#UPenn
After #Trump replaces Jerome #Powell with a toady, He learn something they taught at #UPenn #Wharton, but to which he paid no attention. The #Fed sets the fed funds rate for overnight money. Every other #interest rate is set by the market.
If 47 forces the #FRB to lend at below market rates, the result will be an artifical expansion of the money supply leading to yet more #inflation.
> Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' records revoked in UPenn deal with Trump admin https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/university-pennsylvania-trump-education-trans-athletes-lia-thomas
#UPenn basically tossed her under the bus to appease the #PendejoInChief and the #GOP #PartyOfStupid
"Leges sine moribus vanae" is a Latin phrase that translates to "Laws without morals are useless." It emphasizes the importance of ethics and morality in conjunction with legal systems.
Not today, I guess.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
MACK: Mismodeling addressed with contrastive knowledge
Liam Rankin Sheldon, Dylan Sheldon Rankin, Philip Harris
SciPost Phys. 18, 150 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.5.150
Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette
Trump cuts $175M US in funding to university over transgender athlete on swim team
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-university-funding-transgender-1.7487872?cmp=rss
Investigation focuses on Lia Thomas, who swam on Penn's women's team
#UPenn #TransLivesMatter #TransRights
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
#American families will start paying a #TrumpTax - and many will lose their export dependent jobs - after the #tariffs put on the largest trading partners of the #UnitedStates kickoff a #TradeWar.
It is yet another reminder of how an #Economics professor at #UPenn described his self-described ‘stable genius’ student, Donald Trump 
#USpol
BARCAMP PHILLY 2024
October 5th, 2024
8am to 6pm
The Wharton School (#UPenn)
#BarCamp is an “unconference“ – a full day of 60 unique sessions, over 6 timeslots, in 10 rooms at Wharton’s Huntsman Hall where attendees build the schedule the morning of the event. Sessions are given on a variety of topics, and the day is created collaboratively – built by the people, for the people.
Coining the term #BrainOverclaim
#UPENN #law and #psychiatry professor Dr. #StephenMorse
provides a unique and often overlooked assessment of how #neuroscience research can effectively assist the #Criminal #JusticeSystem
» there's a difference between
how the #brain looks
and how the #behavior looks.
For #legal purposes you always have to believe the behavior «
#brainsOnTrial #AlanAlda
+ #MIT #McGovern Institute panel incl. @NancyKanwisher
https://youtu.be/fw5X1DvzASo
The NYT and its manufacture of "news", a statistical study of March 2024 articles done at #UPenn:
https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-inconsistent-narrative-selection-and-framing-that-tends-to-favor-republicans/
After way too long, I finally used a GPT to track down the case citation for Houston Texas Central Railroad Company v. W.A. East, including an online copy of the case itself.
TL;DR: Hathi Trust for once actually comes through:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301
Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. WestLaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain. Yay, P.D.
There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333420
(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=swreporter)
The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:
H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East
Full title: HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279
So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.
Which is here:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301
(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)
The process by which I'd done this seems interesting (IMO):
I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.
On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.
cc: @pluralistic
@georgetakei It is if it makes you more likely to be elected #POTUS , like #DonaldTrump at #UPenn where one of his #Economics professors said “he was the dumbest god-damned student I ever had!” And other students said he paid “smart Asians” to do his assignments and take exams for him. 
Congratulations to the graduate student workers at my former school, #UPenn, on finally winning their #union! https://www.phillyvoice.com/penn-graduate-students-union-getup-election-vote/
UPenn Gaza Solidarity Encampment (25 April 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKkbK2t6efs&ab_channel=hate5six
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” - Fanon
Yesterday students seized UPenn's campus and launched their own Gaza solidarity encampment in coordination with a student and faculty walk-out to draw attention to the university's complicity in genocide through financial investments…
@glennklockwood @sfuertinger Moreover, #CarnegieMellon #UPENN #ColumbiaUniv #Princeton #JohnsHopkins are all within 3 hours drive through beautiful countryside. #TownAndCountryLiving with a #BrainPool that includes #Merck #BMS #Aventis #Pfizer #JNJ #Roche #Sandoz and many others.
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