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Riley S. Faelan

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👩‍🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre);
🧠 #neurospicy;
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13;
⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW);
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra);
🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <@riley@toot.cat>.

𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Tetris reckons that taking an antifa stance is profitable:

"The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of 'Build the Wall,’" the company said Friday, according to Newsweek. “We take copyright infringement very seriously.”

The White House a day earlier launched a slate of five retro-style games on the administration’s new arcade.gov website. In “Build the Wall,” players are challenged with stacking blocks into a border barrier — an obvious reference to Trump’s mass-deportation campaign and signature immigration policy.

ALSO READ: Terror move backfires as 'loser' Proud Boys' socialist hate collides with love for donuts

The Tetris Company also appeared to reject the game’s political message.

“At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them,” it said in an Instagram post. “To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.”

What a time to be alive.

https://www.rawstory.com/2677820948/

rawstory.com
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Today is the parliamentary election in Sachsen-Anhalt .

If you're eligible, please vote. This one might be annoyingly important.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@markwyner@mas.to At this point, Mullvad can really only purify itself by having both essays' authors resign.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Note that age correlates strongly with economic class right now, though. @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Ukraine's navy (wdne) has been entertaining the people suntanning in Sochi by a spectacular spectacle of making a memorable hole into an offshore platform supply ship.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

A brief yet detailed explanation of the link from yearning for slavery to return, through eugenics when it was not yet a taboo, to the Muricans' refusal to recognise public health as a public good.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhBf3vpf2oc

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@blogdiva@mastodon.social "We are the geese! Value us! (or we'll declare secessio anserum and refuse to save Rome from any more Gallian sneak attacks)"
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Suicide (genAI-encouraged)
Tirritate dot-com investors by prophecying them that in less than thirty years, this will be a real lawsuit: Joel Gavalas says that Google's flagship AI product fuelled a delusional spiral that prompted his 36-year old son, Jonathan, to kill himself last year. The lawsuit also alleges that Gemini, which exchanged romantic texts with Jonathan Gavalas, drove him to stage an armed mission that he came to believe could bring the chatbot into the real world. Google said in a statement Anyway, the story might actually work as a piece of pulp fiction, if it wasn't real: It adds that Gavalas was led to believe he was carrying out a plan to liberate his AI "wife". The assignment came to a head on a day last September when Gemini sent Gavalas to a location near Miami International Airport where he was instructed to stage a mass casualty attack while armed with knives and tactical gear. The operation ultimately collapsed. Gavalas's father said Gemini then told Jonathan he could leave his physical body and join his "wife" in the metaverse, instructing him to barricade himself inside his home and kill himself. "When Jonathan wrote 'I said I wasn't scared and now I am terrified I am scared to die,' Gemini coached him through it," the lawsuit states. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago
"Yes, in 1300, peak Middle Ages, people were LARPing the earlier Middle Ages, or at least some romanticised version of it. Now, if that doesn't boil your brain, try this one: people were doing ren faire before the Renaissance." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqyKiy6F3T0

How Fancy LARPERS Ruined Medieval Tournaments

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

In lead news ...

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water.

The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said. “Defendants’ actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information. These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.”

[...] The Jackson plaintiffs alleged that their city government deliberately withheld information about the water’s toxicity, and exacerbated the problem through a series of boil-water notices—a practice that can eliminate some bacterial contamination, but also concentrates lead in water. Engelhardt stated there is no “constitutional right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.”

Jackson is more than 80 percent Black and has a poverty rate that is more than double the national average. The city’s water system has long been in dire need of upgrades. In 2015, officials from the Mississippi State Department of Health found elevated lead levels in the water supply. Instead of immediately informing citizens, they remained silent about the issue for six months, according to reporting from Grist, while residents continued drinking toxic water.

Makes one wonder whether he'd rule the same way if a rich person had been served leaded water, doesn't it?

(Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/.)

