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How people can see this as anything other than fascism is way beyond me

You cannot be neutral about this

#free palestine

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crimes in the online space: a deep dive

voted on here. (other editions) bold = favourite

scams, hacks, & financial crime

the romance scammer on my sofa

the incredible rise of north korea's hacking army

heartbreaker

the fall of the billionaire gucci master

to catch a catfish

for trafficking victims forced to scam others, the nightmare continues even after escape

the great cyberheist

crying spouses and fake profiles: how the ashley madison hack changed everything

the dark web

hunting warhead

inside the fbi takedown of the mastermind behind website offering drugs, guns and murders for hire

merchant of death (pro-suicide forums)

the hunt for the dark web's biggest kingpin

the takedown of a dark web marketplace

the exploitation of women & children

she helped expose girls do porn, but she can never outrun what it did to her

catching the men who sell subway groping videos

how facebook and instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

how police cracked canada's largest child pornography ring

'i log into a torture chamber each day': the strain of moderating social media

the child exchange

#studyblr #studyspo #productivity #academia #university #reading list #reading lists #literature #criminology #crime #mydeepdives

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spent this rainy morning changing up my commonplace book set up, but i’m super happy with it! almost finished with the hearing trumpet ☁️

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i do like a good little note taking session in a cute café ☕️

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how often do you read each day?

not very; i hardly ever read (books) outside of my uni work these days

#answered

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Glad Zionists think these are acceptable things to write about and say aloud so we don’t have to waste our time going back and forth with “it’s just about hamas!” arguments. It was never just about hamas

#free palestine

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crimes of the elite: a deep dive

voted on here. (other editions) bold = favourite

corporate harms

behind the smiles at amazon

the long, dark shadow of bhopal (bhopal gas disaster)

how lobbying blocked european safety checks for dangerous medical implants

7-eleven revealed

who controls the world's food supply?

the true cost of tuna: marine observers dying at sea

how a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in pursuit of bigger profits

24 years after, some victims not compensated and still can't live normal lives (pfizer's nigeria vaccine trials)

the corporate crime of the century

uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (the uber files)

the baby killer (nestle infant formula scandal)

2 paths of bayer drug in 80's: riskier one steered overseas (hiv-risk contaminated blood product scandal)

global banks defy u.s. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists (fincen files)

the ultra-rich

eliminalia: a reputation laundromat for criminals

the fall of the god of cars (international fugitive carlos ghosn)

a u.s. billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund. then hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly went missing (cyprus confidential)

how the wealthiest avoid income tax (the irs files)

the haves and the have-yachts

madoff and his models (madoff ponzi scheme)

the imposter (blockchain terminal fraud)

the ultra-rich: (allegedly) stolen antiquities

crime of the centuries

stolen treasure traders

a hunt for cambodia's looted heritage leads to top museums (pandora papers)

an art crime for the ages

#studyblr #studyspo #student #university #productivity #reading lists #literature #criminology #crime #mydeepdives #i'm working on the lists for state crime and online crime rn!! coming soon hopefully #i will get to all the poll options eventually

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all great advice!! tysm for the mention <3

okay i’m really sorry if you already did something like this…but do you have any advice on how to do proper research? i love writing essays and i’m thinking abt practicing doing research papers, but i don’t really know how? like i know you’re supposed to use sources that use .gov and stuff, but how do i find them?

ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🩷🩷🩷

Ok I’m just gonna do a quick version, but I’ll 100% do more in-depth if anyone wants!!

Quick notes: I know about arts and humanities, not STEM, so that’s what I’m focusing on. Also, I do my essays for fun when I have TIME (a rarity these days) so do as I say and not necessarily what I do lmao.

Start with what you know

I don’t mean topic-wise (tho that too). Wikipedia is not a source, but the reference section on a Wikipedia article can be a very good jumping off point.

Also, Google Scholar my beloved!

Newspapers are a good, reliable source. Even if the newspaper is utter tosh, it represents the views of its readership, and therefore can be used. You mention .gov, and yup! That too!

Oh and 12ft.io is my gift to you on this fine February day.

If you don’t know the names of the famous essays, you’re firing keywords into Google Scholar, and you’ll get some ideas!!

This is just off the top of my head bc I’m just doing a quick one considering it’s my birthday lol, but like I said, I will put more effort into this if you want!!

And as a last note: @apricitystudies shares her favourite essays etc every month!! So, depending on what you’re interested in, it’s useful to have some vetted by someone else lol

#tagged

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last weeks of january 📖

#so pretty!

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The Holdovers (2023)

#history <3 #meg.txt

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friday, february 2nd, 2024 | 17/100 days of productivity

hooray for friday! I stressed myself out a bit this morning by sleeping in and then putting too much on my todo list, but I took the time to figure out why I was stressed and pushed some tasks until tomorrow. I'm looking forward to resting this weekend :)

today's productivity & self-care:

finally finished section 2 of this certification course!

reviewed anki cards

helped a coworker with some code stuff, which always feels nice :)

took a walk on my lunch break

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29/100 days of productivity | January 27, 2024

I realized that, in the chaos with my illness and everything else, I accidentally skipped my favorite part of the writing process. after reading through my sources several times, following a different logic each time, I like to draw up a long list of random observations in no particular order. since I already have some kind of framework for the subchapter, arranging them will be a bit easier, but, at the same time, the nature of these observations will also shape the subchapter's logic. so, with that, the writer's block is (probably) sorted out, and now I can finally make substantial progress.

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what i read in jan. 2024:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, gender, & sexuality

a death at walmart (usa)

'doctors fitted a contraceptive coil without my consent' (denmark)

the ruthlessly effective rebranding of europe's new far right

the miseducation of singapore's queer youth

entering history

politics & current affairs

the work of the witness (palestine)

'scars on every street': the refugee camp where generations of palestinians have lost their futures

'the saudis couldn't do it without us': the uk's true role in yemen's deadly war

inside the crime rings trafficking sand

guatemala's baby brokers

other

the unending quest to build a better chicken

tell me why the watermelon grows

the bad patient

barbie and oppenheimer are about ideas made real

the juror who found herself guilty

how a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in pursuit of bigger profits

the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave

#studyblr #studyspo #student #university #academia #productivity #reading list #reading lists #literature #myresources

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teenage me and current me are both depressed directionless girls, the only difference is that current me started appreciating the beauty of the world and realized how good it is to be alive despite it all

#meg.txt

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my camera roll from the last couple of months ⋆｡°✩

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I'm sorry if you're tired of thinking about ofmd and that whole mess but goddamn... it's incredibly painful to see so many people trying to set up fundraisers to get their families out of gaza and the sudan and desperately trying to get their loved ones to safety, I've seen so many and everyday I check to see how much progress they've made, most of them still haven't hit their goal. It hurts to see people rally around a tv show and raise all this money for a billboard, and it's very frustrating to see how people have reacted to this criticism. Like bro tv shows get canceled sometimes there's more important stuff going on

Someone else said it better but to see a fundraiser for tv show renewal advertisements raise $20,000 in less than a day while it takes days/weeks/months/years/never for fundraisers for actual causes that help real people in need reach a goal of less is absolutely dystopian and shameful

#free palestine #keep eyes on sudan

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sunday, january 21st, 2024 | 6/100 days of productivity

the weekend always goes by way too fast 😅 I had a nice day, though!

today's productivity:

did some chores

set up my planner for next week

today's self-care:

read part of a chapter in Saving Time by Jenny Odell and caught up on transferring some of my annotations into my commonplace book

spent some time on hobbies!