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Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 13:14:40 JST Molly White

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
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  1. A hypothetical portfolio holding equal amounts of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock GameStop and the sports-betting stock DraftKings returned 62% in the first 11 months of this year. That is more than triple the returns of a traditional portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, according to an analysis by the financial firm Leuthold Group.
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  Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 13:20:55 JST Glyph
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  @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
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    Kevin Roose
    
    Kevin Roose is an American author and journalist. He is the author of three books, a technology columnist, and podcast host for The New York Times. He wrote a book about Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university known for strict rules imposed on students, and was included on the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Life and career Roose is a graduate of Westtown School and Brown University. He worked as news director at Fusion. In June 2017, he rejoined The New York Times. His column, "The Shift", focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and culture. On March 24, 2021, Roose published a column in The New York Times announcing an auction for the column itself to be distributed as an NFT, or non-fungible token, with proceeds going to The New York Times's Neediest Cases Fund. The column sold the following day for $560,000. Immediately after the sale, Roose commented on Twitter, "I'm just staring at my screen laughing uncontrollably". Kevin was given early access to Bing's ChatGPT-based chatbot and encountered a second personality of the chatbot named ...
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  Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 13:20:55 JST Molly White
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  @glyph if you're wondering what he's been up to lately
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  1. How Claude Became Tech Insiders’ Chatbot of Choice A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
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  Darryl Ramm (darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 16:09:58 JST Darryl Ramm
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  Is jigglier line betterer?
  
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