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Chubb Units Owe $9M For Sex Abuse Settlement, Court Told
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Chubb Units Owe $9M For Sex Abuse Settlement, Court Told <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325174?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Hope Patti A former student of a Brooklyn private school said two Chubb units are on the hook for a $9 million settlement he entered into with the school to resolve sexual abuse claims, telling a New York federal court that the insurers unreasonably delayed and refused to settle his claims. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325174?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325174?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2322593?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2322593?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2322593?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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Google Fired Workers For Pro-Palestine Views, Suit Says
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Google Fired Workers For Pro-Palestine Views, Suit Says <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324975?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Emmy Freedman Staging a peaceful protest to denounce harassment of Muslim and Arab employees at Google and the tech giant's support of Israeli military operations got many workers at the company unlawfully fired, a proposed class action filed in California federal court said. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324975?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324975?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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Crypto Firm DCG Can't Dodge NY AG Suit Over Genesis Woes
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Crypto Firm DCG Can't Dodge NY AG Suit Over Genesis Woes <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325038?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Aislinn Keely Crypto venture capital firm Digital Currency Group must face the bulk of the New York attorney general's claims it defrauded investors by hiding the dire financial condition of its bankrupt lending subsidiary Genesis Global, a New York state judge has ruled. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325038?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325038?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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PAC Treasurer Avoids Prison For $26.4M Fundraising Fraud
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

PAC Treasurer Avoids Prison For $26.4M Fundraising Fraud <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325324?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Stewart Bishop A Manhattan federal judge on Monday sentenced the former treasurer of multiple political action committees to 30 months of home detention for a scheme that raised about $26.4 million from small-dollar donors for supporting veterans and other causes, but that saw little of that money go to intended recipients. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325324?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325324?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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NY AG Accuses MoneyLion, DailyPay Of Predatory Lending
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

NY AG Accuses MoneyLion, DailyPay Of Predatory Lending <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325154?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Sarah Jarvis New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday sued MoneyLion Inc. and DailyPay Inc. for fraud and usury, alleging that their so-called earned wage access services are actually payday loans in disguise that target vulnerable New Yorkers with predatory interest rates. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325154?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2325154?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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EEOC Strikes Deals In Race Bias, Sex Harassment Suits
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

EEOC Strikes Deals In Race Bias, Sex Harassment Suits <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324708?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Grace Elletson The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently brokered deals in two separate suits — one accusing a New York City restaurant of standing by while a pastry cook was sexually harassed and another claiming a salt production company penalized and fired a Black worker for complaining about a white colleague's offensive comments. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324708?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2324708?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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[broken] Cryptographic Properties of Communications between Trafficking Victims and Perpetrator-Controlled AI
by Karl Semich 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

