Sources Included Archives | Just Thinking Out Loud with Desi-Rae

99.99% of Police Interactions are (Mostly) Peaceful (with sources)

April 22nd, 2021|Tags: 99.99%, black lives matter, BLM, blue lives matter, bureau of justice statistics, chelsea handler, police brutality, policing, statistics, unarmed, use data responsibly|

Here are some things to remember about police interactions because what the media highlights is simply that--a highlight. This is a video version of a tweet I decided was important enough to make more content from: https://twitter.com/desiraethinking/status/1301990870212845569 Sources &nbsp [...]

“Gender-Affirming” Healthcare and “Anti-Trans” Legislation (with sources)

April 1st, 2021|Tags: ACLU, anti-trans, bills, gender-affirming health care, HB1570 SAFE Act, hormone therapy, jtol, npr, sex change surgery|

Do the terms "gender affirming" and "anti-trans" change the substance of what is being described or do they just change the reader's perception of the topic? This video discusses the concepts of group rights versus individual rights as it concerns recently proposed bills in the US regarding hormone [...]

Crimes Against Women, Asians, and Blaming Groups (with sources)

March 18th, 2021|Tags: anti-asian, couzens, discrimination, hate crimes, misogyny, notallmen, sarah everard, sexism, stereotype, wayne|

CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN, ASIANS, AND BLAMING GROUPS This article is about blaming groups and drawing the line between the individual and the group. This comes in light of the social discourse surrounding recent events, namely the murder of Sarah Everard in the UK at the hands of an off-duty police offi [...]

The War on Competence (with sources)

March 4th, 2021|Tags: collegeboard, essa, every student succeeds act, han dynasty, history of stadnardized testing, history of standardized testing, jamaal bowman, jtol, SAT, standardized testing, systemic racism|

Is standardized testing a pillar of systemic racism? Why do you need to come up with an incoherent set of ideas to change society, to change its hierarchies? Why would one choose to get rid of objective standards to remove bias? Learn about what those against standardized testing mean when they say [...]

Abby Nissenbaum – Social Justice and Science (with sources)

February 4th, 2021|Tags: abby nissenbaum, Clarke University, heterosex, hypothesis testing, p-hacking, robustness checks, science, social justice|

Cancelled for social justice? Abby was a PhD student who ran into a problem in academia called p-hacking and theorizing the hypothesis after working to get the right results. She tells her story of having to end her studies after a genuine interest in researching the social justice issue of s [...]

If I Leave YouTube… (Big Tech Censorship)

January 21st, 2021|Tags: #walkaway, big tech, ccp, censorship, facebook, free speech, jack dorsey, signal, trump ban, trump banned from twitter, twitter, uighur, uyghur women|

How quiet are people about issues that should concern all - simply because they feel they are winning. I didn't mention it in the video, but Facebook also deleted the #WalkAway movement's account. Talk about silencing your political opponents. The best voices are the dissidents from your own party! [...]

Google AI Bias, Timnit Gebru, and the Perils of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (with sources)

December 12th, 2020|Tags: #believeblackwomen, AI bias, AI ethics, artificial intelligence, buolamwini, dei, diversity, equity, google, inclusion, jeff dean, jtol, Sundar Pichai, timnit gebru|

Google recently made the usual diversity, equity, and inclusion headlines, this time with the focus being on bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and the unfolding drama concerning the firing of a lead ethics researcher, Timnit Gebru. I break this story down to the best of my ability and give my opi [...]

I Watched “The Social Dilemma” (with sources)

October 19th, 2020|

I watched "The Social Dilemma", and I had some thoughts about it. Sources -https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankenstein.1831.inside-cover_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankenstein_wiki.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.o [...]

93% of STEM majors are NOT Black (with sources)

October 3rd, 2020|Tags: African American, asians, black, charles scharf, college board, education, engineering, income, jtol, mathematics, science, STEM, talent shortage, technology, wells fargo, wells fargo ceo, whites, women|

For any problem, you fix the problem at the root, the source. For anything you want to create, you start at the root, the source, because everything flows from there. Here, I present some cold, hard, statistics on whether or not there is a talent shortage for black Americans in top companies and whe [...]

#Cuties, Innocence, and the Fall of Society (with sources)

September 16th, 2020|

Do you understand the moral outrage behind Netflix's controversial "Cuties" film? There is a reason why protecting the innocence of children, in action rather than in words, is a moral imperative for halting the spread of wrongdoing in the world. It's not that easy to tease apart, but here is an exp [...]

April 2021

99.99% of Police Interactions are (Mostly) Peaceful (with sources)

“Gender-Affirming” Healthcare and “Anti-Trans” Legislation (with sources)

March 2021

Crimes Against Women, Asians, and Blaming Groups (with sources)

The War on Competence (with sources)

February 2021

January 2021

If I Leave YouTube… (Big Tech Censorship)

December 2020

Google AI Bias, Timnit Gebru, and the Perils of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (with sources)

October 2020

I Watched “The Social Dilemma” (with sources)

93% of STEM majors are NOT Black (with sources)

September 2020

#Cuties, Innocence, and the Fall of Society (with sources)