Not only did the prosecutor make the false claim that 13 year old Adam Toledo had a gun, which they are now trying to downplay, the video, which is genuinely horrific (be warned) makes it clear he had his hands up when they shot him.
I'm already regretting watching the video. Don't really have the stomach to watch a 13 year old gunned down. Also not sure if sharing it is right or not, except that it clearly shows the cops murdered him, contra whatever they say.
Article on the gun. Specifically, the spokesperson for Cook County State’s Attorney now says the County Assistant State’s Attorney, who claimed that "he has a gun in his right hand," had "failed to fully inform himself before speaking in court."
They maintain that Toledo's right hand tested positive for gunshot residue & that they found a Ruger near where he was shot. But even if both of these are true, they do not prove that he, as opposed to the 21 year old, had the gun on him, nor that he was holding it when shot.
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Revisiting this several years on. I still think Boyer and Atran are largely correct about how to understand religion. The divide between "elite" and "popular" religion, in particular seems more and more salient to me all the time.
Roughly, elite religion, which researchers previously considered representative out of their own bias, is the product of sociological & psychological outliers, & gains broader social purchase primarily through coercion, but quickly loses its hold without that. It's where most of
the most salient differences bw religions are at their most pronounced. Popular religion, by contrast, seems more deeply similar everywhere, and includes a lot of beliefs/practices previously dismissed by researchers as not representative of their respective religions, but which
One of the most stunning exchanges I've ever seen on here, branching out into multiple, simultaneous threads, quote tweets, etc. Can't capture it all, but here are some of the main branches. Politics twitter has nothing on engineering twitter. If you've got a few min, be amazed.
Some scans of harder-to-find Japanese art book images to dispel feverish and monotonous election vibes. Starting off with some Amano.
Some of the more explicitly Klimt-y Amano
Some "Oriental" Amano. The 3rd image may be a little more popular, since it's his version of the heroine Ilian from Moorcock's fantasy novels, & was used as cover art for a Japanese translation of Count Brass.
If I'm getting this right, a White woman who started a failed MeToo org for people in STEM only to be accused of racist harassment herself was exposed as having created an account where she pretended to be a nonexistent queer Native American professor at Arizona State University.
And she was exposed after trying to ditch the account by claiming the prof died of COVID and doing this bizarre eulogy thread to her.
The ex-cop (who was locked up for drug trafficking and murder) w/ phone access who may have had something to do w Epstein's injuries was from Briarcliff Manor, a town a north of NYC known for its wealthy estate-owning families, including the Vanderbilts, Astors, & Rockefellers.
"Briarcliff Manor has a number of wealthy residents, and was rated 19th on CNNMoney's 25 Top-Earning Towns in the U.S."
The Briarcliff Manor's police department's troubles with unsavory cops goes right up to the level of the ex-chief himself, who was suspended without pay in 2015 for an infraction that no one in the department will discuss.