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Inside: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/19/martha-wright-reed/

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A black-and-white photo of a late 19th century French prison; prisoners crowd against the bars in the background while a guard stands in front of the cell, holding a rifle with a fixed bayonet. The guard's has been tinted purple and head has been replaced with the glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A mountain of jumbled, bundled US$100s crowd the bottom of the image. An ATM is superimposed on the bars.

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A black-and-white photo of a late 19th century French prison; prisoners crowd against the bars in the background while a guard stands in front of the cell, holding a rifle with a fixed bayonet. The guard's has been tinted purple and head has been replaced with the glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A mountain of jumbled, bundled US$100s crowd the bottom of the image. An ATM is superimposed on the bars. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- kgbo (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suncorp_Bank_ATM.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Hey look at this

* Common Ownership and Hedge Fund Activism: An Unholy Alliance? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/07/08/common-ownership-and-hedge-fund-activism-an-unholy-alliance/ (h/t Nick Burch)

* What should have been said after the Trump shooting https://the.ink/p/you-should-say-true-things

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#5yrsago Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/18/ruins-notre-dame-billionaires-french-philanthropy

#5yrsago After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/19/london-officials-ban-segregated-play-areas-in-future-housing-developments

#5yrsago Using university syllabi to map the connections between every scholarly and scientific discipline https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org

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#5yrsago Small town, independent and municipally owned ISPs offer America’s best connectivity https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xgne9/locally-run-isps-offer-the-fastest-broadband-in-america

#5yrsago Vast majority of porn sites use Google Analytics and Facebook embeds that track you, even in incognito mode https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06520

#5yrsago Stephen Fry explains the vast superiority of UK healthcare to America’s omnishambles, which Brexiteers hope to import https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSL3z55cT_c

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