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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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#Archaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #ClassicalArchaeology #germans #celts #Rome #mobility #migration #war #ethnicity #LaTene #identity #cimbri #BronzeAge #books

Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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Archaeoethnologica: The Battle of Arausio in Contexts / A Batalha de Arausio e seu contexto

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The Character of Freedom: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Slavery

"An original and deeply researched look at how Scottish Enlightenment ideals interacted with religious philosophy to inform and inspire abolitionists and enslavers alike in the founding of the American republic."

🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700642281/

#History #Histodons #Scotland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Slavery #Liberalism #Politics #Philosophy #Race #Ethnicity #UniversityPress #Academia #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky

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The Character of Freedom: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Slavery

"An original and deeply researched look at how Scottish Enlightenment ideals interacted with religious philosophy to inform and inspire abolitionists and enslavers alike in the founding of the American republic."

🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700642281/

#History #Histodons #Scotland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Slavery #Liberalism #Politics #Philosophy #Race #Ethnicity #UniversityPress #Academia #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky

The one thing that all long-lived ethnic diaspora and indigenous communities (>1000 years) have in common is a strong cultural emphasis on a refusal to intermarry and assimilate. The reason that there are no Hittites or Olmeks around anymore is not that they were all killed. It's that their descendants saw no great value in staying distinct. Swedes in the US around 1900 were also spectacularly bad at this. 😄

#ethnicity #migration

The one thing that all long-lived ethnic diaspora and indigenous communities (>1000 years) have in common is a strong cultural emphasis on a refusal to intermarry and assimilate. The reason that there are no Hittites or Olmeks around anymore is not that they were all killed. It's that their descendants saw no great value in staying distinct. Swedes in the US around 1900 were also spectacularly bad at this. 😄

#ethnicity #migration

Palestinian Arrested In Quezon City For Stealing Money Bag

For some time now, I have been monitoring the criminal acts committed by people who are present in different countries as foreigners. Here in the Philippines, a Palestinian man was arrested in Quezon City for stealing a bag containing a lot of cash from the café of a hotel, according to a news report by the Manila Bulletin.

As it turns out, the Palestinian already has a history of committing other forms of crime. Could it be possible that, apart from violence and terrorism, theft and an obsession of committing crime are parts of the Palestinian nature?

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Manila Bulletin news report. Some parts in boldface…

A 36-year-old Palestinian man was arrested after allegedly taking a money bag containing P5,020 and an empty cash box from a hotel café on Timog Avenue in Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City, at around 11:06 p.m. on Thursday, July 23.

The suspect, identified as “Ham,” was intercepted by hotel security personnel at the establishment’s exit after the incident was detected through the hotel’s CCTV monitoring system.

Initial investigation showed that the suspect entered the café and allegedly took the money bag and empty cash box without the knowledge or consent of the 24-year-old male cashier.

Recovered from the suspect were P5,020 in various peso bills and coins, the cash bag, the empty cash box, and a backpack.

Personnel of Kamuning Police Station (PS 10) later responded and took custody of the suspect from the hotel security personnel.

Further verification showed that the suspect had previous criminal records for estafa, unjust vexation, resistance and disobedience to a person in authority, use of a fictitious name, and concealing his true name in October 2025, as well as theft in May 2026.

Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? Are there a lot of Palestinians living in your local community right now? Are you aware of the fact that a lot of Palestinians follow Islamic terrorists as their leaders? How many Palestinians do you think are present all over the Philippines today? Did you notice an increase of the number of foreign Islamists in your local community over the past twelve months? Do you think the national government is secretly allowing Palestinians to enter the Philippines as high-priority refugees with immigration in mind?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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Palestinian Arrested In Quezon City For Stealing Money Bag

For some time now, I have been monitoring the criminal acts committed by people who are present in different countries as foreigners. Here in the Philippines, a Palestinian man was arrested in Quezon City for stealing a bag containing a lot of cash from the café of a hotel, according to a news report by the Manila Bulletin.

As it turns out, the Palestinian already has a history of committing other forms of crime. Could it be possible that, apart from violence and terrorism, theft and an obsession of committing crime are parts of the Palestinian nature?

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Manila Bulletin news report. Some parts in boldface…

A 36-year-old Palestinian man was arrested after allegedly taking a money bag containing P5,020 and an empty cash box from a hotel café on Timog Avenue in Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City, at around 11:06 p.m. on Thursday, July 23.

