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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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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.

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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 web3
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Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

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molly0xfff,
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It's worth noting that Andreessen Horowitz is running a huge marketing blitz around this book.

This isn't just Chris Dixon misreading the room and publishing his book two years too late — they're trying to drum up the next story to sell people on crypto.

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

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well that feels pretty cool. https://bostontechleaders2023.bostonglobe.com/people/molly-white-web3-is-going-just-great/

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

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 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

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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"tor and other web3 projects"? 🤨

molly0xfff, to random
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Just saw a really irritating anti-remote work chart crime from making the rounds on twitter, from an article claiming that "The most worrying finding in the latest survey -- especially in a workplace that is increasingly hybrid and remote -- is that employees who can do their work remotely have an eroding connection to the mission or purpose of the organization."

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/509759/remote-workers-organizations-drifting-apart.aspx

1/2

molly0xfff, to random
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it may have taken a year, but i'm pleased to announce my now has a name

in hindsight, it was an obvious choice

https://citationneeded.mollywhite.net/

molly0xfff, to random
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huge thanks to Fastly for supporting my work by including my websites in their "fast forward" program! they're generously providing caching services for @web3isgreat and citation needed.

molly0xfff, to random
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man i hate the mastodon/bluesky fighting

molly0xfff,
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mastodon rocks.
bluesky rocks.
i'm happy both exist.

molly0xfff, to random
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happy 90 days after this tweet.

as i write this, bitcoin is priced at $25,000, below its $26,000 price point on march 17 and a mere $975,000 away from reaching the $1M price point as balaji predicted

molly0xfff, to random
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criminal mastermind

molly0xfff, to random
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my life changed for the better the day i realized you can put tortellini in your minestrone instead of plain pasta

molly0xfff, to random
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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, to random
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"lol fbi can't do shit"

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-more-men-charged-hacking-fantasy-sports-and-betting-website

AUSTAD, 19, of Farmington, Minnesota, and STOKES, 21, of Memphis, Tennessee, are each charged with (i) conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; (ii) unauthorized access to a protected computer to further intended fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; (iii) unauthorized access to a protected computer, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; (iv) wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; (v) wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and (vi) aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison.

molly0xfff, to animals
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all the snuggles for this little lady today

molly0xfff, to random
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An independent examiner will be appointed in the 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,
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This is the very same issue I urged more attention to in my op-ed for the New York Times back in November. Really glad to see it being recognized by the courts!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/opinion/fraud-crypto-ftx-trial.html

molly0xfff, to random
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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/

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btw, for anyone who missed the original announcement, you can now subscribe with 100% less substack guilt

https://citationneeded.news/signup/

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