"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."
@molly0xfff Moreover the punishment (in this case SBF's sentence) is a treatment to the symptom and not to the disease. In that sense there will be (or are) more SBFs but they will be more careful about the way they operate.
@molly0xfff FTX implodes in 11/2022 and Bankman-Fried is sentenced 16 months later. Trump incites an insurrection in 1/2021 and 3+ years later jury selection is nowhere in sight.
He has also been ordered to pay the $11 billion monetary judgment requested by the prosecution. This is on top of assets already seized by the government.
I'll be doing a livestream tonight at 6pm Eastern to dive deep into the arguments that will be presented in Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing tomorrow and answer any questions you might have
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.
this episode of ALAB is almost five years old but still a joy to listen to in the wake of the judge's ruling today that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto
@molly0xfff Ah, Kickstarter, the place where you invest in things that two or three years from now either never arrive or are broken within a month and either way Kickstarter is absolved of any liability and you're likely not getting your money back. Given that, this is entirely on brand.
"There should be newspapers that we work at where we do this," says Jonathan M. Katz, who was the first to note that Senator Katie Britt had apparently brazenly lied while recounting an anecdote in her bizarre State of the Union rebuttal.
Despite his impressive journalism, "I never got health insurance for it. There was never a job at the end of the rainbow because the industry has just collapsed... But it's also just funny because we're all just out here. I'm on fucking TikTok. I have a fucking newsletter."
@molly0xfff Because of your post, this was for dinner today for a familiy of four in a mountain sheep farm in Tinn, Telemark, Norway. It will be again, for sure! Thanks!
It's still super alpha, and I'm sure it will require a lot of bugfixes and future dev, but it's been really fun to work on some web software and move further in the indieweb direction.
@molly0xfff Just letting you know that while it is really cool what you've built (and alpha as you mentioned), context is lost on Mastodon when your post is split up into parts - the previous parts are not in the chain.
I had no idea what this post was about, and only got the context by visiting your profile and looked up the posts before this one.
Without context it becomes hard to follow what you're trying to convey.