The suspect, identified as “Ham,” was intercepted by hotel security personnel at the establishment’s exit after the incident was detected through the hotel’s CCTV monitoring system.

Initial investigation showed that the suspect entered the café and allegedly took the money bag and empty cash box without the knowledge or consent of the 24-year-old male cashier.

Recovered from the suspect were P5,020 in various peso bills and coins, the cash bag, the empty cash box, and a backpack.

Personnel of Kamuning Police Station (PS 10) later responded and took custody of the suspect from the hotel security personnel.

Further verification showed that the suspect had previous criminal records for estafa, unjust vexation, resistance and disobedience to a person in authority, use of a fictitious name, and concealing his true name in October 2025, as well as theft in May 2026.

Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? Are there a lot of Palestinians living in your local community right now? Are you aware of the fact that a lot of Palestinians follow Islamic terrorists as their leaders? How many Palestinians do you think are present all over the Philippines today? Did you notice an increase of the number of foreign Islamists in your local community over the past twelve months? Do you think the national government is secretly allowing Palestinians to enter the Philippines as high-priority refugees with immigration in mind?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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Awareness is separate from (but arises with; see SN 12.67) its objects. There is awareness of the body/brain's being a certain age, gender, social caste/class, ethnicity, etc. But awareness is not those things.

#buddhism #psychology #awareness #consciousness #duality #objectification #body #mind #brain #age #gender #caste #class #ethnicity

Awareness is separate from (but arises with; see SN 12.67) its objects. There is awareness of the body/brain's being a certain age, gender, social caste/class, ethnicity, etc. But awareness is not those things.

#buddhism #psychology #awareness #consciousness #duality #objectification #body #mind #brain #age #gender #caste #class #ethnicity

Excellent reminder of the power of footy!!

“What the World Cup Showed Us About Politics”

by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@worldcup2026

“The 2026 World Cup shows that national identities are not fixed or exclusive. They are shaped by family histories, colonial legacies and people moving to escape war, hunger and poverty. Far from undermining national teams, these connections have become an integral part of what many national teams are. White supremacists and the blood and soil (‘Blut und Boden’) nationalists hate it. But the World Cup shows that on the football pitch ethnic nationalists are losing out to the civic nationalists. Mbappe, Olise, Yamal and the Stourbridge-born Jude Bellingham all have roots in Africa and bring to their teams a wonderful grace and power”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/what-the-world-cup-showed-us-about

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #WorldCup2026 #WhiteSupremacy #Identity #Racism #Trump #Ethnicity #Football #Unity

Excellent reminder of the power of footy!!

“What the World Cup Showed Us About Politics”

by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@worldcup2026

“The 2026 World Cup shows that national identities are not fixed or exclusive. They are shaped by family histories, colonial legacies and people moving to escape war, hunger and poverty. Far from undermining national teams, these connections have become an integral part of what many national teams are. White supremacists and the blood and soil (‘Blut und Boden’) nationalists hate it. But the World Cup shows that on the football pitch ethnic nationalists are losing out to the civic nationalists. Mbappe, Olise, Yamal and the Stourbridge-born Jude Bellingham all have roots in Africa and bring to their teams a wonderful grace and power”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/what-the-world-cup-showed-us-about

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #WorldCup2026 #WhiteSupremacy #Identity #Racism #Trump #Ethnicity #Football #Unity

Do people care about you, or about your identity (ie, your age, caste/class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, politics, religion, etc)?

#care #caring #love #value #identity #age #caste #class #socialclass #ethnicity #race #gender #nationality #politics #religion

Today's slow rollout of the shocking findings in the AP/NORC survey includes:

Jews think both parties suck but will vote Democrat anyway, Jews are more concerned about antisemitism than non-Jews, and avg Americans think Trump supports Jews more than Jews think he does. 🤯🤡

Anyway... the comments are the real America. Worth perusing.

"The new #survey of 1,022 #Jewish adults — including people who identify as Jewish by #religion and religiously unaffiliated people who identify as Jewish through #culture, #ethnicity or family background — offers a rare detailed accounting of a key demographic that sits at the very center of some of the nation’s most divisive #political debates."

https://apnews.com/article/poll-jewish-adults-democrat-republican-trump-netanyahu-9114d71c93fad1997ae224e8992b7988

Today's slow rollout of the shocking findings in the AP/NORC survey includes:

Jews think both parties suck but will vote Democrat anyway, Jews are more concerned about antisemitism than non-Jews, and avg Americans think Trump supports Jews more than Jews think he does. 🤯🤡

Anyway... the comments are the real America. Worth perusing.

