White by Default?
The viral posts were right.
We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states.
29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases.
Even when Hispanic is explicitly classified 🧵
https://fixupx.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
https://xcancel.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
https://x.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
#racism #kalergi #usa #cops #crime #stats
The viral posts were right.
We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states.
29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases.
Even when Hispanic is explicitly classified 🧵
https://fixupx.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
https://xcancel.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
https://x.com/uncorrelated_/status/1991295113344225596
#racism #kalergi #usa #cops #crime #stats
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White by Default?
The viral posts were right.
We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states.
29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases.
Even when Hispanic is explicitly…
The viral posts were right.
We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states.
29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases.
Even when Hispanic is explicitly…
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"The Cartel of the Suns was literally created by the #CIA, also known as the #Cocaine Import Agency"
Watch Max Blumenthal methodically expose the WMD-level lies justifying US attacks on #Venezuela, and explain the devastating consequences of a regime change war
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Watch Max Blumenthal methodically expose the WMD-level lies justifying US attacks on #Venezuela, and explain the devastating consequences of a regime change war
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Watch Max Blumenthal wipe the smile off the face of former US Ambassador to Venezuela James Story by exposing his role in nefarious coup plots with violent, anti-democratic opposition figures
Story responds with a worn-out, baseless smear while refuting nothing
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Story responds with a worn-out, baseless smear while refuting nothing
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Max Blumenthal: CIA Cocaine Empire & Regime Change Playbook
On Judge Napolitano’s show, Max Blumenthal exposes the CIA’s long-running cocaine empire that fuels covert regime change across Latin America and beyond. From the Iran-Contra era to today’s “Cartel of the Suns,” US intelligence agencies have armed narcos to bankroll dirty wars while pushing "war on drugs" theater. Blumenthal breaks down how Washington’s narco-crony networks protected Mexico’s top cop as he colluded with the Sinaloa Cartel and wield control through black ops in Mexico and Venezuela. The empire’s hypocrisy is glaring: sanctions, coups, and hit squads financed by drug money, all under the guise of democracy promotion.
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On Judge Napolitano’s show, Max Blumenthal exposes the CIA’s long-running cocaine empire that fuels covert regime change across Latin America and beyond. From the Iran-Contra era to today’s “Cartel of the Suns,” US intelligence agencies have armed narcos to bankroll dirty wars while pushing "war on drugs" theater. Blumenthal breaks down how Washington’s narco-crony networks protected Mexico’s top cop as he colluded with the Sinaloa Cartel and wield control through black ops in Mexico and Venezuela. The empire’s hypocrisy is glaring: sanctions, coups, and hit squads financed by drug money, all under the guise of democracy promotion.
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Updated National IQ estimates (2025):
- Five highest IQ countries worldwide: Singapore (109), Japan (106), Taiwan (105), South Korea (104), and Estonia (102).
- Contrary to prior overestimates, China's average IQ is 100, on par with the Netherlands.
- Despite massive immigration, the average IQ in Western countries still ranges from 95 to 100.
- Average IQ in the vast majority of Sub-Saharan African countries is between 65 and 75.
- "A strong correlation between #IQ and GDP per capita was observed (r = .82)"
National IQs: measurement and defense, Parra & Kirkegaard (2025)
- Five highest IQ countries worldwide: Singapore (109), Japan (106), Taiwan (105), South Korea (104), and Estonia (102).
- Contrary to prior overestimates, China's average IQ is 100, on par with the Netherlands.
- Despite massive immigration, the average IQ in Western countries still ranges from 95 to 100.
- Average IQ in the vast majority of Sub-Saharan African countries is between 65 and 75.
- "A strong correlation between #IQ and GDP per capita was observed (r = .82)"
National IQs: measurement and defense, Parra & Kirkegaard (2025)
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🇺🇦 Forcefully mobilized are held in a cellar instead … at a training round … before being sent to the front.
