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by ben_w
785 days ago
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""""The whole time that we were dating, he was also my boss at work, which created some awkward situations," she testified, according to The Wall Street Journal. Describing Bankman-Fried's attitude toward risk-taking, "Ellison recalled on the witness stand how Bankman-Fried once spoke of a coin-flip scenario where if the coin landed on tails, the world would end. But if the coin landed on heads, 'the world would be twice as good.' Bankman-Fried [said] he would take the bet if there were a chance of making the world better, Ellison said."""" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sbfs-ex-girlfrie... > what would happen if the president was shot Judging by all the presidents who have been shot, at most an airport gets named after them or a statue gets built. > or if Dali lama was chosen by china Not much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy > The leaks seems to have stopped much more since assange is gone. "Seems"? Plenty of new ones listed on the Wikileaks website. > assange definitely does deserve credit For what? Snowden went to… a newspaper. Didn't need Wikileaks. Plenty of whistleblowers did the same before Wikileaks. It's a new brand, but not a new thing. |
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Have you used WikiLeaks? When was the last time it was consequencial or noteworthy?
Here's a recent article with Julian assange. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/julian-assange-wi...
> He regrets that WikiLeaks is no longer able to expose war crimes and corruption as in the past. His imprisonment and US government surveillance and restrictions on WikiLeaks’ funding wards off potential whistleblowers. He fears that other media outlets are not filling the vacuum.