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Black Kos Tuesday: Tapped [1]
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Date: 2025-04-29
Tapped
by Chitown Kev
I haven’t the slightest idea what I’m about to write.
1) I seem to have trouble forgetting who the first pick in the 2025 NFL Draft was. Yes, I am commenting on one of the stories listed below in dopper’s news roundup.
2) Since I like to browse over to...not simply the science blogs but, more specifically, to the mathematics blogs from time to time, learning about Tai-Danae Bradley was a special treat this past week.
Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw her math courses as a curricular hurdle that only geniuses could really excel in. “I’d have rather had all my teeth pulled than do it for a living,” she said. But in her sophomore year, her calculus professor changed her mind. Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in the textbooks,” she said. “It’s a really delightful world that we live in, and mathematics is a way to see some of that.” She quit the basketball team and decided to double-major in math and physics. Now, as a researcher at the artificial intelligence company SandboxAQ, and a visiting professor at the Master’s University in California, Bradley is using the language of math to try to better understand language itself. Her lens is category theory, a way of stepping back from the specifics of any individual field in favor of a broader underlying framework that bridges all of them. By thinking of language as a mathematical category, she’s been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights.
Ms. Bradley works with “tensor networks”, y’all!
Alright...I got nothing this week, tbh. Don’t quite want to declare an open thread here but...I’m tapped.
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News round up by dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
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Sanders was passed over three rounds in the NFL draft in favor of QBs who aren't nearly as good as he is. The Root: Why Shedeur Sanders Getting Chosen For the Fifth Draft Round is Just More NFL Racism at Work
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Shedeur Sanders not getting drafted in the first, second or third rounds of the NFL draft is like when that white cashier scrunches up her face and drops change in your hand instead of running the risk of touching you. Was she a racist Karen, or is that how she treats all customers? It’s a racism Rorschach test.
Sanders, son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, isn’t likely to ever know if he was passed over because he’s a blinged out, cocky, already-rich Black guy white team presidents and owners wanted no part of or because he lacks the prototypical size of an NFL quarterback.
Not knowing ain’t the same as not thinking you know. Everybody this side and the other of Boulder, Colorado, has thoughts on it. So let’s put this thing on trial: Ticked off Black Shedeur Backers v. the NFL.
Deion, for the prosecution: “Your honor, I know you’ve seen my boy ball. Threw for 4,100 yards last season. Thirty-seven touchdowns. Helped a teammate win the Heisman. Should’ve been the first pick of the draft, not just picked in the first round. There are about 20 good quarterbacks in the NFL, which has 32 teams. They’re signing 40-year olds off the couch in that league. Ain’t no way my boy ain’t good enough to get drafted in the first round.” “Let’s not pretend the NFL is above racism. Colin Kaepernick took a team to the Super Bowl one year and, a few seasons later, no team in the league would sign him. All because he took a knee during the national anthem to protest racism.” “Look at the coaches. Can’t field a team up there without brothers, but, somehow, nearly all the coaches and general managers are white. I heard my boy was too arrogant. That wasn’t a problem for Baker Mayfield, who got drafted No. 1 in 2018. I heard my boy is too small. My boy is bigger than Baker Mayfield.”
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Migration from Africa is a mega-trend that transcends today’s populist surge. The Economist: Africans need jobs. The rest of the world needs workers
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Africa is on the move. At least 20m emigrants live outside the continent, a three-fold increase since 1990. That is higher than the number of Indian migrants outside India or Chinese migrants outside China—two big diasporas from countries with populations of similar size to the African continent. Europe accounts for about half of African migrants outside Africa, but its share has steadily declined since 1990. America, China, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have all seen surges in their African-born populations.
It may seem otherworldly to predict that this will continue, given the fierce backlash against immigration across the West. But as we explain, African migration is an unstoppable force that will long outlast today’s populists and help define the 21st century. Ignore it at your peril—and at your loss.
Demography is one cause. It is well known that in the developed world the number of people of working age (roughly defined as those between 15 and 64) will decline, exacerbating labour shortages. What is less widely appreciated is that emerging countries that are associated with exporting people, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are also getting older and richer—meaning that smaller shares of their populations will leave in future. In Africa, by contrast, the working-age population is forecast to increase by around 700m people by 2050.
Another cause is economics. Many African countries are entering a phase in their development in which people are still poor enough to want to leave but, for the first time, have enough money to travel long distances. And African countries create only around a fifth of the number of formal jobs required to absorb their expanding workforces.
This raises two big and controversial questions, one about the consequences for Africa and the other about the attitude of the rest of the world. It is obvious that emigration is often in the interests of those who leave. Their lives can be transformed by earning several times more in richer countries than they would at home. Leaving is often the surest route out of poverty.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will close its civil rights office in June, according to an email sent to staff Monday and viewed by POLITICO.
The office closure is part of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mass reorganization of his department that has seen the agency downsized by roughly 20 percent. Kennedy and President Donald Trump have also focused on programs and agencies they say promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Alaina Jenkins, the office’s deputy director who is filling the vacant director’s role, had no comment when reached by phone Monday morning.
CMS’ Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights develops civil rights compliance policy for CMS workers and advises agency leadership on the promotion of those rights.
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