Although most of the world is enamored with Facebook’s Foursquare killer, the Places system, a more subtle program has launched that causes me a bit more trouble. The new Community pages appear to be auto-generated pages created from scraped content for organizations, contexts and causes.
Why? I don’t know. (more…)
Private Prisons in China, or, when a bureaucracy becomes untenable
Called “black prisons” here, one hears many stories about country folk imprisoned in “off the books” jails. That’s messed up, but this is scarier x 100:
You need to read this RIGHT NOW.
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