Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist)

Oh I remember that show!

The greatest problem we have is the inability to think about the world unobstructed by our own thoughts.

Strange world we are in now.

Maybe soon we'll be demanding that all major league baseball players speak English as a condition of employment by the league.

"Well ma'am I found a good way to test these cantaloupes...see you tap it lightly with the tip of your gun barrel like so..."

"Oh that's a good idea let me..."

"No, no you can't use that Ruger. You need a glock."

Modern liberals are usually right on the big moral issues in the end.

Not because they are inherently more moral or intelligent - but because to extend your empathy, you need to have an awareness of other groups and their history.

Liberals are more educated and live in more diverse spaces.

An amazing slide!

A pirate would think this is a doubloon just dug up from Peg Leg's buried treasure, and not a (ahem) fresh Tony's Chocolonely mini.

Not a big fan of peer reviewed publications being the way to evaluate academic output. Yes, it's by design a slow and exclusionary practice.

But I wrote these lines in a still unpublished piece in late 2023. It might eventually get published a this career stage I'd rather just write for the public.

I can really add to my "kooky" cred if the next time a student comes into my office, I challenge them to a game ancient humans used to play called Atari.

When you burrow down an algorithmic rabbit hole deep enough...you will find unexpected things.

Having a hard time reconciling Willie Nelson with Kermit the Frog.

It’s useful to think of Christian Nationalism as a subculture like any other, with one important difference. THIS subculture thinks of itself as the default “normal” culture of “real Americans,” but which is also under siege by “the dominant culture.”

Why burnout is a growing problem in cybersecurity Facing increasing stress, cybersecurity professionals are dropping out of the workforce.

Good article about one of the many ways in the failure of governments to effectively address cyber crime is negatively affecting the health of humans beings.

I mean if the government is shut down do the ICE agents go away for a while?

It just occurred to me that allowing glasses in baseball is analogous to performance enhancing drugs.

I suspect this analogy can be applied to many artificial mechanisms athletes use to enhance their performance.

Yeah this "they" stuff - unfortunately coming from most people who have made their politics their identity - is always troubling.

It is a classic red flag for people who are on the route to dehumanizing a group of people.

This kind of talk reminds me of a grandma watching the 6 o'clock news and sipping sweet tea.

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In reality - what I think of as sociological reality - groups are not unique, but are reflections of unique conditions.

Despite what comes from the White House, we all know more violence is found in right wing circles.

But it is social conditions that powers the greater level of violence.

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Yes someone's political ideology can play into their actions.

But we must be careful to not infuse some kind of "MAGA essence" into people who support Trump that drives their behavior.

This is what folks have done to Jews, racial minorities, and queer persons throughout history.

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Yes, there is a political and moral reason for why I stand with Dowd.

But these links are intuitively, theoretically, and historically valid - irrespective of party ideology.

It is why social scientists need to have room to study phenomena like #hatespeech, #stochasticterrorism, and more.

There is the "Our Finest Hour" speech, the "I have a Dream" speech, the "Tear Down this Wall" speech, and now we were gifted with the "Your Countries are Going to Hell" speech.

It is hard for people to realize that the influencers they love - the ones who generate feelings of hate in them towards others - are doing the same thing.

I want students to pay attention so they can learn something, they want you to pay attention so they can earn something.

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This is what my screen looks like right now as I edit my lecture (removing dead spaces, tangents, adding in asides).

I am literally constructing a new reality - one that suits my best interest.

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It makes me question how much control the average everyday citizen has in whatever prejudices they come to possess.

I mean without countervailing information, your reality *is* that trans persons are sick criminogenic people.

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Reality is constructed byte by byte.

If your Facebook feed is of a certain type then you will see something like this almost everyday, and then your favorite influencer explains to you the evils of "those" trans people, then you will come to be a transphobe.

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Folks jumped on Klein.

Can't help but think his thought processes were informed by the fact that, like Kirk, he is a public talker even if nowhere near as inflammatory or disingenuous.

We need to always think about the underlying emotions powering our thoughts.

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

Donald Trump wants the government to decide what you can and can't watch on TV.

This should alarm you—no matter how you feel about Trump, no matter how you feel about Jimmy Kimmel.

Here's what’s at stake 🧵⬇️

There is no way these cooks are always finishing with one or two seconds left on the clock in these cooking shows.