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"Armageddon" was just a movie....right?

washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07…
In the article @astroduff

"stressed the importance of investing in a `global dedicated approach' to detecting asteroids because `sooner or later there will be one with our name on it. It’s just a matter of when, not if'"

Sounds like an international cooperation problem to me 🤔
At the end of #ChicagoIntroIR2018, we discussed existential risks to humanity (h/t @FHIOxford). We focused on the possibility of global responses to climate change and AI management.

Looks like asteroid detection will be added to #ChicagoIntroIR2019 in the fall!
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Great points by @m_poznansky regarding the original design of the 2nd Amendment.

One more thing...
No matter how one interprets the 2nd Amendment, there is a long history -- going back to the British -- of treating the production & sale of firearms as different from other arms.

Wonderfully captured in historian Priya Satia's 2018 book "Empire of Guns"

books.google.com/books?id=EPdQD…
If you don't have time to read the book, check out the terrific interview in @Slate with Satia

slate.com/news-and-polit…
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Paul Poast
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@neiltyson is challenging us to look at the data on gun violence.

Well, that's exactly what we do in my Quantitative Security course.

So, "what say the data?"

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To start, a bit of historical context. We should consider Louis Richardson's seminal JASA (@AmstatNews) article from 1949
He looked at "Deadly Quarrels".

These include everything from wars to murders, including mass murders
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Paul Poast
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Super insightful thread from @RadioFreeTom on US nuke use policy.

But we’re all probably overanalyzing a 10 second debate answer: @ewarren said “preemptive” when likely thinking “preventive”
See 👇

@RadioFreeTom offers a useful clarification on the difference b/w “preemptive” v “preventive”

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JM Rieger
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Over the past two years the rhetoric of some Fox News personalities has overlapped with a racist conspiracy theory regularly cited by white supremacists, according to a WaPo review.

The theory was also cited by the gunmen in two mass shootings this year.

The theory, known as “The Great Replacement,” warns of “ethnic and civilization substitution” from immigrants in Western nations.

It was developed in part by right-wing French polemicist Renaud Camus, who wrote a 2012 book of the same name.

washingtonpost.com/world/europe/n…
Camus has written separately about the “cultural ethnocide of the Europeans,” another component of the “replacement” theory.

It is similar to trends some Fox News personalities and President Trump have pointed to about the decline of U.S. culture.

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Karol Cummins
@karolcummins
⚠️TrumpCarnage⚠️

Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI

8/1/19: The FBI specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against Trump, Antifa & Pizzagate.

8/3/19 two mass shootings.
5 days b/4 Alt R #ElPaso
⚠️TrumpCarnage2⚠️

FBI assessment that online conspiracy theories “very likely” result in domestic extremists committing violent crimes

The AltR/QAnon folks spun a false narrative about coming ‘Antifa’ violence in El Paso five days before the Maga mass shooter massacred people.
⚠️TrumpCarnage3⚠️

9 people were killed in Dayton, Ohio, when a gunman opened fire early Sunday at a bar.

MX vows to take legal action against U.S. after deadly El Paso shooting

From its effect on the world, 8chan could be ranked as one of the internet’s most dangerous sites.
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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈❄️🌊
@windthin
#EnoughIsEnough.

Antifa isn't murdering people. MS-13 isn't gunning down hundreds.

The Trump regime set the stage for these #massshootings.

They have vilified their critics while ending programs that track dangerous, fringe groups.

These ARE #TrumpsTerrorists.
First Trump shut down programs to counter violent extremism.

The administration has hobbled the infrastructure designed to prevent atrocities like Pittsburgh and Christchurch. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
When Fighting Domestic Terrorism, You Get What You Pay For

The Trump administration has gutted the budget for fighting far-right extremists, making it harder to stop attacks like the Pittsburgh massacre. foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/01/whe…
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Amanda Marcotte
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washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04… There’s no real daylight between Trump’s views and that of white nationalists. That is why he called neo-Nazis “fine people”. It’s not a mistake, but what he clearly believes.
I’ll note that while Trump uses claims of overpopulation to justify his anti-immigration views, his administration then flips around and embraces an agenda of forced childbirth for American women. salon.com/2018/05/18/tru…
If the U.S. really was facing an overpopulation crisis, we’d want to reduce birth rates, not try to raise them by forcing women to give birth against their will.
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Karol 🌿
@karolcummins
‼️Trump Family Deceptive Practices

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The late Fred Trump & his estate, funneled millions of dollars to his children, in possible violation of tax rules & criminal laws.

Docs show that Fred directed $413 million in today’s dollars to Donald
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
NOT the single loan for $1 million, with interest, that Donald has always claimed — it exploded Trump’s long-propagated claim that he is a self-made man.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
📌Why did Trump spend more than $400 million in cash, with no loans, to buy properties between 2006 and 2015?
washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
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Kaitlin Curtice (This Has Always Been America)
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washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02…

So, a missionary steals the remains of over 500 Native bodies, and here's a report on it.
First, @CBS has a video of it, and I'll say a few things about that.

Let's just get this out of the way: Native bodies ARE NOT artifacts, and we need to be clear about that.
They interviewed a few different people here, including Pete Coffey, a tribal official with North Dakota’s Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. He says:

“All too often here we have been treated as curiosities rather than a people,”
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