Serene

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Yes it's me. @mythserene • Bad cops and wrongful convictions
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SereneDec 21, 2023
Omar WasowDec 21, 2023
“It sounds like you’re driving a jalopy from the 1970s,” Curry said. “It defeats the purpose of the high speed if you’re afraid that your front wheels are going to fall off if you accelerate quickly.” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
SereneDec 13, 2023
Omar WasowDec 13, 2023
“How do citizens respond to extreme violations of democratic institutions, such as the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol?…those interviewed just hours after insurrection were about 10% less likely to identify as Republicans, reported greater dislike for Trump…” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X231221987
SereneDec 6, 2023
Omar WasowDec 6, 2023
“The F.B.I. released data this fall that gives us a glimpse of how policing in America has changed since the disruption of the pandemic years. The evidence is clear: Police departments across the country are solving far fewer crimes than they did before 2020.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/opinion/police-crime-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Opinion | Police Departments Are Struggling to Solve Crimes

New data reveals that crime-solving rates are at record lows.

The New York Times
SereneDec 6, 2023
Show threadOmar WasowDec 6, 2023
“Noise is ‘a slow killer.’ It isn’t dropping people on streets, but it’s slowly affecting people. If you’re having to adjust to a high level of noise when you move to a loud part of the city, your brain is using energy to effectively ignore that high level of noise.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/nyregion/nyc-noise-cameras.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Quiet, Please: New York’s ‘Noise Cameras’ Are Listening

New York City, not exactly known for its peace and quiet, is expanding its use of technology to ticket the drivers of loud cars and motorcycles.

The New York Times
SereneNov 17, 2023
Omar WasowNov 17, 2023
“X employees said on Thursday that they had gotten calls from advertisers wondering why Mr. Musk was making comments seen as antisemitic and why their ads were showing up next to white nationalist and Nazi content. IBM cut off about $1 million in advertising…” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/elon-musk-endorses-antisemitic-post-ibm.html?unlocked_article_code=1._Ew.a4IB.qsKl9J9LYKUz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

The New York Times
SereneNov 15, 2023
Scott StedmanNov 15, 2023
there is no justification for this
SereneOct 25, 2023
Omar WasowOct 25, 2023
What’s happening with Twitter is like a reverse stone soup parable. As people exit for Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky etc, we each take our small contributions away and the potluck stew gets progressively thinner and less appetizing.
SereneOct 17, 2023
Omar WasowOct 17, 2023
”Analytics firm Appfigures found a 50% drop in downloads from June 2023 (before the rebrand) to August 2023, especially from Google Play — and substantial increases in download numbers for Bluesky and popular Mastodon apps.”
http://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-XTwitter-Migration-2023-Q3.pdf
SereneOct 16, 2023
Omar WasowOct 16, 2023
Hoyt read aloud the Census Bureau’s caveats, that “the racial categories included in the Census Questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country, and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.” He sighed. https://wapo.st/3ZVu8A4
Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that.

The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society.

The Washington Post
SereneOct 7, 2023
Show threadPwnallthethingsDec 23, 2022

Ignoring whether or not it's achievable, pushing the US out of the "golden billion", would mean reducing it's average salary by *60%*. That's not $1700 a year anymore. That's on the order of $56k per person.

So, yes, sure, you can give Putin everything he wants. But if you do, you also have to bother to listen to what he's saying: his long-term *explicit* goal, at its maximalist position, would cost the average American 60% of your personal income.