"The new #survey of 1,022 #Jewish adults — including people who identify as Jewish by #religion and religiously unaffiliated people who identify as Jewish through #culture, #ethnicity or family background — offers a rare detailed accounting of a key demographic that sits at the very center of some of the nation’s most divisive #political debates."

https://apnews.com/article/poll-jewish-adults-democrat-republican-trump-netanyahu-9114d71c93fad1997ae224e8992b7988

"The #NewYorkCity Police Department (NYPD) confirmed on Thursday that #Jews were targeted by more #hatecrimes than any other #racial, #ethnic, or #religious group during the first six months of 2026, deepening concerns among #Jewish leaders that #antisemitism has intensified during the opening months of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.

The department recorded 178 anti-Jewish hate crimes from January to June, even as hate crimes against Asian, Black, and white #NewYorkers — groups whose populations together outnumber the city’s Jews by nearly six to one — registered double-digit decreases and offenses related to #ethnicity fell 50 percent. Anti-#Muslim offenses also rose, from 14 during the same period in 2025 to 21 this year.

The figures appeared in the NYPD’s biannual #crime report."

https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/07/06/new-york-city-jews-most-targeted-minority-group-in-2026-nypd-report-says/

"The #NewYorkCity Police Department (NYPD) confirmed on Thursday that #Jews were targeted by more #hatecrimes than any other #racial, #ethnic, or #religious group during the first six months of 2026, deepening concerns among #Jewish leaders that #antisemitism has intensified during the opening months of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.

The department recorded 178 anti-Jewish hate crimes from January to June, even as hate crimes against Asian, Black, and white #NewYorkers — groups whose populations together outnumber the city’s Jews by nearly six to one — registered double-digit decreases and offenses related to #ethnicity fell 50 percent. Anti-#Muslim offenses also rose, from 14 during the same period in 2025 to 21 this year.

The figures appeared in the NYPD’s biannual #crime report."

https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/07/06/new-york-city-jews-most-targeted-minority-group-in-2026-nypd-report-says/

Now that we have universal AI translators and knowledge at our fingertips, the world's next great experiment should be post-nationalism, where everyone is given the freedom to live anywhere on Earth according to any culture. Ethnic and cultural coercion are wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/03/united-states-constitution-donald-trump-washington-dc

#freedom #coercion #ethnicity #racism #culture #nationalism #ai #translation #linguistics #language #knowledge #internet

Now that we have universal AI translators and knowledge at our fingertips, the world's next great experiment should be post-nationalism, where everyone is given the freedom to live anywhere on Earth according to any culture. Ethnic and cultural coercion are wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/03/united-states-constitution-donald-trump-washington-dc

#freedom #coercion #ethnicity #racism #culture #nationalism #ai #translation #linguistics #language #knowledge #internet

Run into the Light by Roberto Pazzi

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxja-mSjyq00

#horizontal #architecture #travel #spirituality #art #ancient #monastery #people #running #indoors #dzong #child #monk #bhutan #one #person #boy #young #building #culture #religion #asia #photography #buddhism #asian #ethnicity #painting #aisle #full #length

Run into the Light by Roberto Pazzi

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxja-mSjyq00

#horizontal #architecture #travel #spirituality #art #ancient #monastery #people #running #indoors #dzong #child #monk #bhutan #one #person #boy #young #building #culture #religion #asia #photography #buddhism #asian #ethnicity #painting #aisle #full #length

Secret vetting and blocked promotions in the Pentagon: Inside Pete Hegseth's war on diversity https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/20/world/hegseth-us-military-promotions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #petehegseth #us #usmilitary #ethnicity #donaldtrump #discrimination

Secret vetting and blocked promotions in the Pentagon: Inside Pete Hegseth's war on diversity https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/20/world/hegseth-us-military-promotions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #petehegseth #us #usmilitary #ethnicity #donaldtrump #discrimination

Siblings by Roberto Pazzi

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjWTfKuSu00

#lifestyles #outdoors #portrait #people #street #travel #doors #young #girl #children #sister #brother #baby #siblings #ivory #coast #africa #photography #childhood #standing #culture #african #ethnicity #full #length #looking #camera #sony #two #persons

