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Havens for the Human

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By Anton Barba-Kay
| Commonweal Magazine Verified
A copy of Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ on Columbia University’s campus in New York City (Wikimedia Commons) Most universities have long ceased to live up to the name. The word “university” once suggested a coherent whole, in which disciplines were studied in the light of one theological center (uni-versum).
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Rikollisten taistelu levisi someen – Kun huumekuurit striimaavat pakonsa TikTokiin, miljoonat peukuttavat | The Atlantic

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By Anton Barba-Kay
| APU
Ruumiita alkoi ilmestyä 2000-luvun alkuvuosina. Ne riippuivat maantiesiltojen kaiteista, ja paitoihin oli kirjoitettu uhkaavia viestejä. Koko Meksiko tiesi, että huumekartellit murhasivat ihmisiä, mutta harvoin ne tekivät siitä näin näyttävää esitystä. Vuonna 2005 eräs rikollisjohtaja, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, lempinimeltään La Barbie, alkoi tavoitella julkisuutta aivan uudella tavalla. Hän julkaisi verkossa videon, jossa hänen joukkionsa kidutti ja tappoi kilpailijoitaan.
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How Drug Cartels Took Over Social Media

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By Anton Barba-Kay
| businessandamerica.com
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The corpses started appearing in the early 2000s, hanging from overpasses with threats scrawled on their shirts. Everyone in Mexico knew that drug cartels were murdering people, but they rarely made such a show of it. Then, in 2005, a kingpin named Edgar Valdez Villarreal (a.k.a. “La Barbie”) ramped up the exhibitionism, posting a video online of his gang torturing and murdering its rivals.
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