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Cobb
LOS ANGELES, CA
Combat Epistemologist
Interests: literature, bourbon, vintage electronics, big data, hapkido, game theory, theology, political & analytic philosophy, computer augmented decision support, spycraft, creole cuisine, asian jazz fusion, bbq, electronica, historical fiction, beef cattle, fast cars, and anything that fits into a 19 inch rack.
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It Begins Again
Ah. So many changes, so little time. I think that when I look at all of the things I've learned about myself and technology over my career it is that there are two things I love the most. The first... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2023 at Cubegeek
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I'm swinging this back to the future with some new stuff I've been writing. https://mdcbowen.substack.com/p/all-us-so-called-blacks-part-two
Here's some other stuff I recall. That round restaurant over behind Hamburger City on Hillcrest. The Schwinn store. I got all my skateboard parts over there. Founders Savings. Maranatha. Conroy's Flowers over on Crenshaw & Rodeo, now called Obama, right? They tore down Pioneer Chicken over there. If I find some more pictures around that place I'll post links here.
Holiday Bowl
I have discovered a history project about the Holiday Bowl. I've got to tell you that I'm going to have to make myself known to these people because Holiday Bowl was a very important part of who I am. Well, it seems like that today because I was going down memory lane and writing about the time i...
Boxtag 060 - Lurkers, Scribbling & Proxy
There are three edge cases to end of life exits of a named member on Boxtag. The first is lurking. A member may choose to go dark or participate at a low level with a limited number of weigh-ins on... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2021 at Cubegeek
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Boxtag Idea #059 - Highlights
Hat tip to Alok on this piece. This feature is all about parsing through the text of a comment or an OP that allows a critic / commenter to be more specific about his votes in the Boxtag. It should... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2021 at Cubegeek
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Boxtag Idea #058 - The Greylist
I just attended the Bellingcat / Persuasion / RDI webcast and a perfect extension to Boxtag occurred to me. Right now I'll call it the greylist. There's a battle against ad spam and spam in general. But right now the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2021 at Cubegeek
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Boxtag Idea #057
These days I am doing double duty, reaching out to individuals through Clubhouse and Lunchclub to extend my reach surrounding the subjects of the Logos Project as well as my daily duties for Full 360. I have been pleased with... Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2021 at Cubegeek
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Revival
It has been a while. I will update Cubegeek as I continue doing mealy-mouthed development and discoveries like those reaction videos. Ooh look what's so cool about the Rust compiler. So anyway. This is newly dedicated to the people I... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2021 at Cubegeek
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I'm not closing myself, I'm simply moving to a location where I can eventually charge admission. Pretty sure that's going to be mdcbowen.substack.com.
Cobb Is Closed
Find me archived here (of course) but with new stuff at Substack.
Cobb Is Closed
Posted Jul 2, 2020 at Cobb
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Now That We've Come to the End of the Road
Seventeen years of freedom. That's what I've put in here. I love you all, but I've got to go. Not going far though. Just to a platform that is going to get me some scratch. I calculate that I've put... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2020 at Cobb
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Black Lives Denied
Posted Jun 28, 2020 at Cobb
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I forgot to mention David Roediger.
Obligatory Seriousness on Whiteness
Whiteness is a racial construct invented by post-modernists who think that identity is more powerful than action because identity directs action. In other words, in their world view they see people as doing something in fulfillment of who they think they are. "I am white therefore I must.." I...
Black Film: A Thumbnail Review
Posted Jun 22, 2020 at Cobb
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My Father's Superpower
Posted Jun 20, 2020 at Cobb
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Sister Night: Forgotten
Posted Jun 19, 2020 at Cobb
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I'm going to include some links here to Roland Freyer's research.
First here is Heather Mac Donald, who generally speaks for me.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAbXLTDfyANGk7-ZekjtGfKo8wHAwsq6N-o
Here is Fryers' paper:
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAZcEgkdeTRA44KHPTXR_WuaZsFps9NkElA
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Di↵erences in Police Use of Force⇤ Roland G. Fryer, Jr.†
July 2017
Abstract
This paper explores racial di↵erences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces, but cannot fully explain, these disparities. On the most extreme use of force – o cer-involved shootings – we find no racial di↵erences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police o cers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of o cer-involved shootings.
You People Don't Count
Somebody asked: What does it say about America when African-American parents in 2014 need to tell their boys how to respond to police when out and about in order to come home safe and alive? And so I said: It says that people in the press and chattering classes online have hyped up more polit...
Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate it. I think I remember that song by Jiminy Cricket. I'm no fool, nosiree, I'm gonna live to 103. I hope you do.
On The Edge of the 60s
Today is my birthday. I was born in 1961, on the edge of the 60s that dramatic moment in American history. They say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Can you hear it? When I remember being a kid and my father told me that they shot black people I told him that we should go to ...
Fame Inversion Theory
Posted Jun 5, 2020 at Cobb
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On The Edge of the 60s
Posted Jun 3, 2020 at Cobb
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The Books That Made Me
Posted Jun 1, 2020 at Cobb
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Insolubilous
Posted Jun 1, 2020 at Cobb
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Passion Without Purpose
Posted May 28, 2020 at Cobb
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Stand and Deliver
Posted May 26, 2020 at Cobb
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How to Hide 1Kg of Diamonds
Posted May 23, 2020 at Cobb
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Atomic Integrity
Posted May 16, 2020 at Cobb
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