This is my shocked face

DHdavidho.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 11:02pm

“…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.”

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

Well this aged well … Newsletter from de Gruyter-Brill that they intend to feed all their publications to AI, at least authors do get an opt-out but that’s likely more due to EU laws than anything else (does anyone know, it’s a hunch).

Academic publishers hopping onto this grifter bandwagon is the most platonic form of insult to injury.

Sigh, another comfort watch tainted.

Zachary Levi has become the Dean Cain of Kevin Sorbos.

'Shazam!' star Zachary Levi endorses Donald Trump while moderating event with RFK Jr.

Zachary Levi, who played Shazam in the DC universe, expressed support for Donald Trump at an event with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this weekend.

Kinderbuchautor

Ich habe einen kurzen Essay für Geschichte der Gegenwart geschrieben.

GDg-d-gegenwart.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 6:11am

Der Hamburger Baakenhafen war ab 1904 wichtige Drehscheibe kolonialer Logistik im Krieg gegen Herero und Nama in der Kolonie Deutsch-Südwestafrika. An diese Geschichte sollte im öffentlichen Raum erinnert werden, so der Historiker Kim Todzi. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/versiegelte-...

Versie­gelte Vergan­gen­heit? Das kolo­niale Erbe des Baaken­ha­fens in Hamburg

Die Debatte um die Erinnerung an den Kolonialismus in Hamburg ist kontrovers und andauernd. Bislang gibt es jedoch keinen öffentlichen Gedenkort für diese Geschichte, obwohl der Hamburger Hafen die Dr...

Nickt in grade beim Fitness gewesen 😇

Übrigens hat Robert Habeck neben Kinderbüchern auch deutsche Übersetzungen englischer Lyrik, Gedichte, Romane, literaturwissenschaftliche Werke und politische Sachbücher, sowie ein Theaterstück geschrieben. Damit repräsentiert er das "Land der Dichter und Denker" besser, als der Millionär Merz.