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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, 9 months ago to random

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

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

"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.

https://flaminghydra.com/there-should-be-newspapers-that-we-work-at-where-we-do-this/

molly0xfff, 8 months ago to vim

amusing confirmation prompt from #obsidian

#vim #VimMode

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

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

#crypto #cryptocurrency

molly0xfff, 6 months ago to random

crypto has the collective memory of an etch-a-sketch

#crypto #cryptocurrency

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, 1 month ago to random

my site has a #blogroll now! https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll

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, 7 months ago to random

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

#SBF #FTX #GoingInfinite #MichaelLewis

molly0xfff, 11 months ago to random

My latest special edition: a rundown of the charges filed yesterday by the SEC against Binance and what they mean for Binance and the industry more broadly.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sec-v-binance-we-are-operating-as

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

"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky 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, 5 months ago to random

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

#wikidata

molly0xfff, 13 days ago to random

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molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

" '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, 10 months ago to random

"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, 11 months ago to random

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/molly-white-crypto-scams

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, 1 year ago to random

"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

journalists stop calling tech bros with eating disorders "biohackers" challenge (impossible)

molly0xfff, 11 months ago to random

amused that the Tech Won't Save Us episode title format makes it sound like i am the final boss

molly0xfff, 20 days ago to random

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, 6 months ago to random

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, 5 months ago to random

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