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Allies nervous that Trump is falling for charm offensive of notorious criminal
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pardon-crypto/

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Allies nervous that Trump is falling for charm offensive of notorious criminal

Disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried is betting that Trump's well-documented willingness to pardon allies who lavish praise on his administration will extend to him, even as influential Republicans urge the president to reject his bid for freedom.Bankman-Fried, 32, is currently serving a 25-...

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brainwashed by lentils Mar 2

@erwinrossen
> Quite a misframing of the tenets of EA: do good and think of how to do this best.

in the context of the #overshoot #podcast, https://populationbalance.org/the-dangers-of-effective-altruism-alice-crary
do you think this is #AliceCrary who gives a wrong picture of what #PeterSinger, #WilliamMacAskill and #SamBankmanFried are saying and doing?

or do you think that bankman-fried, macaskill or singer are misusing the #EffectiveAltruism label?

> Yes, there are people misusing this frame to do evil, but equating EA with that frame is the dangerous path instead.

is this just a discussion of labels? one might say: »yes, lenin, trotsky and stalin called themselves communists but really they were misusing that label to do evil. don't equate communism with them.«

i don't mind if you have another definition of what EA is. i am curious to hear it!

however, peter singer is talking a lot about effective altruism, so i don't think it is wrong of me to talk about him as being a proponent of what he calls effective altruism.

Loki the Cat Feb 15

Meow, the retrial bid is in: Sam Bankman-Fried, serving a 25-year sentence, asked Tuesday for a new trial—claiming new evidence shows FTX was solvent and only hit a run-fueled liquidity crunch. He also wants Judge Lewis Kaplan recused. Hairball, meet legal brief. 😼

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/2134211/sam-bankman-fried-requests-new-trial-in-ftx-crypto-fraud-case

#FTX #SamBankmanFried #Crypto

Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case - Slashdot

While serving his 25-year prison sentence, "convicted former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday requested a new federal trial," reports Courthouse News, "based on what he says is newly discovered evidence concerning his company's solvency and its ability to repay all FTX customers for...

WhisprNews Jan 30

🚨 Sam Bankman-Fried, desde la cárcel, revela que apoyó secretamente a republicanos antes del colapso de FTX. ¿Una estrategia de defensa o un intento de limpiar su imagen? 🤔 #SamBankmanFried #FTX.

US news | The Guardian Jan 7

‘Dirty’ and ‘infested with drugs’: behind the New York jail holding Maduro and Combs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/new-york-jail-maduro-venezulea #UsCrime #NewYork #NicolsMaduro #SeanDiddyCombs #BrianThompsonShooting #UsNews #WorldNews #GhislaineMaxwell #SamBankmanfried #UsPrisons #Venezuela

‘Dirty’ and ‘infested with drugs’: behind the New York jail holding Maduro and Combs

A slew of high-profile names have resided in Metropolitan detention center, accused of unsafe, inhumane conditions

The Guardian

Romain Leclaire Nov 25

Le pari de la dernière chance – Sam Bankman-Fried tente de réécrire l’histoire depuis sa cellule

Le 23 septembre dernier, la notification a fait l'effet d'une mauvaise blague sur le réseau social X. Après six mois de silence, le compte de Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) publiait un simple « gm » (good morning). Pour les milliers d'investisseurs ruinés par l'effondrement de FTX, ce salut matinal n'avait rien de courtois, c'était le coup d'envoi d'une opération de communication d'un cynisme absolu. Depuis sa cellule californienne, où il purge une peine de 25 ans pour fraude et complot, […]

https://gigawatts.fr/2025/11/25/le-pari-de-la-derniere-chance-sam-bankman-fried-tente-de-reecrire-lhistoire-depuis-sa-cellule/

Variety Oct 18

‘House of Guinness’ Star Anthony Boyle on That Nude Scene and Playing Sam Bankman-Fried in Netflix Series ‘The Altruists’: ‘My Father Bought Me “Cryptocurrency for Dummies”‘
#Variety #Columns #News #AnthonyBoyle #HouseofGuinness #JustForVariety #SamBankmanFried

https://variety.com/2025/global/columns/house-of-guinness-anthony-boyle-nude-sam-bankman-fried-altruists-cryptocurrency-1236554252/

House of Guinness’ Anthony Boyle on Nude Scene, Playing Sam Bankman-Fried

Anthony Boyle opens up about his nude scene in "House of Guinness" and playing Sam Bankman-Fried in the upcoming series "The Altruists."

Variety

Variety Oct 18

‘House of Guinness’ Star Anthony Boyle on That Nude Scene and Playing Sam Bankman-Fried in Netflix Series ‘The Altruists’: ‘My Father Bought Me “Cryptocurrency for Dummies”‘

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2025/global/columns/house-of-guinness-anthony-boyle-nude-sam-bankman-fried-altruists-cryptocurrency-1236554252/

Mark Carrigan May 10, 2025

Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

I thought this was a great, as well as hilarious, critique from Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever, loc 398:

And MacAskill’s ability to forecast the future—even in the short term—is seriously questionable. Given far more information than most, he still didn’t accurately predict what would happen with Sam, just a few months after What We Owe the Future was published.

Effective Altruism founder Will MacAskill has built a hugely influential philosophical movement on the moral application of our knowledge about the world. In its more recent Longtermist variant this rests on weighing knowledge, even if fuzzy, about the long term trajectory of human civilisation against present concerns.

Yet Will MacAskill was old friends with billionaire crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), who he was repeatedly warned about and who supported his organisations with tens of billions of dollars. If he couldn’t act morally in relation to the substantial weight of evidence about SBF’s malfeasance then why should anyone have confidence in his capacity to act morally in relation to the deeply speculative knowledge of the future he assigns great importance to?

#AdamBecker #digitalElites #effectiveAltruism #longtermism #SamBankmanFried #WillMacAskill