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o4-mini is much more willing than 4o or 4.1, which is surprising because thinking models usually go "Oh wait, I can't say that" in their thinking trace
Nine additional Chinese cities have received International Wetland City accreditation, the Ramsar Convention’s top honor, bringing China’s total to 22 and underscoring the country’s global leadership in wetland conservation.
I just added an account on Minds.com for "I Love America News". If you are over there, I would appreciate you adding me. I'm excited about the free speech and creator control on Minds.
I will be able to post stuff I can't post on X and Truth Social.
Hoy he aprendido que el nombre de B'Tselem, una ONG israelí proderechos humanos fundada en 1989, quiere decir "a su imagen", de "Dios lo creó a su imagen y semejanza". Mientras griegos y romanos daban características humanas a sus dioses (tres cuartas partes de la mitología griega no existiría si Zeus se guardase el pene dentro del peplo) en el judaísmo es al revés: es el dios el que sacraliza al hombre haciéndolo a su imagen.
B’Tselem y Médicos por los Derechos Humanos describen en sendos informes la “aniquilación” de los palestinos y la destrucción deliberada del sistema sanitario en la Franja
Eso, siempre según la interpretación histórica, implica que si el ser humano tiene algo de sagrado debe respetarse como sagrado que es. Muy bonito, pero generalmente eso se ha esquivado deshumanizando al otro.
Another community died, two light bulbs burnt out on the same day and I don't have replacements, and I got stung by a bee for the first time in like 30 years. Today is cursed.
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a 'premium desktop experience' and other benefits.
A Jewish father and son were attacked by a mob at a café at a gas station near Milan, Italy, who shouted “Free Palestine!” and other slogans after noticing that the pair, who wear traditional head coverings, were Jewish.
59,000 killed. Many more injured and missing. Shooting civilians queuing for food. Starving the population deliberately and the EU Considers? Tech start-ups? Wow! That'll scare them...
OSDR Chats: Dr Begum Mathyk Presents Latest Research in this OSDR-Enabled Publication Welcome to “OSDR Chats,” an interview series featuring authors of publications that were enabled by the Open Science Data Repository (OSDR). Researchers share highlights and insights into their work, emphasizing the valuable roles played by the OSDR in their research. This newest interview […]
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GAZA, July 28 (YPA) - The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain (AOHRB) accused on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) of committing war crimes and genocidal against humanity in collaboration with security companies, since May 27 in the Ga
“The fact that churches have not sufficiently taken up this moral responsibility is a damning indictment. To brazenly prefer their comfort, interests, connections, and desire to avoid embarrassment is moral bankruptcy,” says Jonathan Kuttab.
if the pope called for all Catholics to stop pilgrimages to the holy land until Israel complies with humanitarian law, there would be immediate results
I don't personally care much about COVID boosters but if you think not getting vaccinated at all is the better option then you're the retarded one buddy.
i'm no expert but it seems like accepting a jet from qatar and turning it into a new air force 1 would be more expensive than simply building one from scratch, due to the need to disassemble the whole thing, check meticulously for bugging devices and other forms of sabotage, and reassemble it
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Estou tão feliz! 😃 Meu primeiro livro infantil (e não tão infantil assim) sobre kawaii, inspirado em elementos, monumentos e personagens portugueses, acaba de ser lançado!
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As the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm unfolds, the government’s theory is colliding with Trump administration policies that have left prosecutors arguing Storm should have followed compliance rules they’re no longer allowed to say he was required to follow.
That contortion is just one of several flaws in a prosecution that has been plagued by embarrassing blunders, including misattributing to a Tornado Cash developer text messages that were actually sent by a reporter.
Then, prosecutors called as a witness a woman who had fallen victim to a $250,000 cryptocurrency scam. Their argument seems to have been that Tornado Cash developers should have helped her in ways that were technologically impossible.
