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molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

An independent examiner will be appointed in the #FTX bankruptcy case after all, thanks to a Third Circuit decision overturning the bankruptcy judge's decision not to appoint one.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67621693/66/in-re-ftx-trading-ltd/

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to ghost

pleased to see a few things in #ghost's alpha features that i mentioned wanting during my migration!

#GhostBlog #GhostCMS

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

molly0xfff, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

the web is a small place. went looking for implementation ideas to have better footnote (and preferably sidenote) support in my newsletter, found https://gwern.net/sidenote, realized my own project is listed there!

#footnotes #WebDesign #CSS

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to Dogs

[racecar noises]
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

finally! i've always wished i could look at my #NFTs on [checks notes] the dashboard of my mercedes

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

If you want all the gory details on how I migrated my Citation Needed newsletter from #Substack to self-hosted #ghost here they are:
https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

Happy to try to help anyone else making this move!

#SubstackMigration #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

There goes @caseynewton with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

in hindsight, snark via strikethrough may have been a tactical error on my part

Screenshot of text from a separate article: "We’ll close our coverage with the line of the day from tech blogger/Wikipedia super-editor Molly White: 'Finally, people will be able to turn their money into an anonymous peer-to peer asset outside of government control, to which they own their own keys and thus control completely, without having to involve powerful financial institutions like BlackRock.'" None of the text is struck out.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

bill ackman also bill ackman

When the “Neri Oxman admits to plagiarism story” broke, I reached out to a board member I knew at BI, and to its controlling shareholders, the co-ceos of KKR, and to Mathias Döpfner, the Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer. I assumed that with a call or two, I would be able to convince BI or AS to suspend the stories so we could address the materially misleading and false statements that were damaging to Neri while the stories were in suspension. This seemed like an easy request to me. If we weren’t able to rebut the allegations, then BI was free to republish the stories. They would be even bigger stories in that case, but after 110 hours or so of trying, I haven’t been able to achieve this objective.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to Bitcoin

Just noticed my work was cited in SEC Commissioner Crenshaw's dissenting statement regarding the bitcoin ETF approval 😳

https://sec.gov/news/statement/crenshaw-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023#_ftn16

#bitcoin #SEC #crypto #cryptocurrency

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

"[A] site that caters to Nazis is not a site that caters to free speech. Because (as we’ve seen time and time again), such sites drive away people who don’t like being on a site associated with Nazis. And, so you’re left in a situation where you’re really just supporting Nazis and not much else." - @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/substack-realizes-maybe-it-doesnt-want-to-help-literal-nazis-make-money-after-all/

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon

Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.

https://citationneeded.news/issue-48/
#newsletter #CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

fun little experiment now, as i posted the most recent Citation Needed newsletter.

first CPU spike at ~23:17 is me sending the email.

second spike at ~23:35 is posting the link to #mastodon

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, 4 months ago to OpenAI

on OpenAI's "our whole business model is yoinking copyrighted material", and some arguments i've been hearing recently from AI advocates about rolling back the scope of copyright law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLYzYWOPJbk

#OpenAI #AI #copyright

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

re: #substack

i spoke personally with hamish mckenzie last week, and came out of the conversation with very little faith in the company's approach to moderation. i'm glad they caved on this point (or promised to cave?), but i am not optimistic something similar won't happen yet again

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to ai

I enjoyed this more optimistic AI-adjacent prediction from Andrew Golis for @niemanlab. It jibes with something I've been thinking about lately, which I talked about on Tech Won't Save Us: real humans like real human things, and AI companies can't change that.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-robots-will-make-us-more-human/

h/t @timberry for the share
#AI

video/mp4

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to Wikipedia

Since Bill Ackman and his followers have so many questions about how Wikipedia works now that his wife has been accused of plagiarizing from it, I figured I'd help him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jM6aoTDK0
#Wikipedia #BillAckman #plagiarism

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, 4 months ago to random

My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

#substack #SubstackMigration

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

sorry to everyone who lost internet points on this

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

atlas woke up at 11, ate his breakfast, went for his walk, put on a sweatshirt, and has now settled in to his blanket on the bed for his first nap of the day

this is the kind of energy i want to bring in to the new year

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

cascading updates... 🥴

open something in GIMP, prompted to update
download the GIMP torrent file, prompted to update my torrent client
go to get the torrent client update, notice my browser is out of date

what was i doing again?