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molly0xfff

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat creator • subscribe to my newsletter at http://citationneeded.news/
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molly0xfff, to random
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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,
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✅ gaming the NYT bestseller list
✅ buying full page print ads in WaPo
✅ elbowing onto Hard Fork, Pivot, other tech pods
✅ placing pre-pub features in Wired, Bloomberg, FT

smells a bit of desperation from a16z

molly0xfff, to random
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really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

molly0xfff,
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in a better world, this would prompt some self-reflection at the new york times

molly0xfff, to random
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There goes @caseynewton with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

molly0xfff,
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pretty remarkable just how scummy Substack has been throughout all this.

this on top of the news that they actively solicited that anti-anti-Nazi letter!

To us, the six publications we had submitted had only ever been a question: would Substack, in the most clear-cut of all speech cases, do the bare minimum? In the end, it did, in five out of six cases. As all of this unfolded, I spoke twice with Substack’s co-founders. And while they asked that those conversations be off the record, my understanding from our conversations — based on material they had shared with me in writing — was that in the future they would regard explicitly Nazi and pro-Holocaust material to be a violation of their existing policies. But on Tuesday, when I wrote my story about the company’s decision to remove five publications, that language was missing from their statement. Instead, the company framed the entire discussion as having been about the handful of publications I had sent them for review.

molly0xfff, to random
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you know sometimes it’s just better to avoid using the latin loanwords

molly0xfff, to vim
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amusing confirmation prompt from #obsidian

#vim #VimMode

molly0xfff, to random
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New report out from the Bank of International Settlements: "cryptoassets have so far not reduced but rather amplified the financial risks in less developed economies."

https://bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap138.htm

molly0xfff, to random
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RIP @nova. You were an awesome person, and the world will be worse off without you.

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molly0xfff, to random
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" 'Wherever you get your podcasts' represents ... the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." 🤌 by @anildash
https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

molly0xfff, to random
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More than 60 journalists have been killed since October during the war in (and near) . Visual from @wikidata: https://w.wiki/8Ucb

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"Look for news coverage that includes a link to the Supreme Court decision, motion for summary judgment, indictment, or civil complaint. Why? Even if you think you can’t read it, you should look for reporters who think you might." – @Popehat

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/special-episode-how-to-be-a-smarter

molly0xfff, to random
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"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

molly0xfff, to random
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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, to OpenAI
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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

molly0xfff, to random
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journalists stop calling tech bros with eating disorders "biohackers" challenge (impossible)

molly0xfff, to random
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Here's a gift link for my recent Bloomberg Businessweek piece: "The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDc3MDkzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE1Mzc1NzMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjc4QTNBMDc1N0U0OTI0ODFCRUU5RDRCRjBDNERDNSJ9.q7mx4CRLXnaPaRk03IohbYerjFc5httVYyrugxZ5TE4

molly0xfff, to random
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okay, that's enough, we need to put a limit on names in the tech industry. if you're named sam and you're hoping to become a prominent figure in tech, please pick something else. mar(c/k)s, you're on notice too.

molly0xfff, to boston
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silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech

#boston #bospoli

molly0xfff, to random
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ngl https://url-parts.glitch.me/ is one of the most useful websites i've come across in a long time

molly0xfff, to random
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finally made an "AI" category (https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?collection=ai) for @web3isgreat to capture all the disasters pertaining to AI-powered cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency-powered AI

molly0xfff, to random
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so SBF and an attorney:
• falsified a "payment agreement" between FTX & Alameda
• backdated it by ~2y
• wet signed it to avoid DocuSign timestamp
• submitted it to an external auditor
• used it to obtain a $400M funding round

relic of the first draft of the sham agreement that Attorney-1 created in March 2021—nearly two years after Bankman-Fried supposedly signed it. Bankman-Fried and the FTX Group also used the sham Payment Agent Agreement to support their claim to the outside auditor that fiat currency of FTX.com customers did not need to be recorded in FTX Trading Ltd.’s audited financials. FTX Trading Ltd. informed its auditor that, pursuant to the agreement, Alameda “provides cash management services to FTX.” A member of FTX Trading Ltd.’s external accounting team who was closely involved in the audit explained in an e-mail to the FTX Group’s external counsel working on the IPO that pursuant to this “cash management agreement,” Alameda “manages the fiat aspects for customers.” She explained, because “we have been using Alameda as our payment processor, we have not recorded the customer fiat nor their crypto balances on our books as an asset or liability.” After Attorney-1 caused the outside auditor to be provided with the Payment Agent Agreement, the outside auditor prepared an audited financial statement of FTX Trading Ltd. that inaccurately and misleadingly characterized FTX Trading Ltd.’s relationship with Alameda, and did not record any fiat currency of FTX.com customers. While the IPO was not ultimately consummated, the FTX Group proceeded to share the false and misleading audited financials with potential investors in connection with its $400 million Series C financing that closed in Ja

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accepted solution: take the day off

molly0xfff, to random
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very cool to see a quote from my recent writing on AI (https://citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/) in a piece by Julia Angwin in the New York Times this morning!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.SV0g.r4iVMq0NT6z7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

molly0xfff, to random
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So excited to hear that the Ghost blogging software is going to support federation via ActivityPub! https://activitypub.ghost.org/

If you sign up for updates, they have a survey where they're asking for feedback. Now's your chance to get your suggestions in!

molly0xfff, to random
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i just learned that pepsi was originally called "brad's drink" so anyway i'm going to be reeling from that for a week or so

molly0xfff,
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genuinely thought some asshole named brad had vandalized this article but NOPE

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