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I scroll the screen looking for some light

A voice that cuts right through the noise

They talk about the taxes and the spin

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The alternative

As blog readers will know, there is an alternative way - provided quarterly - to read this blog. For the third quarter of 2026, you can find it at:

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At that link, you will find the blog broken into a series of pdfs.

Straws in the Wind - Part 481

From the U.S. Bureau of the Census: How are new college graduates affected by the rise of artificial intelligence, and what can this tell us about the mechanisms behind AI's overall labor market effects? ...Administrative records on college graduates [indicate] how economic outcomes among college majors with differing levels of labor market AI exposure have evolved since large language models became available.

...Post-graduation employment, earnings, and job switching patterns among the most AI-exposed college majors began to diverge immediately following the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. In regression-adjusted estimates, the most AI-exposed decile of college majors saw their likelihood of initial employment decline by five percentage points, while full-quarter initial earnings declined by thirteen percent. This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into a large recession. Roughly half of the decline in earnings is attributable to lower earnings within the industry sectors that employ these graduates, with the remainder resulting from a shift in the industry mix into lower-wage sectors such as restaurants and retail. The effects attenuate as graduates move further from labor market entry but remain substantial for the most exposed majors. 

Full working paper at https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/2026/adrm/ces/CES-WP-26-56.pdf.

Straws in the Wind - Part 478

From the California Post: The tech elite of Silicon Valley are spending millions on a new college alternative that they hope will be an incubator for top talent, encouraging students to build AI models instead of taking science classes or doing homework. Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is spending $35 million on an unaccredited two-year alternative to traditional college based in San Francisco. It’s aimed at students ages 16 to 22 with the goal of cultivating the “world’s most ambitious young builders.” The undertaking has raised another $7 million from founding partners including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit and Stripe, according to Andreessen Horowitz, which is also known as a16z.

The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will technically operate as an independent business, not a school, run by Gagan Biyani – the co-founder of online-learning platform Udemy – while a16z partners Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg will join him on the board. Investors are hoping young eggheads will enroll in the academy instead of dropping out of college to launch their own start-ups, so they can get first dibs on the next generation of AI talent. Some of the most valuable AI start-ups are run by teens and 20-somethings who have raised millions of dollars. Each student will have access to more than $50,000 worth of access to coveted AI computing power from the founding partner companies, which will open their networks to enrollees and advise on the school’s curriculum. Students will also receive a $5,000 travel and exploration budget, access to a16z’s investors and instruction from guest lecturers including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Steven Sinofsky, the former head of Windows, according to a press release...

Full story at https://nypost.com/2026/09/22/business/tech-elites-launch-college-alternative-for-next-generation-of-ai-geniuses-raises-42m/. 

Parallel Blogs / Subscribing / Blog Song

We have been putting out this blog since 2009 under the heading "UCLA Faculty Association" using the link:

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The blog site was originally created by the then-executive director of the Faculty Association. As such, yours truly does not have control of the site; he is simply a blogger on it. So when technical issues arise, that can be a problem. Given that issue, we have been adding a parallel site with the same blog entries since July 23rd:

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We will be running the two in parallel for the indefinite future. Possibly, at some point we will switch to the new link.

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"Sharp and Clever Pen":

Or https://archive.org/details/sharp-and-clever-pen

Verse 1

I scroll the screen looking for some light

A voice that cuts right through the noise

They talk about the taxes and the spin

But Dan Mitchell has a different kind of truth

He talks about the spending and the waste

The parallel blogs that keep us truly free

Independent channels are the only way to go

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To keep your mind free!

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He analyzes policy with a sharp and clever pen

Decentralized and honest, standing on his own ground

You don't need their filters and you don't need their spin

Just some liberty and facts to help you really win

Bookmark the connection and let the truth begin to flow

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Parallel Blogs / Subscribing / Blog Song

We have been putting out this blog since 2009 under the heading "UCLA Faculty Association" using the link:

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The blog site was originally created by the then-executive director of the Faculty Association. As such, yours truly does not have control of the site; he is simply a blogger on it. So when technical issues arise, that can be a problem. Given that issue, we have been adding a parallel site with the same blog entries since July 23rd:

https://danmitchellsblogcontinues.blogspot.com/

We will be running the two in parallel for the indefinite future. Possibly, at some point we will switch to the new link.

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"Sharp and Clever Pen":

Or https://archive.org/details/sharp-and-clever-pen

Verse 1

I scroll the screen looking for some light

A voice that cuts right through the noise

They talk about the taxes and the spin

But Dan Mitchell has a different kind of truth

He talks about the spending and the waste

The parallel blogs that keep us truly free

Independent channels are the only way to go

To find the analysis the mainstream never shows

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Chorus

Get real economic facts!

