Agosto 16, 2026

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Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Open thread. Write about anything.

8/16/26, 6:11 PM
tcrosse ayon kay ...

This morning I googled one of the terms in Connexctions. AI came back with the other three terms it was connected with, in the purple. Of course, I recused myself. I never would have gotten it anyway

8/16/26, 6:23 PM
Disparity of Cult ayon kay ...

https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2088725218181222499

Aseem Malhotra jumps the shark.

8/16/26, 6:29 PM
Curious George ayon kay ...

Yesterday Josh Baez of the St. Louis Cardinals was playing his first MLB game. He hit the first pitch he saw for a HR to center in Wrigley Field. Cool, but lots of players have homered in the first big league at bat. In his second at bat he hit a home run to left. Ok, super rare. Only two other players have done that. Third at bat, homer to right. Johs is the first player in MLB history to hit a homer in their first three at bats.

There have been about 23,000 players to play at least one game in the show. Incredible.

8/16/26, 6:35 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...

Interesting case in England, showing that public safety issues are not limited to the US: Britain is early-releasing thousands of prisoners because of limited capacity. Among the people scheduled for early release are the men who dragged PC Andrew Harper to death when he got caught in their car door. By the way, the killers are Roma, so white, and born in UK. So a lot of the usual issues around policing are absent here.

Starmer blubbered that you can't single out individuals to stay in prison if they fit in a category that's getting a general release. There also has been some criminological data that say releasing minor offenders doesn't relieve overcrowding, because they minor-offend again straightaway. Burnham has been noncommittal so far.

The most interesting part of this is that every single chief constable in England and Wales, including the commissioner of the Met, have signed onto a letter urging the government to figure out a way to keep these guys locked up. This is an unprecedented display of backbone by senior police officials.

The chief constables are appointed by and responsible to their mayors or other local-level elected officials. So either the chiefs feel this is an existential issue and if the mayor fires them, oh well, or the mayors agree.

Quite a turnaround from recent trends. Or maybe the cops are just worried that Tommy Robinson's boys will start killing them in the cause of freedom, if the prison time seems doable. CC, JSM

8/16/26, 6:45 PM
bagoh20 ayon kay ...

After reading the comments in previous post about Madison and college games, I think I'm the only one in here without a college degree. Don't feel bad. Doing what you are told keeps you out of jail., and that's a very good thing. I didn't listen, and yes I did go to jail. They told me I would I have to stay if I didn't tell them who I was, and what I was doing, but I didn't do that either, and they let me go. Never trust the man.

8/16/26, 6:52 PM
Disparity of Cult ayon kay ...

The New IRA taking on the migrant crisis in Ireland?

8/16/26, 6:53 PM
bagoh20 ayon kay ...

"Johs is the first player in MLB history to hit a homer in their first three at bats."

Wow! If would have just told them "let me play one game and then we discuss the contract". I'm sure he'll do well before long.

8/16/26, 7:18 PM
Curious George ayon kay ...

"bagoh20 said...
After reading the comments in previous post about Madison and college games, I think I'm the only one in here without a college degree."

Nope.

8/16/26, 7:28 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper ayon kay ...

He was already in their farm team.

Báez's arrival from Class AAA Memphis.

When does (re) negotiating begin

8/16/26, 8:06 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

Israel is dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and setting it ablaze. They are just taking Lebanon for lebensraum, I guess,because Lebanon has an actual source of fresh water, and gas fields offshore which the Israelis have been preventing them from developing.

8/16/26, 8:29 PM
wildswan ayon kay ...

The man who proved Jason Arday's plagarism, Nathan Cofnas, was a supporter of the eugenic positions of the late 20th century. He believed that blacks had a genetically-based IQ deficit. He based this position on the work of Eugenics Society/ American Eugenics Society members. For example, consider the article: Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry. 2020 Nathan Cofnas. Philosophical Psychology 33, 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/. This article used the work on race and IQ of Arthur Jensen, Sandra Scarr, Richard Lynn, JC Loehlin, Linda Gottfredson, Spearman, AWF Edwards, JP Rushton, Richard Lewontin and Plomin who were all members of one or the other or both eugenics societies. These references were used to back up Cofnas's arguments that race and IQ should be investigated again because, he said, it was true that blacks had a genetically-based IQ deficit. Cofnas though that no black legitimately held an academic position at Harvard and that very few held their positions legitimately at Oxford/Cambridge. These positions led to Cofnas being forced out of Oxford as a racist - which he is. And Cofnas is a supporter of eugenics as well. It could not be more unfortunate that it was left up to a man known for supporting these false and outdated theories to expose the frauds of Jason Arday, that no one else was willing to face the storm which would swirl about the man who exposed a black charlatan. Yes, the only one who spoke up was the man who thinks almost all black academics are charlatans and who lost his job for saying so. And now it is this racist who has exposed this huge scandal. Others should have spoken up. Look at the damage their silence has done.

8/16/26, 8:51 PM

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