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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2w ago

Dear news reporters: I do not care how many movies you watched in the 1980s and 1990s. The Terminator, let alone SKYNET, does not exist. We have not gotten to the point in which Durandal and Leela will fight to take over a space station. JOSHUA is not going to stop projecting nuclear winter and instead opt to play a game of chess. Number Five is not, despite how cute he may be, alive. Computers are still computers are still computers and will only do what a human being programs them to do, and people are stupid. Stop assigning them agency. Say that "Microsoft created an automatic hacking program which was inadequately contained." Assign the blame CORRECTLY, because you cannot blame a computer, it's doing exactly what it's programmed to do. OpenAI is a dead slab of metal and electrons arranged to mimic a human face and if you refuse to see that then you're as brain-dead as any chunk of silicon. #ai #llms #infosec #computing

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3w ago

I have decided that Harry Potter is a very poorly-written British Nobility Fanfic, and will not be taking any questions about this decision.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2w ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@gwynnion@mastodon.social Same goddamned song, same fucking dance, same pink triangles. I guess the only new part is claiming that trans people never existed before 2007 or whatever.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3w ago

Replying to

@faithisleaping@anarres.family @Kalshann@mastodon.social @gwynnion@mastodon.social It's all of the above. The company X was folded into SpaceX earlier last year, so it's all under the same umbrella. SpaceX, Shitter, and xAI are all part of this unholy amalgamation, probably because of IPO failures and associated other financial bullshit.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@cmccullough@polymaths.social Considering that the Luddites were all about maintaining a standard quality of work and being paid a fair share of the organization in which they were a part, something which capitalistic automation threatened on various levels, I daresay it's no insult, no insult at all. The use of 'luddite' as a pejorative is a capitalist fiction.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run Always worth a reminder that 'effective altriusm' is billionaire for 'I'm holding onto this money until I find something I want more than this money'. Amazingly enough, anything which benefits other people is not part of this set.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

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@evacide@hachyderm.io Anyone who unironically uses the phrase 'boys will be boys' should be dipped in Africanized honeybees. What's the problem, administrator? Feeling a little stung? Well, no problem. After all, bees will be bees.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

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@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social @markwyner@mas.to @janeishly@beige.party Big same. I cheered for her -- cheered! -- with her victories against the god-botherers, with her world of whimsy and magic capturing the hearts of a generation. And now it's gone, and I can see more clearly the cracks in the edifice. Of course she was a bigot. On reflection, it's written into every line of her books, from the British nobility implemented as if it were a net good to the shaming of so many positive human traits. The whimsy is now sucked away, replaced with a bitter cold. The Harry Potters of the world are cops, have always been cops. The House Elves are still enslaved, and the people at the top continue drinking wine while the peasants starve in Knockturn Alley.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Wasn't the burning of the Library of Alexandria once considered one of the greatest tragedies of the literary world? I want to be clear here, it seems like the people in charge are revisiting all the horrors of the past in pursuit of a moment more at the top of a virtual heap.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 1mo ago

Conservative (n): a person who has no hope for the future.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

If anything has proven the folly of #optout systems, it is the fact that robots.txt and spiders.txt are no longer respected by the plagiarism engines stealing the sum total of human knowledge in order to corrupt it and sell it back at a 10,000% markup. Opt-out systems are ephemeral, and only operate as long as the aggressor chooses to respect it, which is to say, 'until they can get away with not doing so'.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Catvalente@wandering.shop It's not unreasonable to want to assume the best of people, especially people who claim to want to write. Such a shame that they don't. They want to have written.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

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@pathunstrom@ngmx.com Whole agreement. Also, any corporation which uses GenAI/LLMs which cannot produce the provenance of its entire set of training data and prove that it was all created by themselves must either give up their right to any and all copyrights in perpetuity or give up GenAI/LLMs. Any corp. Any GenAI/LLMs. I don't care whether it's just creating wall textures, if you sourced it from public assets, you don't get to copyright your material. This goes for Microsoft as well.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@geekysteven@beige.party If there were any chance that it would solve all our problems, billionaires wouldn't be pushing it so hard. Therefore, I infer that it will not. You can probably extrapolate from there what I consider one of our biggest problems.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@dyckron@cosocial.ca As someone who worked the opening shift at a Barnes & Noble in the mid-later 2000s, where the sun was still just rising when I got in, in Texas, I have comparatively little appreciation for these concerns. People are already getting up well before the sun, to go into their shifts in the bleeding hours of the morning. Because that's what capitalism does, and what it has always done. I feel like there have to be better ways to fix this than, year after year, forcing people to jump an hour forward and back.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @Susan_calvin@mastodon.social @belehaa@wandering.shop Could cut the power and water on a municipal level, wait for it to die on its own, then blow a hole in the ceiling and fill it with concrete. Then put a big sign over it. "This is not a place of honour," etc. etc. It might not be radioactive, but it's at least intellectually toxic enough to warrant the million-year waste disposal treatment.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@bruce@darkmoon.social @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party @PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems @deirdresm@hachyderm.io In my mind, there is now no police officer in the US who is not a fascist and/or Nazi. Those who purport not to be must prove themselves not to be Nazis, and my, isn't it difficult to prove a negative, especially when they're sitting there covering for their fellow pigs raising the Sieg Heil...

