Gus Hurwitz

@GusHurwitz

U. Nebraska Law Professor and Menards Director of Nebraska Governance and Technology Center (UNL_NGTC); Law & Econ Evangelist @ ICLE

Law, Technology, Economics
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Joined September 2008
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    Formation of a Meandering River This fictional river by is based on the 1944 Harold Fisk mapped length of the Mississippi River which mapped the river through time—both beautiful & effective

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    After years of heartbreak but also resilience, we are ready for some real conversations. Please join us as we pursue a new path forward for rural America. Step One, Tell the Truth:

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    Dec 3

    My lab has a postdoctoral position, starting asap. See details below.

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    The only thing that can make a 110 page law review article look reasonable is a 140 page follow-up article.

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  6. Dec 1

    Microsoft Teams couldn't have asked for a greater gift than this merger.

    Salesforce to Buy Slack in $27.7 Billion Deal
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    🚨NEW RESEARCH from : 25+ countries have deployments of phone tracking & interception. They can probably target YOU. Here’s what this means… Quick .

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    OK. This one is actually pretty good.

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    This is just about the saddest thing I could see today.

    Here are the images. 😔
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    🧵Thread🧵 Today’s news about China’s poor and deceptive handling of the coronavirus outbreak should serve as a wake up call for those in the media who praised and defended it. Because it’s a long, long list of those who served as an apologist for China’s response. 👇

    CNN exclusive: Vast trove of leaked documents shows China underreported Covid-19 numbers, took weeks to diagnose new cases and didn’t disclose a December flu spike in Hubei
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  11. Nov 30

    Amazon has some really nice Cyber Monday deals on kitchen knives. I don't know really know what a cyber kitchen knife is. But I assume that these are those if they're part of a Cyber Monday sale.

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  12. Nov 30

    Lol. DeepMind, not DerpMind. Best typo ever? Maybe. My auto-correct may need some regulation, that's for sure!

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  13. Nov 30

    It is hard to overstate how ill-suited our regulatory environment is to a world in which game-changing advances can be developed in days. Some country will adopt a better system and all R&D will move there overnight. (See also today's news about DerpMind and protein folding.)

    The Moderna vaccine was designed in 2 days in January. Every smart person was recommending Human Challenge Trials to speed up the approval process. The US didn't do it, obviously. Here's the part I still don't get: There are 195 countries in the world. Why did *no one* do it?
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  14. Nov 30

    Which is all to say that & 's piece is apt, insightful, and important -- and that those rare philanthropic funders who do offer long-term, hands-off, institution-scale support should be celebrated (even if they should not be needed :) ). 6/6

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    The fact that it's unusual and the extent to which it is necessary demonstrates the extent to which the usual academic research infrastructure is broken and not up to the task of understanding the role of and effects upon technology in society. 5/

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    But this is beyond unusual, is not an avenue available to most academics, is nowhere near up to the research challenges that society needs to addresses, distracts researchers from traditional academic research priorities and workflows. 4/

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  17. Nov 30

    I am in the _incredibly_ fortunate position to have received significant long-term philanthropic funding (including from the Menards, Koch Foundation, and Knight) and support from my University to allow me to pursue and support work in these areas. 3/

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    This is all work that should be being undertaken in an academic setting. The outsized role of philanthropic funding and non-academic research centers such as think tanks is a symptom of a much broader lack of funding and leadership from traditional academic programs. 2/

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    A lot of really good discussion in here. I would note in particular the discussion of the should-be role of the NSF and how public funding organizations have completely dropped the ball on supporting this area of incredibly important foundational research. 1/

    . & I have been reflecting on the ripple effects of philanthropy's fetishization of tech. We wrote two pieces grappling with this issue: (open access) and (closed access)
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    This isn't a criticism of the next chair. Reversion to the mean is what one expects. Rather, it reflects Prediction #2: will come to be recognized as an important and effective chair for having resisted the position's hydraulic pressures and focused on details. 4/4

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