Kagro in the Morning - November 30, 2022

<p>Twitter has lost <a href= "https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50 of its top 100 advertisers</a> since Elon Musk took over. <strong>David Waldman</strong> and <strong>Greg Dworkin</strong> are still working out the kinks in their <a href= "https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/how-to-use-mastodon-i-tried-to-app-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mastodon experience</a>, which doesn’t need <a href= "https://twitter.com/IrreverentDuo/status/1597745273647702016?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">either advertising</a> or <a href= "https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/twitter-leak-user-records-exposed-after-data-was-released-on-social-media-app-1-month-after-elon-musk-completes-deal/ar-AA14KcRQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2bfa64a577824a19a9cf47c263e942f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fascist trolls</a> to keep running. What keeps Mastodon working? <a href= "https://screenrant.com/mastodon-app-decentralized-social-network-explained/#:~:text=Mastodon%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open-source%20app%20connected%20to,a%20new%20experience%20through%20a%20%22decentralized%22%20social%20network." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Techno-magic, I figure</a>.</p> <p>Equally hard to fathom is how Sam Bankman-Fried <a href= "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/5-more-disturbing-revelations-about-sam-bankman-fried.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screwed thousands of people out of millions of dollars</a>. That is, until you factor <a href= "https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1597957660447760384?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greed and stupidity</a> into your <a href= "https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/sam-bankman-fried-s-red-flags-were-seen-in-all-corners-of-his-empire/ar-AA14K79T?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3a81e9fa5ddc4fd9b4b9989311a37baa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calculations</a>, then it becomes <a href= "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-b