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- Nov 2024
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Itdisappears them into jails and prisons, effectively erasing them: Theincarcerated are simply not counted in most national surveys, resulting in afalsely rosy statistical picture of American progress. Poverty measuresexclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych
wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.
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- May 2024
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www.swintec.com www.swintec.com
- Jan 2024
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writingslowly.com writingslowly.com
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The Dewey Decimal System pigeonholes all knowledge, like cells in a prison.
This analogy is kind of hilarious from the perspective of Luhmann's Zettelkasten.
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- Aug 2023
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www.lesswrong.com www.lesswrong.com
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When I was learning to write in my teens, it seemed to me that paper was a prison. Four walls, right? And the ideas were constantly trying to escape. What is a parenthesis but an idea trying to escape? What is a footnote but an idea that tried -- that jumped off the cliff? Because paper enforces single sequence -- and there’s no room for digression -- it imposes a particular kind of order in the very nature of the structure.-- Ted Nelson, demonstration of Xanadu space
quote ostensibly from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA
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- Jul 2015
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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The biggest beneficiaries of private prisons’ political donations have been Republican politicians in Florida, Tennessee, and border states with high populations of undocumented immigrants.
surprise, surprise
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Instead, private prison contracts often require the government to keep the correctional facilities and immigration detention centers full, forcing communities to continuously funnel people into the prison system, even if actual crime rates are falling
WTF WHY DO WE HAVE QUOTAS FOR OUR PRISONS?!
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- Oct 2013
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www.nybooks.com www.nybooks.com
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Victimization in Prisons a
This importance of the work of this organizations can hardly be understated.
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