i mean you gotta respect the alameda girl theres no truer display of the Poster’s Spirit than Posting about the actual crimes than youre doing while youre doing them. thats commitment to the bit. thats dedication. thats the real deal
CEO of Alameda Research and the erstwhile girlfriend of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison has been labeled a “Harry Potter fangirl” because of comments made on an alleged Tumblr and elsewhere, though that’s not quite right. She loved Harry Potter, but the blog has a lot of posts specifically about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Yudkowsky’s 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’s 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.
The blog also includes lots of Taylor Swift, including an assertion that “if I were the sort of person who wrote such things I would definitely write Heloise and Abelard fanfic based on Cruel Summer.” 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 “#matt levine is my internet boyfriend” and, in the grand tradition of being on Tumblr to post about Tumblr, tagged long posts about internecine rationalist drama with “#this blue website.”
Someone showed Matt Levine the tag bc he was subtweeting Ellison as part of his FTX writings, which… 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’t mean one ought to cross the streams. Standards!
like I knew the FTX crypto exchange was a ponzi scheme but finding out it was run by a polycule of racist Harry Potter tumblr nerds was a real gut punch ngl
This is so cartoonishly unethical. This mfer invented Dark Polyamory.
not that i expect yahoo to but everyone reblogging this should be able to recognize the dark polyamory imperial harem stuff as a shitpost (even if it’s a joke people nonjokingly get off on, infinite fractal weirdness of human sexuality, blah blah blah)
I think regarding it as a joke is cutting these ppl too much slack, from what I’ve read her blog was filled with this kinda shit and her and the other people were very much in a real polycule with her. She also believed very openly in “human biodiversity” (aka eugenics/race science) which she also talked about explicitly on her blog in a way that was related to the whole “polyamory is a cutthroat market” deal. Polyamory is a cutthroat market in her eyes because the end goal is for the strongest and best humans to mate and produce genetically “better” people
I will throw my weight behind the shitpost thesis based on my sense from having followed her and the people she was in conversation with at the time
like I knew the FTX crypto exchange was a ponzi scheme but finding out it was run by a polycule of racist Harry Potter tumblr nerds was a real gut punch ngl
Also I appreciate that in the comments of every tweet with that picture of Caroline there’s like four “ew"s, then a "would”, then eight more “ew"s, then the "would” guy is like “yeah but her tumblr”, and timestamped an hour later one of the “ew” guys is like “okay, would”
Hey, if y’all need help fleeing from the great powers of the world hmu
Also, I seriously think anyone who was mutuals with her should take your blog private or something, lest the billion-dollar Eye of Sauron fall upon you. There’s an awful lot of very angry crypto people
People on Twitter are already combing over every joke she ever made for Proof Of Evil, and @theunitofcaring has already been pulled into it.
Alternately there’s the chance to open up a great front of this week’s “[tumblr] don’t caaaare” arc
Also, it’s “men, who control most major governments”. Comma!
Hey, if y’all need help fleeing from the great powers of the world hmu
Also, I seriously think anyone who was mutuals with her should take your blog private or something, lest the billion-dollar Eye of Sauron fall upon you. There’s an awful lot of very angry crypto people
People on Twitter are already combing over every joke she ever made for Proof Of Evil, and @theunitofcaring has already been pulled into it.
Alternately there’s the chance to open up a great front of this week’s “[tumblr] don’t caaaare” arc
