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.
Vaccines work! They with for your and they work for your babies!
Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant.
Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant.
Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI #AcademicSkypivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/r... Unbelievable, a publisher apparently committing to a yearly volume of publications to train an AI model. How about we throw some AI-generated pubs into the pipeline to speed up things?
My beautiful yarn just arrived from Republic of Yarnia! Thank you @isasaxonists.bsky.social for the little trinkets that came with. Look at this gorgeous emerald green! 🧶
We should start naming hurricanes after fossil fuel companies.
"[Finkelstein] was the subject of a campaign of thousands of anonymous, bot-generated emails sent every minute for over 24 hours to the school’s administrators." Higher Ed Admins are not prepared for the level of internet harassment that assume faculty face.
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
Taking your own time to build something for others to use without compensation is incredibly generous.
Really honored to be in this anthology with Nicky 💙
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Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Approaches offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studie...
PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!! I made a short comic about anti-colonial nationalism for this, so go check it out along with all the other wonderful writings in this book 🗣️🗣️ perfect for #latinxheritagemonth#hispanicheritagemonthwww.rutgersuniversitypress.org/latinx-comic...
Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Approaches offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studie...