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

All these people talking about the 'remote data center' botnet and I just can't even.

This is what we knew would happen with the Internet of Shit, this is the one and only logical iteration! Yes, it's even shittier than before, but what would you expect?

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

If there's someone I trust to keep me up on food and farming, it's Sarah Taber, of Farm to Taber fame, and this thread about how Taylor Farms didn't just drop the ball, they dropped a whole stack of balls which had been carefully and meticulously balanced for years, is impressive. Impressive in a lot of ways, really. The decision of TF to go for the uncertainty and doubt rather than launching an immediate investigation is incredibly telling about the corporate landscape. They could have said, "Oh crud, our bad, let's fix this," but instead they let it go until the diarrhea hit the fan. And this is an action which, in this day and age, is likely to be rewarded. https://bsky.app/profile/sarahtaber.bsky.social/post/3mrbctrtdws2w

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place @Tijn@dosgame.club Let's not forget that they're making it impossible to own games. Because if you own your games, you might not need to keep buying more!

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

If I do find myself traveling air at any point in the foreseeable future - extremely unlikely, but stranger things have happened - I do believe I shall first invest in a set of Bluetooth speakers and a set of audio files including flatulence, vomiting, and assorted barnyard noises, and I suggest frequent fliers also stock up.

Proselytizing is undoubtedly much more difficult when the sound of excessive gas is providing a much more welcome accompaniment to your hot air.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@gwynnion@mastodon.social 'Normal' is what led to Trump.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Every single fucking capitalist institution right now has been saying the line 'we wouldn't mind a union, we're just concerned that people might have been forced into it' for going on 75 years now and I'm really sick that the credulous media keep reprinting the obvious lie. Our society has a tendency to force people into capitalism, a broken system full of broken ideas run by the most broken people of all. People don't have to be forced into a union, just show 'em that they could get a few basic human rights if they join.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@grammargirl@zirk.us I have always liked Harry Frankfurt's definition of 'bullshit' as the boasting of a statement, one utterly without regard for its truth or falsity, but delivered with outright certainty. So 'hallucination' might be the industry-standard lie, but I've simply come to call these machines 'bullshit engines'. Whether they are right doesn't matter, but they sure do sound like they know...

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

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@rrb@infosec.exchange @zzt@mas.to Not merely plausible -- true, first-rate bullshit must be delivered with a weight of absolute certainty, like someone saying the sky is blue. It should be presented in such a way that 'I think' never enters the framework. That sort of certainty is the hallmark of toddlers, religious zealots and conmen.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Okay, Jen.

Tonight, do not forget to take your titty skittles.

Estrogen and progesterone down the hatch? Good. Now you can sleep.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@cmccullough@polymaths.social When the founder wants me dead, it's rather disingenuous to ask me what other reasons I might have for avoiding the browser, but people keep asking. I dunno, folks. Seems like that's a pretty good reason. But sealions gotta sealion.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Youtube is starting to disable videos for folks with ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Interestingly, if you switch a Firefox browser to appear to be Chrome to Youtube, it does not run this check anymore.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@lauerhahn@sfba.social @CStamp@mastodon.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social In vino, veritas. He's obviously a pretty clear anti-Semite. It's just that most of the time, he's got the capacity to realize that it's a bad idea to be openly anti-Semitic. I'm convinced that this is a lot like what happens to folks when they start losing the ability to reason in a lengthier chain. Straight from point A, 'view situation', to point J, 'spit out racist bullshit', without any of points B through I, like 'consider what happens next', occurring in the middle.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@SusanPotter@mastodon.social Getting two actual jobs at the same time? In this economy? One's hard enough, you surely don't appreciate how much billionaires struggle.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

When playing Mina the Hollower, I need to remember the First Rule of Soulslikes:

You do not need to kill everything in your path.

I keep forgetting this on a lot of games. Sometimes avoidance is the better strategy, even if those laser guards are going to give me 50 bones a pop.

