Tim Wu

In the last episode of an old TV show when the writers find some plot contrivance to allow all of the old characters to make an appearance? That's what this $1.8 billion fund feels like

I knew Mandami was clever but the $50 world cup tickets are at Willy Wonka levels of PR genuis

Being somewhat upbeat in nature, I am looking for a reason to be optimistic about the state of the country but finding it challenging -- best thing I can think of is that NYC murder rate is at its lowest in recorded history nyc.gov/site/nypd/news…

I'm surprised Trump hasn't yet turned on Netanyahu for suckering him into this unpopular quagmire (gift link) nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/…

This WSJ piece really captures how elevated prices causes by the war are a drain on middle and lower classes but are making investors rich wsj.com/economy/consum…

I loved that Ted Turner made the most of random federal schemes meant to encourage competition -- (like UHF channels), and just went for it.

Mark Ruffalo & Matt Stoller on why the Paramount merger can and should he stopped (gift link) nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opi…

@OrinKerr wsj.com has good coverage

Maybe I'm alone in this, but as I try to follow the news in Iran, I have a hard time putting the news in context. It's not a topic I know enough about to have an independent perspective, and it's hard to tell what is going on from the usual news sources. It's frustrating.

Quality degradation, esp the harder-to-measure types (eg adload, reliability, understaffing) are a missing dimension in much antitrust analysis though a key to many business models

"The Fuel Price Crunch that's turning into a Disaster for Airlines" Trump admin and its war just killed Spirit Airlines but they (and some Dems) are desperately trying to blame the Biden Admin for enforcing the law without fear or favor wsj.com/business/airli…

@AlFedUp You read the article?

@superwuster Blatantly false.

Among the unexpected features of AI has been a lot of thinking about what a "job" is (versus a task). In an ideal world we'd all end up working less & earning more money -- yet somehow I have my doubts we'll structure things that way

@nicholas_bagley That is not correct! The central move is a rejection of deviations the statutes, one aspect of which was the adoption of a corrupted "consumer welfare" standard that often meant no such thing

Right or wrong, the central neo-Brandeisian move is a rejection of the view that antitrust law should center questions of affordability in antitrust analysis. This isn't a subtle point; here's Lina Khan making it in her famous student note!

I'm the interviewer today for Carissa Veliz's absolutely fascinating book about prediction -- "prophecy" -- at the 92NY: 92ny.org/event/carissa-…

Who needs algorithms to price fix? "[An] Amazon employee sent links to rival retailers’ lower prices.... A Hanes employee responded that the clothing brand had 'reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased.'" nytimes.com/2026/04/20/tec…

@RogueCfpb No, that was the Trump administration after they took over the case.

@superwuster Didn’t he settle the case before the win and leave the states, at the last second, with no notice, to actually litigate to the win?

Credit to Jonathan Kanter, one of the greatest AAGs in US history, for bringing the case against ticketmaster

Ticketmaster abused its monopoly says jury - monster win for state antitrust ; shame on the Justice Department for settling for peanuts nytimes.com/2026/04/15/art…

A new way to make war profitable [many companies view] inflation pressures from “outside shocks,” such as this war, “as an opportunity to raise prices and boosts margins,” which can, in turn, raise profits. (gift link) nytimes.com/2026/04/15/bus…

Believe it or not -- I sense we are going to look back at this time as the "good old days" of LLMs (before they became either impossibly expensive, driven by advertising interests or other enshitiffication)