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.@elonmusk @kevinnbass You amplified a claim that Black people commit violent crime against white people at 45 times the rate of the reverse, and that this is "not remotely debatable". ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS. I used every source Bass cited, plus the ones he left out. Every number below has a URL. Same table, same data. Per 1,000 of the victim's population. (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Table 13 and Appendix Table 19) If you are white: From a white person: 10.0 From a Black person: 3.1 You are 3.2 times more likely to be attacked by a white person. If you are Black: From a Black person: 11.5 From a white person: 1.6 You are 7 times more likely to be attacked by a Black person. 1,706,750 White-on-White violent incidents. Over three times the Black-on-White figure. Bass did not mention this. Bass wrote: "Blacks are not the ones being victimized. Whites are". 2024 NCVS Table 3: victimisation rates of 23.4 per 1,000 for Black Americans, 22.1 for white Americans. (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Table 3) FBI 2024: 8,158 Black murder victims, 6,753 white. Black Americans are 13% of the population. (statista.com/statistics/251…) Black homicide rate: 29.0 per 100,000. White: 4.2. Seven times more likely to be murdered. (vpc.org/studies/blackh…) The group Bass calls the threat is the group being killed. For rape, sexual assault, simple assault, and aggravated assault, Black offenders account for 10.5% to 15.6% of incidents with white victims. Black population share: 12%. Barely above proportional. (nationalacademies.org/read/26705/cha…) Intraracial victimisation exceeds interracial for all violent crime types except robbery. (bjs.ojp.gov/library/public…) Robbery drives the entire disparity. Strip it out and the gap for rape, sexual assault, and assault largely disappears. FBI murder data, 2018 (most recent full cross-tabulation; NIBRS transition disrupted subsequent years): (ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u…) Per 100,000 of the victim's population: White murdered by white: 1.36 White murdered by Black: 0.26 5.2 times more likely to be murdered by a white person. Black murdered by Black: 6.19 Black murdered by white: 0.56 A Black person is twice as likely to be murdered by a white person as the reverse. 84% of white murder victims killed by white offenders. 88% of Black victims by Black offenders. (opencrime.us/analysis/crime…) Bass's own source warns: "Splitting the sample in half results in a decrease in estimate precision". (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, page 4) Standard error on his key figure (536,120): 81,462. CI: 376,000 to 696,000. Denominator figure (57,370): SE 19,748. CI: 19,000 to 96,000. His ratio could be anywhere from 3.9 to 36.7. (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Appendix Table 14) Two cells flagged: "Interpret with caution. Based on 10 or fewer sample cases, or CV greater than 50%". (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Table 13) 19% of all 2024 violent incidents had unknown offender race. Over 1.15 million excluded. More than the Black-on-White figure itself. (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Table 11) All offender race data is victim perception, not arrests or convictions. 42% of wrongful convictions from misidentifications are cross-racial. (innocenceproject.org/race-and-wrong…) 109,341 respondents weighted to represent 286 million people. Violent crime down over 70% since 1993. From 79.8 to 23.3 per 1,000. (bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.…, Appendix Tables 1 and 19)

Elon Musk @elonmusk

a day ago

The truth is that there are VASTLY more hate crimes, especially aggravated rape and murder, per person by Blacks against Whites than the other way around. The is not remotely debatable, as the numbers are so extremely lopsided!

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“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” This evil hallucination software shouldn’t be anywhere near kids

Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2

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Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap. Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.

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@buttholefactory realising our dreams is why we're here.

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Don't have the budget to participate in the Summer Game Fest, so here's an excerpt of the game I'm developing

@ThePrimeagen man with infinite tokens who sells tokens suggests workload that burns plenty tokens

Bezos's stepfather was a multi-millionaire. So was his father. His grandfather was the first director at DARPA. He had every single institutional & familial advantage & was making a ton on Wall St when Amazon launched. This re-write is just pathetic

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Jeff Bezos was born to a teenage single mother who worked during the day and had to take him with her to night classes, and later she gave him her $247K life savings to help start Amazon, now worth about $2.65 trillion. 🙌🏽💰

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Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

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@rohancct @MisinfoFact so, your thinking is, party multiplies its vote by a factor of 10 or whatever, but the preference distributions don't change? if the PHON vote is real, its gonna have a big influence on preference flows, and conclusions based on previous flows don't make much sense imo