The prosecution's flailing attempts to navigate around the Blanche memo exemplify the incoherence of the Trump administration's approach to cryptocurrency enforcement: carveouts for powerful allies while continuing aggressive prosecutions to avoid appearing soft on cybercrime.
Prosecutors have tried to recover the testimony by bringing in an FBI agent to testify that the scam victim’s funds were sent to Tornado, using an accounting practice known as LIFO. Problem is, that doesn’t really work for crypto tracing — as the agent acknowledged.
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Άρχισε το damage control η Ντόρα, δεν είναι αντισημιτισμός οι διαδηλώσεις για τον λιμό λέει. Της κόβει της Ντόρας. Να δούμε πόσα τσουτσέκια θα αρχίσουν να σβήνουν status τώρα.
In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse #Israel of #Gaza #Genocide
Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not #Palestinians as a group. But 2 of Israel’s best-known #HumanRights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, adding fuel to a passionately fought international debate over whether the death & destruction there have crossed a moral red line.
The two groups were B’Tselem, a rights monitor that documents the effects of Israeli policies on #Palestinians, & Physicians for #HumanRights — #Israel. Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the #Gaza war is a #genocide, an assessment previously reached by some organizations like #AmnestyInternational.
In a report titled “Our Genocide,” B’Tselem cited the devastating effects of Israel’s war on ordinary #Palestinians to support their claim: the killing of tens of thousands of #Palestinians in #Gaza; the razing of huge areas of Palestinian cities; the forced displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s two million people; the restriction of food & other vital supplies.
O Brasil voltou a sair do mapa da fome da FAO, a organização de alimentação e agricultura da ONU: a taxa de pessoas desnutridas no país voltou a ser inferior a 2,5%, um índice considerado como baixo. A média da América Latina é de 5,1%.
Há 20 anos, a fome era a realidade para 5,7% dos brasileiros, mas caiu a partir da implementação do programa Fome Zero.
Em 2014, o Brasil saiu do mapa da FAO, e retornou em 2021 após o desmonte de programas sociais.
"If your customers are too happy, you're leaving money on the table": it's the rallying cry of the enshittifier, and it's also what a friend of mine was told by a respected professor in a top-tier MBA program.
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Enshittification is the theory that if platforms can shift value away from workers, suppliers, users and/or customers without facing consequences, we should expect that they will. A company is a colony organism made up of many differing organelles, some of whom have firm moral centers and good values, but those faction can't win an argument about enshittifying the company's offerings merely by gesturing towards their ethical reservations.
To win that argument, the good guys have to be able to appeal to a villain's highest priority: their own self-interest. It's one thing to say, "I'll feel gross if we wreck our product this way," but it's another altogether to say, "We'll go broke - because of fines, or employee defections, or competitor poaching, or interoperable blocking tech - if we do it your way":
Someone in the org is always ready to believe that the customers (or workers, or suppliers) are too happy, and that this represents money left on the table. Customer service can be scaled back, wages cut, free features turned into upsells. Some of capitalism's most imaginative inventors are enshittifiers, dreaming up new ways to sell you to yourself.
The great tragedy of all this is that the more useful and important a service becomes to you, the more the service's proprietors can extract from you. They don't care if you hate *them*, so long as you love the data, the friends, the productivity, the utility you get from the service more.
Writing in *Ethics and Information Technology*, Louisiana State's Michael J Ardoline and Muhlenberg College's Edward Lenzo write about another one of enshittification's systematic torments: "The cognitive and moral harms of platform decay":
The authors observe that our technologies quickly turn into cognitive prostheses: as soon as we can externalize some function of our thinking into a technology, we do.
Platform decay is the phenomenon of major internet platforms, such as Google search, Facebook, and Amazon, systematically declining in quality in recent years.
I used to walk around with a hundred phone numbers in my head, now I remember two, maybe three on a good day. Which is fine! Sure, remembering those phone numbers wasn't cognitively useless. I cultivated all kinds of clever mnemonics based on the spatial relationships of the phone buttons, their alphabetical equivalents, the tones they made, and the arithmetic relationships between sequential digits, all of which constituted a kind of cognitive workout.
