This week, we talk about centralization on the internet, a major and exciting grant for the organization OurResearch, and how the richest of the rich are taxed (spoiler: very little).

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected]

SOURCES

Thomson Reuters ICE contracts

https://www.bcgeu.ca/70_of_independent_thomson_reuters_shareholders_demand_action_on_human_rights_risks_related_to_ice_contracts

Human Genome, completed

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/the-human-genome-is-finally-complete/619172/

https://github.com/marbl/CHM13

People's vaccine

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/peoples_vaccine_2021_loc/

Funding for OurResearch

https://blog.ourresearch.org/arcadia-2021-grant/

Fastly down

https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-fastly

ProPublica reporting on taxes paid by the richest of the rich

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax#1071196

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire#1071336

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-we-are-publishing-the-tax-secrets-of-the-001#1071311

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-short-form-a-quick-guide-to-what-we-uncovered#1071284