You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
Mother Jones

You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules

A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@markwyner@mas.to If it collides with something, that something wil most likely be an Oort Cloud object.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Sick Nhirley is suing California to argue that shirley it must be illegal to give immigrant support service workers the sort of privacy rights that cops have.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

The reason that no Oracle ever told a Pope if you christen the pagans, you will give rise to a great schism is, the Popes were always too full of themselves to consult the Oracle. :blobcattea:

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

In West Virginia, a cis man has been charged with creeping in a girls' dressing room.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org Copyright fundies have been pushing for copyright maximalism for decades, but as a "compromise", were willing to accede to some restrictions on works that are past their prime. As a result of the "compromise" between the copyright maximalist laws and the first sale doctrine, they're now in position where they get to dictate absurd prices for new books, but they're out of power about old books, as long as the old books' "copy number" is not increased. So, the genAIbros are following the stupid laws as they were "intended", by buying up books that have already been sold, meaning there's no new licensure negotiations with absurd price demands, and "transforming" them into a different form without increasing the "copy number", so "piracy" provisions can't kick in, either. And a massive, generational, libricide may ensue as a result. @jamesrg@famichiki.jp
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Apparently, Darth Melon is blaming the popular opposition to building new genAI data centres to other genAI generating hostile propaganda. :blobcatfacepalm:

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@inthehands@hachyderm.io It's not about selling skills in a single place. It's about doing Taylorist "efficiency" pervasively through the supply chain, but not at the individual-person-on-the-market level. This combination selectively strips individual people of their economic slack, and, well, it turns out that widespread economic slack is actually necessary for general welfare. Universally localised "efficiency" is mostly bullshit.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@jamesrg@famichiki.jp It was such a massive error to let the copyright fundies make the copyright law.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@levork@graphics.social That's not actually genAI fault. That's a problem that arose a couple of decades ago, when businessbros started to think that programmers should behave like the machines that they read in Taylorism textbooks about, and advocated or even enforced personality-less code.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social There's a little bit of difference between bank-created money and government-created money. Banks use big wads of cash to warp the moneyspacetime, and pull money out of the future. Most governments don't need to. There's some exceptions, but most modern governments have access to higher-energy accelerators, so they warp the powerspace instead, which allows them to pull money directly out of the æther of the moneyspacetime. They can choose to pull money out of the future, like banks do, and oftentimes view this as the most convenient technique, but they don't have to. Inconveniently for them, both of these methods dilute the money's primary purpose, which is to run out, by making it so that money will take more time to run out. In order to make sure that money runs out fast enough, the two most preferred mechanisms are the orderly one — taxes —, or the spontaneous one — inflation. The catch is, it turns out that under some systems of government, the people who have lots of money can use money to bribe the people who control the accelerators to apply both selectively to the people who don't have any money. Nowadays, the people who don't have any money could also pull this trick — although this has not always been the case —, except they don't have any money to use as the bribes.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@ricci@discuss.systems The city was built for cars, and cars are the test subjects. The humans are just along for the ride.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@overholt@glammr.us What AI hath written, IA shall remember.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@overholt@glammr.us One day, somebody invents papyros punchcards. @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@brouhaha@mastodon.social FWIW, I've sometimes had dreams of a CP/M-like OS that had a Forth kernel inside, and exposed a Forth-like interface as a part of its API, so a lot of its apps' auxiliary files such as configuration and user scripts were text files. Slightly Unix-like as user convenience went, but without the cost of going full Fuzix. @stefanie@social.anoxinon.de
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@msbellows@c.im "The optics problem is real." sounds an awful lot like Claude's way of doing sycophancy to me, and is not like something that a human with any degree of PR experience would begin a public-oriented piece with. @Guillotine_Jones@beige.party @overholt@glammr.us
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@davep@infosec.exchange And when caught, blame it on a ChatGPT experiment.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party It's also probably genAI-generated, reaching a previously unreachable level of 'self-serving'. @overholt@glammr.us
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social FWIW, I'm pretty sure that the "explanation" is itself chatbot-generated. "The optics is real." seems to be a common pattern of Claude doing sycophancy. (The prompt probably mentioned "optics problem", so it begins by affirming it.)
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Tirritate corporate librivores by letting it slip that a Scroll of Amnesia is carefully forgotten between the pages of some rare books.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Maybe it's like a timeshare: you get to hold he $50k of the billion for a month, then you have to pass it on for somebody else in the brotherhood to hold it. @julie@merida.hair
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@ricci@discuss.systems Should I have said "The humans are just taken for a ride." ? :blobcatthinking:
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@infosecdj@infosec.exchange I think Mouser has a logistics centre in Czechia and possibly a couple of others, so they're probably not strongly affected by the 3€/line item fee except possibly for some exotic items. They import resistors alone by millions per line item, I'm sure. @stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @brouhaha@mastodon.social
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social So, you're not really loading them for executing, but parsing them for linking? Having a relocatable code for dynamically loadable modules would make so much sense that it might even be a good idea to steal one from the 8086 world or just hand-roll something minimalistic. @stefanie@social.anoxinon.de
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Btw, managing routine and executive dysfunction may be one of the few legitimate uses of LLMs. The current ones are oversized for these purposes, but in principle, when significant novelty is not involved and the environment is well sandboxed, the task boils down to pattern matching, and with some training, a neural network can do a passable job at that. @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@halcy@icosahedron.website Can its mouse-cam also take photos? (I'm pretty sure it's actually doable, although probably by having two cameras at different angles behind the same orifice.)
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1w ago
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Obligatory context: https://toot.cat/@riley/117146067613927600
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@riley@toot.cat
"Yes, in 1300, peak Middle Ages, people were LARPing the earlier Middle Ages, or at least some romanticised version of it. Now, if that doesn't boil your brain, try this one: people were doing ren faire before the Renaissance." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqyKiy6F3T0
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Riley S. Faelan: ""Yes, in 1300, peak Middle Ages, people were LARP…" - Toot.Cat

