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Be aware that using Grok now watermarks the text. You shouldn't be using AI for prompts that don't ask for it anyway
According to people who were there, the new FTX movie is inaccurate even at-a-glance
So many people have DM’d me about this trailer and I’ll be honest, watching it made me physically throw up.
I was COO from before FTX even had a name, it was my baby, and I was the last one out of the Bahamas after Sam got extradited. I lost everything I had on it and it took me a long time to get over, so I have zero interest in defending the people who caused this.
The media loves the story that FTX blew up because we were all partying in the Bahamas, but the place I worked looked nothing like that.
We had under 200 people in the core company at its peak, not counting subsidiaries, when other exchanges our size had thousands, so a lot of us were doing 16 to 18 hour days for over three years and barely had time to sleep, and whenever we walked in, day or night, Sam was at his desk.
I worked with Caroline and never once saw her get aggressive like she does in this trailer. She’s quiet and mild, and often lost in her own thoughts.
Most of us didn’t even know she and Sam were dating until we read about it after the bankruptcy, and I never saw him so much as put an arm around anyone.
FTX’s collapse ruined so many people’s lives, including ours, and Netflix decided to make it a love story.
Shame on you @netflix.
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Flattered to have the Intuition team do a featured article on me and the work I've been doing on Hive Mind 🐝
Honestly this Meta hack may be the nail in the coffin for their company. Many of us have been dealing with horrible AI account banning for the last 18 month or so. There are entire subreddits dedicated to it.
We need social media where WE own the data
I believe we are building the most effective tool against bad actors on the internet in years.
Tune in to the livestream Wednesday at noon (Eastern time) to get your hands on it 👊
Hmmmm if only phone numbers had reputations… 🤔
Looks like Verizon has scammers in their company.
My wife just called Verizon (the number listed on their website) to get a new phone line, and the guy who answered that's supposed to transfer you to the correct department actually transferred her to some random lady who, when answered, just said "hi".
My wife say's "hi" back.
Random lady: "who is this?" (on a sales call, btw).
My wife: "who is this?" (since it sounded suspicious).
Random lady in broken English: "Uhh... oh, this is Tasha with your phone company... what do you need?" (she didn't specify which phone company).
My wife: "I'm calling to get a new line."
Random lady: "Have you been on any trips recently?"
My wife: ??? *hangs up*
Then my wife calls the same Verizon number again from their website, gets on the phone with a different person who saw the record of my wife calling but it doesn't show that she was transferred at all.
So it appears some scammer got a job at Verizon and instead of transferring customers to a different department, he transfers them to his scammer friend.
This is super sketchy. I bet a lot of folks have fallen for this scam, unfortunately. Verizon needs to vet their people better.