Twitter is a cursed monkey paw.
Brian Lynch
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This is really cool. Bryan Garner gave me a copy of his new edition of Modern English Usage. It’s my favorite fun reference book.
Mike Masnick ✅So, remember how Twitter shut down Twitter Blue after a couple days, and spent weeks revamping it to solve the "impersonation" problem?
About that...
Molly WhiteVia ABC, Ellison pled guilty to 7 charges: wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wirefraud on customers, same charges but on lenders, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are flipping on SBF. I think the part in most amazed by is how criminal it is and how lazy the scheme was. SBF owns alameda and ftx and is god king emperor of both. SBF pumps $FTT coin artificially then uses it to swap out fiat from customers. SBF does whatever he wants with the funds.
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-234.pdf
Drew HarwellJournalist profiles on the Washington Post's website can now include Mastodon links. Here's what it looks like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/drew-harwell/
emptywheelIn which @mmasnick tries to patiently explain to Elmo and his witless pets what a 2703(d) order is.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying-twitter-to-censor/
If I'm ambitious tomorrow I'll explain how poor Mike Small couldn't even get one tweet into the latest propaganda effort without making a faceplant error.
NBC NewsCalifornia police say a member of Elon Musk's security team is a "suspect" in an investigation following Musk's claim about an alleged stalker. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/california-police-say-member-elon-musks-security-team-suspect-stalker-rcna62664
