Arizona and Nevada had the biggest spikes in renters paying 30% or more of their income on housing from 2019 to 2023.
— Read on washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/09/15/rent-is-eating-up-a-greater-share-of-tenants-income-in-almost-every-state/
To Richard Reeves. This morning, I listened to an Ezra Klein podcast-replay with your insights into gender. Very thought-provoking; particularly as we have “opposite” family compositions as we have three daughters! A question: as you highlight the recent trends in gender in school, did you find any research which controlled for (or at least considered?) the tremendous changes in education, pedagogy, assessment/grading, curriculum, etc., which rapidly emerged during the same period as the “flip” from boys leading the achievement gap to girls leading the achievement gap? Ben
Is aesthetic standing an injury in fact?
Brilliant, enlightening, fascinating, seamless, and enthralling article by a master journalist!
McKenzie Funk is a ProPublica reporter in Washington State and the author of the new book “The Hank Show.” His last article for the magazine was about how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement finds its targets in the surveillance age. Erik Carter is a graphic designer and an art director in New York. His work often plays off an internet aesthetic and mixes media.
From the article:
Many critiques of our increasingly algorithmic world focus on where algorithms fail. One boils down to simple math: Some sample sizes are so small (of terror attacks, for instance) that algorithms can hardly reliably predict what they purport to predict. Another boils down to psychology: As anyone who has ever become lost by blindly following Google Maps can attest, people tend to perilously ignore common sense and trust the machine. A third boils down to checks and balances: Algorithms are often proprietary black boxes, closed to outside scrutiny. A fourth critique points out that algorithms, far from being objective, often just encode and scale up human biases: If a predictive policing system learns that most of a city’s arrests have historically been in a certain majority-Black neighborhood, the computer may decide to deploy more officers to that neighborhood, perpetuating a racist pattern of arrests and violence. Garbage in, garbage out.
But the story of Hank Asher and his creations also raises a different question, one ever more pertinent as the science and machinery of A.I. march continually forward: What happens when this stuff actually works? Is that better or worse?
I try to keep my reading intake broad and inclusive attempting to mind adages such as:
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Often attributed to Aristotle, yet, perhaps the, “earliest that this quotation appears in print is in Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (1959) by Lowell Bennion,” (Famous Misquotations: It is the Mark of an Educated Mind… | Atkins Bookshelf (wordpress.com)
“Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”
(Fitzgerald, The Crack Up).
Incidentally, The Crack Up is on my to read next list – took forever to find a great, old paperback copy!
However, after reading about the Firmly Planted Action Organization stating in the area, including representatives from the We the Governed group, I initially thought to start a, “Freely Planted, Free to Grow” organization with a second affiliation of another new group, the We the Free and Together group.
Ah America – well, I shall keep my ears open, and my mind also!