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In a murmuration, each bird sees, on average, the seven birds nearest it and adjusts its own behavior in response. If its nearest neighbors move left, the bird usually moves left. If they move right, the bird usually moves right. The bird does not know the flock’s ultimate destination and can make no radical change to the whole. But each of these birds’ small alterations, when occurring in rapid sequence, shift the course of the whole, creating mesmerizing patterns.
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Renée DiResta
I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.
After a series of police shootings of black citizens along Fourteenth Street during summer 1968, the Black United Front held neighborhood hearings on police behavior from which emerged a list of thirteen demands for “community control” of the police department. “We have always had community control [of police],” Ruth Bates Harris observed wryly. “The problem is that it has been white community control.”
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