A queer teenager in Cambridge was invited to speak about her experiences at the city’s Pride flag raising ceremony. When she began to detail the harm caused by homophobia and transphobia on city council, the mayor took her mic away and said she wouldn’t stand for such disrespect

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So, I've worked in the beef industry. I have a fairly detailed knowledge of beef markets, the supply chain, parasites and parasiticides, etc. Suffice it to say, this is a nightmare scenario, but one we've known was coming since at least 2022. New World Screwworm was eradicated from North and Central America in the mid-90's. The US gov't (APHIS) funded a program of screwworm drops, where they bred sterile males so that extant populations couldn't reproduce and move northwards. But in 2022 NWS jumped the Darien gap and started moving northwards once again. It's most likely that they came undetected on livestock brought alongside migrants fleeing political instability in South and Central America. Elon Musk/DOGE, of course, cut several monitoring programs that would have detected this exact scenario. The screwworm drops are still funded, but the monitoring programs are what have been cut - a stupid move if there ever was one. A serious Central/South America policy would have worked hand-in-hand with CA/SA governments to help contain this, but we've never had a serious policy towards South America, not during the Biden years, and especially not under Trump. The USDA broke ground on a sterile screwworm facility in Texas... last month. I worry it's too little, too late. Screwworm is so dangerous because, unlike other fly larvae, they lay eggs and feed on living flesh. So something like a small scratch (or even bug bite) can quickly becomes infested, and the larvae will burrow into the flesh, growing the wound and attracting more screwworm. They don't only parasitize cattle, but will also feed on wildlife, domestic pets, even humans. Since they have detected screwworms in domesticated cattle right now, it's likely that there is a wild reservoir as well. We can quarantine herds and pets, but we can't quarantine deer and armadillos. They will move, and so will the NWS. Under normal circumstances, cattle are moved around - a lot. Calves will be sent to stockers through their adolescence, then shipped to feedlots for finishing. A lot of calving operations (like 70%) are small, and small-time producers don't always catch parasite infestations. Cattle moved in-state don't require a certificate of veterinary inspection, so it's easy for an infested animal to be moved without being noticed. Animals crossing state lines do need a CVI, but Texas has such an enormous cattle population (something like 13 million head) that as goes Texas, so goes the nation. Fortunately, we have a lot of drugs that treat NWS. The FDA has issued several emergency use authorizations in the last year or so. But every input raises the price of beef, and treatment only makes a difference if producers catch an infestation early. If an infestation spreads unnoticed on a large feedlot, it can hit hard, both in terms of cattle that have to be killed, and treatments that then have to be deployed. Producers will spend days at a time running cattle through the chute, inspecting them and applying parasiticides. It costs a lot of money, which is then passed on to the consumer. What does that mean for you? Beef is a commodity, and just because there's no NWS up here in Illinois doesn't mean that prices won't skyrocket - and they will skyrocket. US herd size is already at record lows, and this will result in culls. Consumer prices also run 18-24 months behind, which means that shocks to the supply chain now are still going to be felt by consumers in 2028. It's hard to say if our government will be able to muster an effective response - though I don't trust our current administration, which can't even throw a 250th anniversary party, to be able to deal with an ecological issue of this magnitude. It doesn't help that our current USDA secretary is a lawyer and think-tank creature. I don't much trust the state government of Texas either. The industry has also taken the workforce of large animal veterinarians for granted - a monopoly/market power issue that I just can't get in to here. For me, it comes back to our federal government having an incoherent policy on Central and South America. We knew what was coming, we know what's going to happen, but we cut the program meant to prevent this scenario. Instead of taking those countries seriously as partners, the government has been stupid and domineering. Here's the kicker: this is what the industry voted for. They might scream, they might get bailed out, but all that means is that you, the consumer, are going to be paying more for beef, plus whatever bailout gets shoveled their way. Until the industry accepts that they are part of a larger system; that they cannot eternally privatize the gains and publicize the losses of beef production; that they need to consider sustainability and stewardship in the management of their operations, this is only going to keep happening. Eventually, they may find that there is very little goodwill for them among the public, and people will decide that a Brazilian ribeye tastes just as good as one from Texas.

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6 days ago

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966. The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

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Apocalyptic bird nest. A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest. Made of drone fiber-optic cable. Source: Oleg Malchenko

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'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

@gitsouv @ThePrimeagen A big smiley boy who say "thanks for making me fellas. I've got some problems to solve!" and then it blasts off into the sky pissing rainbows and shitting diamonds.