#minathehollower #gaming

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@ApaulD@aus.social How much did Alcoa get from their mining operations? Set the penalties at twice that. If the penalties for a corporation violating the law do not exceed the benefits of flouting legality, then that is merely the cost of doing business -- and nothing more.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@stacey_campbell@aus.social This has the feel and smell of a back-alley deal involving trenchcoats with numerous pockets and $1/pack cigarillos. "Psst. First one's free." Only question is whether AI or crack cocaine is worse for you.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to on universeodon.com

@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com Throughout my life it's been a truism that the people who proclaim their faith most loudly, at every street corner, in every dwelling and event, are the ones using it to cover for their worst sins. Is this no longer a thing people understand?

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Fair distinction for the record, Fruit Roll-Ups are made of fruit juice, a tiny bit of pectin and loads of sugar, rather than fruit leather, which is more properly ... well, mashed-up fruits. They're therefore more able to dissolve in the liquid, providing the colouration and flavour you see here! A dissolved fruit leather will probably give you a murkier, algae-pond look, so it might be truer to form but less palatable.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange Congratulations, you have won that bet. There was, additionally, no warrant issued.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

So a case against a man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone with a duress password during what I can only assume was an illegal search-and-seizure operation -- the presumption of innocence, with regards to CBP, ICE, DHS and the Department of in-Justice, has long since evaporated -- is now progressing. The material facts are not in dispute, the question is whether he had any right to do so after having been refused an attorney repeatedly. I do so hope they go to a venue with a judge who will call them out on the fucking floor. Even some Trump-appointed sockpuppets are getting tired of his hand up their ass, so even with an Atlanta jurisdiction, fingers are crossed.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@geonz@mathstodon.xyz @avilewis@mstdn.ca Big part of it, to be sure. Reducing the necessity of road usage -- by making it more possible for supermarkets and other stores to operate in current food deserts, as well as reducing the amount of transit required to get to jobs which, functionally speaking, do not need transit -- combined with a focus on affordable public transit for those who genuinely have a need for it... that's a major part of the Green Party's platform, and has been for as long as I've been around.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social We see the same with the groups on the opposite side who are dismantling regulations and restrictions -- the reverse of the same coin. Each act of institutional brick-removal is fueled by a complete lack of memory, and in many cases that memory has been willfully and maliciously erased in order to support their setting fire to Chesterton's Fence. Did you know they're bringing back subprime lending tranches?

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@samlitzinger@journa.host I really, really want Susan Collins out of Maine's legislature. I would also very much like rapist Nazi fuckwits out of politics and society as a generality. There are two wolves inside me and they're both depressed right now.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @avuko@infosec.exchange @autistics@fedigroups.social "Although people think of autism as to do with the mind and the brain, what’s been neglected is the fact that autistic people tend to die younger,” he said. Dear Baron-Cohen, would you like me to count the myriad ways in which comorbidity factors such as extreme, constant stress can result in higher rates of cardiovascular disease, even leaving out the effects it has on diet? And would you like me to point out how being treated as a defective neurotypical person is a constant and unending source of stress for neurodivergent folks? Want me to go on, dear metaphorical representation of a complete asshole, or should I rub your face in your own shit some more? Freaking Guardian, giving this shithead another microphone.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

"I can't believe they named the giant robot 'Chaser'. Bad implications in today's day and age."
"True. Also, it's Chaser Zero. All the robot, none of the calories."

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

If your murderer asks to break bread with you, expect that what they're really asking for is permission to murder you. #lgbtqia #pride #politics

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@matildalove@wetdry.world I have no idea what you mean. -nomfs an entire stack of cotton candy-

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

@radicalfishgames.com

Thank you for including a Laser Bridge. I felt like that was all that was missing.

#alabasterdawn #gaming

bsky.brid.gy

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world The kleptoclass are a breeding ground for pedophiles, too. To deal with destructive urges, the sane and moral amongst us human beings take the opportunity to reflect and consider. Even the amoral will usually take the consequences of their actions into consideration. The billionaire class do not need to think twice, because consequences do not exist for them. (The religiously-focused believe the same, after a fashion.) This might be a fox-and-henhouse situation, but one really needs to reindex the factors for a higher referential. Foxzilla and the village of Ten-Hen perhaps.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@pg1958@mastodon.sdf.org @samlitzinger@journa.host Flippant as it might seem, to the billionaires the only answer really is, "why not?" Nobody is going to stop them, after all.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@StumpyTheMutt@social.linux.pizza @baldur@toot.cafe Bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

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@CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw Chrome Mask! Useful extension.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@samlitzinger@journa.host I'm still wondering what the paper trails on this would be like, if they ever did get to the payout process. This is an entire administration of grift and corruption; there's no way that at least $100 million of that won't make its way into Trump's hands somehow, and they'd try (poorly) to obscure that in any way possible. Good on this judge for blocking it, however briefly.

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