But after the Great Telephone Number Forgettering, I retasked all that cognitive capacity to memorizing and thinking about stuff that's much less arbitrary and far more consequential than phone numbers.
Whenever we adopt a cognitive prosthesis, there's always someone who overweights the value of the old system of unassisted thinking, while ignoring the cool things we can do with the free capacity we get from replacing our fallible and scarce meat-thinkers with something reproducible and external.
No one is immune to this: Socrates thought that reading would make us all stupid because we'd lose the discipline of memorizing all works of literature (ironically, we only know that Socrates thought this because Plato wrote it down):
Previously, I shared a curmudgeonly 1889 article about the menace of electricity and the telephone and its spiritual cousin, a fifteenth-century screed lamenting the printing press.
Versions of this continue to play out. When I was a kid, there was a moral panic that pocket calculators would make us all innumerate (an argument advanced by people who know so little about mathematics that they think it's the same thing as arithmetic). Now I keep hearing about millennials who can't read an analog clock, a skill that has as much objective utility as knowing how to interpret a slide-rule or convert from Francs to Lire to Deutschemarks.
Not actually useless, but entirely bound to a specific time and place and a mere historical curiosity at some later date.
So I *love* cognitive prostheses. As a perennially disoriented man with innately poor spatial reasoning and consequently no ability to parse a map, I *fucking love* living in the age of turn-by-turn GPS directions.
If you wanna know how I write 2-3 books per year, blame the cognitive prosthesis of blogging, which forces me to apply rigor to the notes I take, and rewards me with a searchable database of everything I've ever found important, while stimulating a constant mnemonic rejuggling of all those thoughts that crystallizes into an endless stream of novel synthetic insights *and* road-tested ways to express them:
My blogging is self-hosted, and for good reason. An asset that important to my personal and professional life is too precious to entrust to any kind of third party service, *especially* in light of the collapse of discipline that prevents firms from enshittifying. Remember, the enshittifier's motto is "If your customer is too happy, you're leaving money on the table."
My digital, networked online notebook makes me *very* happy indeed, which means that if it were under the control of an enshittotropic colony organism like Google or Apple or Microsoft or Meta, it would only be a matter of time until some dominant faction decided to see how much they could extract from me by holding it to ransom or making it worse.
It's not practical for everyone to self-host everything. I'm blessed with a lot of technical knowledge and the incredible talents and generosity of a brilliant sysadmin, the wonderful Ken Snider, who makes it all go for me. I've known Ken for 20+ years and the man is no enshittifier.
But most of us don't have a Ken in our lives, and even fewer of us *are* Ken, and so perforce, most of us end up externalizing large parts of our brains to networked services run by companies that would enshittify you without a second thought.
Trusting these companies with so much of your life can be catastrophic, because they are manifestly *too big to care*, which is why you can't get a customer service rep to save your life (and why they're turning over their vestigial customer service functions to chatbots, AKA "the Idgaf Gambit").
Take the case of "Mike," a software developer whose infant son developed a UTI during the covid lockdowns.
On advice from his pediatrician, Mike took a picture of his son's infected penis with his Android phone and sent it to the doctor using a secure telemedicine app, forgetting that his Android device would also automatically sync all his photos to Google's cloud. Google automatically scans all these photos, and it flagged this one as child sexual abuse material (AKA "child pornography"), which resulted in the termination of *all* of Mike's Google services.
In an instant, Mike lost every family photo he'd taken since his son's birth, every saved email, all of his business and tax records in his Google Drive, his phone number (he was a Google Fi subscriber), his authenticator app, and his email address itself. Google handed his search history and many other sensitive records they held on him to the San Francisco Police Department, who concluded that everything was fine.