Siblings by Roberto Pazzi

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjWTfKuSu00

#lifestyles #outdoors #portrait #people #street #travel #doors #young #girl #children #sister #brother #baby #siblings #ivory #coast #africa #photography #childhood #standing #culture #african #ethnicity #full #length #looking #camera #sony #two #persons

The Box You Cannot Check

The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word “sex.” A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box and lie, write something in the margin, or refuse the form. The receptionist will not read the margin. Data entry clerks will not transcribe it. EHR systems will not store anything outside the two values the form lists. The patient walks out of the clinic with a treatment plan based on a box that does not correspond to their body, their history, or their current endocrine state. The form has done its job, which is not the job it claimed to do.

The form claims to collect information. Its actual function is categorization. Information collection would mean recording what the patient told the clinic. Categorization means sorting the patient into one of the boxes the system already had, regardless of whether the patient fits. These are different operations. The form does the second while presenting itself as doing the first.

I focus on the sex/gender field because it is currently the most visible example of the categorization failure, but the pattern is general. Race fields on most forms still offer five or six options plus an “other” line that researchers routinely discard in aggregate analysis because “other” cannot be merged with the named categories without distorting the comparison the categories were built to support. Ethnicity fields on US forms famously split Hispanic into its own question while leaving Middle Eastern and North African respondents to choose between “White,” “Asian,” and “Other,” none of which describes them. The Census Bureau plans to add a MENA category in 2030, decades after the gap was identified. Respondents could check multiple race boxes for the first time in 2000, which was a real improvement on prior forms. The same census kept the sex question as a binary male/female, the way every US Census has since 1790, on the grounds that adding a third option would compromise the time series.

The time series argument is worth examining because it surfaces what is actually happening. A research instrument that has measured a binary for 230 years has produced 230 years of data that reads the population as binary. Adding a third or fourth or fifth option in 2030 would mean that comparisons between 2020 and 2030 require methodological accommodation. That accommodation is doable, well-documented in survey methodology, and routine when other categories shift. Choosing not to make the accommodation keeps the data legible to historians of a category system that is no longer the category system in use. The form preserves the past at the cost of misrepresenting the present.

What happens to the data after the form is the harder problem. A survey of 10,000 people that includes 9,200 binary-box-checkers, 600 “other” or write-in responses, and 200 refusals will, in most aggregate reports, appear as a clean 9,200-person dataset. The 600 “other” responses get coded as missing, recoded into the binary categories by an analyst making a judgment call, or dropped entirely under a methodology footnote that says “respondents who declined to specify were excluded from analysis.” Another 200 refusals disappear under one of those clauses. A final published table reads as if 9,200 people answered the question cleanly, when in fact 10,000 people interacted with the question and 800 of them produced data the analyst could not use.

The aggregate therefore summarizes only the inputs that fit the categories already chosen. This is the gap between what the form does and what the form claims to do. The form does classification work while presenting itself as a question. Its classification system was built before the form was printed, and respondents who do not fit that classification are removed from the dataset the form generates. The dataset reads as comprehensive because the cleaning happened before anyone with access to the aggregate could see what was removed.

The mathematical consequence of this should bother statisticians more than it currently does. A dataset that excludes 8 percent of respondents on the grounds that their responses were illegible has an 8 percent selection bias that propagates into every downstream analysis. Confidence intervals computed on the 9,200 do not account for the 800. P-values look strong because the variance in the included data is smaller than the variance in the actual respondent pool. Models trained on the cleaned data fit the cleaned data well and fail in production when they encounter the kind of respondent the cleaning removed. Every machine learning system that classifies people on the basis of survey-derived training data carries this bias forward in ways the system’s documentation almost never describes.

The political consequence is what I think interests the new readers who arrived after the elevator essay. A form that excludes a category of people from the dataset also excludes that category from the policy decisions the dataset informs. A health system that does not record nonbinary patients in a way its analytics engine can read does not know how many nonbinary patients it serves, does not allocate resources to nonbinary patient care, does not train staff to address nonbinary patient needs, and does not appear in funding requests for nonbinary patient programs because the funding agency requires headcount data the EHR cannot produce. The form is upstream of the spreadsheet, the spreadsheet upstream of the budget, the budget upstream of the clinic. By the time the missing patients show up at the front desk, the building has been designed for the patients the form was capable of recording.

