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Pakistan’s Hidden Shame: The Forgotten Street Children Who Got Raped by Men


A look into the sexual abuse suffered by the children living in Pakistan.

The majority of the victims are children coming from poverty or drug stricken families who have no place to sleep, or no money to eat. Many are intentionally hooked on heroin so they will continue returning to the men to get high in exchange for sex.

The majority of their predators are truck drivers or bus conductors. The film explains how a whopping 95% of men in this line of work have engaged in this sickening practice in one way or another. The film also reveals how one study found that 1 in 10 of these child victims is murdered to avoid incriminating the men involved.

How to Escape the Maza, or... The Matrix


What if we discovered that our most cherished beliefs and answers to the mysteries of our world are merely fragments of a grand illusion? What if this illusion were carefully crafted and slowly sustained over time by an elusive group with a specific agenda aimed at intentionally misleading us? Imagine these false realities and beliefs woven into a deception so vast that it stretches our very capacity to even consider them as possible...

We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People click on Ads - Zeynep Tufekci


We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us - and what we can do in response.