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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/10/2026

run, don’t walk, to your local theater. this one is for people who liked Eddington

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 01/10/2026

one of the most popular apple accessory companies just made a $10 We Supports Stalkers device for airtags

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/09/2026

Primetime was incredible holy shit

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026

there's an AI lab (cult) that "calculates" your risk of dying from AI and the younger you are the higher it goes. mortalityrisk.ai Mine is 62%. The solution it provides? Donate money to the AI risk foundation and - if you laugh you lose! - message the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 08/09/2026

this is also very interesting to me - the "make anything" robot has the same UX problem as a blank command like, so we came right back to Canva But More

Structure your prompts for better results
At times you may have a clear idea of what you want to make—you just need some help getting started.

We’re introducing templates for some of the most popular creative formats. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you can choose a template like “Poster” or “Merch” and add details like information to convey, design elements, or styles to personalize your results.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/09/2026

yes!!! yes!!!!! I will never have to learn CAD, thank you God

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/09/2026

ARC AGI 3 results? who cares. I don't want my AI to be gaming. the real good news?

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/08/2026

it’s impressive cable television is so evil it gets within two points of a website run by an open white supremacist

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21/08/2026

using the Algorithm site where you get mad because you’re interacting with stuff that makes you mad all day

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/08/2026

macOS smb caches (?) aggressively or just doesn't work. luckily there is a solution that works 60% of the time. it looks like this.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 16/08/2026

absolutely do NOT believe the hype. Anne Hathaway is perfect as always but everything else…

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/08/2026

i’ve never had an original idea in my life

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/07/2026

i'm sure a representative sample of the city will be able to make it to thursday at 3pm meeting

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/07/2026

this is probably my book of the year

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/07/2026

I realize them in China isn't a perfectly fair fight, but they seem to be only recently recovering from getting clobbered because they were behind the curve on EVs/software for many, may years and relied on local partners for a lot of their sales www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 23/07/2026

likely thing for a furry convention to have, tbh

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 23/07/2026

I realized web search for agents is partially broken for a lot of homelab stuff because it's on reddit. five seconds of googling, one prompt, and ten minutes later, I had a fix deployed, tested, and functional.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 23/07/2026

it's still crazy to me that AI models are based off human activity so much they gravitate to just giving up if you use them long enough. hours??? you have no concept of time. get back to work

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 22/07/2026

watching this in a theater was incredible but: why does this exist. anyway hyped for EOE tomorrow

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 18/07/2026

Odyssey was as good as everyone said it is, Nolan Dialogue aside

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/07/2026

PC Gamer calls it a "Gamer muzzle" which is just an incredible phrase. I can't wait to put a gamer muzzle on my own loud husband

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/07/2026

going to a starbucks and putting one of these and the biggest VR headset I can find on to work in peace

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/07/2026

always a good sign when people like chait are writing petulant screeds like this

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 14/07/2026

I don't want to QT him but why do so many good journalists fall for this aww-shucks schtick? If you're in *closed-door senate briefings* you're the 'they'! Defending this idea that everyone in a power is a dopey moron and hundreds of millions of AIPAC/DNC/whatever dollars are wasted is goofy

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 06/07/2026

the wallet inspector has one commitment to you, the customer: not to steal your wallet www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

ohn Doyle has his share of doubters. As a former executive at $350 billion surveillance juggernaut Palantir, it’s hard for some to believe he’s building Cape, a new mobile network that’s entirely privacy-first. But Doyle says Cape is neither a front for Palantir nor a honeypot for law enforcement. It’s the opposite: a telecom company that provides calls, texting and data for $99 a month, but won’t sell your data, track your location, or leave you open to surveillance like traditional operators do.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 02/07/2026

businesses that put all their docs behind a login wall

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/06/2026

I can't believe this is a real legal defense lmao,if you sit in jail long enough you get to keep the money you legally owe?

