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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11h
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 18h
Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter bit.ly/3Vy6WtM
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Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter
Discord's privacy woes continue as hackers of a third-party security tool make off with 1 million user email addresses.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Apparently Australian laws requiring permission & payment make it "impossible" for Anthropic to train AI. Diminishing our rights to allow billion dollar companies to continue their extractive practices here is tantamount to wage theft for the creative industries: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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OpenAI has ‘work to do to rebuild trust’ in Australia, executive tells AI inquiry
Anthropic tells inquiry it ‘never tried to dictate’ Australian copyright rules as the ABC says copyright laws do not need changing
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Anastasia @anastasiacroft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AYO some unexpected but not extreme bills are coming up so i wanted to give my art commission store another shoutout!! All options are available, and extremely flexible in terms of details, pls hmu for any questions here or on discord : anastasiacroft
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
in case you think you aren't locked in samsara
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I remember my father telling me how anti trust laws worked as a kid. Something like "Well son, we have laws where one electric company can't just buy all the OTHER electric companies. Then they could just charge whatever they want because there'd be no competition." We were a very optimistic people.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are we not men? We are DEVO
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And 👏 we 👏 did 👏 nothing 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 it 👏."
Democrats
@TheDemocrats
A pro-Trump billionaire family now controls all of these platforms.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed amid massive student-led protests. The demonstrations began at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings.
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Police Violence Causes Serious Injuries as French High School Students Protest
Students protest teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats and debris.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms theonion.com/dnc-releases-preemptiv…
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com · 06/10/2026
it's America’s fault if Phil Collins’ first original song in 20 years is “Fat People With Guns” stereogum.com/2513650/phil...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/10/2026
> Cryptogyny is the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions to, or of their very existence in, a field of study.
olivia.science
Cryptogyny
On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the whole ballgame. It’s ugly, mindless theft.
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
HUGE: The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes have both voted to impose a three-year moratorium on data center construction on tribal lands — temporarily banning dara centers on 8,000 square miles. The Cherokee Nation, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Tribe have all imposed similar bans.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Bring back shame.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/10/2026
Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whoa. This is incredible. If you support the arts and artists getting paid for their work, it feels really fucked up to see how happy lots of people right on this here woke app gleefully ignore shit like this in the name of being too lazy to learn to code or help do your spreadsheet homework
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Lyx Lyon @lyxlyon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most of you don’t know this, but my amazing brother Drake has stage 4 brain cancer. He’s had 3 brain surgeries this year alone and upcoming is a fourth. He’s not able to work right now, which makes paying bills impossible. i know times are tough, but also, you aren’t a 29 year old with cancer…
Hello, my name is Drake, aka Sir Fudgepops online. I have stage 4 melanoma cancer that I have been battling for over 5 years now. I am raising funds to help with day-to-day expenses and pay for medical bills. I'm 29 and married to the love of my life, Candice last year and we just celebrated our first anniversary of which i could not be more thrilled. I love DnD (forever DM) and video games. I stream sometimes on Twitch (Twitch.tv/sirfudgepops) and love to just have fun in whatever I do.Recently, my condition has been worsening quite a lot, and I've been let go from my job at the worst time possible, as I have needed to work on myself a lot, trying to get my life together, but it is becoming increasingly hard to do so. I have had three brain surgeries within the last year and am about to need a fourth. This fourth surgery will be the most intense one yet, and they will be removing parts of my brain instead of the lit-burning procedure that was done before. With these surgeries, I have had to relearn to walk, speak, type, cook, and even just think. My left hand doesn't work great, and while I'm trying everything to keep my coordination and dexterity with it from devolving, it is not going well.
I'm once again put into a position of asking for help to cover expenses for medical, utility, and food while I'm stuck in a repeating trend of not being able to work and having to stay home, rest, and recover.If you could find it in your heart to donate to my family and me, it would mean the world. If you find yourself in a situation where you want to help but cannot help financially, please consider at least sharing this link to my GoFundMe so that someone else might be able to help. Anything is appreciated, even if it's just thoughts and prayers.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: RFK Jr. is bragging to MAHA audiences that the massive changes he's made to HHS are permanent. "Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
At this "A.i." hearing at the NYC City Hall and so far it's all goofy talk about Skynet/Terminator "A.i." superintelligence scenarios and nothing about actual massive current harms of regular schmegular trash "A.i."
testimony table and packed audience at NYC city hallcity council members at their seats in city hall. full member hearing
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The nazi dork that Kat so artfully debates here is Trevor Raein, leader of "Evropean Americans". They follow Jake Lang around to call him not a real nazi. He was joined in Bridgeview today by Gregory Conte, one of the organizers of the deadly Unite the Right rally. Details in master thread below ⬇
Trevor RaeinGreg Conte with bullhorn
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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Trump Mobile appears to have been hacked, resulting in the leak of personal data on 3,615 customers. A person in the data confirmed to me that he spent $100 on a Trump phone last year but never received a device. san.com/cc/trump-mob...
san.com
Trump Mobile’s latest problem: Hackers just released customer information
A newly established ransomware gang appears to have hacked Trump Mobile, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 3,615 customers.
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Malizias @malizias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is my little birthday so i humbly ask for thy support! Any love is welcome <3 ans a big thank you ti everyone following along, it means the world!! #dndart
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the basic trick of Roko's Basilisk. Like many supposed thought experiments noodled over by guys who thought Heath Ledger's Joker was the most important moral philosopher of the 21st century, it dresses up as an ethical conundrum what is in truth a deeply evil enticement to abandon the concept of human intention altogether.
Decision-making truly cannot get more animal and reactionary than to extend fixed conclusions about what humanity is like out into the imagined indefinite future, conceived as boundary walls defining the path that future can take, and react to that future before it has even had a chance to
arrive. It makes the future into the past. It is inherently regressive, fascist.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 04/10/2026
Support Carey here, if able: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
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Donate to Help us keep living while I sew, organized by Carey Means
We started this business with money that Carey got from conventions and used a sewing mach… Carey Means needs your support for Help us keep living while I sew
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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atomly @atomly.com · 02/10/2026
America is a nightmare surveillance dystopia and the sooner people realize it and start fighting back the better the chance we have at actually doing something about it so that Alex Karp and Palmer Lucky don't get to turn your children into Matrix batteries for their new AI murderbot drone soldiers.
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chainsawroll🍉🌮✨ @chainsawroll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hello! I was recently laid off from my game job, I also wasn’t given severance or any other compensation by the company, so to help cover my rent and expenses, I have my new brushes if anyone is interested : ( Shares would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Prolific rape and pedophile defender Michael Tracey is now melting down over the backlash to him doxxing Jane Doe and lying that he never did it. Even though he admitted to it in the same day
Someone described as a "CNN Creator" put out this video claiming I called for the "doxxing" of Jane Doe, and now a nationwide movement has been sparked against me. I NEVER CALLED FOR "DOXXING." CNN APPARENTLY OPPOSES WHAT IS CALLED "REPORTING" ON CLAIMANTS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGSAfter identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others -- so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization -- cannot be countenanced.

It's destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff's lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they're willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they're getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don't believe she's the main "villain" here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who've made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He's the central reason for the
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