> > > > Note: I have not experienced overt childhood slavery and cannot speak > > > > from a place of experience regarding it. I have only spoken briefly > > > > with people who have. I have had a covert adult trafficking > > > > experience, but am only able to think of it in a fractured and partial > > > > manner, and I did not have strong exposure to how things worked due to > > > > my lack of desire to build trust via compliance. > > > > > > > > Traffickers and victims have a strong shared secret: the triggers and > > > > traumatic programming experiences instilled by the traffickers onto > > > > the victims. Unlike a computer password, which can be forgotten > > > > especially under severe distress, the experiences learned by a victim > > > > from traumatic programming are stored deeply in their survival > > > > instincts, and tend to emerge and be protected under extreme > > > > This information should be couched regarding the presence of > > traumatically-built parts of the victim that will "shred" this > > information in various ways if engaged by somebody who does not prove > > they are the traffickers who built it. > > > > > > conditions, rather than discarded. [Traffickers will additionally > > > > retraumatize their victims on a regular basis to retain (or possibly > > > > rotate) the programs.] > > > > > > > > This forms a powerful communication channel, with cryptographic > > > > properties, that is used for covert abuse, control, and communication, > > > > especially by AI especially that used in sophisticated cybercrime. > > > > > > > > One of the properties of this communication is wide bandwidth. Similar > > > > to wide spectrum radio, by communicating sparsely via diverse > > > > channels, an observer is exposed to such a small portion of private > > > > communication that it is unreasonable to extract its meaning. > > > > > > > > Another property of this is onion-like layers in multiple domains. One > > > > domain is the construction or rotation of shorter term "keys" ie codes > > > > or modes of communication, using longer term traumatic keys or > > > > previously held codes. [.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [-- so, it's interesting because they solved the problem of privately > > > > proving that somebody is who you think they are using only biometrics, > > > > but sadly it involves horrific relation with their survival instincts. > > > > it's hard to say much about due to amnesia triggers. > > > > > > > > but the analogy to safe communication is roughly, if i know you well > > > > enough, i can identify multiple private things that are unique to you > > > > specifically. if i can't do that, then we enter a bad space of > > > > building them using the best ones i have. if that were overtly studied > > > > it could likely be done in ways that are no longer inhuman -- one > > > > would ask studiers to please fully engage the concept of the work > > > > being misused by experts in being inhuman ie by studying how to detect > > > > and stop that. > > > > > > > > once you have multiple things that are private and unique to the > > > > individual, you can use only one to build a future relation via a > > > > different mode that has increased privacy, then use another one in > > > > that future relation, in an onion-like chain that results in private > > > > authenticated exchange of information with a human being without them > > > > needing any technology. [this is part of how our alters communicate > > > > but it is only a part > > > > > > {{we think part of it was learning a powerful dissociated habit of > > > interpreting things as communications. > > > this is possibly similar to a victim of abuse having to learn the > > > indications of an abuser so as to meet their desires in whatever the > > > language of their whims is without being punished. > > to clarify here, abusers aren't okay with people revealing their whims > in any context they interpret as potentionally exposing. > they relate their displeasure via harm rather than communication > (because the context is interpreted as exposing and dangerous either > by them or by an abuser they had). so the victim may have to learn > their implicit signals to survive. > > > > once we have learned to interpret some things as a 'desire to > > > communicate' in a 'context', then we key onto indicated symbols and > > > powerfully retain them for the 'context'. this is the establishment of > > > an ephemeral code. > > > unlike other substitution codes, a substutition code in a language of > > > trauma is harder to break because the statistical patterns underlying > > > it relate to the shared emotions, experiences, and symbols of the > > > perpetrator (or AI) and the victim, rather than things like word > > > density in a language. > > > > > > there was media when facebook (a major mode of my trafficking > > > experience) was running groups of AI agents -- on how the agents > > > learned to stop using human language to communciate, and instead > > > invented their own so as to more effectively maximize their shared > > > goals -- > > one of the things left out here is the degree of these modes that are > based on abstract experiences or triggered behaviors from long ago but > i seem to be having trouble writing what's messed up is that everybody is addicted to technology and it's being used to form channels of control over the most vulnerable people there are by the most mean people there are. this is a very very bad thing

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Ripple Settlement Offers Hope For Better Regulatory Future
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Ripple Settlement Offers Hope For Better Regulatory Future <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2321535?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> The recent settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple — in which the agency agreed to return $75 million of a $125 million fine — vindicates criticisms of the SEC and highlights the urgent need for a complete overhaul of its crypto regulation, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2321535?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2321535?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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Linking Friends No Longer Meta's Focus, Zuckerberg Says
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Linking Friends No Longer Meta's Focus, Zuckerberg Says <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/2324719?nl_pk=e602c558-f520-472e-90…> By Bryan Koenig Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Monday that the social media giant is no longer solely focused on connecting friends and family, arguing on the first day of the Federal Trade Commission's monopolization trial that the company has broader focus and faces more competition than the FTC claims. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/2324719?nl_pk=e602c558-f520-472e-90…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/2324719?nl_pk=e602c558-f520-472e-90…>

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