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They paid about 3K for this program. The program promised a job offer in advance, but didn't deliver. They said they would send one via email, but failed there, too. Her contact in the USA barely speaks English, doesn't answer her calls but does answer mine. She is not going to NYC but I need some help handling and understanding how to handle this- I have a friend helping them with a cheap hotel for the night, but that's all at the moment.
Update on K & S. Update on K & S (and the effects of your support). First off, I spoke with K & S and they prefer being referred to as "devotchki" (girls). This is a personal preference, a diminuitive distinct from any feminist/mysognist horse corpse you might enjoy beating here. From here on out, they will be called "the girls". It's OK, with them. I'll start with now: the girls have returned to Moscow. They are safe with their boyfriends and families. This is, in my opinion, the most important thing I can share here. Since the last MeTa thread was closed, a lot has happened. 1. 2. 3. 4. Together, we all saw the Atlantic for the first time on Coney Island. 5. I'd say at this point they know what MetaFilter is, and understand what happened here as well as any outsider can. Спасибо большое. Да нас было настолько удивительно что люди так быстро откликнулись на просьбу о помощи, что мы сначала даже не поверили что это правда.
В начале мы не хотели оставаться, а теперь не хотим уезжать.. К и С K and S. Ripples. I wanted to follow up on the Russian human trafficking story that unfolded here in 2010. As a few of you might know I am the mayor of the town I live in. It's a very bucolic, sleepy small town, or as much as you can be five miles from the Philly line. Anyway we have had an "Asian massage parlor" in our town going back decades, with occasional prostitution arrests, etc. For some reason the business was able to keep a low profile, and many residents weren't aware of it. Those that were came to believe, I think, that there was either no will or no way to get it shut down. It was kind of "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" accepted. I was as guilty as anyone. About six months into my term I followed along with the rest of you while the Russian thread unfolded here on Metafilter, and it really got me thinking about the lives of the women working at our thriving little business, whether they might be there involuntarily, and what, if anything I could do about it in my position.
MetaFilter Saved My Pals From Sex Traffickers—Exclusive Interview. The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter this week was no game. If not for the intrepid members of this 11-year-old digital forum, a couple of young Russian women might possibly have fallen prey to sexual slavery. Dan Reetz's post appeared Wednesday evening at Ask MetaFilter, a portion of the site where people seek help from the crowd. Mostly it's mundane—someone needs suggestions for a good pet store in their area, that kind of thing. But this post stood out: "A Russian friend of mine may be in a dangerous situation in Washington, DC," it began. Reetz, a 28-year-old who goes by the online handle Fake, joined MetaFilter in 2004 and is a trusted user, according to Jessamyn West, the site's community manager.
In 2006, he spent a year teaching English in Russia, and became close friends with one of his students, whom we'll call "K. " D! EXCLUSIVE: One Of The Heroes Behind the MetaFilter Human-Trafficking Rescue Speaks Out. The Browser | Writing Worth Reading. Greatest Reddits. Aaron Shwartz- Reddit Co-founder R.I.P : pics. Marilyn Manson just explained to me, in the security line at LAX, that the profanities written on his face in grease pencil were directed at the paparazzi, not at me. Reddit, what bizarre celebrity encounters have you had? : AskReddit. RIP, Aaron Swartz. Click for ongoing posts about Aaron, his memorial service, his death, and the malicious prosecution brought by the DoJ against him To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to "RIP, Aaron Swartz.
" Update: Go read Lessig: "He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think? That person is gone today, driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying. My friend Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday, Jan 11. I met Aaron when he was 14 or 15.
But he was also unmistakably a kid then, too. I introduced him to Larry Lessig, and he was active in the original Creative Commons technical team, and became very involved in technology-freedom issues. Aaron accomplished some incredible things in his life. The post-Reddit era in Aaron's life was really his coming of age. Instead, they threw the book at him. What are your five favourite websites of the last year? - internet. What are the most intellectually stimulating podcasts? - podcasts podcast.