A reporter once asked me if I knew SBF personally. Apparently sensing I was confused by why that might be likely, they pointed out that we would've been in college in Boston/Cambridge at the same time. Especially since then, it's been very weird to read stories about how maybe he's just a poor smol bean who made a whoopsie when most of us have managed to somehow not toddle our way into financial fraud at the fragile age of 30 YEARS OLD.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child
no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.
free speech!
Have been here about 3 weeks now, so am happy to share some information with new arrivals.
1. The T in Mastodon is silent to discourage the use of letters found in the word Twitter
2. That guy in the corner is Abe, he bites redheads and shouldn't be woken between 2pm and 9.15pm
3. The colour verdigris is not banned but is strongly discouraged
4. Question marks are now commas
5. Jokes must be exactly 173 characters long and/or in rhyming couplets
6. Fun is mandatory but rationed, for safety