• @surewhynotlem
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    10410 months ago

    A random employee of a financial institution is not a “finance bro”

    • @[email protected]
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      journalism is falling apart before our eyes but don’t worry i’m sure some prominent figures will SLAM each other along the way

      edit: everyone saying that gizmodo isn’t journalism— that’s exactly my point. this article shouldn’t be given space on a “world news” community. hosting this is bad journalism.

      • The Pantser
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        610 months ago

        They may slap and spank each other too. Both of which I have seen in headlines recently.

      • @HollandJim
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        210 months ago

        Maybe be more specific in what you label “journalism”, because Gizmodo ain’t dat.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        If my middle school history courses taught me anything, it’s that journalism has always been garbage and biased.

    • @clearleaf
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      1210 months ago

      Where did this “bro” thing come from anyway? I know it’s a signal telling me to hate someone but what particular hivemind is spreading this?

      • Deceptichum
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        Bros were dudes who liked to party.

        That became Frat Bros who were obnoxious and loud guys who like to get drunk and party.

        Eventually becoming Gym/Tech/Crypto Bros, which referenced the toxic masculinity and obnoxious nature of those two groups whose entire identity is the thing they bro’d.

        Which in turn became a catch all suffix for groups/industries that are toxic/harmful.

        No “hivemind” is spreading it, it’s just the evolution of slang and language in action.

        • Goku
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          110 months ago

          Wolf of wall street movie and wall street bets subreddit probably.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      I tough it’ll be some crypto influencer or someone like that, not just guy who works in finance.

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      • dipbeneaththelasers
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        1010 months ago

        No. And in this case it was probably an accountant or other operations worker in the company’s treasury management department. Almost certainly not a finance bro.

    • Goku
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      110 months ago

      Then what’s a finance bro if not that? Lol

      • @surewhynotlem
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        210 months ago

        Traders. M&A sharks. Crypto geeks. Balls out types.

        Not a back office accounting drone.

  • @grabyourmotherskeys
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    2810 months ago

    Maybe if people hadn’t made fun of me wanting to use pgp for all communications in the late 90s we could have avoided this. The fact that everything we do isn’t subject to digital signature verification is nuts.

    • @EdibleFriend
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      1110 months ago

      I’m still going to make fun of you. Nerd.

      Plz fix things tho :(

    • norbert
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      710 months ago

      Cypherpunk is still an ideology though obviously it never kept pace with the explosion of internet access. It’s needed now more than ever.

      • @grabyourmotherskeys
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        410 months ago

        It should be as mainstream as a lock on your front door or presenting ID when warranted (and as easy).

    • Goku
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      210 months ago

      I will be your pgp pen pal if u want.

      It also makes me sad all my emails to family / friends / services aren’t encrypted.

  • FaceDeer
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    2210 months ago

    The “-bro” suffix is rapidly heading into terminal overuse phase where it ceases to have any actual meaning any more.

    And I for one am glad to see it go.

  • @[email protected]
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    2010 months ago

    I like to think the whole story was made up and the employee stole the money for themselves.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    510 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A finance worker in Hong Kong hopped on a video call with, what appeared to be, multiple coworkers and his company’s Chief Financial Officer.

    “(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,” Hong Kong Police official Baron Chan Shun-ching told media outlets on Friday.

    Hong Kong’s police department did not publicly identify the company or the worker in this case, but it’s one of the largest financial scams with deepfake technology to date.

    The meeting’s participants were digitally recreated using publicly available footage of the individuals, according to the South China Morning Post.

    The Hong Kong police department noted this was one of many recent cases involving deepfake technology scams.

    AI-generated, pornographic images of Taylor Swift went viral in January, while a deepfake President Biden told New Hampshire voters not to vote.


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