A clinic that fixes its form does not solve the problem because the EHR vendor downstream still has a two-value field. Fixing the EHR fails because the state public health reporting system still requires data in the older format. Fixing the state system fails because the federal CDC reporting standard underneath still uses the binary. The categorization is layered. Each layer has a defensible local reason for the binary it inherited. The cumulative effect is a healthcare system that cannot count its actual patient population, and a healthcare system that cannot count cannot fund, and a healthcare system that cannot fund cannot serve. The form on the clipboard at the front desk is the bottom button of a fifteen-story panel where every button on every floor is wired to the same controller, and the controller only stops the elevator on floors the original engineer drew on the original blueprint.

The fix has the same structure as the placebo button fix. Recognize which boxes work and which do not. Refuse to mistake compliance for collection. Push for upstream rewiring of forms before adding more “other” lines downstream. Demand that aggregate reports publish the count of excluded responses in the same table as the included ones, with the same prominence, in the same font. Refuse to treat a survey that loses 8 percent of its respondents as a survey of the population it sampled. Insist on the difference between a question that asks and a question that classifies, and refuse to fill out the second one as if it were the first.

The form is not neutral. It encodes what its designers were willing to recognize, and it discards what its designers were not willing to recognize, and the discard happens silently in the data pipeline rather than visibly at the front desk. A patient who writes a third answer in the margin is doing the work the form refused to do. An aggregate report that publishes 9,200 clean responses hides 800 acts of refusal by people who would not lie to the clipboard. Counting is the claim. Selection is the politics. That politics rides downstream into every room the dataset enters, every dollar the budget allocates, every protocol the staff is trained on, and every body the building was built to serve.

The Box You Cannot Check

The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word “sex.” A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box and lie, write something in the margin, or refuse the form. The receptionist will not read the margin. Data entry clerks will not transcribe it. EHR systems will not store anything outside the two values the form lists. The patient walks out of the clinic with a treatment plan based on a box that does not correspond to their body, their history, or their current endocrine state. The form has done its job, which is not the job it claimed to do.

The form claims to collect information. Its actual function is categorization. Information collection would mean recording what the patient told the clinic. Categorization means sorting the patient into one of the boxes the system already had, regardless of whether the patient fits. These are different operations. The form does the second while presenting itself as doing the first.

I focus on the sex/gender field because it is currently the most visible example of the categorization failure, but the pattern is general. Race fields on most forms still offer five or six options plus an “other” line that researchers routinely discard in aggregate analysis because “other” cannot be merged with the named categories without distorting the comparison the categories were built to support. Ethnicity fields on US forms famously split Hispanic into its own question while leaving Middle Eastern and North African respondents to choose between “White,” “Asian,” and “Other,” none of which describes them. The Census Bureau plans to add a MENA category in 2030, decades after the gap was identified. Respondents could check multiple race boxes for the first time in 2000, which was a real improvement on prior forms. The same census kept the sex question as a binary male/female, the way every US Census has since 1790, on the grounds that adding a third option would compromise the time series.

The time series argument is worth examining because it surfaces what is actually happening. A research instrument that has measured a binary for 230 years has produced 230 years of data that reads the population as binary. Adding a third or fourth or fifth option in 2030 would mean that comparisons between 2020 and 2030 require methodological accommodation. That accommodation is doable, well-documented in survey methodology, and routine when other categories shift. Choosing not to make the accommodation keeps the data legible to historians of a category system that is no longer the category system in use. The form preserves the past at the cost of misrepresenting the present.

What happens to the data after the form is the harder problem. A survey of 10,000 people that includes 9,200 binary-box-checkers, 600 “other” or write-in responses, and 200 refusals will, in most aggregate reports, appear as a clean 9,200-person dataset. The 600 “other” responses get coded as missing, recoded into the binary categories by an analyst making a judgment call, or dropped entirely under a methodology footnote that says “respondents who declined to specify were excluded from analysis.” Another 200 refusals disappear under one of those clauses. A final published table reads as if 9,200 people answered the question cleanly, when in fact 10,000 people interacted with the question and 800 of them produced data the analyst could not use.