But the cops couldn't tell Mike any of this because he had no phone and no email, and, lacking these, could not recover *any* of his online accounts. Eventually, an SFPD detective had to ring Mike's doorbell to tell him he was cleared of any wrongdoing. Despite this, Mike *never* got his accounts or data back:
AT THE END OF MARCH 2024, the romance writer K. Renee discovered that she had been locked out of her Google Docs account, for posting “inappropriate” content in her private files. Renee…
This is an *accidental* lobotimization of your outboard brain - it's what happens when a company that's too big to care drops one of its procedures on your head and crushes it like a grape. But there is an important sense in which these companies *do* care: they care whether you hate them more than you value the data and connections and utility they control. They care about this because if you're too happy, they're leaving money on the table.
That's where Ardoline and Lenzo's work comes in. They both document the ways in which we turn these online services into cognitive prostheses, and then investigate how the enshittification of these services ends up making us stupider, by taking away the stuff that helps us think. They're drawing a line between platform decay and cognitive decay.
The web is a giant cognitive prosthesis, and early web tools put a lot of emphasis on things like bookmark management and local caching, so that the knowledge and cognition you externalized to the web were under your control.
But Google Search was so goddamned magic - before they cynically destroyed it - that a lot of us switched from "not remembering things because you have a bookmark that takes you to a website that remembers it for you" to "not remembering things and not remembering where to find them, and just typing queries into Google." The collapse of Google into a giant pile of shit is like giving every web user a traumatic brain injury.
It's a good paper, but I think the situation is actually more dire than the paper makes it out to be, thanks to the AI bubble -
Wait! I'm not actually going to talk about what AI can do (which is a combination of a small set of boring useful things, a bunch of novelties, and a long list of things that AI can't do but is being used to do anyway). I'm talking about the financial fraud that AI serves.
Tech companies *must* be perceived as growing, because when a company is growing, it is valued *far* more highly than a company is once it has "matured." This is called the "price to earnings ratio" - the number of dollars investors are willing to pay for the company compared to the number of dollars a company is bringing in. So long as a company is growing, the PE ratio is very high, and this helps the company to *actually* grow.
That's because the shares in growing companies are highly liquid, and can be traded for equity in other companies and/or the labor of key employees, meaning that growth companies can almost always outbid their mature counterparts when it comes to expanding through acquisition and hiring. That means that while a company is growing, its PE ratio can help it *keep* growing.
But here's the corollary: when a growth company *stops* growing, its shares are suddenly and violently revalued as though they were shares in a mature company, which tanks the personal net worth of the company's top managers and key employees (whose portfolios are stuffed with their employer's now-plummeting stock).
Worse: in order to retain those employees and hire more (or to acquire key companies), the no-longer-growing company has to pay with cash, which is *much* harder to get than its own shares. Even worse: they have to bid against *growing* companies.
A growth company is like an airplane that has two modes: climbing and nose-diving, and while it's easy to go from climbing to crashing, it's *much* harder to go the other way.
Ironically, the moment at which a company's growth is most likely to stall is right after its greatest triumph: after a company conquers its market, it has nowhere else to go. Google's got a 90% Search market-share - how can it possibly grow Search?
It can't (just like Meta can't really grow social, and Microsoft can't grow office suites, etc), so it has to convince Wall Street that it has a shot at conquering some *other* market that the street perceives as unimaginably vast and thus capable of keeping the growth engine going. Tech has pulled a lot of sweaty tricks to create this impression, inflating bubbles like "pivot to video" and "metaverse" and "cryptocurrency," and now it's AI.
For an AI-driven growth story to work, tech companies have to produce a stream of charts depicting lines that go up and to the right, reflecting some carefully chosen set of metrics demonstrating AI's increasing popularity.
One way to produce these increasing trend-lines on demand is to replace all the most commonly used parts of a service that you love and rely on with buttons that summon an AI. This is the "fatfinger AI economy," a set of trendlines produced by bombarding people who graze their screens with a stray fingertip with a bunch of AI bullshit, so you can claim that your users are "engaging" with AI:
Twiddling represents *the* big cognitive hazard from enshittification during the AI bubble: the parts of your UI that matter most to you are the parts that you use as vital cognitive prostheses.
