FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceedings

Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by jjulius on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:22AM (#33561915)

It absolutely blows my mind; if this[1] failure of an attempt at a "get out of jail free" disclaimer is something you feel the need to write out so poorly, and in all caps, after your diatribe, maybe - MAYBE - you shouldn't have said a goddamn word.

[1]https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709199067295749

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by boeingUH60 on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:42AM (#33562180)

"Your honor, whatever I've said should not be used against me in the court of law"...I can't make up this parody if I was a scriptwriter.

Here's another...SBF has stepped down, and his replacement is John J. Ray III, a famous bankruptcy lawyer who helped clean up Enron...yes, that Enron.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by Scoundreller on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:59AM (#33562426)

I bet is motto is the same as the one that gets these companies in trouble: “pay yourself first”.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by lotsofpulp on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:10AM (#33562586)

Must be tough being a fiction writer these days.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by dylan604 on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:44AM (#33563087)

I'm waiting for the Law&Order ripped from the headlines episode. Who will be the murder victim in the opening scene though? DUN DUN!!!

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by nobody9999 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:16AM (#33571179)

>I'm waiting for the Law&Order ripped from the headlines episode. Who will be the murder victim in the opening scene though? DUN DUN!!!

I suppose the writers could mine[0] this for inspiration.

[0] Pun intended.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by sillysaurusx on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:41AM (#33562174)

Yeah! That was the tweet that made me suspect an anxiety attack / some other health condition.

The weirdest part is that all 23 tweets were posted simultaneously at 8:13am. So he had the opportunity to say nothing; he could’ve clicked “save draft” instead of “tweet all”.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by chasd00 on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:25PM (#33563692)

heh how close together are the "save draft" and "tweet all" buttons?

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by perihelions on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:44AM (#33562216)

Twitter should add Miranda warnings to the before-you-tweet prompts. It would be a reasonable use-case for ML classification.

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by dylan604 on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:46AM (#33563107)

This guy is just taking a play from the same book Trump, Musk, Kanye, etc use. Only, he's turned it up to an 11. It'd be a funny skit to see a Trump character reading this guy's tweets/interviews and saying "whoa"

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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by UncleMeat on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:48AM (#33562264)

Especially on twitter, where by default you only see the first few tweets of a chain.

"Here is a bunch of information about the ongoing potentially criminal collapse of my company - oh by the way I'm a bad dev so some of what I said above might be wrong, don't act on this information."

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