I love @molly0xfff's reporting as the next annoying guy on mastodon. This line in her recent newsletter struck me as odd:
'They [the Bankman-Fried's] seem unable to accept that their brilliant son committed fraud, unable to stop posting through it, and unable to recognize that their campaign to free him is only making things worse.'

There is nothing brilliant about Sam Bankman Fried. He is a phoney and he has always been one. I'm sure that he did well in school and thought about things a bit. He has always come across to me as an entitled little shit who had it easy. He probably doesn't understand the first thing about accounting, hence all the so called balance sheets. The numbers went up, he made money. The numbers came down, he lost money and committed a massive fraud to try to deal with the problem. He certainly doesn't understand anything about the consequences of his behaviour on other people, hence the laughably stupid effective altruism.

#SamBankmanFried, #FtX

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

#SamBankmanFried #CryptoIsBullshit #GetRobbed #USPol

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

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

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

‘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’ 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/

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