A product team whose KPI is "get users to tap on an AI button" is going to use the fine-grained data they have on your technological activities to preferentially target these UI elements that you rely on with AI boobytraps. You are too happy, so they are leaving money on the table, and they're coming for it.
This is a form of "attention rent": the companies are taxing your muscle-memory, forcing you to produce deceptive usage statistics at the price of either diverting your cognition from completing a task to hunt around for the button that banishes the AI and lets you get back to what you were doing; or to simply abandon that cognitive prosthesis:
It's *true* "engagement-hacking": not performing acts of dopamine manipulation; but rather, spying on your habitual usage of a digital tool in order to swap buttons around in order to get you to make a number go up. It's exploiting the fact that you engage with something useful and good to make it less useful and worse, because if you're too happy, some enshittifier is leaving money on the table.
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
You know, this has bugged me about the Share-to-FB button on my phone for probably two years now. Stories, of course, are *stupid*, and I only want to post photos to News, which is my actual, you know, friends. But when I go to do the post, the *menu items move around* from week to week, in the hope of tricking me into posting a Story instead.
(That whole pivot-to-TikTok was so sad. And they still so very want it to happen.)
The other night on TWiT, Leo had an article about how many people were using Google's new "AI Mode". I pointed out half the clicks they recorded were probably coming from me, because they put the damn "AI Mode" button where the "All" button used to be
You know, a lot of what one learns at university level is not knowledge itself -- because in any complex field there is too much for a person to remember -- but meta-knowledge: knowledge of how to find knowledge. How to use the university library catalogue, for example. How to follow a standard reference.
Every time we change the structure of the university library catalogue, we put a cognitive load on every user of it.
I'm lucky enough to have a "Ken" in my own life, though I'm not sure they *fully* appreciate how valuable they are and how closely they guard our data just by the simple act of running a couple of servers out of our house. They have considered outsourcing the effort to a hosting service, and I've had to convince them not to.
This is impressive. I got into blogging this year for a similar reason and have written (to my astonishment) 20k+ words, but can't yet imagine going deeper and expanding my output.
Even if blogging or writing in general lets us cognitively offload, being able to more deeply shape and massage ideas in the way you do is a highly active process. The ability to write multiple books per year probably comes down to something more fundamental than just blogging.
There is one minor issue with millennials (and younger) being unable to read an analog clock: The "clock drawing test" is a super useful tool in cognitive testing.
It can help diagnose Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, Diffuse Lewy Body, schizophrenia...
It tests coordination / muscle control, planning, correctly following instructions, memory, "perseveration", etc.
I wonder if there is an equivalent very common, very standardized, complex but not too complex device that can take the place of the clock.
I only actually remembered a few numbers back in the day, relied on my notebook for the others; now the only one (aside from my own) I remember is my dad's
@jargoggles you're not supposed to be happy about what he tells you, you're supposed to be almost unhappy enough to ignore him. But not *quite* that unhappy.
@jargoggles He's also stupid. He'd say if you can get $100 from someone now and only take $10, you're leaving $90 on the table. But if you take $10 now and $10 every year for the next 70 years, you end up with $700 at the end. By taking $100 now you're leaving $600 on the table which is a _lot_ bigger loss than leaving $90.
@tknarr @jargoggles i dont agree with that professor. But your calculation also misses investing. Unfortunately, collecting $100 now and being able to invest that money for 70 years straight, will most likely get you a much higher number than the $700 dollars.
@tknarr one truism about sales i picked up long ago is that you should _never_ go for 100%. don't extract the maximum you can get. that's a bad deal that looks like a good one. @jargoggles @pluralistic
@tknarr @jargoggles if CEOs and investors have one thing in common, it’s an inability to think past the next quarterly earnings call.
