Offbeat Humor

.@judgeglock living up to Betteridge's law. pic.twitter.com/1Gh0935d14

— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) September 4, 2025

 

Data Talks

Middle and high-income people are over 3 TIMES as responsive to cash as low-income people are. A benefit worth 4% of a middle/high-income person's income should yield a ~2% fertility increase, whereas for low-income people it would yield a 0.6% increase. pic.twitter.com/ASu3cla750

— Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 (@lymanstoneky) September 5, 2025

 

2nd-generation Black workers have earnings higher than or equal to White women

From How Immigration is Changing the Black-White Earnings Gap by Tyler Cowen.  From the original research paper by Rong Fu, Neeraj Kaushal, and Felix Muchomba.

We provide new evidence on earnings gaps between non-Hispanic White and three generations of Black workers in the United States during 1995-2024, using nationally representative data. Results reveal remarkable earnings advances among 2nd-generation Black immigrants, opposite to the well-documented widening in overall Black-White earnings gap. Among women, 2nd-generation Black workers have earnings higher than or equal to White women; among men, they earn 10% less at the median, but the gap vanishes at the top decile. The gap for 1st-generation Black men is shrinking, halving at the top decile; for 1st-generation Black women it shows initial widening then shrinking at the median. The native Black-White gap remains stubbornly high. Educational attainment largely drives 2nd-generation success, while residential patterns play a protective role for the 1st and 2nd generations. These findings provide critical data to set the record straight on the accomplishments of the highly successful and rising demography of Black immigrants and their US-born children.

Thomas Sowell covered this some thirty or more years ago but an interesting data point in the ongoing argument whether outcomes are determined by systemic racism or by cultural values and behaviors.

Room with a Terrace, 2019 by Dariusz Grabuś

Room with a Terrace, 2019 by Dariusz Grabuś (Poland, 1973 - ) 

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History

🥥A relic of piracy’s golden age, discover Captain Ogle’s Cup, a coconut shell mounted in silver, linking pirate hunter Chaloner Ogle to the infamous pirate ‘Black Bart’. pic.twitter.com/1PQsFbHbIU

— Royal Museums Greenwich (@RMGreenwich) September 5, 2025

 

An Insight

We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands. pic.twitter.com/RSZ1d3W642

— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) March 5, 2021

 

I see wonderful things

Drain-pipe at Château de Pierrefonds, France 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/a9h1Uuzri9

— Bluebell Raven (@BluebellRaven) September 26, 2025

 

Offbeat humor

Good morning 😊 pic.twitter.com/gkDnit0Obx

— Schadenfreudelish (@aggierican) September 3, 2025

 

Data Talks

"Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981 [ ... when the U.S. had 100 million fewer people] after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years." pic.twitter.com/yevkLPqdJj

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) September 3, 2025

 

Blinds, 2018 by Henni Alftan

Blinds, 2018 by Henni Alftan (Finland, 1979 - ) 

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