The Landmark Case: FTC v. Affordable Media (The Anderson Case, 9th Cir. 1999)
This is the foundational case every lawyer in this space knows. The Andersons created a Cook Islands trust while under investigation by the FTC for fraudulent investment schemes, transferred assets offshore, and claimed they could no longer access the funds. Jamesburnslaw
The mechanics played out exactly as designed. When the FTC obtained a repatriation order, the offshore trustee AsiaCiti notified the Andersons that the restraining order was an "event of duress" under the trust, removed the Andersons as co-trustees because of the duress, and refused to provide an accounting or repatriation of the assets. The Andersons even tried appointing their children as trustees to show good faith — but AsiaCiti removed them from acting as trustees because the event of duress was continuing. JustiaJustia
The Ninth Circuit upheld the contempt finding anyway, on the theory of self-created impossibility: "It is readily apparent that the Andersons' inability to comply with the district court's repatriation order is the intended result of their own conduct — their inability to comply and the foreign trustee's refusal to comply appears to be the precise goal of the Andersons' trust." Dilendorf
Critically though — and this is the part that tends to get glossed over — the Cook Islands trust itself was never broken. The FTC never recovered the trust assets through Cook Islands proceedings. The Andersons suffered personal consequences in the U.S., but the offshore structure held. They eventually did repatriate the funds to get out of jail, but that was a personal capitulation, not a legal defeat of the trust structure itself. Blake Harris Law

1. Indefinite civil contempt (the Fanady approach)
The bluntest instrument. Jail the person until they comply or die. It works when the debtor blinks and repatriates the money; it fails when they don't. In In re Lawrence, 279 F.3d 1294 (11th Cir. 2002), the debtor was jailed for over six years for refusing to repatriate assets — this is the Stephen Lawrence case mentioned in the Forbes article, and it's the closest parallel to Fanady's situation. Eventually courts do have to confront whether the contempt has "lost its coercive effect" — one court noted that after 14 years, a contempt order "has lost its present coercive effect and that it is unlikely that the continued incarceration of the petitioner will result in compliance." At that point jailing shifts from coercive to punitive, which is constitutionally impermissible — the debtor would have to be released. McCulloughMcCullough

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/06/2026

Incredibly, it having an offshore Belize account that pays you but that you don't directly control is apparently designed for exactly this situation and the courts are being unsympathetic because he's a lying piece of shit

This is the really interesting part, and the court records flesh it out much more than the article does.
What Fanady claimed: Fanady claimed that he had an offshore trust located in Belize which contained "everything he has ever owned," but stated that he had no way to access the assets of the trust, although it did pay his living expenses and legal fees. Moreover, Fanady claimed the Belize trust was a "blind trust" in the sense that he didn't even know what assets were in it. Spinellaconsultingacquisitions
The "duress" clause gambit: Fanady sent a copy of the court's order to the Belize trust, and the Belize trustee — as is exactly the plan with offshore trusts faced with litigation — stated that because Fanady was under "duress," the trustee could not comply with any orders of Fanady, much less turn over any assets to the court or Harnack. Spinellaconsultingacquisitions
This is a well-known offshore asset protection maneuver. The trust is designed from the start with a "duress clause" — the moment the settlor (the person who created the trust) is under legal compulsion, the trustee is automatically forbidden from complying. It's essentially a legal firewall built to defeat exactly this kind of court order. The trustee also attached what purported to be an order from the Supreme Court of Belize ordering that the trustee "shall not be obliged to act in response to, in furtherance of, or in compliance with any order or process of a foreign court." QuickRead

A Much Worse Pattern in the Court Record
The Sun-Times article presents Fanady somewhat sympathetically. The appellate court records tell a considerably darker story:
The record showed Fanady's "attempts to evade the jurisdiction of the court and to defraud this court" as well as a Florida court, where he obtained a dissolution of marriage judgment under false pretenses. The record further showed that Fanady "forged a dissolution judgment in order to obtain a religious divorce" and attempted to "hide marital assets by selling one presumptively marital CBOE seat and hiding the money received in Switzerland and by transferring 120,000 presumptively marital shares" from partnership accounts. FindLaw
He also simply stopped participating in the divorce proceedings. Initially, he participated in the process, but by March 2010, he ceased to appear for hearings or respond to Wife's counsel or court notices. The courts have repeatedly said he is "the architect of his own predicament." QuickRead
Fanady has repeatedly asserted he never had $10 million, but only $2.9 million at most from the sale of any CBOE shares. Judge Forti, however, flatly rejected all of Fanady's claims, saying he believed Fanady was lying to the court and continuing to conceal assets. Legal Newsline

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/06/2026

this sun-times article has a guy who tried to cheat his wife out of a bunch of stock, spent all the money, and is now in prison. I don't think he should be in jail but why do they skip over the fact that a judge ordered him to sell the shared and he didn't? chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Fanady’s legal troubles and long jail stay stem from his divorce from Pamela Harnack. She filed for divorce in 2008. The couple had no children.

