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bernie is going to snap on these journalists one day
If you’d rather go to a club than a museum, you deserve to be unhappy.
museum? what the fuck is in a museum? they got bitches in museums? alive bitches?
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last saturday shorts of the decade
Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident
Happy bush shoeing anniversary :-) ❤️🎉
I have had this queued since December 15th.
it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.
oh what a life
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
What if a lactating person is locked in a room with a dog indefinitely? Should they let the dog starve?
Who are you people?!
TLJ summary by me
In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks
The past couple years has seen a rise in prison profiteers who strike deals with state corrections departments to provide “free” tablets to prisoners (these being the flimsiest, cheapest, least reliable hardware imaginable), and then profiting by charging exorbitant sums for prisoners to send emails (selling “digital postage stamps” that have to be affixed to each “page” of email), videoconference with family members, and provide media, charging prisoners for music that they lose every time a prison changes suppliers.
At the same time, these companies lobby prisons to eliminate in-person visits, paper mail, and even libraries in the name of safety, contraband interdiction, and cost-savings. This replaces the prison-administered systems that encourage rehabilitation and smooth re-entry with private systems designed to extract large sums from prisoners’ families. As bad as prison-administered systems are, the private systems can be worse – and when you combine them, you get the worst of both worlds: prisoners who violate the vendors’ terms of service get sent to solitary.
A recent presentation by Katy Ryan from the Appalachian Book Project describes in gruesome detail how this affects in-prison reading. In West Virginia, a company called Global Tel Link has the contract to provide prisoners in ten prisons with “free” tablets, for which they charge $0.05/minute for reading ebooks, primarily drawn from Project Gutenberg, a free online service of volunteer-produced, public domain and CC-licensed ebooks.
Not only does this deprive prisoners of more recent titles, including “how-to guides (carpentry, starting a business, repairing small engines, etc.), contemporary fiction, popular mysteries and sci-fi, African American literature, Native studies, recent autobiographies” – it also makes prison reading fantastically expensive: they estimate that a quick read of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four would clock in at $19.80, while a used paperback would cost the prisoner less than a dollar (and a copy checked out of the prison library would be free).
The prison system receives a 5% kickback on the revenues from this program (GTL also charges prisoners $0.25/min for videoconferencing, $0.25/message for IM, and $0.50 for every photo and $1.00 for every video sent to prisoners). GTL’s contract allows it to raise prices at its sole discretion, and to recoup any shortfalls from its expected minimum profits by billing the state department of corrections.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/20/captive-markets.html
Proof that prison is not about rehabilitation.
Many prisons will no longer let you send or gift books to prisoners, but instead force you to buy the prisoner the book, at an exorbitant price, if that book is available from the 300 or so title vendor library…
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“Why do I watch Wrestlemania? My answer is the poet must not avert his eyes from what's going on in the world. In order to understand what's going on, you have to face it.”
- Werner Herzog in 2007 on his ongoing obsession with Wrestlemania
“You must not avert your eyes. This is what is coming at us. This is what a collective anonymous body of majority wants to see on television.” -Herzog in 2011 while showing Wrestlemania footage to an audience that was clutching their pearls
“It's fascinating because something very crude, something very raw is emerging. A very raw, primitive form of new drama is being born, as primitive and crude as it must have been in the earlier Greek times before Sophocles and before Euripides, when something like this emerged for the public eye. I do believe that what is fascinating about WrestleMania is the stories around it: the dramas between the owner of the whole show and his son, who are feuding, and his wife in the wheelchair who is blind, and he is then showing up in the ring with four girls who have huge, fake boobs, and he is fondling them. This is almost sort of an ancient Greek drama—evil uninterrupted by commercials. So, what does it say? It says that this sort of thing is more important that the fight itself (which of course is all staged and all manipulated). And that's very interesting to me because apparently the emergence of a new drama has been understood by these people who invented WrestleMania.” -Herzog back in 2002
Like I cannot emphasize enough how bizarre it is to imagine Werner Herzog sitting on a lounge chair in his home theater watching Wrestlemania for nearly two decades now.
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