Bitcoin and NFTs

[Gangster Octopus]

Yes. The lord Jesus Christ.

[Sean of the Shed]

Why did he appear in court dressed as an orc?

[Gangster Octopus]

I'd've said that's a grumpy Vulcan.

[ursus arctos]

He has been in prison (and is now back).

That is "correction casual".

It is also a consistent style for that particular court sketch artist.

[Snake Plissken]

This is a great article about Effective Altruism.

https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-o...tive-altruism/

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Yes. The lord Jesus Christ.

Hahahaha. I'm not sure that the good judge would necessarily agree. BTW, he's 79 fucking years old! That's quite late to become world famous for your profession isn't it?

[ursus arctos]

Yes, the Wired article is indeed very good

Kaplan was a very well respected litigator for 20 years before he was appointed to the Southern Diatrict bench and has always been among it's leading lights.

I am a bit surprised that you didn't encounter him given your interest in NYC mob cases, as he presided over quite a few high profile trials of Gambino Family wise guys.

[ursus arctos]

BTW, the oldest active Federal judge is 96

[Hot Pepsi]

Yes, the Wired article is indeed very good

Kaplan was a very well respected litigator for 20 years before he was appointed to the Southern Diatrict bench and has always been among it's leading lights.

I am a bit surprised that you didn't encounter him given your interest in NYC mob cases, as he presided over quite a few high profile trials of Gambino Family wise guys.

It’s great, but Wired’s mobile site is glitchy. It took me a while to read that because it kept jumping around when the ads would do something I didn’t ask for.

[ursus arctos]

Also very.true

[Sporting]

So, if we're playing Price Is Right rules, and of course we are....Sporting wins it.

I concur.

[ursus arctos]

Worthwhile polemical piece from the Nation on SBF's continued delusion

https://www.thenation.com/article/ec...utm_term=daily

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Yes, the Wired article is indeed very good

Kaplan was a very well respected litigator for 20 years before he was appointed to the Southern Diatrict bench and has always been among it's leading lights.

I am a bit surprised that you didn't encounter him given your interest in NYC mob cases, as he presided over quite a few high profile trials of Gambino Family wise guys.

Stuff post 2000 doesn't really count I'm afraid. It's just too tragic and embarrassing. What would Arnold rothstein, lucky Luciano and Meyer lansky have to say about the pitiable case of john gotti Jr? It's all gone to shit since they locked up the chin.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

https://twitter.com/davidmcw/status/1775056839832490440

[caja-dglh]

I always get a bit concerned about someone’s take when they can’t spell Michael.

[diggedy derek]

Never mind that, what about “we tease of the story”?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Mícheal is the irish for Michael, it could just be an autocorrect. Then again mc Williams is a gregarious day drinker, so there is also that

I think analogue bubble bath used to have to sub edit his pieces at one stage. He formed the distinct impression that even the emails smelled of stale booze

[Lang Spoon]

I had to sit through a presentation of his vacuous nonsense to my sector, it was peak covid so he was casting from his kitchen, would not be surprised if he was at least half a bottle deep from his a little too relaxed demeanor. And of course he soon after contradicted all the boosterish yis are all great shite he was feeding us in one of his columns of skitters in the Irish Times.

I did get a hamper of sheridans cheese, crackers and not bad wine from the orgainisers for my troubles though. So on balance, hes a good thing.

[Ginger Yellow]

Rather weird to call Lewis "great" in the context of something about SBF given his repeated self-owns on the subject.

[WOM]

Apropos of nothing, really, I was reminded of the marvelous scam artist who started ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning when he was still in high school - Barry Minkow. So I went to read up on him. Apparently the scamming never stopped, no matter how many times he was busted and went to jail. Good grief.

Should you be interested....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_...ion_and_prison

[ursus arctos]

When he was nine years old, his mother got him a job as a telemarketer with the carpet-cleaning business where she worked.

What a country!

[Ginger Yellow]

Apropos of nothing, really, I was reminded of the marvelous scam artist who started ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning when he was still in high school - Barry Minkow. So I went to read up on him. Apparently the scamming never stopped, no matter how many times he was busted and went to jail. Good grief.

Should you be interested....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_...ion_and_prison

Dan Davies' book on frauds is good on this point. Scammers tend to keep on scamming. See also the Fyre Festival guy, who started a new scam while on trial for the first one.