Joe and Barbara have settled with the FTX estate. Also: Abundance is Just Effective Altruism; Bitboy arrest; Mario Nawfal; EOS; D.C. influence; 11x; and more.
three-question demographic survey that will help me find more readers like you
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DZM: Ah, my results show my readers are overwhelming 80 to 90 year old women who have over $1 million in yearly income. I will definitely need to write more articles about how to avoid fraudulent storefronts for financial trust services related to leaving your money to your pets.
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I had a blast covering the month-long SBF trial for Protos
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Protos is basically the only crypto news I read any more. Cointelegraph went complete shill well over a year ago. Then I noticed Rekt News started to get purple prosey, apparently the original writer(s) are long gone. If it was just in the style of Raymond Chandler, that would be fine. But it’s more like an AI was given a normal article of reporting and then told to adopt the persona of Raymond Chandler to Chandlerize it.
CoinDesk then let go of a lot of people (as mentioned later in this substack), and I think it died pretty much at the same time. This example https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/breaking-coindesk-is-dead-heres-who is less deathknell and more the Weekends at Bernie's antics of a corpse. Letting go of so much of the staff is weird. As you'd think the new owner, a fan of authoritarian doctrine, would want a fully staffed organization so as to properly report news and not just fluff pieces glorifying the current authoritarian administration, largely put in place by that same fan of authoritarianism. I mean you'd think it, if that’s how you think, because he and his cronies have been successful in making everyone’s critical thinking levels just right for complacent exploitation. Everything counts in Thiel amounts.
But Protos I still check out occasionally. It suffers from the same problem as Rekt News had even before the purple prose. No by-lines. Heck, CoinDesk started going one better and started naming the editors too. I think those are important. If they want to protect their authors, a nice compromise would be each editor and author had a pseudonym, as long as the same pseudonym was used throughout. No crypto news is at the point of permaweb, version control, and dedicated accounts (psuedonymized or not) for content creators and facilitators. Instead the most blockchaining we get is tokenization for an Instagram clone trying to jump on the pump train.
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it stands to set precedents for the legal risk of software developers
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Unfortunately, it seems like it might be a bit of a Sacco and Vanzetti thing. Historians are definitely in agreement that the trial was unjust against Sacco and Vanzetti, but most historians also agree they were likely active members of a violent extremist group. I think most readers of the Tornado case realize the difference between: A) Stopping a person who is clearly a group leader of a group doing bad activities by using actually viable alternative charges that are easier to convict upon–like tax evasion against Al Capone (or perhaps any number of credible charges against a certain current president). And B) Punishing a person ambiguously related to a group that is ambiguously related to ambiguously bad activities on ambiguous charges that seem to run afowl of–and may ultimately hurt–the very laws and legal processes that protect the less powerful like you and me.
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been on the kind of crashout
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Two in a row. Floodgates open. Polymarket has greatest odds on “rizz” being next. UMA token holders will hotly contest DZM’s future use of “looks like the crypto rapper's legal defense was lacking in Rizzlekahn.”
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cultured meat
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Don't know that term, I'm imagining someone pickling bologna, and I'm frankly terrified.
Oh! Lab grown meat. Well, whether that is bad, depends on what you are trying to solve. Anything can be used as a vehicle for grift regardless of it being potentially amazing technology (see: crypto). As I've said before, I believe that a spectrum to consciousness is likely. Cells grown in a petri dish, ideally with no central nervous system, but at least with no brain, seems a lot less problematic than the current way of ingesting those cells. But if you disregard that, and say it’s best from a practical or cost-effective point of view–eh, it’s more like any climate-reversing strategy that is not just planting more trees. But people are even more addicted to exploiting land than they are exploiting non-human animals, so that is worth considering.
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three-question demographic survey that will help me find more readers like you
“
DZM: Ah, my results show my readers are overwhelming 80 to 90 year old women who have over $1 million in yearly income. I will definitely need to write more articles about how to avoid fraudulent storefronts for financial trust services related to leaving your money to your pets.
—
“
I had a blast covering the month-long SBF trial for Protos
“
Protos is basically the only crypto news I read any more. Cointelegraph went complete shill well over a year ago. Then I noticed Rekt News started to get purple prosey, apparently the original writer(s) are long gone. If it was just in the style of Raymond Chandler, that would be fine. But it’s more like an AI was given a normal article of reporting and then told to adopt the persona of Raymond Chandler to Chandlerize it.
CoinDesk then let go of a lot of people (as mentioned later in this substack), and I think it died pretty much at the same time. This example https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/breaking-coindesk-is-dead-heres-who is less deathknell and more the Weekends at Bernie's antics of a corpse. Letting go of so much of the staff is weird. As you'd think the new owner, a fan of authoritarian doctrine, would want a fully staffed organization so as to properly report news and not just fluff pieces glorifying the current authoritarian administration, largely put in place by that same fan of authoritarianism. I mean you'd think it, if that’s how you think, because he and his cronies have been successful in making everyone’s critical thinking levels just right for complacent exploitation. Everything counts in Thiel amounts.
But Protos I still check out occasionally. It suffers from the same problem as Rekt News had even before the purple prose. No by-lines. Heck, CoinDesk started going one better and started naming the editors too. I think those are important. If they want to protect their authors, a nice compromise would be each editor and author had a pseudonym, as long as the same pseudonym was used throughout. No crypto news is at the point of permaweb, version control, and dedicated accounts (psuedonymized or not) for content creators and facilitators. Instead the most blockchaining we get is tokenization for an Instagram clone trying to jump on the pump train.
—
“
it stands to set precedents for the legal risk of software developers
“
Unfortunately, it seems like it might be a bit of a Sacco and Vanzetti thing. Historians are definitely in agreement that the trial was unjust against Sacco and Vanzetti, but most historians also agree they were likely active members of a violent extremist group. I think most readers of the Tornado case realize the difference between: A) Stopping a person who is clearly a group leader of a group doing bad activities by using actually viable alternative charges that are easier to convict upon–like tax evasion against Al Capone (or perhaps any number of credible charges against a certain current president). And B) Punishing a person ambiguously related to a group that is ambiguously related to ambiguously bad activities on ambiguous charges that seem to run afowl of–and may ultimately hurt–the very laws and legal processes that protect the less powerful like you and me.
–
“
been on the kind of crashout
“
Two in a row. Floodgates open. Polymarket has greatest odds on “rizz” being next. UMA token holders will hotly contest DZM’s future use of “looks like the crypto rapper's legal defense was lacking in Rizzlekahn.”
–
“
cultured meat
“
Don't know that term, I'm imagining someone pickling bologna, and I'm frankly terrified.
Oh! Lab grown meat. Well, whether that is bad, depends on what you are trying to solve. Anything can be used as a vehicle for grift regardless of it being potentially amazing technology (see: crypto). As I've said before, I believe that a spectrum to consciousness is likely. Cells grown in a petri dish, ideally with no central nervous system, but at least with no brain, seems a lot less problematic than the current way of ingesting those cells. But if you disregard that, and say it’s best from a practical or cost-effective point of view–eh, it’s more like any climate-reversing strategy that is not just planting more trees. But people are even more addicted to exploiting land than they are exploiting non-human animals, so that is worth considering.