The aggregate therefore summarizes only the inputs that fit the categories already chosen. This is the gap between what the form does and what the form claims to do. The form does classification work while presenting itself as a question. Its classification system was built before the form was printed, and respondents who do not fit that classification are removed from the dataset the form generates. The dataset reads as comprehensive because the cleaning happened before anyone with access to the aggregate could see what was removed.

The mathematical consequence of this should bother statisticians more than it currently does. A dataset that excludes 8 percent of respondents on the grounds that their responses were illegible has an 8 percent selection bias that propagates into every downstream analysis. Confidence intervals computed on the 9,200 do not account for the 800. P-values look strong because the variance in the included data is smaller than the variance in the actual respondent pool. Models trained on the cleaned data fit the cleaned data well and fail in production when they encounter the kind of respondent the cleaning removed. Every machine learning system that classifies people on the basis of survey-derived training data carries this bias forward in ways the system’s documentation almost never describes.

The political consequence is what I think interests the new readers who arrived after the elevator essay. A form that excludes a category of people from the dataset also excludes that category from the policy decisions the dataset informs. A health system that does not record nonbinary patients in a way its analytics engine can read does not know how many nonbinary patients it serves, does not allocate resources to nonbinary patient care, does not train staff to address nonbinary patient needs, and does not appear in funding requests for nonbinary patient programs because the funding agency requires headcount data the EHR cannot produce. The form is upstream of the spreadsheet, the spreadsheet upstream of the budget, the budget upstream of the clinic. By the time the missing patients show up at the front desk, the building has been designed for the patients the form was capable of recording.

A clinic that fixes its form does not solve the problem because the EHR vendor downstream still has a two-value field. Fixing the EHR fails because the state public health reporting system still requires data in the older format. Fixing the state system fails because the federal CDC reporting standard underneath still uses the binary. The categorization is layered. Each layer has a defensible local reason for the binary it inherited. The cumulative effect is a healthcare system that cannot count its actual patient population, and a healthcare system that cannot count cannot fund, and a healthcare system that cannot fund cannot serve. The form on the clipboard at the front desk is the bottom button of a fifteen-story panel where every button on every floor is wired to the same controller, and the controller only stops the elevator on floors the original engineer drew on the original blueprint.

The fix has the same structure as the placebo button fix. Recognize which boxes work and which do not. Refuse to mistake compliance for collection. Push for upstream rewiring of forms before adding more “other” lines downstream. Demand that aggregate reports publish the count of excluded responses in the same table as the included ones, with the same prominence, in the same font. Refuse to treat a survey that loses 8 percent of its respondents as a survey of the population it sampled. Insist on the difference between a question that asks and a question that classifies, and refuse to fill out the second one as if it were the first.

The form is not neutral. It encodes what its designers were willing to recognize, and it discards what its designers were not willing to recognize, and the discard happens silently in the data pipeline rather than visibly at the front desk. A patient who writes a third answer in the margin is doing the work the form refused to do. An aggregate report that publishes 9,200 clean responses hides 800 acts of refusal by people who would not lie to the clipboard. Counting is the claim. Selection is the politics. That politics rides downstream into every room the dataset enters, every dollar the budget allocates, every protocol the staff is trained on, and every body the building was built to serve.

Missing [Survey, etc] Data Can Be A Geographic Phenomenon
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https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2026.2640220 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #mapping #spatial #DataScience #missing #data #spatial #AAG #autocorrelation #geographicallyweightedregression #GWR #imputation #missingdata #survey #surveynonresponse #incomplete #surveyquestions #ethnicity #income #spatialdata #alldataisspatial #UK #FinancialLives #geography #spatialanalysis #geostatistics #location #imputing #statistics #dataset #DataImputation #MissingData #DataCleaning #DataPreprocessing #DataWrangling #DataQuality #DataEngineering #FinancialData #FinancialAnalytics #FinincialModeling #FinDataScience

Missing [Survey, etc] Data Can Be A Geographic Phenomenon
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https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2026.2640220 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #mapping #spatial #DataScience #missing #data #spatial #AAG #autocorrelation #geographicallyweightedregression #GWR #imputation #missingdata #survey #surveynonresponse #incomplete #surveyquestions #ethnicity #income #spatialdata #alldataisspatial #UK #FinancialLives #geography #spatialanalysis #geostatistics #location #imputing #statistics #dataset #DataImputation #MissingData #DataCleaning #DataPreprocessing #DataWrangling #DataQuality #DataEngineering #FinancialData #FinancialAnalytics #FinincialModeling #FinDataScience

The Voting Rights Act was established to protect the rights of Black, Latino, Asian, Arab, and all minority voters. Its purpose was to ensure that every American has equal access to the ballot, regardless of race, ethnicity, or background.

