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☆ Harvard-educated deception expert: 4 red flags can show when people like Sam Bankman-Fried are lying
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The answer is the latter, says Pamela Meyer , a Harvard-educated deception expert who is a certified fraud examiner and the author of the 2010 book "Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception." Now, with Sam Bankman-Fried arrested on Monday by Bahamian authorities, the world is wondering if the FTX founder will follow in Holmes' footsteps as the next disgraced startup founder to end up behind bars . Such tactics should have been "a red flag, for sure, that he was deflecting a deep dive into the details" of FTX, Meyer says. You let them talk and talk and talk." This appears to be Bankman-Fried's current mode, Meyer says.

☆ ‘M3GAN,’ the next generation of creepy doll movies, is not playing around
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“M3GAN” doesn’t hit theaters until January, but the movie’s quick, zeitgeist-piercing creepiness as seen in the teaser is something to behold. “I was always thinking of her as real,” “M3GAN” director Gerard Johnston told CNN of his approach. Universal PicturesJohnstone set out to make Megan (short for “Model 3 generative android,” Williams explains in the trailer) more than just a creepy inanimate doll. “Because she is a living doll… [‘M3GAN’ is a] cautionary tale about A.I. Like creepy doll movies, stories that explore evil and/or self-aware technology call to mind the troublesome and blurry line where the inanimate object ends, and where something akin to humanity – but somehow different – begins.

☆ Finance CEO Sallie Krawcheck is so convinced you should 'buy the f---ing latte' that her company Ellevest now sells a $23 reusable cup that says it
▼ + stars: | 2019-07-24 | by ( Tanza Loudenback | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former Wall Streeter Sallie Krawcheck railed against a common personal finance trope encouraging people to stop buying their morning coffee in an op-ed published by Fast Company in May. Krawcheck's company Ellevest, a digital investing platform for women, recently began selling a $23 ceramic cup emblazoned with the phrase "buy the f---ing latte" on its website. "You have our permission to drink whatever you like from this cup: latte, iced latte, unicorn latte, green tea matcha latte, chai tea latte, water, whiskey, feminist power. To drive the message home, Krawcheck's company Ellevest, a digital investing platform for women, has begun selling a cheeky coffee cup on its website, artfully emblazoned with the phrase "buy the f---ing latte." "You have our permission to drink whatever you like from this cup: latte, iced latte, unicorn latte, green tea matcha latte, chai tea latte, water, whiskey, feminist power.

☆ A TALK WITH MILAN KUNDERA
▼ + stars: | 1985-05-19 | by ( Olga Carlisle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The nature of his achievement may explain in part why Kundera is so fiercely protective of his privacy. Warned by mutual friends that the Soviet subjugation of his country had made Kundera mistrustful of Russians - all Russians - I felt I should mention my Russian origin. MILAN KUNDERA AND HIS WIFE, VERA, LIVE ON ONE of the quiet sidestreets of Montparnasse; their small apartment is a remodeled garret with a view of dove-gray Parisian roofs. Some are by Czechoslovak artists; the others are by Kundera himself - multicolored outsized heads and long-fingered hands, like Kundera's own. Vera Kundera is a pretty brunette, hair cut short, slender in blue jeans.

Persons: Philip Roth, Kundera, I'm, Leonid Andreyev, VERA, garret, Vera Kundera, Vera Organizations: MILAN Locations: Paris, San Francisco, Montparnasse, Czechoslovak, Bon Marche

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