Middle aged white guy in shorts, baseball hat, neck scarf, long sleeve t- shirt, and HOT pink compression socks runs slowly on a sandy road. Other runners who look healthier and happier have been cropped from the photo. Just the sole Runner remains as a warning to others. Oh. His shirt reads "Rocky 50". It's a race in Texas. He only wears his Rocky 50 shirt for special occasions.

I am here to report that the Race to Robie Creek is, indeed, no friggin joke. Also happy to say it was fun. Five stars.

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

4. This AI slop-factory-output is easy to detect this year. In a few years we are going to be overwhelmed with AI slop bullshit, but it will be difficult to detect. It will be a tsunami of fabricated crap, increasingly more difficult to distinguish from the good, honest research. SMH.

3. But none of the references hit in google.scholar. I checked 10 of them; all were fabricated. Mash-ups of authors, with word salads drawn from real publications, stapled to a real journal. But all fictitious. The best one? "T.O. Decker" who I presume is Scott Decker's little known brother?

2. That IRB statement? "This study was approved under IRB 2023-11225." So my spidey sense was already on full-tingle. And then I got to the reference section. Of the 50+ references, ALL of them were published in 2023 or 2024. ALL. OF. THEM. The authors you'd expect were cited. The title looked legit

1. Just reviewed a manuscript for a CJ journal that was, I am 99% certain, AI generated. The writing was grammatically correct yet clunky and awk. IRB state assurance was wedged into the data analysis section. Bold statements "no study has ever done the thing..." yet vague on details.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I saw somewhere that DC has now gone a week without a homicide which, for context, is the 7th time DC has gone 7+ days without a homicide so far this year (longest stretch was 17 days).

Photo of a small window of an interior door of building. Visible through window is a mannequin, lying face down on a table, unclothed.

Some days are wonderful. Other days make me wonder. Sighted on campus.

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I will share this with my incoming cohort of grad students in August, as part of our discussion of stress and wellbeing.

Here to amplify the Addies and Goldies recs.

Explaining the COVID Violence Spike and the Roaring Crime Decline Four Reasons for the Historic Beginning to the 2020s

Crime in America spiked with the COVID-19 pandemic, then plummeted. Here are four reasons why. open.substack.com/pub/johnkrom...

Yes. That's the exact one.

I recall that a Boston patrol cop's work diary from the 1800s was found (hidden is a wall, methinks) and later published. I saw a citation to it somewhere, but the details escape me. Not sure this counts as a memoir. I will dig around my office today.

The African American History museum is incredible. I highly recommend anyone go see it. It’s a powerful look at the history of a group of people that have a large and often overlooked, and hidden impact on American history.

That's Entertainment. Heh heh.

Five piece rock band, Lunar Vacation, bathed in purple and blue stage lights, playing at the Shrine Ballroom in Boise, March 30, 2025.

Selfie of two people, bathed in red light, smiling at the camera. Shrine Hall 1st floor bar, March 30, 2025. Lblogic.

Treefort Musicfest was outstanding this year! Excellent bands, good food, a frickin' giant lit mammoth, chill crowds, and great people watching. Two high points were seeing Fleeting Confidence (a hot trio), and one of my favs, Lunar Vacation.

Illuminating thread on women's involvement in early prevocational English policing. Yes, a woman served as a Shire Reeve (sheriff).

Everyday is Like Sunday, by the Pretenders .

It's good to see NIBIN and Pete Gagliardi's influence in action. The last 12 years have seen ATF invest heavily in making NIBIN a key investigative tool for local agencies. Crucial work that has remained invisible to the public.

A mix of both please. Skeets about music, pets, hobbies, daily wins, kids, travel, etc. AND skeets about the dark shadow of authoritarianism.

Picture of a handsome middle aged man looks at camera. Behind him, someone in a crowd holds a sign that reads "No King." In the background, the dome of the Idaho State House. The humor is implied bc the man facing the camera is named (wait for it). King.

Attended the rally at the Idaho State House this morning. Great energy, great speakers, and the best signs. Hafta admit, this sign had me feeling a little triggered until @lblogic.bsky.social explained it wasn't referring to me. Phew.

Selfie of a middle aged stud. Outside, with the foothills of Boise in the background. Sunlight shines on his smiling face and his ball cap is slightly crooked. This is someone who cares not for fashion. Slight oakey overtone of danger...maybe.

I am back. Running. Finally recovered to the point of regular, semi-long runs.

For a little additional context, there are almost 18,000 separate police agencies in the US. About 3,300 County sheriffs offices. And city/town police agencies, and transit/airport/housing/parks (etc). Fragmented and locally controlled

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I have a piece half-done on the entire world of indirect costs. It's too big an endeavor to finish now, in the middle of the night, when this problem *that was always a live grenade with a half-pulled pin* is suddenly a topic du jour. Shit of a thing.

Here are some highlights.

Happy Black History month!!

Federal District Judge Loren L. AliKhan issues a temporary administrative stay on the "pause on disbursement of federal funds on all open awards" until Monday, Feb. 3 at 5 pm

She says this administrative stay applies "just those grants that are open and affected by OMB’s order."

Whoops. Ends up it was Mankato State.