Unfortunately, some in the conservative movement have

#VotingRights #SupremeCourt #Democracy #Ethnicity

The Voting Rights Act was established to protect the rights of Black, Latino, Asian, Arab, and all minority voters. Its purpose was to ensure that every American has equal access to the ballot, regardless of race, ethnicity, or background.

Unfortunately, some in the conservative movement have

#VotingRights #SupremeCourt #Democracy #Ethnicity

Tantra Sadhana does not discriminate based on gender and ethnicity
#Sadhana
#Tantra
#Devi
#Connection
#innerpeace
#Ethnicity
#Puja
#Devotion
#bhakti
#grace
#divine

“It has been calculated that the area of tartan cloth made each year is sufficient to cover Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to a depth of six hundred feet, an event which you could be forgiven for thinking has already happened”

—“Tartan Nation: ethnicity & Scotland”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/11/editorial-tartan-nation-ethnicity-and-scotland/

#Scottish #literature #culture #history #tartan #TartanDay #ethnicity

“It has been calculated that the area of tartan cloth made each year is sufficient to cover Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to a depth of six hundred feet, an event which you could be forgiven for thinking has already happened”

—“Tartan Nation: ethnicity & Scotland”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/11/editorial-tartan-nation-ethnicity-and-scotland/

#Scottish #literature #culture #history #tartan #TartanDay #ethnicity

“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News

[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]

The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners

- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s

Israel runs an #Apartheid system

When most people think of Apartheid ...

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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News

[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]

The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners

- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s

Israel runs an #Apartheid system

When most people think of Apartheid ...

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“you can be a citizen of #Israel but be a #Druze national, or a Jewish national. Your nationality is determined by your #ethnicity and it cannot be changed or challenged. Many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your #citizenship …. This is not merely #discrimination in practice, but discrimination by #law. Adalah have composed a database of discriminatory laws in Israel that disfavor non-Jewish Israelis. For example, the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law are but two examples of flagrant #racism and discrimination”
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-is-a-democracy/

“you can be a citizen of #Israel but be a #Druze national, or a Jewish national. Your nationality is determined by your #ethnicity and it cannot be changed or challenged. Many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your #citizenship …. This is not merely #discrimination in practice, but discrimination by #law. Adalah have composed a database of discriminatory laws in Israel that disfavor non-Jewish Israelis. For example, the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law are but two examples of flagrant #racism and discrimination”
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-is-a-democracy/

The effect of #diversity on scientific impact, as reflected in citations, can be studies by looking at the effect of #ethnicity, #discipline, #gender, affiliation, and academic age on citation numbers.

Of the classes considered, ethnic diversity had the strongest correlation with scientific impact.

Papers authored by ethnically diverse teams receive more citations than those by homogeneous teams. Ethnic diversity can enhance a paper’s impact by 10.63% and a scientist’s impact by 47.67%.

While ethnic diversity stands out, other forms of diversity such as discipline and affiliation also contribute to research impact but to a lesser extent.

This indicates that while #interdisciplinary work is beneficial, the diverse perspectives brought by ethnic diversity are paramount.

#science
https://ima.org.uk/24408/the-positive-impact-of-ethnicity-on-scientific-collaboration/

Paper by AlShebli et al. (2018):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07634-8

#Ancestry has a table with really cool high quality #stickers. Germany, England, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, were grabbed up extremely quick. Possibly an indication of attendees that have ancestors from those areas.

#RootsTech2026 #Genealogy #ethnicity #RootsTech

Dawn at the Cattle Camp by Roberto Pazzi

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxizvoJhCu00

#sitting #bottle #sunrise #cattle #camp #mundari #smoke #africa #south #sudan #men #people #portrait #culture #day #two #full #length #sun #looking #camera #african #ethnicity #outdoors #cows #bull #tribal #village #horn #sony

The U.S. aims to process 4,500 refugee applications from white South Africans per month and is installing trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to support the effort, a U.S. contracting document said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/28/world/us-white-south-africans-refugees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #southafrica #ethnicity #donaldtrump #refugees