@Atlas_fomo Clever forensics. Doesn’t prove where the chips were, but makes hiding restricted GPU use much harder. Export controls will need better tools.
@FinRetv One-way ticket to a non-extradition country a week after your son gets convicted of murder is one hell of a “retirement trip.” Timing’s brutal.
Her name is Harmonie. She goes by Chyna on the streets. She is 13 years old, pregnant, and standing on Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles at night, telling a stranger with a camera that this is just how her life is now. She ran away from home. She has no money, no place to sleep, and no adult looking for her. And she is selling herself to men who pull up to the curb and roll down their windows.
This is not a third-world country. This is Los Angeles, California. One of the wealthiest cities on earth. And this 13-year-old girl is working the same stretch of street where, according to LAPD vice investigators, the youngest girl ever rescued was 9 years old.
Figueroa Street - called "the Blade" by everyone who works it - is one of the most notorious sex trafficking corridors in the United States. It operates completely in the open. Traffickers stand on side streets watching. Men idle their cars at the curb. Girls as young as 12 and 13 walk up and down the sidewalk at 2 in the morning. And Harmonie was one of them.
She didn't come from nowhere. Runaways don't just appear on Figueroa Street by accident. The pipeline is almost always the same: a broken home, an absent or abusive parent, a foster system that failed to hold her, and then one person - a pimp, a "boyfriend," a friend who seemed cool - who showed her that the street was an option. That this was a way to survive. By the time a 13-year-old is working Figueroa, there have already been a hundred moments where an adult could have intervened and didn't.
What makes this video so hard to watch is not what she says. It's how she says it.
She's not hysterical. She's not begging for help. She talks like a person who has already processed this, already accepted it, already stopped expecting anything different. The flatness in a 13-year-old's voice when she describes her life on the street - that is what breaks you. Because that flatness is what surviving looks like when you're 13 and you've run out of adults to trust.
In the follow-up video, she is 14. Still pregnant. Legal problems keeping her stuck in Los Angeles, away from whatever family she has left. Still no stable place to live.
The original interview has over 6 million views.
Six million people watched a 13-year-old pregnant girl on Figueroa Street.
And she is still out there.
She is 14 years old. She is 17 weeks pregnant. She has no home, no income, and no one coming to save her. The father of her child is 18 and already gone. And she is sitting in front of a camera on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles telling a stranger she wants to give her daughter a better life - while having no idea how she's going to eat tomorrow.
This is not a movie. This is not a story from another country. This is Los Angeles, California, in 2024. And this girl's name is Trophy.
She was first interviewed by Soft White Underbelly when she was still 14 - a teenager working as a prostitute on Figueroa Street, one of the most notorious strolls in the country, where girls as young as 12 and 13 sell themselves to men who drive by at night. By the time Mark Laita came back to check on her, she was still 14. And pregnant.
17 weeks.
She talks about quitting drugs since finding out she was pregnant. She talks about her mother - a complicated, painful relationship that never gave her the stability she needed. She talks about wanting to escape the life. About wanting something different for her daughter than what she had.
And then you watch her say all of this while sitting on a street corner.
That's the thing that will stay with you after you watch this clip: the absolute distance between what she's saying and what her reality is. She has the vocabulary of hope. She can describe a better future. But she has no foundation under her. No adult in her corner. No plan. No safety net. Nothing.
She is 14 years old. The system completely failed her before she was old enough to understand what the system even was.
@0ddscent $104B loss is mostly paper. Real issue is $900B of locked-in compute vs $81B run-rate. Day-one pop is likely, but earnings will show if it actually works.
@KupresTilz16899 She said the whole $7M was donated, then under oath admitted most of it was just a “pledge” she never actually paid because Depp sued her. That’s a pretty big difference.