Former academic. PhD Ohio State. #mcmc_stan, #python, #rstats. Information theory. Large language models. Retired but open to select consulting projects.
Oxford, MS & Tuscaloosa, AL
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I'm not sure why the whole focus of tonight's election coverage has not turned to the Senate election in Mississippi. Republican Hyde-Smith may well have lost there.
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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This was always the logical outcome of re-alignment.
If USC/UCLA are willing to leave the PAC-12 because they didn't want to split the paycheck with Wazzu and Oregon State... How long before USC and Michigan leave the B1G cause they don't want to split the check with Rutgers and Northwestern?
This is ending in one of two ways -- 1: conferences go to an un-equal rev share model. 2: the biggest brands go independent to negotiate their own TV deals.
I am not Jewish, but still a fervent Zionist. I'd offer my life if need be to defeat antizionist fascists who want to annihilate Jews.
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I was told that LSU never has games where the stadium isn’t full, especially at night in Death Valley!!
By the looks of this video, it may not even be 50% full. Yikes.
#JustDifferent though
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Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
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academia 100% deserves this
washingtonpost.com/education…
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My 4 colleagues who covered LSU-Ole Miss shared their experiences, and this observation from @SethWEmerson is so spot-on.
nytimes.com/athletic/7615039…
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Well Qatari cash for one. Clicks for another. But at the end of the day let's consult the good doctor.
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A careful review of the list of "170 Jewish entertainment figures" includes those we've never heard of, those who aren't in the entertainment industry, those who support Hamas & those who identify as Jewish only when they're criticizing Israel.
These are Mark's "Jewish" friends.
Mark Ruffalo is being defended by more than 170 Jewish entertainment figures in a new open letter rejecting Paramount's claim that Ruffalo fueled “antisemitic tropes”:
“The time is over for spurious charges of antisemitism to be trotted out, this time in the defense of war, oligarchy, and AI domination. That tired playbook has run its course. We stand proudly with Mark Ruffalo, and with all decent people who are bravely rising and speaking truth to power.”
Supporters include Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen, Todd Haynes, Ilana Glazer, Tony Kushner, Emma Seligman, Jane Schoenbrun and Wallace Shawn.
The letter follows a heated week in which Ruffalo has been at the center of a growing confrontation over the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. In a social media post on Aug. 21, the Marvel star attacked the deal over its potential consequences for Hollywood and accused the Ellison family of being complicit in the “genocide” against Palestinians, which he said “was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.” In the post, he highlighted Oracle’s ties to the Israeli military.
“Pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism. It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty," reads the open letter defending Ruffalo. "According to a recent Washington Post poll, 61% of American Jews now agree that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza; and four in ten even agree that these crimes amount to genocide. Do those attacking Mark Ruffalo as an antisemite seriously believe that all these American Jews are antisemites too? Or that we don’t see the connection between, on the one hand, the criminal impunities that have led the US and Israel into unending disaster and, on the other, the oligarchic powerplays of the Musks, Ellisons, Thiels and others who are working to dismantle our democracy?”
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