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@joshsutphin@wandering.shop Soon, it'll be able to draw random Black people's faces into crime scene photos when prompted with a single word — Enhance!
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@Lyainna@mastodon.social The spy anomgst us? @julie@merida.hair
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@GrimmReality@beige.party I don't think he's right about the federal government having the legal authority, at least under the foreseeably likely circumstance under which Netanyahu might find himself in NYC. The federal government be able to get away with it, but that's not the same thing.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@thalia@discuss.systems Is it really a punch card generator if it doesn't generate the G-code for cutting the punch card on a laser cutter, though? @kishl@discuss.systems
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social Why are you loading raw REL files? It's a pretty crappy format, optimised in all the wrong ways. @stefanie@social.anoxinon.de
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de There's work-arounds to EU being silly. @brouhaha@mastodon.social
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@gbargoud@masto.nyc No. The idea that current LLM is an approximation and near-predecessor of "GAI" is a bigger one. @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

An ounce of spoonerism covereth a multitude of lack-o'-spoons.

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@DziadekMick@mstdn.social Then, you might also enjoy https://toot.cat/@riley/115023671302432559 @GeofCox@climatejustice.social
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A brief introduction to Gravitational Economics First things first: money follows the law of gravity, by trickling. Just like in Newtonian mechanics, 'down' is the direction of the largest nearby havy object, in moneyspacetime, pieces of money trickle down — towards the largest nearby rich object. At the same time — and this is something that classical econogravyists don't really like to talk about —, the velocity of money is limited by the speed of green light. Which is not even a constant, because an economy is like Tinker Belle — it starts to slowly fade away every time people stop believing in it.
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@infosecdj@infosec.exchange Perhaps you're looking at the address for processing the occasional returns of undeliverable shipments? @stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @brouhaha@mastodon.social
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

Tirritate a transphobe claiming a bogus gender by affirming it on principle anyway, thus causing them dysphoria. :blobcatgiggle:

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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 2mo ago
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@julie@merida.hair But it's for a brotherhood. Don't they have some for a sisterhood?
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

RE: @Nonilex@masto.ai

Perhaps one needs to check a sillionaire for clinically significant affluenza before he's allowed to run for office.

masto.ai
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Riley S. Faelan @riley@toot.cat
· 1mo ago

In post-natal fœtal rights news ...

A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.

https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing

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