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Mass incarceration in the US

samedi 29 août 2015 à 02:00

Senator Cory Booker about how to reduce mass incarceration in the US.

Many poor Americans spend are in jail because they can't pay fines. Ferguson and many other US cities have set up this system to extract money from the poor because the rich have imposed Republican governments (often by cheating — gerrymandering or blocking Democrats from voting) and thus cut the taxes that fall on them.

Taxing the rich and businesses more will thus help reduce mass incarceration.

Volunteer

samedi 29 août 2015 à 02:00

I am looking for people to write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.

People's metadata traded for spy software

vendredi 28 août 2015 à 02:00

Germany Trades Citizens' Metadata for NSA's Top Spy Software.

The "women" in Ashley Madison data dump

vendredi 28 août 2015 à 02:00

Of the 5-6 million "women" in the Ashley Madison data dump, less than 10,000 actually used the site to talk with anyone. Essentially men paid the site for an imaginary opportunity.

It follows that hardly any of the male users ever arranged an affair through the site. (The few that did, probably found a prostitute rather than a real affair.)

Moreover, the site was set up so strongly to bring in men that it almost impeded real women from making accounts.

Financial companies prey on poor blacks

vendredi 28 août 2015 à 02:00

Financial companies prey on poor US blacks, offering them a small lump sum instead of the compensation they are due, over a period of years, for having been brain damaged by lead paint.