At least those knights actually do something! They've got a job!

Ni!

There is only one noble order to aspire to:

Nothing beats my imaginary grindcore band Killer Moths

They don’t smell that bad either.

u mean Zoombie Minks

Discount decomposed fur coats! Just a little dirty and stretched out. The perfect fashion trend for 2020. 

I wasn’t aware of who Ruth Shalit was (I would have been 10 years old when she left The New Republic), and what strikes me about this controversy over her piece in The Atlantic is how unnecessary a lot of her flourishes were. Private coaches, traveling for tournaments, and just the fact that these parents are…

Good thing one of the authors was a dude or we would have never even heard of this landmark work! /s

And while I admire the instinct to gather as many data points as possible, pulling information from studies written 100 years ago seems beyond irrelevant to the current environment.

The sheer laziness of this study is breathtaking. Experienced male authors have higher citations and female researchers that co-author with the experienced males have higher citations. The established predominance of male researchers in STEM fields is just taken as a given, like the sun rising in the east and water is…

Well, thank God this trend towards clickbait in all areas of publishing and professionalism hasn’t led to anything appallingly dangerous so far, right? *glares at The Lancet, sharpening a knife*

I see you're adding a Purdue blog post to complement the Loeffler one, eh?

Many times in my life I have wished that there was a system to identify at risk youth to facilitate outreach programs and prevent lives of poverty, crime, and abuse

And yet, there is no evidence this information is being used as anything other than to target these kids for police attention because someone thinks they ‘might’ commit crime on baseless information.

Totally agree. And, how awful that these kids weren’t profiled in order to help them. They were profiled so that the cops have justification for assuming they committed a crime.

THIS is why we have to defund the police. The funds and access the PD are using would be used so, so, SO much better by a team of social workers and community advocates. Rather than lying in wait until they become criminals, we could actually intervene and help at-risk students avoid the school-to-prison pipeline.

Just gonna hazard a guess here...this ACAB PD will have a Juvenile Hall and/or local prison, both for-profit, that they are incentivized to keep filled to capacity. This is your actual school to jail pipeline, documented.

Acquiring the data”lawfully” does not make the use of the data moral or ethical.

Something not mentioned here from the Times article is that they used the reported voting discrepancies as the justification for not wanting to certify the Detroit region votes. Which was odd as some of the majority white counties they had already agreed to certify had more reported discrepancies.