Connecting Thoughts
David ShanePhysicist, Christian, and sometimes writer, shares his thoughts on many things, especially connecting one idea to another. Also follow @david_shane on X.
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The death penalty (or lack) as a teacher
This post is one more follow-up piece to “Not every police use of force is an injustice” and “Follow up on East Lansing police involved shooting”. It’s worth saying that I received some criticism for the latter post that went something like...
Follow-up on East Lansing police involved shooting
About a month ago I wrote the post, “Not every police use of force is an injustice”. That article was about the reaction to a, fortunately quite rare, use of lethal force by the police in East Lansing. I described the event in that post as...
Democracy, Trust, Money, and the value of Human Life
Some of these notes will be more relevant to people interested in bitcoin, but I’ll start with the more general stuff. I am presently in Las Vegas for Bitcoin 2026, hello.
Good conference so far, and let me get straight to stuff I found in...
Not every police use of force is an "injustice"
To start with a happy note, last Wednesday evening my cohort had our last “Citizens’ Police Academy” class in East Lansing. I found the whole class experience quite informative, and recommend it if your jurisdiction has such a class.
But o...
Reading ability, blank slatism, homelessness, and who our society works for
I commented a couple of weeks ago that I had concluded that practical illiteracy is actually much higher in the US population than is officially acknowledged. The comment was immediately prompted by the daughter and I having dinner at Chipo...
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