A might redwood has fallen in our forest. Rest in peace.
We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
Read more about his legacy: buff.ly/e3c3WdL
ALT In loving memory of Richard Posner 1939-2026
If Congress weren’t three little boys in a trenchcoat stuffed with $1 bills this would be a complete layup to ban
Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.
Dad became a lawyer 49 years ago today. Veteran’s Day. He sat in Craig Washington’s chair in the House and rose as Chief Justice Greenhill swore him and the other baby lawyers into the Bar. “My father sold apples,” my grandfather said, “and I sold ties, and now you wear them.”
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Rich people in Dallas are so racist relative to relative to rich people in Houston it is actually insane.
Vaxed?
Russia's ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died at 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. cnn.it/3WGys8S
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To everything
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There is a season
Turn turn turn
And a time to every purpose under Heaven
A time to laugh (last week)
And a time to weep (today)
Source: Brad Ausmus is flying to Houston tomorrow in anticipation he will be named the next Astros manager, confirming @johngranato report.
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I think about this entirely too much.
The parshah bearing my name will begin tomorrow night. “Noah was a righteous man in his time.” What does that mean? Noah drank too much, he had a short fuse, he stood up for his convictions too little, he exercised poor judgment. But he made the right call when it mattered.
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Real ball knowers knew it was ovah the second that Tarrant drop came in. I paced around for another hour because I thought the DPS was going to charge in, guns drawn, at the Harris County Central Count and seize the ballots.