Escape the corporate tracks!

Subscribe and find the key!

To keep your mind free!

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Escape the corporate tracks!

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To keep your mind free!

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He analyzes policy with a sharp and clever pen

Decentralized and honest, standing on his own ground

You don't need their filters and you don't need their spin

Just some liberty and facts to help you really win

Bookmark the connection and let the truth begin to flow

A parallel alternative to the status quo we know

Fiscal sense and freedom are waiting on the page

The perfect antidote for a confusing modern age

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The Humanities Slide

From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: ...In 2025, the nation’s colleges and universities awarded 164,847 bachelor’s degrees in the humanities—the smallest number of degrees awarded since 1991 and 30.4% below the recent high-water mark in 2012... That decline includes a particularly sharp drop of 12.7% from 2021 to 2023, followed by a more modest drop of 2.1% from 2023 to 2024, and a further decline of just 0.4% from 2024 to 2025—the smallest year-on-year decline since 2012. The number of bachelor’s degrees conferred in the “historical categories” (disciplines with data going back to 1949) has been falling more quickly than for the field as a whole—with a decline of 42% from 2012 to 2025...

The share of bachelor’s degrees conferred by disciplines among the historical categories contracted to 3.4% of all degrees conferred in 2025—the smallest share in records extending back to 1949, and just under one-fifth of the share at their peak in 1967 (when they constituted 17.2% of all bachelor’s degrees awarded)... 

Full report at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/09/10/report-humanities-majors-disappearing. 

The Experiment

Announcement from American Economic Association: Recent feedback received from some AEA members and from the intersociety Report on Improving the Publication Process in Economics* raised concerns about the perceived unfairness of single-blind peer reviewing. In response to these concerns, the AEA will soon be launching a three-year randomized controlled trial of the effects of author-anonymized peer reviewing, commonly referred to as "double-blind."

Blank (1991) previously conducted a randomized evaluation of double-blind vs. single-blind peer reviewing at the American Economic Review (AER).** The current evaluation will involve the AER, AER: Insights, and the four American Economic Journals.

In the treatment group, information revealing author identities will be excluded from materials provided to reviewers, and reviewers will be asked to refrain from seeking them out through web searches or other means. The experiment will test the effects of removing author identities from the information routinely provided to reviewers, while recognizing that reviewers may become aware of author identities in other ways.

Key outcomes that will be examined include (1) author and reviewer perceptions of fairness, (2) reviewer awareness of author identities in the treatment (author-anonymized) group, and (3) differential impacts of author-anonymized review on manuscript decisions by characteristics of the authors and their papers.

The experimental design, implementation, and analysis are being conducted by Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and staff from J-PAL North America, in consultation with the AEA. J-PAL North America is a research center specializing in RCTs, where Finkelstein serves as co-scientific director. Finkelstein will not have access to identified information on individual manuscript submissions.

We expect the experiment to be launched in fall 2026...

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Full announcement at https://www.aeaweb.org/news/member-announcements/2026-sept-10. 

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*https://www.econometricsociety.org/uploads/documents/editorial/Improving%20Publication%20Process%20in%20Economics%20Report_2025.pdf.

**https://www.jstor.org/stable/2006906. Abstract: The results from a randomized experiment conducted at The American Economic Review on the effects of double-blind versus single-blind peer reviewing on acceptance rates and referee ratings indicate that acceptance rates are lower and referees are more critical when the reviewer is unaware of the author's identity. These patterns are not significantly different between female and male authors. Authors at top-ranked universities and at colleges and low-ranked universities are largely unaffected by the different reviewing practices, but authors at near-top-ranked universities and at nonacademic institutions have lower acceptance rates under double-blind reviewing.

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We will be running the two in parallel for the indefinite future. Possibly, at some point we will switch to the new link.

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25th Anniversary: September 11, 2001

 UCLA students watch TV newscast of attack on World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001.

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What unpatriotic lessons were they teaching at UCLA, c1935?

The caption for this photo from UCLA's digital archive says "Student teachers take Pledge of Allegiance to the flag at UCLA, c1935." But when yours truly was in the first grade in 1948, he was taught that you (must!) put your hand on your heart during the pledge which you must also learn to recite "by heart." No alternatives were offered. And woe to the first grader who didn't do it.

More curious still, is the fact that the student teachers don't seem to be saying anything.

§172. Pledge of allegiance to the flag; manner of delivery

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”, should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute.

Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-1994-title36/html/USCODE-1994-title36-chap10.htm.

So, what were they teaching at UCLA in the mid-1930s?

