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Sam's explanation: Shortly before the interview, Mr. Bankman-Fried had posted a cryptic tweet: the word “What.” Then he had tweeted the letter H. Asked to expl
by memish 4y ago
Sam's explanation:
Shortly before the interview, Mr. Bankman-Fried had posted a cryptic tweet: the word “What.” Then he had tweeted the letter H. Asked to explain, Mr. Bankman-Fried said he planned to post the letter A and then the letter P. “It’s going to be more than one word,” he said. “I’m making it up as I go.”
So he was planning a series of cryptic tweets? “Something like that.”
But why? “I don’t know,” he said. “I’m improvising. I think it’s time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankma...
- gasull 4y agoThis NYT puff piece is a shame. It doesn't mention the fraud committed of using users' funds, servers wiped out, etc. And put this in the context of the NYT writing negative pieces for 10 years on almost every tech founder. EDIT: A Twitter thread on how SBF is well-connected with the New York Times. https://twitter.com/JagoeCapital/status/1592311592875597826 https://twitter.com/JagoeCapital/status/1592311592875597826
- kache_ 4y agoIt's almost as if NYT is extremely biased
- MangoCoffee 4y agoNYT reporter have an hour with SBF. https://twitter.com/yaffebellany/status/1592353938099302401?s=20&t=MZj3t4xgKW-5vMkb_D5N-w https://twitter.com/yaffebellany/status/1592353938099302401?... Nothing about fraud or crime. https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1592349684471037955?s=20&t=MZj3t4xgKW-5vMkb_D5N-w https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1592349684471037955?s=... then someone on Twitter found the connection between SBF and WEF, his aunt. "As for the WEF, its ties with Bankman-Fried extend to his family as well. His aunt, Linda P. Fried, an epidemiologist who serves as the dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, is listed on the WEF’s website." https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/how-world-economic-forum-others-are-hiding-past-ties-with-ftx/ https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/how-world-economic-forum-other... SBF seem to have a lot of connections with the elites of our society. This FTX fiasco look more and more like Thaneno.
- masklinn 4y ago> Thaneno Autocorrect of theranos?
- MangoCoffee 4y agotypo. Elizabeth Holmes's company.
- bmitc 4y agoWhy would they send such an inexperienced reporter to interview someone like this who has manipulated even experienced people?
- carlivar 4y agoAre you overlooking the obvious: that it is not a very good newspaper at some things?
- gasull 4y agoOr that the NYT and the connected elites have an agenda? https://twitter.com/WakeToBitcoin/status/1591542267742937089 https://twitter.com/WakeToBitcoin/status/1591542267742937089
- notch656a 4y agoThe whole debacle reeks of someone who is used to being the smartest person in the room and using it for manipulation. Unfortunately he has reached a point where intelligence is no longer needed to see the end result (thousands cannot withdraw from their accounts), and no amount of manipulation is going to change that. The nonsensical tweets are like watching a sociopath short-circuit when he gets caught in his own trap.
- googlryas 4y agoI'd rather like to know why sophisticated people were easily manipulated by him, but he seemed to set off alarm bells all the time in unsophisticated people(like myself, but also many others)
- memish 4y agoThis makes me think he's going to get away with it.
- cavisne 4y agoWorth adding that “negative pieces for 10 years” is not an opinion. It was official NYT editorial policy (original tweet now deleted) https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192 https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192
- bmitc 4y agoI can’t understand what that means.
- thepasswordis 4y agoIt means that this person is liar and probably a sociopath who will continue lying to every person who listens to him.
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- mudrockbestgirl 4y ago> He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said. “It helps me unwind a bit,” he said. “It clears my mind.” I'm glad he found a way to unwind after committing fraud and gambling away billions of dollars from innocent people. This guy is out of his mind. Why is he not in jail yet?
- WalterSear 4y agoI'm glad he found a way throw in a promo for the game he owns.
- reissbaker 4y agoFWIW parent comment isn't exaggerating — FTX acquired Storybook Brawl this past March: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/storybook-brawl-developer-acquired-by-crypto-exchange-firm-ftx/ https://www.geekwire.com/2022/storybook-brawl-developer-acqu... (SBF is infamously an avid, but poor, League of Legends player, and has been seen online playing League post-blowup; his Storybook Brawl comment seems pretty self-serving.)