RobnHood [she/her]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I don’t know if anyone else here has posted about this yet, but in more ‘pulling the copper wiring out of the wall’ news, the Boer has decided to take down several important data from the CDC and Census websites. These include, but are not limited to, data from CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). This data is very important for a lot of research and long term planning. I was still able to access CDC PLACES data by using a direct link to the download page, so it is not yet entirely gone. It seams from this article that CDC employees think that the data will eventually return, after it has been altered to become ‘politically correct’, but I think it would be best to expect them to never return. Much of the data is also still available from 3rd party data conglomeration, although at an extremely high cost for personal use.



  • Up until the last season, the NCAA did not allow helmet communication, so they had to use signs that had symbols which indicated what play the coaches wanted the players to run. ‘Decoding’ these during the game is not illegal, but a u of m coach was caught sneaking around and recording signs and their associated plays which is very much not allowed. This allowed them to run the exact right play to counter whatever the other team was doing, which ultimately led to them being able to win an (undisputed) national championship for the first time post integration. There are many other wild and crazy things that are a part of this scandal, if you want to learn more, simply look up “Michigan sign stealing.”