Math Avenger
@mathavenger.bsky.social
QuantCrit practitioner. Book lover. Forever nerd.
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From the very first census in 1790, the U.S. has measured race – but never in the same way and rarely without controversy. In this new data essay, we look at how the census has approached racial and ethnic measurement over time.
Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It
How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.
www.pewresearch.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From the very first census in 1790, the U.S. has measured race – but never in the same way and rarely without controversy. In this new data essay, we look at how the census has approached racial and ethnic measurement over time.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
Having recently finished Annihilation recently, I was excited to see that @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was going to speaking at the Malta Book Festival. Definitely not disappointed with the wide-ranging talk about craft and his inspirations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Having recently finished Annihilation recently, I was excited to see that @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was going to speaking at the Malta Book Festival. Definitely not disappointed with the wide-ranging talk about craft and his inspirations.
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Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s
Like Disco called this shit terrorism
What the fuck is this regressive bullshit
Like Disco called this shit terrorism
What the fuck is this regressive bullshit
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s
Like Disco called this shit terrorism
What the fuck is this regressive bullshit
Like Disco called this shit terrorism
What the fuck is this regressive bullshit
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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Folks who enjoyed K-pop Demon Hunters, which is an allegory built on biracial heritage experiences in Korean society but does not include any people of biracial heritage in it, should read about Insooni, a Black Korean whose career began with the Hee Sisters, and push for KPDH2 to do better!
Insooni - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Folks who enjoyed K-pop Demon Hunters, which is an allegory built on biracial heritage experiences in Korean society but does not include any people of biracial heritage in it, should read about Insooni, a Black Korean whose career began with the Hee Sisters, and push for KPDH2 to do better!
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🧵If people want to believe that white supremacist misogynists & those inclined to listen to them are driven to their hate & voting patterns by words that are A) accurate & B) claimed by entire classes of people, well. Those people are fools.
Let's stop abandoning our values for imaginary votes, 'k?
Let's stop abandoning our values for imaginary votes, 'k?
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
🧵If people want to believe that white supremacist misogynists & those inclined to listen to them are driven to their hate & voting patterns by words that are A) accurate & B) claimed by entire classes of people, well. Those people are fools.
Let's stop abandoning our values for imaginary votes, 'k?
Let's stop abandoning our values for imaginary votes, 'k?
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It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news
Please get off Substack 😭
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
Please get off Substack 😭
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news
Please get off Substack 😭
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
Please get off Substack 😭
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
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Hello, science has never been apolitical and I wrote a book about one of the ways that USians came to think that it was. Please read it and stop saying stupid shit. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Freedom's Laboratory
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
www.press.jhu.edu
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Hello, science has never been apolitical and I wrote a book about one of the ways that USians came to think that it was. Please read it and stop saying stupid shit. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Amid all the important national news coverage, I’m proud to collaborate with @veritenews.org’s @richardawebster.bsky.social, whose running investigation into Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s criminal justice policies dives into the new use of an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from parole.
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...
www.propublica.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Amid all the important national news coverage, I’m proud to collaborate with @veritenews.org’s @richardawebster.bsky.social, whose running investigation into Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s criminal justice policies dives into the new use of an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from parole.
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This @brookings.edu piece is jam packed with lots of useful info on public university boards! I appreciated this figure using data Isabel collected that highlights how board members appointed by Republican governors are generally less representative of students and faculty at their institution.
April 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This @brookings.edu piece is jam packed with lots of useful info on public university boards! I appreciated this figure using data Isabel collected that highlights how board members appointed by Republican governors are generally less representative of students and faculty at their institution.
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For Alice Wade, a transgender woman, sharing who is she is part of the fight against the wave of anti-transgender legislation sweeping through New Hampshire and across the country.
eu.seacoastonline.co...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
eu.seacoastonline.co...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Dover Rep. Alice Wade fights for trans people in NH, facing national opposition
Dover Rep. Alice Wade says sharing her experience as a transgender woman is part of the fight against anti-transgender legislation in NH and U.S.
eu.seacoastonline.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For Alice Wade, a transgender woman, sharing who is she is part of the fight against the wave of anti-transgender legislation sweeping through New Hampshire and across the country.
eu.seacoastonline.co...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
eu.seacoastonline.co...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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A lot of people are describing this assertion of "race" as a biological reality as some Nazi shit. Obviously this is correct, but wildly incomplete, as the Nazis did not invent this. It's in Haeckel and Linnaeus, in Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, Hegel and Kant. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A lot of people are describing this assertion of "race" as a biological reality as some Nazi shit. Obviously this is correct, but wildly incomplete, as the Nazis did not invent this. It's in Haeckel and Linnaeus, in Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, Hegel and Kant. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
www.science.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...
Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Losers
The famed animator is the last person who would approve of your little Ghibli-fied waste of pixels.
slate.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...
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Tout this widely. The biggest danger right now is, as @dandrezner.bsky.social said yesterday, pluralistic ignorance, when “people who hold a majority opinion are unaware that it is a majority opinion”. We need to broadcast all the signs that the town halls etc are not a fluke.
uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tout this widely. The biggest danger right now is, as @dandrezner.bsky.social said yesterday, pluralistic ignorance, when “people who hold a majority opinion are unaware that it is a majority opinion”. We need to broadcast all the signs that the town halls etc are not a fluke.
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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NEW: The Commerce Department is giving federal employees at the Census Bureau and most other parts of the department until April 17 to apply for a voluntary early retirement authority or voluntary separation incentive payments offer if they're offboarded by May 3, according to emails shared with NPR
March 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NEW: The Commerce Department is giving federal employees at the Census Bureau and most other parts of the department until April 17 to apply for a voluntary early retirement authority or voluntary separation incentive payments offer if they're offboarded by May 3, according to emails shared with NPR
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Hey folks, it would mean a ton if you could chip in a few dollars to help us future-proof Assigned Media against potential government censorship.
(Yes, I'm sorry, but this is where we are.)
(Yes, I'm sorry, but this is where we are.)
Independent Trans Media NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Everyone loves to talk about supporting independent media these days, but the reality is that even small expenses are a major hurdle for little guys like us.
Assigned Media and our friends @whatthetrans.com are raising $2500 to overhaul our websites.
Everyone loves to talk about supporting independent media these days, but the reality is that even small expenses are a major hurdle for little guys like us.
Assigned Media and our friends @whatthetrans.com are raising $2500 to overhaul our websites.
Assigned Media and What The Trans?! Transatlantic Push
At Assigned Media and What The Trans?!, we're on a mission to bring the best journalism to the trans community and we need your help to build some kickass websites so we can keep bringing you the news...
fnd.us
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Hey folks, it would mean a ton if you could chip in a few dollars to help us future-proof Assigned Media against potential government censorship.
(Yes, I'm sorry, but this is where we are.)
(Yes, I'm sorry, but this is where we are.)
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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
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Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇
Schumer (202) 224-6542 no vm
Hassan (202) 224-3324
Peters (202) 224-6221
Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm
Schatz (202) 224-3934
King (202) 224-5344
Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
Hassan (202) 224-3324
Peters (202) 224-6221
Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm
Schatz (202) 224-3934
King (202) 224-5344
Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