"Decades of research reveal the ineffectiveness of policies that treat youth as adults. ... [K]ids tried in the adult system actually have higher recidivism rates than those whose cases remain in the juvenile system. But the practice is not only ineffective, it is psychologically harmful."

From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:

If you could speak to a computer program wearing your dead grandmother's face that was designed by a corporation to extract as much attention and money from you as possible, would you?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

Born #OnThisDay in 1863 was astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. Cannon, who lost most of her hearing early in life, was one of the Harvard Computers, and her work was vital to the modern classification of stars. She classified around 350,000 stars during her career. #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

One of the best arguments for a wealth tax is simply that the wealthy clearly have no idea what to do with their money in an demand crisis beyond funding vaporware and gambling, and if we fix the demand crisis by taking their money and giving it out there will naturally be better investment opps.

A bit more than >50% of the number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.

A great building, among other things, looks good no matter the weather, inside and out. RIP, Frank.

It's 0.3%. Which I guess makes Karp ... technically illiterate. Also, he's right that there aren't thousands of articles. It's literally over a million. So again: technically illiterate. And these are our smartest-guy-in-the-room oligarchs? Sigh.

It was an eye-opening moment for me in Trump 1.0 when I discovered that senior political appointees at the State Department had Fox News playing constantly in their offices.

I have a new paper coming out in Inquiry called ‘The Perils of Epistemic Idealism': philpapers.org/rec/SHITPO-40. I argue that especially in applied, political work, philosophers have a tendency to assume that political harms are primarily a product of false beliefs and misguided concepts.

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

A stunning image of a monstrous stellar factory: the Tarantula Nebula, measuring nearly 1,000 light-years across. It is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas, and it hosts some of the most massive stars known. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0650/ 🔭

In which the CSU admins eagerly sell out students and faculty to Silicon oligarchs: “It’s classic neoliberal jiu-jitsu: reframe the erosion of institutional norms as a character-building opportunity. Yeah, like a drug dealer lecturing about personal responsibility while handing out free samples.”

I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.

“…there's a thing about reading where you're able to take advantage of the layout of text on the page that allows you to go back to a sentence, to reconsider what it meant, to consider it in the light of later sentences in a way that you can't really with movies or TV or video or audio.”

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

As Gary Hustwit said about Helvetica: “Fonts don’t just appear out of Microsoft Word: there are human beings and huge stories behind them.” And the huge story behind Trump’s social media team is its brazenly Nazi aesthetic.

“There we were—demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance—

“They aren't asking for five-star meals. They're just asking for food that's edible and that can keep them alive — it's a very basic request.”

Monet’s Poplars series almost didn’t happen because the trees were about to be cut down. So he purchased them until he finished painting, then sold them back.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Late on this, but this episode on the Scopes Trial leaves other coverage marking the trial’s centenary in the dust. It not only explains the essence and drama of the case, it draws overlooked and unresolved connections to the present. Outstanding. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

when its definitely not a hostage situation

“Tech is weaponized against us, serving as a means of extraction rather than giving us real autonomy in choice and freeing our time from mundane crap.” donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...

1 of 8 fabulous Medieval #TilesOnTuesday found in Tring Herts curiosity shop: all but one show naughty/playful child Jesus in imaginary tales. Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot. In BM. More ALT.

“The calls are coming from inside the house”—and the trustees’ boardroom of course. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

One day we’ll look back on this as one of the stupidest things we’ve done.

Kilauea is doing its thing again. USGS livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

🎢 Close up slo-mo video of a bow sliding across the lowest violin string, which has been tuned down further, creating a wave pulse that moves in a counterclockwise motion. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jey... by way of @drussellpsu.bsky.social's website: www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Dem...

4.5 x 3.5 m

“One of the most amazing changes that is largely ignored in the last 60 years, is how the world is becoming causally impenetrable. … One of the negative consequences is that we can get fooled by misinformation more.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

From a poem by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Waley. I have been unable to identify the original Chinese. Those whom death parts manage to swallow their tears Those whom life parts sigh and forever sigh.

Elon Musk's yearly pay package could end extreme poverty worldwide. You might also listen to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social discuss this in a great conversation from today: bsky.app/profile/bold...

“In October, President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed that Tehran could no longer serve as the country’s capital, citing the water crisis” So glad the world’s governments are focused on climate change now, right? www.vox.com/future-perfe...

When the coffee you are drinking does not, in fact, keep you from nodding off