--- title: "Digits: Plasma, funerals, and Hallmark - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Funeral homes and AI surveillance art." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/835442357-HS-News-Brief_2022-09-26T002017.543Z.webp --- # Digits: Plasma, funerals, and Hallmark ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: September 26, 2022 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1)** A US judge overturned a policy barring Mexicans from crossing the border to sell plasma. The US accounts for [**60% of global plasma** **collection**](https://www.propublica.org/article/us-ban-mexicans-sell-blood-plasma), being the only country allowing donations up to 104x a year, and Mexican citizens account for 10% of it. ![Digits: Plasma, funerals, and Hallmark](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/835442357-HS-News-Brief_2022-09-26T002017.543Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=835442357-HS-News-Brief_2022-09-26T002017.543Z.webp) **2)** Death is a good business — in the US, [**~19k funeral homes**](https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/funeral-homes-private-equity-death-care/) comprise the $23B industry. Increasingly, private equity firms are rolling up the homes and raising prices. **3)** With winter, so come the holiday movies. This year, Hallmark is dropping [**40 originals**](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/christmas-movies-tv-candace-cameron-bure-gac-1235376278/). Female leads can make up to $300k. Male leads, $200k. **4) **Universities partnering with LinkedIn released findings from a five-year study on [**20m users**](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4476) that expands on our understanding of how weak ties to others positively affect job mobility more than strong ties. **5) **Belgium-based artist Dries Depoorter’s latest project, “The Follower,” with [**10k+ likes**](https://twitter.com/driesdepoorter/status/1569285878089908231) on Twitter, uses AI and public livestreams to identify videos of Instagrammers posing for a photo they later post on social media. 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