least concern (LC) – unlikely to become extinct in the near future.

For completeness, there are two additional categories:

• Not evaluated (NE)
• Data deficient (DD)

These categories were developed by a private organization: the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN). More details here, via Wikipedia.