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Join us | @MyLordBebo
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What are they hiding in #Antarctica? UFO's? Vast cities? A path to inner Earth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th5UJmR1mvs
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The #CloudFlare outage was a good thing
https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
Cloudflare, the CDN provider, suffered a massive outage today. Some of the world's most popular apps and web services were left inaccessible for serveral hours whilst the Cloudflare team scrambled to fix a whole swathe of the internet.
And that might be a good thing.
The proximate cause of the outage was pretty mundane: a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one of Cloudflare's services. The file was too large (details still hazy) and this led to a cascading failure across Cloudflare operations. Probably there is some useful post-morteming about canary releases and staged rollouts.
But the bigger problem, the ultimate cause, behind today's chaos is the creeping centralisation of the internet and a society that is sleepwalking into assuming the net is always on and always working.
It's not just "trivial" stuff like Twitter and League of Legends that were affected, either. A friend of mine remarked caustically about his experience this morning
We are living in a society where every part of our lives is increasingly mediated through the internet: work, banking, retail, education, entertainment, dating, family, government ID and credit checks. And the internet is increasingly tied up in fewer and fewer points of failure.
It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war. But due to the economics of the internet, the challenges of things like bots and scrapers, more of more web services are holed up in citadels like AWS or behind content distribution networks like Cloudflare.
Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems. They can make the pillars of our society - governments, businesses, banks - provide reliable alternatives when things go wrong.
(Ideally ones that are completely offline)
You can draw a parallel to how COVID-19 shook up global supply chains: the logic up until 2020 was that you wanted your system to be as lean and efficient as possible, even if it meant relying totally on international supplies or keeping as little spare inventory as possible. After 2020 businesses realised they needed to diversify and build slack in the system to tolerate shocks.
In the same way that growing one kind of banana, nearly resulted in bananas going extinct, we're drifing towards a society that can't survive without digital infrastructure; and a digital infrastructure that can't operate without two or three key players. One day there's going to be an outage, a bug, or cyberattack from a hostile state, that demonstrates how fragile that system is.
Embrace outages, and build redundancy.
https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
Cloudflare, the CDN provider, suffered a massive outage today. Some of the world's most popular apps and web services were left inaccessible for serveral hours whilst the Cloudflare team scrambled to fix a whole swathe of the internet.
And that might be a good thing.
The proximate cause of the outage was pretty mundane: a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one of Cloudflare's services. The file was too large (details still hazy) and this led to a cascading failure across Cloudflare operations. Probably there is some useful post-morteming about canary releases and staged rollouts.
But the bigger problem, the ultimate cause, behind today's chaos is the creeping centralisation of the internet and a society that is sleepwalking into assuming the net is always on and always working.
It's not just "trivial" stuff like Twitter and League of Legends that were affected, either. A friend of mine remarked caustically about his experience this morning
I couldn't get air for my tyres at two garages because of cloudflare going down. Bloody love the lack of resilience that goes into the design when the machine says "cash only" and there's no cash slot. So flat tires for everyone! Brilliant.
We are living in a society where every part of our lives is increasingly mediated through the internet: work, banking, retail, education, entertainment, dating, family, government ID and credit checks. And the internet is increasingly tied up in fewer and fewer points of failure.
It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war. But due to the economics of the internet, the challenges of things like bots and scrapers, more of more web services are holed up in citadels like AWS or behind content distribution networks like Cloudflare.
Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems. They can make the pillars of our society - governments, businesses, banks - provide reliable alternatives when things go wrong.
(Ideally ones that are completely offline)
You can draw a parallel to how COVID-19 shook up global supply chains: the logic up until 2020 was that you wanted your system to be as lean and efficient as possible, even if it meant relying totally on international supplies or keeping as little spare inventory as possible. After 2020 businesses realised they needed to diversify and build slack in the system to tolerate shocks.
In the same way that growing one kind of banana, nearly resulted in bananas going extinct, we're drifing towards a society that can't survive without digital infrastructure; and a digital infrastructure that can't operate without two or three key players. One day there's going to be an outage, a bug, or cyberattack from a hostile state, that demonstrates how fragile that system is.
Embrace outages, and build redundancy.
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