{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "CEO of Alameda Research and the erstwhile girlfriend of FTX\u2019s Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison has been labeled a\u00a0\u201cHarry...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/702225235855966208/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://minimoonstar.tumblr.com/post/701363191905714176/someone-showed-matt-levine-the-tag-bc-he-was\" target=\"_blank\">minimoonstar</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://garbageday.tumblr.com/post/701359122282594304/ceo-of-alameda-research-and-the-erstwhile\" target=\"_blank\">garbageday</a>:</p><blockquote><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"918\" data-orig-width=\"1938\"><img src=\"/media/130849c8ae1684f867f2f0437fcd3c98797bc6ad_dbd2a8041af1.png\" data-orig-height=\"918\" data-orig-width=\"1938\" srcset=\"/media/f74d704e19d72f9ae426e528a4ad1007402a37bb_cafb4e090156.png 75w, /media/a84da242ea054c2e321909eecc33a73d405cc2a3_45e62e9497a2.png 100w, /media/1591f8b3f2629e66c79e103cdfe4810262d16c56_7917f070b3da.png 250w, /media/ec329840e853e8d39523494026c0f73d0da2c791_d6a03b96ee10.png 400w, /media/c047c15e8caf61d045e36f1f9ebe7df7cf47625b_5dc942af2857.png 500w, /media/60dff55fe3f37ea534b7bb30daa8623d78c39c91_24cef1447578.png 540w, /media/130849c8ae1684f867f2f0437fcd3c98797bc6ad_dbd2a8041af1.png 640w, /media/d723b4caff9a79b61c749ad100cf42f2a84c6193_ed5059e364c3.png 1280w, /media/3c178a3457c13928e04f4d4d09413fbd49a96a87_1afdacc4da95.png 1938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"/></figure></div><p>CEO of Alameda Research and the erstwhile girlfriend of FTX\u2019s Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison has been labeled a\u00a0<i>\u201cHarry Potter\u00a0</i>fangirl\u201d because of comments made on an alleged Tumblr and elsewhere, though that&rsquo;s not quite right. She loved Harry Potter, but the blog has a lot of posts specifically about\u00a0<i>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality,\u00a0</i>Yudkowsky\u2019s infamous plodding rewrite of the series which launched the entire genre of rationalfic. The central hyper-competence fantasy of rationalfic is central to understanding Ellison\u2019s apparent fannishness, which is in turn central to understanding her as a person. She actively oriented her life around becoming the type of protagonist who exists in these stories. There is, or was, a sort of LARP going on, which this Tumblr narrates.</p><p>The blog also includes lots of Taylor Swift, including an assertion that \u201cif I were the sort of person who wrote such things I would definitely write Heloise and Abelard fanfic based on Cruel Summer.\u201d Ellison also wrote wordy Goodreads reviews, including of books by Naomi Novik, a co-founder of Archive Of Our Own. There were also multiple posts on the Tumblr tagged with \u201c#matt levine is my internet boyfriend\u201d and, in the grand tradition of being on Tumblr to post about Tumblr, tagged long posts about internecine rationalist drama with \u201c#this blue website.\u201d\u00a0</p><p><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://www.garbageday.email/p/its-ok-to-feel-sad-about-twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><b>[Read more at Garbage Day]</b></a></p></blockquote><p>Someone showed Matt Levine the tag bc he was subtweeting Ellison as part of his FTX writings, which&hellip; instinctively struck me as not cool? Somehow analogous to showing an actor fanfiction of themselves? Like I get tumblrina here committed financial fraud on a massive scale but just bc someone else is Bad doesn&rsquo;t mean one ought to cross the streams. Standards!</p></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/130849c8ae1684f867f2f0437fcd3c98797bc6ad_dbd2a8041af1.png", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 303}