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Cover image of Shards of Honour
Vorkosigan Saga series, book 2.
Published . 253 pages.
science fiction, space opera
Started ; completed April 23, 2025.
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Prosecutors have just submitted over 200 victim impact statements in advance of Alex Mashinsky's sentencing in the Celsius fraud case. I've purchased them on PACER to make them freely available on CourtListener.

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SEC Chair Paul Atkins sworn in

Meet our new SEC Chair, Paul Atkins. Who better for the role than a Project 2025 architect who blamed the FTX fraud on the US not being "accommodating" to blockchain technology?

@molly0xfff Who better to regulate financial markets than Paul Atkins, a Project 2025 architect who blamed the FTX fraud on the US not being "accommodating" to blockchain technology? #sec #trumpadministration #project2025 #paulatkins ♬ original sound - Molly White
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"I don't like them. I wouldn't read them. I'll be honest I've read the reviews on some of them…" With these words at a public meeting, Tennessee's Rutherford County School Board member Stan Vaught admitted to banning books he hadn't read — a revelation that kicked off a federal lawsuit. According to the complaint, board members relied primarily on BookLooks.org, a website connected to the Hitler-quoting group Moms for Liberty, instead of reading the books themselves or considering their literary merit. The board repeatedly overruled their own librarians' recommendations to keep books like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, and Ernest Cline' Ready Player One because it has "characters discussing beliefs that heaven and god are not real."
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More broadly, fiction can act as an antidote to authoritarianism. If authoritarianism thrives when people are isolated, fiction brings people together, she says. “In the most basic way, writing is about opening yourself to another person’s mind. The most intimate thing I do on a daily basis is pick up a book and open myself to another person.” And, while the Trump administration may be forcing one way of life on the world, fiction’s job is, as always, to remind people that there are “other ways of being”.
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Yuga Labs is looking to obtain a court order to seize possession of four crypto wallets from Jeremy Cahen, co-defendant in the Yuga v. Ryder Ripps case where Yuga won a nearly $9 million judgment.

Yuga has previously tried to collect the judgment via levies on Cahen’s various banks, as well as Robinhood, Gemini, Crypto.com, Coinbase, and Binance.

They claim that these four wallets contain almost $400,000 in crypto assets Cahen moved out of his Gemini account while Yuga was attempting to collect.

“This transfer occurred before Gemini froze his accounts, showing a deliberate and calculated move to shield his assets from the Final Judgment. Cahen’s actions here are not those of an individual passively awaiting the collection process but rather an intentional effort to evade payment at all costs.”

 They also claim that “Cahen has made a mockery of this Court’s Final Judgement by refusing to pay any portion of the judgment or comply with any post-judgment discovery.” (Cahen has argued that he need not comply while an appeal is pending.)

Yuga argues, citing his various Twitter accounts, that Cahen “regularly flouts [sic] his supposed wealth by sitting courtside at Los Angeles Clippers games”.

Screenshot of a tweet from a court document. Tweet is by PAULY @Magma0x: “My gift to myself. 4 courtside season tickets. For the rest of my life. @IntuitDome @LAClippers @NBA @usabasketball 👏”

It’s not clear when he made this tweet, though. In February he was listed among the 10 Most Wanted in Puerto Rico on assault charges, and so likely wasn’t attending many Clippers games. (He has since been removed from this list, though it’s unclear if the charges were resolved.)

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Cover image of The Hexologists
The Hexologists series, book 1.
Published . 318 pages.
fantasy, urban fantasy
Started ; completed April 20, 2025.