Molly WhiteDec 22, 2024

remember when mainstream news outlets published a bunch of incredibly irresponsible articles about how rich people were getting off crypto, and then people bought in and got wrecked over the two years of "crypto winter" that followed?

anyway here's a WSJ headline i just saw: "Young Men Are Making Risky Bets on Crypto and Politics—and Raking It In Right Now"

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/young-men-investing-bitcoin-stocks-sports-betting-1d44cf8c?st=jxsVqM

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Show threadGlyph
@molly0xfff I am trying to pay attention to individual authorship and not just develop a gestalt vibe of “the media” or even the editorial voice of a specific publication, and I was richly rewarded for it this time with a surprise “forbes 30 under 30” mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Roose
Kevin Roose - Wikipedia

Dec 22, 2024 at 4:19amToot!
Show threadMolly WhiteDec 22, 2024
@glyph if you're wondering what he's been up to lately
Show threadGlyphDec 22, 2024
@molly0xfff I do not like being a snide, judgmental, prejudiced jerk who thinks he knows everything about a particular kind of person just by knowing a *couple* of things about their past behavior, and if I had one request for guys like this, it would be “please stop proving me right all the time and reinforcing this unpleasant habit I have”
Show threadGlyphDec 22, 2024
@molly0xfff okay no that's not right. if I could only ask _one_ thing it would be that they stop enthusiastically facilitating our civilization's and economy's descent into a zero-sum Hobbesian nightmare of all against all. but if I had _two_ requests, this would be a close second
Show threadFediThing Dec 22, 2024

@glyph @molly0xfff

What IS it with that list? Didn't someone recently notice people on the list were disproportionately likely to do dodgy stuff or something?

Show threadGlyphDec 22, 2024
@FediThing @molly0xfff just a couple of comedy articles from The Onion style sites like (checks notes) the Boston University Review of Banking and Financial Law https://www.bu.edu/rbfl/2023/05/17/30-under-30-pipeline-to-prison/
“30 Under 30” Pipeline to Prison | Review of Banking & Financial Law

Show threadFediThing Dec 22, 2024

@glyph @molly0xfff

🤣