#Change is Gonna Come
Delaware Democrat introducing DC statehood bill in Senate
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., walks on Capitol Hill Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington announced he’s reintroducing a bill to grant statehood to the nation’s capital. “The rumors are true! I’m introducing the #DCStatehood bill in the Senate this week,”
#AI
To All Freelancers:
It’s time to include “My work will not be used to train AI in any present or future projects in any capacity” clauses to your contracts.
ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
The bot’s performance on the test has “important implications for business school education,” wrote Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Shutterstock has *already* used contributors’ artwork in AI datasets, without the artists’ informed consent. Remove your artwork from Shutterstock immediately. Remove your artwork from ANY of the big licensing websites, because I’m positive they’re all doing this.
ChatGPT: students could use AI to cheat, but it’s a chance to rethink assessment altogether
10 ways blockchain developers can use ChatGPT
#HEALTH
Dr James E Olsson” with 238,000 followers almost exclusively tweets anti-vax content and poses as a doctor at Johns Hopkins, though no doctor under that name seems to exist at the university. A real doctor named James E Olsson from Maryland died in 2006
Zients Failed and the World Paid the Price
Jha Must Lead White House Global Covid Response with Far More Vision and Ambition
“BIDEN: “And I think we — I sometimes underestimate it because I stopped thinking about it, but I’m sure you don’t: We lost 1 — over 1 million people in several years to COVID.” We lost almost 700,000 people to covid since Biden took office two years ago.
#LAW
Former President Donald Trump posed for picture with former Philly mob boss Joey Merlino at South Florida golf club
They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who “flip” to help federal investigators.
But former President Donald Trump and former Philly mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino don’t have much to say about how they wound up in a photo together at a South Florida golf course.
“It’s flabbergasting how many times Sullivan & Cromwell’s name comes up. If all roads lead to the same law firm, maybe let’s hand them another paycheck”
MetaLawMan @MetaLawMan Jan 19
5/ Inexplicably, Mr. Ray now supports S&C’s move to serve as Debtors’ counsel, even though S&C:
–handled 20 engagements for FTX (a criminal enterprise from inception) in just 16 months;
–was paid $8.5 million in fees; and
–represented key figures SBF and N Singh personally
Sullivan & Cromwell Gets Go-Ahead to Represent FTX in Bankruptcy Proceedings, Despite Controversy
A bankruptcy court judge in Delaware has given New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell the green light to continue representing FTX during its bankruptcy proceedings.
The decision, issued on Friday morning by Judge John T. Dorsey, comes despite recent controversy about the white-shoe law firm having potential conflicts of interest that critics say should disqualify Sullivan & Cromwell from acting as debtors’ counsel.
Late Thursday evening, former FTX attorney Daniel Friedberg – who served as the now-defunct exchange’s chief regulatory officer – filed an unorthodox declaration that contained numerous bombshell allegations of wrongdoing in Sullivan & Cromwell’s previous work with FTX.
In his declaration, Friedberg alleged that Ryne Miller – FTX US’ general counsel and a former partner at Sullivan & Cromwell – funneled millions of dollars in legal work back to his ex-colleagues. The relationship between Miller and Sullivan & Cromwell was not initially disclosed by the law firm, leading the U.S. Trustee’s Office to file an objection to the appointment of Sullivan & Cromwell as debtors’ counsel on Jan. 13.
Friedberg and the U.S. Trustee’s Office are not the only ones that question Sullivan & Cromwell putting its finger in the FTX pie.
On Jan. 10, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators sent a letter to Judge Dorsey urging him to appoint an independent examiner and to question Sullivan & Cromwell’s involvement. The senators pointed out that there were “significant questions about the firm’s involvement in operations of FTX” and “put bluntly, the firm is simply not in a position to uncover the information needed to ensure confidence in any investigation or findings.”
“But I only have 100000.” ~Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried Lists $3.28 Million Washington D.C. House for Sale
https://watcher.guru/news/sam-bankman-fried-lists-3-28-million-washington-d-c-house-for-sale
Feds seize almost $700 million of FTX assets in Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case
sarah emerson “Many have wondered about FTX’s ties to its banks Moonstone and Deltec. FTX was a Deltec client when Alameda invested $11.5M in Moonstone, a rural Washington bank acquired by Deltec’s chairman Jean Chalopin (a co-creator of Inspector Gadget!) @DavidJeans2 and I have some answers.”