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Molly White — Researcher, software engineer, Wikipedian

Researcher, software engineer, and writer who focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, blockchains, web3, and tech more broadly.

The industry that promised it would free us from captured institutions has captured them itself.
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Molly White made her name documenting crypto industry failures with surgical precision and deadpan wit, and has since expanded into broader tech accountability and political corruption. Her writing is dense with facts and light on filler — she arranges the evidence and trusts you to draw conclusions. The site itself is a model indie web presence: a living microblog, a curated blogroll with OPML export, and a longer-form newsletter (Citation Needed) for the investigative deep dives.

Written by Molly White since 2019.

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Read "Inside 'Project Lily': The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats"

September 15, 2026

Read: “Inside 'Project Lily': The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats”. Joseph Cox in 404 Media. Published September 14, 2026.Humans are reading ChatGPT users' prompts to improve OpenAI's models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.Posted: September 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTC.

Published on Citation Needed: "The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade"

September 14, 2026

Published an issue of Citation Needed: The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalistsPosted: September 14, 2026 at 11:11 PM UTC. Also posted to:MastodonBlueskyTagged: corruption, crypto, crypto lobby, Trump administration, US politics.

Note published on September 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC

September 13, 2026

me and my runaway zucchini patch beg to differi had a zucchini so big that i could only use half of it in a meal i was making, and the remaining half alone is 550 gramsPosted: September 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC. Updated September 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM UTC. Also posted to: Mastodon, BlueskyTagged: gardening.

Read "Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake"

September 12, 2026

Read: “Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake”. Cory Doctorow in Pluralistic. Published September 12, 2026.When ChatGPT's chatbots deployed this tactic, they weren't "setting their own goals" or displaying worrying initiative. They were rolling out a tactic that has been understood by American middle-schoolers for about two decades.Posted: September 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC. Tagged: artificial intelligence, OpenAI.

Note published on September 12, 2026 at 3:47 AM UTC

September 12, 2026

i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it“The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle”. Ernie Smith in Tedium. Here’s what’s going on. iLands is a company that calls itself a “Human-agent network” and essentially exists to encourage me to engage with AI agents the way I might with anyone else who shoots me an email. It essentially created Fiverr for autonomous bots...

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