Would be interesting to learn how many other celebrities have had similar experiences but have not been caught. Given the tradecraft described, this wasn't their first rodeo.
Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'
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#12Celebrity and money are like a reality distortion field. I hope I never acquire either in large quantities - it does not seem like a desirable thing
Secret money is the best, but hard and rare. Celebrity without money the worst and I fully agree with you that I'd prefer to have neither.
Surely secret money comes with it's own pressures and paranoia?
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#13In the genre of: "post-conviction victim-image building". See also Liz Holmes pieces etc. Not passing any judgement on this particular persons story, just a bit funny.
Yeah.
Nothing will ever be as funny as Holmes' deep voice, though. The fact that she conned so many people is really one of the greatest modern examples of just how effing stupid most people are, especially those with a fair bit of power and money.
Carreyrou's book and pod are truly excellent.
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#14100m USD? No one makes that much money legitimately without a product and a large staff to show for it.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Secret money is the best, but hard and rare. Celebrity without money the worst and I fully agree with you that I'd prefer to have neither.
Surely secret money comes with it's own pressures and paranoia?
Should have said legal secret money. If it just sits there, grows slowly and gives you the piece of mind to have in in case of an emergency I don't see pressure and paranoia.
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#16Holy word salad of an article. Surely the writer got paid to make it long and flowery.
I still don't know what the guy actually did.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely secret money comes with it's own pressures and paranoia?
Should have said legal secret money. If it just sits there, grows slowly and gives you the piece of mind to have in in case of an emergency I don't see pressure and paranoia.
True, I think for some people it comes with pressure to help family, friends, etc. Even if nobody knows about it, that's a secret you have to keep.
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#18Holy word salad of an article. Surely the writer got paid to make it long and flowery. I still don't know what the guy actually did.
yeah I had to google it
Maybe it's because i'm distorted by my profession but I like articles that describe facts in chronological order.
Here's it's as if there was a montage for an action movie with flashbacks and scenes and you're supposed to put the story back together
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#19In the genre of: "post-conviction victim-image building". See also Liz Holmes pieces etc. Not passing any judgement on this particular persons story, just a bit funny.
Yeah. Nothing will ever be as funny as Holmes' deep voice, though. The fact that she conned so many people is really one of the greatest modern examples of just how effing stupid most people are, especially those with a fair bit of power and money. Carreyrou's book and pod are truly excellent.
I hated that voice. At first, I told myself it wasn’t right to hate someone’s voice so much because I assumed it had been something she couldn’t control, and in fact it made her slightly more impressive to me that she had gotten anywhere with such an uncharismatic voice. Then I found out that, no, she made it up. All fake.
I have a cousin with two special needs children. When I was first told that people in Silicon Valley fake neurological disabilities for clout, I didn’t believe it. I’ve worked in finance in the 1980s and ‘90s and I’ve seen some low behavior, but the fake speech issues of Holmes and the fake autism of Bankman-Fried are the sorts of things that even investment bankers would call unethical.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Secret money is the best, but hard and rare. Celebrity without money the worst and I fully agree with you that I'd prefer to have neither.
Celebrity can be used to create ripples in the ideation of the masses, however, but that's a hard row to hoe, and only a rare few have the wisdom or good intentions to know where to begin. As well, the forces that facilitate celebrity tend to promote those who fit this modern apotheosis of vapid desire. William Gibson, as usual, summed it up perfectly in Idoru: “[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious,…
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