people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
I see “Rechtsruck” and “Erdrutsch” in Austrian media but swing is mainly WITHIN and not towards ÖVP-FPÖ. This is increasingly common: right-wing block wins modestly but within the right-wing block the far right wins big.
LA's Nazis in the 1930s referred to this as "Der Tag," the day. On that day they would unleash massive violence on the city's Communists (their term for "Jews") while the police force looked the other way From that point forward, they assumed, the "real Americans" would be back in charge.
Why do so many non-college white voters back Trump? One hypothesis suggested by this paper is that they perceive themselves to be victims and “respond with defiant pride.” Their “heightened ethnic identification creates a demand for dignity“ that Trump both stokes and panders to.
The affinity between early aviation and fascism is still a hugely under-explored topic
When Trump first chose "America First" as his slogan American Historians were like "um, yeah, that seems kinda bad." Now that he's moved on to praising "the late great Charles Lindbergh" I think we can dispense with the qualifications.
End of a great first day in Amsterdam. Always exciting and only mildly nerve-shredding to road test some new ideas. To learn more about the Extreme Beliefs project, of which this workshop is part, check out extremebeliefs.com
"[A]fter anti-transgender laws were enacted, there were statistically significant increases in rates of past-year suicide attempts among TGNB young people ages 13–17...and for all TGNB young people beginning in the second year." This is peer-reviewed science, folks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-b...
🧵 Persuasive Power of LLM: "Our experiments confirmed that misinformation produced by LLMs is effective, underscoring their significant influence in shaping public discourse." The potential harm is tremendous. arxiv.org/abs/2409.1... 1/4
honestly I have never taken a survey without also taking a parallel mental survey rating how (good) or (bad) I think each question is