At the time, Fanady was a wealthy Chicago Board of Options Exchange trader whose fortune was tied to farm commodities and financial markets.

In 2011, a judge pegged his net worth at roughly $7.3 million and awarded Harnack 120,000 shares of CBOE stock along with the couple’s Northfield home, which she recently sold for about $1.5 million.

Years passed. The shares were never transferred.

As the stock soared in value, so did the amount Fanady was ordered to pay.

Fanady has testified that many of his expenses were paid by his Belize-based trust, but he says he had no control over its assets. He argued that the disputed shares had long since been sold and that any proceeds had been spent on living expenses, legal fees and other costs.

A judge didn’t buy that, ruling in 2020 that Fanady still owed the shares or their value — which was then estimated at more than $10 million.

Fanady maintained he had neither.

His ex-wife’s lawyers argued that he was deliberately defying the judge’s orders.

The judge agreed.

So Fanady went to jail.

He challenged his indefinite detention. But the Illinois Appeals Court upheld it, saying that his continued jailing is “coercive,” which is allowed under the law, rather than “punitive,” which is not.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 20/06/2026

no steam controller until 2027 RIP anyone's chances of getting a steam frame

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/06/2026

> discover you actually do need to teach people using the latin alphabet how other writing systems work when teaching them the language in 2026 incredible stuff

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/06/2026

well they're apparently profitable so fuck me I guess it worked?

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15/06/2026

I started getting desperate emails from Duolingo begging me to come back. I wonder why

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/06/2026

is anything that primarily targets small investors ever not fraud?

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 31/05/2026

one of the worst films i’ve seen this year. amazing in that way

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 30/05/2026

great article about actual use cases of AI - making people's jobs *nicer* and helping reduce emissions by increasing produciton efficiency www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

Before the company started using A.I., customer service agents received thousands of questions from callers and engaged in a grand hunt through millions of pages of information to track down the answer, Mr. Rambach said. “Guess what?” he said. “Our customers were not super happy with the quality of the answer and not super happy with the speed of the answer.”

Now A.I. does the hunting and details how the information was selected and the source. The agent then reviews and if necessary, modifies and refines the answer with the caller.

In the last three months of 2025, call centers fielded 150,000 questions. Three-quarters of the time, A.I. was able to provide the right answer to straightforward questions, such as, “Why isn’t a newly connected energy monitor showing consumption levels?” In these cases, the agents used the A.I. generated response. The rest of the time, agents worked with callers on more complex problems, including helping building managers with identifying the root cause of energy alerts.

Response times were quicker and employees have been much happier, Mr. Rambach said, because the time they saved on searching databases to answer common questions left them more time to work with customers.

“Now the system tells us when to stop washing, and we immediately know whether the powder meets quality standards,” an operator said.

The savings have been enormous, Ms. Rigaudeau said. In one year, the company reduced waste from the process by 73 percent, and water use has been cut drastically.

Samples from every batch no longer need to be sent to an off-site lab for testing, a process that could take between 24 and 48 hours. That has saved thousands of euros in lab costs, while decreasing gasoline consumption — from trucks that used to ferry samples to and from the lab — by 22 percent.

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 28/05/2026

new feeling unlocked: sympathy for straight men

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 28/05/2026

After a lot of reading it’s not the name, many people are genuinely taking issue with efficiency in government because it’s perceived as giving rhetorical ground to the right. even if this is true (I disagree): there is still a finite amount of money coming in. shit costs money!

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 26/05/2026

Okay I’d like to see Wisconsin Death Drip though

A page from house of leaves that’s just hundreds of names in a footnote

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Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 25/05/2026

Curry did they mix something up at the studio, are you sure this is the same movie? Because yours sounds better

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