This is why this book is so dang hard to read:

1. Dense

2. So many footnotes.

3. SO PAINFUL. I’M SO SORRY, Y’ALL.

“However, the most respected study on this matter carried out by Professor David C. Baldus to support the claim of Warren McCleskey, a black man convicted of murdering a white police officer in 1978, found that there was a huge disparity in the imposition of the death penalty in Georgia.105 The study found that in cases involving white victims and black defendants, the death penalty was imposed 22 percent of the time, whereas in the white-black dyad, the death penalty was imposed in only 1 percent of the cases. Even after controlling for a number of variables, blacks were 4.3 times as likely as whites to receive a death sentence.106”

https://a.co/41KrSdq

And I’m only still in chapter 2.

Florida man:

(Pretty sure NC GOP would do this in a heartbeat if they could.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/russia-fsb-intelligence-ukraine-war/

«Rather than presiding over the formation of a new government in Kyiv, officials said, the FSB now faces difficult questions in Moscow about what its long history of operations against Ukraine — and the large sums that financed them — accomplished.

The FSB did not respond to requests for comment.»

*snerk*

The Compendium Cards is mostly about organizational (business) leadership, so I read this as a differential in just plain power structures at work, as opposed to a more DEI-flavored thing, but I think it works both ways, really.

Also, I just bought Amélie a cup of tea. The Guide to Allyship seems like a worthwhile thing: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/amelie

(DEI: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Mostly about race, gender, sexual orientation.)

https://warontherocks.com/2022/08/amateur-hour-part-ii-failing-the-air-campaign/

Entertaining article. We’ll see if Russia grinds on to “victory”, “failures” or not.

(Quote marks because who defines these words?)

Children of the magenta:

«The Defense Science Board found that most of Patriot operations are autonomous, with operators trained to trust the system’s software.»

https://spacenews.com/report-cites-patriot-autonomy-factor-friendly-fire-incidents/

(https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/)