Mastodawn

modest_engineer Dec 29, 2022

Naunihal Singh Dec 28, 2022

Basically he was smug and entirely uninterested in the use of social media for social change, and was happy to jetison it all. He compared Mastodon to his private BB with guitar nerds where anything you wrote was read by 100 people and that was fine.

modest_engineer Dec 22, 2022

Nitasha Tiku Dec 22, 2022

Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research just pleaded guilty 7 counts for defrauding FTX customers. I was just looking up who her lawyer was and realized I missed this. She hired Stephanie Avakian who was at the SEC from 2016 to 2022 led a team that worked on the cases against:

-Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos
-Elon Musk for tweeting misleading statements about taking Tesla private
-Facebook for misleading investors about misusing user data
-cases against Ripple + Robinhood

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-hires-former-top-sec-crypto-regulator-lawyer-ftx-2022-12

Caroline Ellison hires former top SEC crypto regulator as lawyer in FTX investigation

Stephanie Avakian, the SEC's former enforcement director, led major regulatory cases against companies like Robinhood, Tesla, and Theranos.

Insider