An investigation by The Telegraph has found a potential link between Bankman-Fried’s money and Mr Streeting’s office.

The American gave a 610,000 dollar (almost £500,000) gift to David Lawrence on June 30 2022, who had founded a group called Labour for the Long Term, according to the newspaper.

On August 22 2022, Labour for the Long Term began funding a policy adviser role for Mr Streeting’s office “at a cost of £2,500 a month, total value £30,000”.

Asked about the money on Friday, Mr Streeting said: “I’m confident that I’ve received no money from Sam Bankman-Fried.

“I’ve never met the guy. I’ve never spoken to him.

“When Labour for the Long Term, which is a Labour supporting group, were willing to donate to support staffing in my office when I was a shadow minister, we did due diligence, not just on the organisation but asked the organisation to provide us a list of the donors who were donating to support that work.

“Those donors did not include Sam Bankman-Fried and, in fact, the only donor that did have a connection to Sam Bankman-Fried has since confirmed that the money he donated was his own money, not Sam Bankman-Fried.

“So, I’m absolutely confident that I’ve received no money from Sam Bankman-Fried.”

The New Statesman can reveal that Banks directed investigators from Precision Risk and Intelligence (a private investigation firm he previously owned, which is now dissolved), to look into Pogrund after the Insight story. Banks did not deny he had launched the probe. “We believe the Sunday Times used hacked information and that was an area of interest. We do have an investigative arm that’s got advanced capabilities,” he told the New Statesman.

VIZ Media, a leading global producer of anime, manga and original graphic novels, has teamed with The Gotham Group to develop film and television adaptations based on titles from its original intellectual property. The deal includes the company’s acclaimed VIZ Originals graphic novel line and its landmark animated RWBY franchise.

Sorry about the long downtime everyone. What happened is sometime around 20:00 yesterday the instance went down. I wouldn't be able to ssh into the server until the morning, so I tried restarting the server through our hosting's web interface, but this didn't work.

When I got home I found the reason Lemmy wasn't working was because the database had suffered some corruption. Thankfully, the only lost data was 3 posts, but some data got duplicated in random tables that shouldn't be and this wasn't the easiest thing to track down.

Why did the server go down in the first place?

I don't actually know the real reason, what I suspect happened is that the frontend got taken down by the rampant scraping we've been subject to. To put it into prospective, just look at the jump in the size of our web logs:

These are compressed plain text, like it's unreal.

But back to the server, I think when I restarted the server to get everything back up, docker killed the database before it had shutdown properly hence the corruption.

Anyway, it's sorted now. It's going to be a bit quiet until we've caught up with the activities we've missed, so enjoy the quiet while you can.

Going to bring the server down for a bit to update some system software, particularly the kernel.