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everything from the prosecutor is asking him if he remembered saying things that he obviously said and he's all "I don't remember but maybe I said that"

the defense is completely "I didn't know anything and if I said I did, I do not recall having said that"

the classic "I'm just a little guy!" defense but a little guy with memory problems

only works when youre being questioned by congress

sbf good again

AUSA Sassoon: You called people on Crypto Twitter "Dumb motherf*ckers"?

its funny how mad so many of these geniuses are about having been made to read a few books in school

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 29, 2023 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I can't find it now, but I'm pretty sure John Fahey made exactly this argument in one of his liner notes, except it was obviously tongue in cheek.

"this argument" = statistics prove that there are better composers than Beethoven alive today, or something along those lines.

sbf secret fahey freak

“The stuff you said about wanting good regulations was just PR, wasn’t it?” Sassoon, the prosecutor, asked. Bankman-Fried said it wasn’t. Then the prosecution showed screenshots of Bankman-Fried telling a journalist exactly that.

One of the things that happens when illiterate "smart people" try to just figure everything out "from reason" is that they wind up coming up with trite and stupid conclusions that are not only unoriginal but have already been addressed by many people. That's part of why reading and learning is a good idea - other humans have come before you with similar thoughts.

yeah knowledge is better than logic

@innercitypress

AUSA Sassoon: Did you disclose to your customers that the risk engine had been exploited?
SBF: I can explain if you want.
AUSA: That's alright.

I mean, there's arguments about the worth of Shakespeare and the canon and their place in power systems, but this isn't that, this is the same regarding literature as the AI doomers are about intelligence, boiling it down to a number that you can plot going upwards.

one of many things bad things about ea is theyre "first principles" cultists, like upon hearing the term effective altruism you might assume its a good thing people learning about the best way to give away their fortunes by say consulting experts on the topic

Also it's a very "well that sounds nice, who could be against that?" gig, like calling yourself rationalists, you might as well start a party and call yourself the Right Party... oh yeah, that tracks.

Ms. Kudla: I am getting to that point. It will only take about 10 minutes.
Judge Kaplan: Some people don’t have 10 minutes left to live.
Ms. Kudla: Fair.

this was my fave moment, so far

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9uGeurWoAAeloT?format=jpg&name=small

a-ha's "take coin me" (1985)

lol

hahaha

nice

well done

That sketch makes him look way handsomer than he really is

lol ya think

pretty sure that's not a real court sketch but a delightful parody

the real court sketches are something, one of them truly looks like they're drawing a Twilight Zone character

so despite having watched 3045709384 eps of law and order 4913984 times each i was faintly startled by the way defence is popping up at every hinge-point in this trial to say "we now move for an acquittal!" -- which the judge then denies. does this always happen in the US? in the hope that the judge by mistake says yes?

i mean i realise there *are* some acquittals at such stages, bcz the prosecution has fully fucked up its case or someone else has confessed or whatever -- but is it defence's job just to try it on anyway, just in case?

pretty sure that's not a real court sketch but a delightful parody

the real court sketches are something, one of them truly looks like they're drawing a Twilight Zone character

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, October 31, 2023 10:10 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think there are multiple sketches - I'm not sure there's one official sketch artist so they may all be "real" sketches.

xp

Pretty much. The defense attorney has to ask for it to preserve the issue for appeal, but it is rarely granted.

lol why has dick wolf lied to me (by omission)?!?

jury ready to go home

SAM BANKMAN FRIED IS GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!! https://t.co/0CkDs6WzHg pic.twitter.com/c7XdrDV7co

— Coffeezilla (@coffeebreak_YT) November 2, 2023

they started deliberating this afternoon

now that's some effective altruism, amirite?

ayye

Probably the first real consequence he’s faced in his entire life

really getting thrown in the deep end

lol, what a loser

are they really gonna appeal this?

I guess that's not very charitable, but something about this guy makes me hate him.

xp

Must be all the fraud.

hes a bit of a sociopath

https://x.com/jimcramer/status/1539532374463102980?s=46&t=56pvpJvqL5GRtMdLh4N49g

Most fraudsters have at least one thing in common: they have no apparent sense of shame or remorse.

Goes along with being a sociopath, I reckon.

I saw a guy being interviewed who had been an early sceptic of this enterprise and had gone after SBF early and warned people it was a grift. Not a pleasant person himself, a charmless, grizzled veteran market speculator from the 80's who says fuck every 2nd word. The funny bit was when he explained his original misgivings "nothing about this checked out ... also I hated the stupid little fuck"

lol cant argue with it

RIP big man

I mean, all of crypto is a big grift, so on some level this was a fraud of frauds.

absolutely dire

POV: You bought an expensive JPEG and flight to Hong Kong to attend a festival and almost lose your eye sight.

Yuga never disappoints. pic.twitter.com/Ob3Ry4OApW

— YallahHabibi 🦭 (@YallahHabibiBTC) November 5, 2023

lol, sounded like a spellblinding event. I don't really understand how someone in the chain of the festival organisation up to the event manager wouldn't be piping up + saying hmm perhaps it's not a great idea and actually extremely dangerous to blast a crowd of people with cornea burning UV light.

in related news I started using hyabak eye drops every morning, which are good for anyone who does too much screentime. It doesn't protect from direct exposure to UV though!

halfway down the quick photokeratitis thread it says "think snowblindness" -- which is correct (snowblindness is indeed caused an excess of UV light) but also a trillion times too cool for these shut-in clowns

yes, I was listening someone talking about UV sterilisers and mentioning that if you are dumb enough to shine one into yr own eyes it could cause permanent cornea damage at worst or at least temporary "snowblindness"

I don't really understand how someone in the chain of the festival organisation up to the event manager wouldn't be piping up + saying hmm perhaps it's not a great idea and actually extremely dangerous to blast a crowd of people with cornea burning UV light.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, November 6, 2023 12:46 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

presumably someone bought the lights and didnt realize they were the bad kind, same thing happened at a hypebeast event a while ago, also in hong kong https://hongkongfp.com/2017/10/26/partygoers-left-burns-light-sensitivity-hypebeast-event-landmark

According to Philip’s website, it emits 12.0 W of UV-C radiation and is mainly used for disinfection purposes.

bruh