That said, the businesses we’re talking about here are effectively monopolies; they can take you for $100 every month until you’re out of money, because you’re dependent on them and there’s no alternative.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Brad_Rosenheim @jargoggles An acquaintance did an economics degree some years ago; graduated top of his class, was tasked with speaking at commencement. Don't know how he resolved his "economics is basically runes & astrology" conclusion with the presumed requirement to be "uplifting."
@Brad_Rosenheim @jargoggles Obviously, the university exemplifies exactly what he’s talking about right?
Economics is another dreadful field. I’d love to see the departments absolutely pilloried.
The particular the economics department because so much of mainstream theory is garbage. Mathematical crap and literally mathematical crap. And more than a few things that are contradicted by empirical evidence.
@Rycaut @tknarr @jargoggles This is why vulture capital firms will pay ridiculous sums to acquire all the vendors in a particular market segment. I worked in a municipal government and watched dozens of small vendors that we used get acquired and when we looked at the other available solutions find that they too had already been acquired so we were pushed into crappier solutions as they tried to aggregate with crappy support and more expensive licensing and support fees.
@iantra @guust @jargoggles Nuance, maybe. But the size of the differences seems to indicate that it's a rare case where maximizing short-term gains is the better option. Which matches both common sense and actual results for a wise range of situations.
Yeast growth maximizes short-term gains too, and we know where that ends.
I wonder* if all these democratic countries WHO NEVER LISTENED TO B'TSELEM BEFORE, are now finally going to do something besides their favorite stalling tactics ...
* not really. Weapons, surveillance tech, oil and gas are way more important to the neoliberal political class than human lives. Including ours.
‼️"The American struck me on the head with his rifle." That is how a Palestinian woman described what she endured while trying to receive aid at the American-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on a so-called "Women-Only Distribution" day.
Japan expects only 1% to 2% of its recently agreed upon $550 billion US fund to be deployed as investment, with loans making up the bulk of the rest, according to the nation’s top chief negotiator Ryosei Akazawa.
CIA Director Gina Haspel is hoping Trump loses his re-election bid so she can run out the clock on Russiagate document declassifications, multiple intelligence community officials told The Federalist.
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe its report on a “sheikh” who wants to form a Hebron “emirate” under Israeli control is a groundbreaking political revelation. But anyone with basic knowledge of Palestine will tell a different story.
Ghislaine Maxwell asked the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to toss her conviction, claiming the government broke its own immunity deal by prosecuting.
Y recordad: si el boicot contra #Israel no sirviese de nada, la AIPAC no se habría gastado millones de dólares en presionar para aprobar leyes anti-boicot.
❗️Surviving a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation death trap with a twisted ankle, a Palestinian mother now waits for aid trucks to pass so she can pick lentils and grains of rice off the ground with her children.
@optimista yo de hecho creo firmemente que en términos netos el primer cuarto de siglo de este siglo ha sido peor que el último cuarto de siglo del siglo pasado.
@Shine_McShine creo que no. En terminos de derechos sociales y calidad de vida estamos mejor. Por ejemplo, como persona LGTB no me hubiera gustado vivir en plena pandemia del VIH.
@optimista sí, para el colectivo en España es indudablemente mejor ahora que en los últimos 25 años del siglo XX.
Por eso digo en términos netos. Hay cosas que han mejorado mucho (derechos sociales, medicina, etc.) pero en otras el empeoramiento ha sido notable (burbuja financiera, Gran Recesión, austeridad, burbuja financiera 2 -electric boogaloo-, auge del fascismo, crisis climática).
@Shine_McShine bueno, también si eras mujer no te podías divorciar, la violencia de género. La gente que había caído en las drogas. Derechos laborales de pena. Capitalismo y precariedad había antes también. Yo no lo viví, pero con todo lo que hemos avanzado me cuesta ver en qué estábamos mejor.
