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molly0xfff, 5 months ago to random

can someone please ask michael lewis to stop referring to the sam bankman-fried trial as a "lynching" holy shit

#SBF #SamBankmanFried #MichaelLewis

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to web3

chris dixon's new #web3 book is off to a strong start

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

oh lord, oh lord 🎵

Video of the Boston cop loudly falling down a metal slide, with Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" overlaid

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

just inventoried my bin of bulk/duplicate spices bc i need to make a penzey's order

FOUR bottles of smoked paprika

i use it in one (1) recipe

molly0xfff, 1 year ago to random

good luck little dudes!

#gardening

molly0xfff, 23 days ago to web

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

<s>Two</s> Three more questions. Please answer both!

1. When were the "good old days" of the net?

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

molly0xfff, 13 days ago to random

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molly0xfff, 7 months ago to Cats

scientific breakthrough: a thermometer that can tell the temperature with no sensors needed

by measuring the proximity between my two cats, who do not normally like to snuggle with one another, you can tell that the heat in my house is broken

#cats #catsofmastodon

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to Dogs

day 1 of atlas's "separation anxiety" medication is off to a strong start

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

In case it might be useful to anyone else, I just wrote a quick Chrome extension to download all PDFs on CourtListener when there are multiple attachments to one docket entry.

https://github.com/molly/courtlistener-download

#CourtListener #PACER

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to RSS

"RSS is dead"

#rss

Screenshot of an access log from citationneeded.news, showing that about a third of requests are to endpoints like /rss and /feed.xml

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIEthics #EffectiveAltruism #EffectiveAccelerationism #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

email sending is no joke 😓 even using services intended to handle most of the nightmares around running a mailserver, it is tough to get emails through these days

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

lol at the guy who was shocked when i asked for a consulting fee when he wanted me to give him feedback on his idea for a web3 project

it's apparently "ironic" to do so based on... my talk about how web3 is bullshit

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to random

i am, once again, in browser automation hell

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

#substack, by first refusing to ban nazis under the guise of being a "free speech" platform, and then turning around and saying "actually we'll ban some of the nazis", has taken the route that will piss off the most people possible

good work, boys

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

Sam Bankman-Fried might be going back to jail, re-entrancy attacks galore, and a bad week for gambling-related payment processors.

Catch up on the past week in crypto disasters in my latest: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-34-the-issue-is-you-got-hacked

molly0xfff, 6 months ago to cryptocurrency

SBF is front page news, even on Wikipedia. Fun fact: I uploaded that photo!

#SBF #FTX #cryptocurrency #crypto #Wikipedia

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm

we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

just dug up a book i made when i was five. not too much has changed.

molly0xfff, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I just finally deployed something I've been working on for a few weeks now: a feed of my writing, posting, reading, and other various activity that lives on my website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed!

I've admired the POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE; "Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") model for a long time, but only finally found the time and energy to put something together that I'm actually happy with.

#indieweb #POSSE

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

😐

hoping AI companies remove your work from their datasets (after already including it without consent) is not going to be enough

https://decrypt.co/150575/greg-rutkowski-removed-from-stable-diffusion-but-brought-back-by-ai-artists

Digital artist Greg Rutkowski wants nothing to do with art created using artificial intelligence, but AI art creators won't leave him alone. Known for his vivid, surreal style, Rukowski is immensely popular among enthusiasts of AI-generated art. In fact, his name became the most invoked keyword used by AI artists looking to mimic a specific artistic style. But he wanted nothing to do with the technology. After vocally opposing the AI art trend, Stability AI—creators of the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion—responded by removing his work from their dataset. But the community has now created a tool to mimick Rutkowski's style against his wishes. And since Stable Diffusion is open source, there's nothing he or Stability AI can do about it.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

i realize some of you may have thought i was joking when i said one of the things that made me excited about leaving substack was control over how my footnotes and references look

🤩

#footnotes #WebDesign #CSS