You wanna go down a rabbit hole? The corporate structure alone is bizarre:
Why would a Cayman Islands–registered metaverse company use a proxy to establish first an Ohio subsidiary and then a boutique record label, and then have the record label strike up a concert deal with a different subsidiary, located on an entirely different continent?
The farther you go, the more questions you have.
My little article about the increasing phenomenon of people saying, “I asked ChatGPT” inspired Rob Dubbin to create a Chrome extension. It replaces references to ChatGPT with “my stupid friend.”
[chromewebstore.google.com]
Sure, booze is fun but it’s also poison. Anyway, the Surgeon General has said alcohol should be labeled for its cancer risk. If you’re sober-curious, join me for a Dry January — a ritual in which I get a month of great sleep.
[The New York Times]
Kwon has been extradited to this US to face fraud charges. The charges contain a description of the overlapping network of allegedly fraudulent entities Kwon juggled before Terra / Luna came crashing to Earth.
An attempt to crush myself to death.
If the phrase “Hawk Tuah girl” means nothing to you, I urge you to continue in blissful ignorance. If “Hawk Tuah shitcoin scam” resonates, you’ll enjoy Katie Baker’s rundown of what, exactly, happened.
[www.theringer.com]
Not even authority, just the signifiers of authority
Tether, one of crypto’s longstanding mysteries, is dropping more than three-quarters of a billion dollars on Rumble, the far-right video sharing platform. Do click through for the statements from both companies’ CEOs, which definitely sound like normal human speech.
The House is currently scrambling to pass a spending bill that would avert a shutdown. There is a better way. A more fun way. A meme.
