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Avraham Eisenberg, the person who was just found guilty of exploiting the Mango Markets crypto project, has now been charged with possession of child sexual abuse material.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AVRAHAM EISENBERG, Defendant. INFORMATION 24 Cr. 251 COUNT ONE (Possession of Child Pornography) The United States Attorney charges: 1. From at least in or about 2017 through at least in or about 2022, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, AVRAHAM EISENBERG, the defendant, knowingly possessed and accessed with intent to view a book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, and other material that contained an image of child pornography that had been mailed, shipped and transported using a means and facility of interstate and foreign commerce and in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, and that was produced using materials that had been mailed, shipped and transported in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, to wit, EISENBERG possessed sexually explicit images of minors on his electronic devices, including images of prepubescent minors and minors who had not attained 12 years of age, in Rockland County, New York and in Puerto Rico. (Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2).) FORFEITURE ALLEGATION 2. As a result of committing the offense alleged in Count One of this Information, AVRAHAM EISENBERG, the defendant, shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to Title 18

this is not altogether surprising, given an august 2023 filing in his market manipulation case that disclosed that the FBI had found CSAM while searching a cell phone of his in relation to his crypto theft

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silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech

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interesting, Roger Stone deleted one of his tweets shilling a "MAGA Memecoin" after I pointed out that these tweets likely violate SEC rules

Tweet by Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) Donald Trump has at least $2M in @MAGAMemecoin in his crypto wallet - get yours- this cryptocurrency is going UP! -The announcement of our partnership gained us double digit growth TODAY Tweeted at 2:50 AM · Apr 18, 2024

most of his other promo tweets remain, though, and have similar issues

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took me a few attempts to say "bitcoin memecoins" in my newsletter voiceover without saying "beancoins", but I think I may be on to something here

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Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines.

That's not something you read every day.

"Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)".
Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson in The Pragmatic Engineer.
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.
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So excited to hear that the Ghost blogging software is going to support federation via ActivityPub! https://activitypub.ghost.org/

If you sign up for updates, they have a survey where they're asking for feedback. Now's your chance to get your suggestions in!

Cool to see Ghost taking this step, while Substack is over there trying to build walls around their product to trap people in.

Ghost's post is also how I learned that Buttondown is working on ActivityPub support! 🙌 Exciting times.

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it is such a delight to have my own microblogging space again, for random braindumps that don't belong in the newsletter

i missed it