Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd August 2008 - Link Blog

"THIS IS NOT MLM!!!" - An Appreciation. Merlin Mann explains his fascination with the “cash gifting” pyramid scams that keep cropping up on YouTube.

Posted 3rd August 2008 at 3:14 pm

Recent articles

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns - 23rd February 2026
Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog - 20th February 2026
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat - 17th February 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd August 2008.

cashgifting 1 merlinmann 2 mlm 1 pyramidschemes 1 youtube 56

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe