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jfz9580m

(17,295 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:09 PM 8 hrs ago

I really felt for this Trump accuser

I really hope this girl gets some real support. She and her mom have lead such horrible lives.

While it was nothing like this, my mom and I had a very shitty patch for a decade before she passed away due to cancer. We have never had financial stresses as both my parents were public servants with decent pensions, healthcare, savings and inherited land. But we were very psychologically stressed (I, by early exposure to this shitty emerging Panopticon and its creepy implications. She, by my stress as I could never quite explain back before ai, LLM, Agents etc were so integrated (creepily, parasitically and shoddily) into all our lives with best case dubious consent norms).

I have felt more like a metaphorical “vaccine volunteer” since 2011 than what I am, a (mediocre) formerly publicly funded scientist.

You don’t have to have any secrets to be stressed by a PanOpticon in a creepy and misogynistic society that morally or professionally polices fluff/trivialities, but gives genuine harassers, charlatans etc a pass.

At any rate in an interesting self-own (which that bs about deepfakes etc cannot gloss over) and where flooding the zone alone won’t save anyone, it looks like this is coming up:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-advances-bring-the-era-of-quantum-computers-closer-than-ever-20260403/

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever
By
CHARLIE WOOD
April 3, 2026


Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies

Neither company has the hardware to break encryption today. But the results underscore what some quantum physicists had already come to suspect: that powerful quantum computers may be years away, rather than decades. “If you care about privacy or you have secrets, then you better start looking for alternatives,” said Nikolas Breuckmann (opens a new tab), a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol, who did not work on either of the papers.


All that is well and good I suppose when it is just us plebes getting violated not our Dear Leaders or Google/Caltech etc Computer Engineers. But life doesn’t work quite that way however much our dear elites may wish it.

Reminds a bit of the movie version of Dave Eggers’ Circle. What I see daily here in India and generally - is a scramble to destroy women’s rights and enlightenment values broadly while throwing “3-body problem” style trash everywhere in the hopes of making the truth too confusing or pointless to figure out. That is banking on outrage fatigue and it is pointless on a long enough timeline.

Or women would never have gotten the vote, slavery never ended and even what few protections farm animals or earth have not existed:

I thought of a piece I read last year by a lawyer I respect, Aziz Huq. It was about Maga, but it applies in others contexts to our misogynistic and deeply undemocratic technologists, leaders and societies broadly.

For a time making huge changes and throwing some of us away can work. You can scapegoat and malign federal workers and publicly funded scientists who are not in bed with Google or the private sector. Non-transactional people (often less a choice than the limits of free will) may get screwed over in the short term, but in on a long enough timeline to quote Tyler Durden of all people, at the very least there is no saying how this will all shake down:

https://www.ft.com/content/339418e7-405a-4028-a998-4faa622d6b23?syn-25a6b1a6=1


Trump’s Make America Great Again movement might feel liberated by a judiciary that holds no sway over the executive, said Aziz Huq, professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

“But what it also does is it liberates everybody else. Why should a governor, why should a state court judge . . . why should anybody listen to the legal opinion of either the Supreme Court or the president?

“It’s not that you open the door to unilateral claims of power by the president, it’s that you open the door to a cacophony of voices rather than a single voice settling what the law says,” he added.

“I don’t think anyone knows what that looks like. But I don’t think it’s what the people on the Maga right think it looks like”.


Whatever happens after this strange era with its permanent crisis mode hopefully abates, some sort of principled consistency has to return. At least some of the screwed over are getting some respite lately.

Which brings me to the Trump accuser I personally found very sympathetic. This is the 13 year old on whom Trump tried to force oral sex. A lot of her story checks out and I would be shocked if this isn’t the real deal.

But I would urge everyone to read the whole. I really felt for this woman and sincerely hope she gets traction and that Trump is brought to justice for this.

I have always supported privacy while still believing the “truth will out” on important things without any Panopticon controlling and curating it and on a long enough timeline.
And without the mobbing, parasitic “democratization” (call it what it really is -commodification of human life) shilled by greasy internet complanies. The whole replete with selective, coercive, corrupt, futile “openness” forced on most by a few.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/29/data-oil-metaphor-tech-companies-surveillance-capitalism?via=indexdotco

Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives
John Naughton


The pervasive metaphor likening information to crude obscures the reality of surveillance capitalism
Sat 29 May 2021 17.00 CEST
).

This has finally come out and that bodes well for the future of information (and that applies the Swalwell stuff as well).

I really, truly hope this girl gets support. What pieces of shit all the men involved are, including El Presidente.

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined
By Mitchell Black and Marilyn W. Thompson mblack@postandcourier.com mthompson@postandcourier.com
Mar 8, 2026


A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by The Post and Courier through public reco

A friend of hers also reported the allegations about Trump to the FBI in 2019. The bureau cited her allegations in an email circulated within the agency and recently made public by the Justice Department. She asked that her friend be protected.

Extortion and stolen funds
At one point, her mother became aware that Epstein had nude photos of the teen from their sexual encounters and was demanding money to keep them hidden, the woman told the FBI. The victim said she had seen the photographs in his bedstand, leading to a violent encounter when he discovered her snooping.

She said his extortion demand caused her mother to steal funds from her real estate company.

An explosive allegation

Years after the events on Hilton Head, the woman said both she and her mother felt that Epstein was tracking their movements. Both faced suspicious calls and frightening incidents.

In addition to detailing her abuse at Epstein’s hands, the woman offered vague details across three interviews about her encounter with Trump. She said the incident occurred when he was a leading developer with a new casino in Atlantic City. She said she was led to Trump in a “very tall building with huge rooms.” The future president instructed others to leave the room, she said, and allegedly told her, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.”

She said he unzipped his pants and forced her to perform a sex act. The alleged victim told the FBI she “bit the (expletive) out of it,” causing Trump to slap her across the face and curse at her.

The woman repeatedly told FBI agents she believed it served no purpose to tell her story because the events occurred so long ago. Trump had also been elected president in 2016. She informed agents in August, 2019 that she wanted them to know she had sued Epstein’s estate, in case it posed a conflict with their investigation.

In a statement to The Post and Courier, Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations “baseless accusations from decades ago’’ that “are backed by zero evidence or facts.” She described the alleged victim as "a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history."
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I really felt for this Trump accuser (Original Post) jfz9580m 8 hrs ago OP
I believe her over him Whip-poor-will 8 hrs ago #1
Long past time really jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #2

Whip-poor-will

(314 posts)
1. I believe her over him
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:25 PM
8 hrs ago

It's justice time MF

It's slow but it's moving and when he meets justice may justice overwhelm him ,lock him away and make his name shorthand for serous sexual assault. "She was trumped ""he moved on me then trumped me "

May God keep him alive to see the inside of that Jail cell with his name on it.

And Epstein

jfz9580m

(17,295 posts)
2. Long past time really
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 06:22 PM
4 hrs ago

Apparently Trump is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files..outrageous really.

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