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Thomas Fricke (he/him)Looking for an #AI turning Forbes covers into criminal profiles.
Hrefna (DHC)Sometimes I wonder if there should be an equivalent of the "Inverse Cramer Index" but for Forbes…
Flowermob@leyrer Brought to you by Russian oligarchs.
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Sheogorath@leyrer Is it normal that I don't get the joke because I have no idea who these people are?
ThatKomputerKat 
@sheogorath @leyrer lucky you.
Zimmie@sheogorath @leyrer Upper left: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos. Forbes said she was the youngest self-made female billionaire, but it was all fraud.
Upper right: Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It collapsed in late 2022 as a result of rampant fraud.
Lower left: Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork. Still believed to be a billionaire, though WeWork is collapsing as a result of—you guessed it!—fraud. Also impressive levels of mismanagement.
Lower right: Silicon Valley Bank celebrating Forbes naming them one of the best banks. On March 10th of 2023, they became the second biggest bank failure in history. This kicked off a wave of bank failures which later included a bigger bank, pushing SVB’s failure to third-largest.
Sushi Suppenkasper@bob_zim Thank you!
tallship@leyrer @sheogorath @bob_zim IOW, clockwise from top left:
1.) Bitch that dupped people that should have been competent enough to know that a Radio Shack doorbell homebrew kit can in no way type, let alone diagnose blood disease.
2.) Tweaker that orgied his way to prominence by stuffing the pockets of politicians until the owner of Binance said, "WTF?" - the Emporer has no fricken' clothes, bitches!!!!
3.) Name one, any one bank - the fraud of "Fractional reserve" regulated banking is the criminally responsible vehicle - the regulatory bodies are the one's aiding and abetting via legislation, while your money is somewhere else than where you were told it was, if it still is.
If you want proof, or even wanna know how this fraud is exposed by average schmoes like you and me, then just google the term, "monerun" - a classic example of what banks (and CEX's) do when the cards in their hand are revealed.
4.) I have no idea who this dufus is... prolly, and almost assuredly, he's a dotcom biotch.
zilla@sheogorath @leyrer The latest robber Barron's. All of them are fraudsters of note
Wim@sheogorath @leyrer 4 images illustrating Forbes getting it wrong. They boarded the hype train for Theranos, FTX, WeWork (all exposed frauds) and Silicon Valley Bank, a bank which spectacularly imploded due to poor risk managment earlier this year.
Bill, organizer of stuff@leyrer Now under new management:
"Russian tycoon claims he is behind Forbes purchase, audiotapes show"
October 20, 2023
https://wapo.st/40jFwWW
Dan Sugalski@leyrer I admit, if I were a regulator I’d subscribe to Forbes just to get a jump on investigations. Seems like it would save a lot of time to start as soon as someone hit the cover.
Edmundo Ruiz Ghanem@leyrer I really want to post this on LinkedIn but I don’t want to deal with the coppertop/kool-aid responses.
@edmundo Feel you! :D
Riley S. Faelan@leyrer But still good to spank Pumpkin with.
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@leyrer Forbs? Isn't that a polyphyletic group of plants?
cyclespup@leyrer Yes. Forbes. I ran away from them 20 years ago. My portfolio thanks me!
Mohamed@leyrer There's an anecdotal story to this that made headlines a few years ago about Forbes having unpaid 'Contributors' (~1500 of them) and something about these unpaid contributors doing shady sponsored content:
(it wasn't just Forbes but I think it was the peak of the fluff content era)
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@leyrer our favorite thing is that Liz Holmes is making (what became) a modern white-power symbol. originally we thought this was unsubtle but now it's both Unfortunate and Accidentaly Poetic
cbartschffm ☑️@atax1a @leyrer
More people who fellfor the 4chan trolls usurping a diver hand gesture, or in this case pinching a pill? https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/how-ok-symbol-became-popular-trolling-gesture
More people who fellfor the 4chan trolls usurping a diver hand gesture, or in this case pinching a pill? https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/how-ok-symbol-became-popular-trolling-gesture
@cbartschffm love to be told what is and isnt white supremacy by some white guy speaking german
@atax1a Wow, must be nice having such a simple worldview 😳
as if "4chan trolls" aren't also spreading racist memes, as if you have any idea what you're talking about as pertains to race in america. get lost
Xauri'EL Zwaan@cbartschffm @atax1a @leyrer there comes a point where "4chan trolls ironically pretending something is a white power sign" just becomes "actual white supremacists making an actual white power sign". You may not like it but that's the reality we live in now
prozacchiwawa
Matthew@leyrer
"I was going to have a cover story in Forbes!"
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caec217e_7f43_4963_b811_c1309876bce7.jpeg
Chuck DarwinMina Hanse (@[email protected])
Magomed Musaev, the owner of Russian Forbes, claims to have purchased the entire #Forbes Media Group, reports The Washington Post, referencing five audio and one video recording of the businessman talking about the deal during private conversations with his business partners. “You understand when you have in your hands the key to the most authoritative global brand, this key will give me access to anyone.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/20/forbes-sale-musaev-russia/ #Ukraine #Russia #US
enthraxxx@leyrer The south facing compass never misses.
Unprecedented 2023@leyrer Sad but true.
Dave 🧱 
@leyrer @jalcine alt:
Elizabeth Holmes on the cover of Forbes.
Sam Bankman-Fried on the cover of Forbes.
Adam Neumann on the cover of Forbes.
SVB tweeting “Proud to be on @Forbes' annual ranking of America's Best Banks for the 5th straight year and to have also been named to the publication's inaugural Financial All-Stars list.”
Elizabeth Holmes on the cover of Forbes.
Sam Bankman-Fried on the cover of Forbes.
Adam Neumann on the cover of Forbes.
SVB tweeting “Proud to be on @Forbes' annual ranking of America's Best Banks for the 5th straight year and to have also been named to the publication's inaugural Financial All-Stars list.”
Maxilo Overit@leyrer I don't know why there isn't a Grifter Magazine. One, I mean.
OtownKim
quixote@leyrer Oh man. Hilarious. In a God Help Us sort of way.
Maxi 12x 💉@leyrer Es wäre so leicht, für diese Kollage noch eine Bildbeschreibung zu verfassen. Warum tust Du’s nicht?
Svenja
J. David Eisenberg@leyrer #altText4you Covers of Forbes magazine featuring Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX), Adam Neumann (WeWork), and a post from Silicon Valley Bank saying they are proud to be on the Forbes ranking of America’s best banks
cultdev@leyrer good, let’s not let them forget it…it’s unbelievable, nobody knows anything
SFborn1940@leyrer Forbes is GOP propaganda.
Tucker Teague@leyrer In it's way, prophetic.
donkey
MusiqueNow 
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Scott D. Strader 😐@leyrer does anyone else just see "White power" and nothing else from her hand positions?