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Source: https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz00255160. 

Bruin Theater to Reopen

Joe Bruin at a promotion of the Bruin Theater, 1938*

As blog readers will surely know, there are two sibling old fashioned single-screen theaters in Westwood that were closed and appeared endangered. Now it appear both the more prominent Fox Village (because of its tower) and the Bruin will reopen. They have been used in recent years for movie premiers.

From Deadline: The Bruin Theater in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles is coming back with a hopeful re-opening in mid-October thanks to Toronto-based exhibitor Rui Pereira. Pereira recently signed a lease with the Martyn Skouras family (descendants of Spyros Panagiotis Skouras, president of 20th Century Fox), which owns the Bruin.

The Bruin Theater, which originally opened its doors in 1937, closed in July 2024 alongside its historic brother The Village after Regency Theaters’ lease ended. Pereira is a longtime theater owner in Canada... Pereira tells Deadline that the theater is in very good shape. He’s bringing back the 70MM and 35MM projectors and making upgrades to the digital projectors. Seats are in good working shape in addition to the screen. His mission is to keep the theater’s originality intact a la his previous properties. “I want to keep the essence of the theater, I don’t want to erase its history or gloss it over,” he said.

Pereira added that one hope down the road is to potentially add two screening rooms to the upstairs (15-seat theater venues). He’s already been approached by studios for potential premieres and screenings; hence there’s a chance we could see doors open before mid-October for special events. Before the venue opens, you’ll see the marquee lit up at some point with ads for Warner Bros’ Practical Magic 2. There was buzz for some time that Jason Reitman was making a go at the Bruin after purchasing The Village, which is set to undergo further restorations. However, we hear the Bruin wasn’t for sale...

Full story at https://deadline.com/2026/07/the-bruin-theater-westwood-re-opening-1237012571/.

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*Image from https://archive.org/details/motionpictureher1301unse/page/n611/mode/2up.

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We have been putting out this blog since 2009 under the heading "UCLA Faculty Association" using the link:

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The blog site was originally created by the then-executive director of the Faculty Association. As such, yours truly does not have control of the site; he is simply a blogger on it. So when technical issues arise, that can be a problem. Given that issue, we have been experimenting with a parallel site with the same blog entries since July 23rd:

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Normal

The state Normal School in downtown LA c1898 on the site of what is now the Central Library. The Normal School was later moved to Vermont Avenue and Normal Street, now the site of LA City College, and became UCLA in 1919. 

View today vs then:

Source: https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_City_Views%20(1900%20-%201925)_2_of_8.html#State_Normal_School.

The Dangers of AI Decision Making

Our blog posts are routinely posted on a Facebook page. And according to the NY Times, Facebook (Meta) has moved from humans making decisions about whether posts violate its standards to AI. The results are predictable: False positives.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-accounts.html.

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Our post:

Source: https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/07/going-up.html.

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Their response:

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"Read in full" links to:

Spam https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/spam/

Policy Rationale

We do not allow content that is designed to deceive, mislead, or overwhelm users in order to artificially increase viewership. This content detracts from people's ability to engage authentically on our platforms and can threaten the security, stability and usability of our services. We also seek to prevent abusive tactics, such as spreading deceptive links to draw unsuspecting users in through misleading functionality or code, or impersonating a trusted domain.

Online spam is a lucrative industry. Our policies and detection must constantly evolve to keep up with emerging spam trends and tactics. In taking action to combat spam, we seek to balance raising the costs for its producers and distributors on our platforms, with protecting the vibrant, authentic activity of our community.

We do not allow:

Posting, sharing, engaging with content or creating accounts, Groups, Pages, Events or other assets, either manually or automatically, at very high frequencies.

We may place restrictions on accounts that are acting at lower frequencies when other indicators of Spam (e.g., posting repetitive content) or signals of inauthenticity are present.

• Attempting to or successfully selling, buying, or exchanging platform assets, such as accounts, groups, pages, etc.
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• Other deceptive uses of URLs or links that are substantially similar to the above.
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Yours truly did file an appeal. We will see...

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We have been putting out this blog since 2009 under the heading "UCLA Faculty Association" using the link:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/

The blog site was originally created by the then-executive director of the Faculty Association. As such, yours truly does not have control of the site; he is simply a blogger on it. So when technical issues arise, that can be a problem. Given that issue, we have been experimenting with a parallel site with the same blog entries since July 23rd:

https://danmitchellsblogcontinues.blogspot.com/

We will be running the two in parallel for the indefinite future. Possibly, at some point we will switch to the new link.

If you read the blog using the Facebook page of Yousee Elayemeriti, you can continue to do so.