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Would you answer an Instagram appeal for bank robbers?

7 months 1 week ago
Here's a story you probably never expected to see: Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against three young people who they say robbed a string of banks across Northern California last year by using Instagram to recruit women to walk into financial institutions and pass the tellers notes demanding money. ....The indictment says Jones and ...continue reading "Would you answer an Instagram appeal for bank robbers?"
Kevin Drum

Raw data: Women in the academy

7 months 1 week ago
Beginning around 2000, universities began to consistently add more women than men to their ranks of new assistant professorships: As a result, in 2013 women began to outnumber men: As of 2022, women held 54.4% of all assistant professorships. Note that is an average. The numbers obviously vary tremendously among different academic fields.
Kevin Drum

This Week In Techdirt History: October 6th – 12th

7 months 1 week ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, Deupty AG Jeffrey Rosen was complaining about companies like Facebook offering encryption, while FBI Director Chris Wray was deploying straw men arguments about the tech, and the DOJ was conflating the content moderation debate with the encryption debate. We learned more about ICE’s massive surveillance network, and the […]
Leigh Beadon