Archive - August 18th, 2016

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

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This is a big deal. In the wake of critical reports, the deputy attorney general told officials to reduce or decline to renew deals with contractors. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2b08ghX through IFTTT

Mired in “uncertainty” — and nine other things top CEOs are saying about the election, the economy, and the American consumer

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Testing a thing Chief executives share their thoughts on everything from a Millennial malaise to the possibility of an auto bubble via Facebook http://ift.tt/2b2m7FP through IFTTT

WIRED Endorses Optimism

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A very strong, well written, well reasoned endorsement from WIRED. A #longreads, but worth the 8 minutes of reading time. “Engineers, the heroes of WIRED, often misunderstand politics. They tend to confuse political problems with technological ones (because those are the ones they know how to solve), and they get impatient with the inefficiency, ugliness, […]

Amen.

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Amen. These “brother against brother” events never work because comics aren’t really built on a framework of moral ambiguity. Manichean right and wrong is baked into the fabric of the universe. So no matter how much they try to say, “Oh, this is going to be a gray area,” in the end they come down on the side of…

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