[b]LatheOfHeathen: [/b]another bomb for the arsenal
[b]LatheOfHeathen: [/b]im not going to burn out im just taking this seriously
[b]LatheOfHeathen:[/b] honestly though ive been so fucked about other people being ready for whats about to come i havent got my own house in order fuck
[b]LatheOfHeathen:[/b] i think
[b]LatheOfHeathen:[/b] i think we need money off the books not the donation stuff or fundraisers stuff that nobody knows we have all that stuffs critical to the site working
[b]LatheOfHeathen:[/b] might spend some time working out how much were going to need first before i say though
[b]LatheOfHeathen:[/b] thanks babes 

Doing logistics might not stop him from living off taurine noodles, but it [i]does[/i] keep him off the frontlines, and that might have to be good enough for now. Especially if it’s useful. 

The Anthropozine is more expensive than other pirate sites like it because it maintains its own infrastructure, its own server junction in every district, its own encryption for its traffic. Less like an onion net, more like what porn sites did in the late 2020s to help protect people get around puritanical state and local laws. 

It’s not impossible to take the site off the traditional internet, but even OESN can be entirely shut down by cops physically being in two buildings in Aphrodite and Apollo. Anthropozine can’t. That’s where most of the site’s money goes towards, before being split among its contributors. 

But something you’ve probably picked up on from the fact that I’ve always asked you where [i]your[/i] safehouses are, and why none have been offered to you? This level of protective infrastructure has only been built for the information until now. Not the informers. People are a lot more expensive to hide.

The site couldn’t afford it before - York might be thinking it can’t afford not to.

A pebble strikes a fist-sized rock and sends it rolling down, down, down to the Earth below. 

[b]Rudy:[/b]

Rudy was making his plans for his transition to Earth. He spent that time writing cards for his few close friends - and he only has close friends, because if he can’t afford many then he’s had to make them count - tells them he’s going out to one of the smaller stations, out near Mars, to lie low. But he’ll be safe out there, and there’s money to be made for a person like him.

“It’s plausible.” He justified before you left to get the coins. “It’s smarter to think they’re dead, but it’s stupid to leave with the temptation to reach out later, or have them think they should try to find me. They might.” He says this proudly. Of the fact that he has friends that could, of the fact that they care enough that they would. 

You mind if I write this safehouse? Just based on something you said to Goat? Cool, thanks. 

It’s in Hermes. Always meant to be the industrial zone next to the ports, the ‘docks’ of Selene where raw materials are recycled, where waste is processed for valuables before the detritus gets sent forward to Selene. Originally designed by NASA to be a garden of mid-level housing for factory workers, the capitalists reasserted themselves and mixed density upon this district. Higher, denser housing made for the workers, next to lower density McMansions for the management and factory owners that oversaw them. The original design only saw for a 5:1 wealth disparity between the two groups, but by the time people were taking the elevator to actually [i]live[/i] on Aevum, it was closer to 30:1 and widening again. That’s just for the management class mind you, hardly anyone from the executive class lives here. 

But that change in zoning left weird snips and cuts in the blueprints and the landscape as a perfectionally rational plan got irrationally fucked with. Almost all of it got filled in with parks, bought up by the wealthy landowners, or used to fill gaps in utilities. Sensible things. It’s the knock on effects that gave you this one, though.

The increased density in a worker area meant enlarging a train station beyond the original plan, after a line of shops had already been built. The shops didn’t need to be demolished, just all their sensible access points. To get down here at all, now, you have to walk along the train line from the platform and down a ladder a footpath-wide alley to the entrances. These buildings are frequently leased and maintained by real-estate agents though - they’re a favourite for semi-real businesses who need a verifiable address. 

Terrible for squatting, the eviction rate’s too frequent. But for your purposes? All the benefits of legal ownership, none of the costs, and it’s directly on the trainline. It had to be, for this place to happen. It’s a good spot for a middle ground to the airlock, when you can get it, a sleeping bag and a yoga mat on the carpet of a back-manager’s office is surprisingly cozy for a night or two.

Deliver Rudy’s coins and debrief him on what happened in your words, and then I’ll deliver the news.

[b]Pope:[/b]

It’s a draft of a high court decision, a medical malpractice suit about the misdiagnosis of a six-armed patient. Notably the suit is not brought against the doctor by the patient themselves, who remains anonymous, but between the doctor and the insurance company. The doctor denies the malpractice charge on the grounds that such non-standard patients make expectations of the same standards of care desirable but impossible, and doctors are being charged with malpractice in these cases just so the insurance companies can get out of paying routine expenses arising from non-standard complications. The court will be cutting the gordian knot on this. 

In a few weeks this decision will be made public, when it’s finalized. No chance of changing it after that happens.

All the details are here, but let’s just start with what’s important, what it means.

Basically, before it was ruled that furries, cyborgs and altered androids all had the guaranteed legal protections of all other humans and synths that would apply to them - that just got overturned. Legally, Crystal is human with everything that comes with that. Soon, in the eyes of the law, she will be seen as the unicorn she identifies with. That’s all this decision means on its own.

It’s like what Pope said. This wouldn’t be a problem if the differences between those things didn’t matter. It is going to be a problem. Don’t just think of what Marco leaked, also think of the legal protection he needed to get that job in the first place. 

The 9 justices each come from and represent one of the 9 districts in Aevum - with the exception of the Prime, who is the Chief Justice elected from the other 8 Justices. Justice Winter of Aphrodite writes in her dissent; “[i]In the least case, we are closing an umbrella before a more permanent shelter has been built,” [/i]and later, [i]“we have already seen time and again the implicit privilege afforded to ‘human’ rights, and the consequences of narrowing that definition.”[/i]

The Chief Justice Trelawney basically says; That’s a problem for the legislators, not us. We can’t make a bad ruling on our end just because we’re worried about bad laws, that’s not our department. This is just common sense that lets better laws be written around it. It’s fine, don’t worry about it. 

Workplace protections are baked into this ruling, though, it’s accepted that some roles simply require non-human anatomy to be performed. With that, the tacit and cowardly admission that they know this could go badly, and have a kind of person in mind for who they’re going to protect from it. 

…

How did Pope [i]get [/i]this? Who else knows?

This is not a loose stone rolling down the mountainside. This is of that broken earth that everything is heading towards.