In a letter to the judge, Ellison’s mother, professor Sara Fisher Ellison, wrote that Ellison has completed a romantic novella and is already at work on a follow-up. The finished novella is “set in Edwardian England and loosely based on [Ellison’s] sister Kate’s imagined amorous exploits, to Kate’s great delight,” her mother wrote.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/24/caroline-ellison-romance-novel-ftx-entencing/

oh yeah she got two years’ jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

  • @BlueMonday1984
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    213 months ago

    oh yeah she got two years’ jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

    A slap on the wrist compared to Sam Bankman-Fried’s twenty-five years. Turns out working with the feds, admitting your guilt and knowing when to fold 'em are pretty important when karma finally catches up with you.

  • @ahopefullycuterrobot
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    193 months ago

    Will Ellison include her love for hierarchical, power-struggle Chinese harem dynamics in this novella or is she saving it for the sequel?

    • @bitofhope
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      133 months ago

      new meta for cultivation novels: prison literature

      • @ahopefullycuterrobot
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        83 months ago

        The rationalists - sometimes making me question my commitment to prison abolition. Actually, not frequently enough, considering how few are arrested.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          43 months ago

          Diddy and the Sam, it’s Diddy and the Sam

          • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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            73 months ago

            What are we going to do today, Sam?

            The same thing we do every day, Diddy. Try to convince them to let me play League of Legends again.

          • @froztbyte
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            63 months ago

            the one thinks he’s a genius, the other’s less insane

  • @swlabr
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    153 months ago

    “completed” I guarantee it’s AI gen’ed. Note to self: use LLM to pump out a novel if/when I need to show I’m turning over a new leaf

    • @swlabr
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      193 months ago

      Also: note that it is centred around her sister. Note to self: do not direct LLM to write erotica about a sibling, because that is not a normal thing to do for someone turning over a new leaf.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          133 months ago

          PROSECUTOR, PROBATION SERVICE: look, even we think time served for this one
          (Judge reads Caroline’s book)
          JUDGE: Jail for Caroline! Jail for Caroline for seven hundred and thirty days!

  • @istewart
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    153 months ago

    please be gentle with my child, they will soon have a presence on the discount paperback rack at the local grocery store

  • @Soyweiser
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    63 months ago

    eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

    Sure in digital monopoly money, but how much was that in real money put into the system?

    • @froztbyte
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      193 months ago

      no this was the actual fiat value

      the ftx fraud is fucking wild. everything about it is insane.

      • @Soyweiser
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        173 months ago

        Right, and then she gets less time than people who shoplifted a few times.

  • @sc_griffith
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    53 months ago

    The finished novella is “set in Edwardian England and loosely based on [Ellison’s] sister Kate’s imagined amorous exploits, to Kate’s great delight,” her mother wrote.

    this can’t be what it sounds like. it just can’t be