A Russian priest announced that special church ringings shut down all Ukrainian fiber optic drones - the newest Russian Electronic Warfare program!?! #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
Μου ειπανε λεει πως ο Τραμπ δηλωσε πως η Χαμας παιρνει τα τροφιμα. Και κανω ενα στοπ εδω.Αντε και τα παιρνει ρε χαμούρη.Πολεμάνε, το νογας;Πολεμάνε οχι οπως εσεις απο μακρια με βομβες και τηλεκατευθυνόμενα.Πολεμανε και χρειαζονται φαγητο. Αν ημουν Παλαιστινιος και το παιδι μου πεθαινε παιζει και να τους τα εδινα.Πολεμιστης με φαί, φασίστες νεκροί.Τι να πεις κι εσυ,την τελευταια φορα που πολεμησατε φεις του φεις εφτιαξαν οι Βιετναμεζοι ολοκληρη σειρα κονσερβες με Πεη Αμερικανου Πεζοναυτη τουρσί.
![The misattributed messages
The prosecution in Storm’s case has really not covered themselves in glory thus far. First, it came to light that they fumbled extracting Telegram messages from a chat including Storm and Pertsev. It turns out a message quoted in Storm’s indictment and attributed to Pertsev, reading “Heya, anyone around to chat about axie? Would like to ask a few general questions about how one goes about cashing out 600 mil”, was actually a message forwarded by Pertsev from a CoinDesk journalist researching a story about the massive March 2022 Axie Infinity theft [W3IGG] and subsequent laundering of stolen funds.4
Although prosecutors have (sort of) admitted they misidentified the message forwarded by Pertsev as one he authored, they’re still arguing that their error is not material to the case, and that somehow forwarding the message made it a statement Pertsev “manifested [and] adopted or believed to be true”. They also claimed the defense waited to raise the issue in a “strategic decision to play ‘gotcha’ on the eve of trial”.5 The defense has petitioned the court to allow them to view grand jury transcripts, citing “grave concerns about the integrity of the grand jury proceedings since it appears that the government provided false information to the grand jury”, and suggested they may move to dismiss the case on that basis.6](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8228171 "The misattributed messages
The prosecution in Storm’s case has really not covered themselves in glory thus far. First, it came to light that they fumbled extracting Telegram messages from a chat including Storm and Pertsev. It turns out a message quoted in Storm’s indictment and attributed to Pertsev, reading “Heya, anyone around to chat about axie? Would like to ask a few general questions about how one goes about cashing out 600 mil”, was actually a message forwarded by Pertsev from a CoinDesk journalist researching a story about the massive March 2022 Axie Infinity theft [W3IGG] and subsequent laundering of stolen funds.4
Although prosecutors have (sort of) admitted they misidentified the message forwarded by Pertsev as one he authored, they’re still arguing that their error is not material to the case, and that somehow forwarding the message made it a statement Pertsev “manifested [and] adopted or believed to be true”. They also claimed the defense waited to raise the issue in a “strategic decision to play ‘gotcha’ on the eve of trial”.5 The defense has petitioned the court to allow them to view grand jury transcripts, citing “grave concerns about the integrity of the grand jury proceedings since it appears that the government provided false information to the grand jury”, and suggested they may move to dismiss the case on that basis.6")
![Now, this is admittedly a simplified example. A real money corner store money transfer service is required to register and abide by strict regulations as a money transmitting business, including keeping detailed records on who sent money where. Yet these are exactly the compliance measures that prosecutors, following the Blanche memo, can no longer argue Storm was required to implement.
When asked during cross-examination, “This doesn’t prove that the hacker moved [Lin’s] money into Tornado Cash, does it?” the agent replied “No, not at all.”11](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8228191 "Now, this is admittedly a simplified example. A real money corner store money transfer service is required to register and abide by strict regulations as a money transmitting business, including keeping detailed records on who sent money where. Yet these are exactly the compliance measures that prosecutors, following the Blanche memo, can no longer argue Storm was required to implement.
When asked during cross-examination, “This doesn’t prove that the hacker moved [Lin’s] money into Tornado Cash, does it?” the agent replied “No, not at all.”11")
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