#ponzi

Maitre Eolas🇫🇷Maitre_Eolas@mastox.eu
2026-01-28

5 ans ferme avec un bon avocat. #Ponzi

Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:BobLefridge@mastodon.nz
2026-01-15
BandersnatchBandersnatch
2026-01-13

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

How is this legal?

Explain it to me like I'm five?

How is this any better than what Charles was doing?

Markus Feilnermfeilner
2025-12-31

Warum sollen wir in Europa bauen? Damit die fossilen Stromerzeuger wieder Geld verdienen! macht es möglich: 2015 gab es gratis Strom in Texas, heute Preissteigerungen um bis zu 800% pro Jahr.

2025: n-tv.de/wirtschaft/US-Strompre

Adam R. Smith (AmericanScream)AmericanScream
2025-12-11

offers humanity nothing for something; that's its legacy and that's why you'll never see the kinds of gains you did in the past.

Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:Niall@mastodon.nz
2025-12-11

This is such a deadpan scathing and serious takedown of crypto nonsense that you don't feel the cuts from the smashed-ceramic-sharp wit and sarcasm until a few moments later. Wonderful. 24 minutes long but give it 5 and see if it hooks you like it did me.

youtu.be/fhsrkvEY55s

#Ponzi #Crypto #Ludicrous

Markus Feilnermfeilner
2025-12-06

If you only have twenty minutes for ONE presentation/talk about

THEN WATCH THIS. Douglas Rushkoff says all the things and much more that I have in my AI Ethics talk. He is an inspiration and has so many insights. Thanks, Douglas!
@Rushkoff at his best.

youtu.be/Ly2Kb8oTjhw?si=GwCpMG

2025-12-04

"El lunes no hay bancos porque hace 2000 años, en un pueblito en medio del desierto, un chanta le dijo a un grupito de crédulos que a una fulana la había embarazado una paloma o algo así, y el cuentito prendió, y los chantas y los crédulos no pararon de multiplicarse...", y se preguntan por qué no nos visitan civilizaciones más avanzadas.

2025-12-02
Dec. 1 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of former private equity CEO David Gentile, 12 days after he went to prison and joined thousands with clemency since January, the White House said Monday.

In May, District Judge Rachel P. Kovner in Manhattan sentenced Gentile to seven years in prison on wire and security fraud charges.

Gentile, 59, of Long Island, began his sentence on Nov. 14 and he was freed on Wednesday, according to the Bureau of Prisons website, when Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The prison site wasn't specified.
Adam R. Smith (AmericanScream)AmericanScream
2025-12-01

When parody and reality collide.

Markus Feilnermfeilner
2025-11-30

"Grenzen der KI-Transformation bestätigt auch eine aktuelle Studie, die im MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) durchgeführt wurde. Darin heißt es, dass 95 Prozent der Unternehmen, die KI einsetzen, bisher keinen relevanten Nutzen aus ihren Investitionen ziehen."
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telepolis.de/article/Kritik-am

Markus Feilnermfeilner
2025-11-25

"You only know if this straw is the final one once you put it on your cart."
admits it is a threat to all US pensions. In fact, is. Who would have thought that? (€)
barrons.com/articles/nvidia-st

2025-11-23
Subject: "Wall Street AIs" rumors

"$619 Billion Ponzi Scheme" is a reference to a well-known AI funding loop issue. The attached related illustration is from Bloomberg, so Bloomberg can be considered to be a source for the underlying allegations.

The new part is rumors that seem to be spreading. One version of the rumors is that "Wall Street AIs" flagged an NVidia funding loop, or "circular financing", in the last few days and warned that a collapse of NVidia might be imminent.

The "circular financing" part is true. However, I see no evidence yet that the "Wall Street AIs" part or anything else unusual has just happened. The rumors seem to have started because of fluctuations in NVidia's stock price.

Bloggers are commenting as quoted below on the "circular financing" issue. Some of the posts out there talk as though something new has happened, but so far there is no evidence of that. The phrase "Ponzi Scheme" is used on multiple sites and I feel that the phrase is reasonable in context.

"While the accounting anomalies are worrying, the very structure of the current AI economy looks increasingly like a sophisticated Ponzi scheme, or at the very least, a vast system of “Round-Tripping” (circular revenue)."

https://aiquantumcomputing.substack.com/p/the-nvidia-illusion-why-the-ai-giant

"NVIDIA invested $2 billion in xAI, xAI borrowed $12.5 billion to buy NVIDIA chips; Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI, with OpenAI committing to purchase $50 billion of Azure, leading Microsoft to place a $100 billion order with NVIDIA; Oracle provided OpenAI with a $300 billion cloud credit, and OpenAI in turn bought NVIDIA chips for Oracle. The same money was repeatedly counted as revenue, yet cash never actually materialized."

https://en.bitpush.news/articles/8287781

"Here’s where it gets criminal. Nvidia gave $2 billion to xAI. xAI borrowed $12.5 billion to buy Nvidia chips. Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion. OpenAI committed $50 billion to buy Microsoft cloud. Microsoft ordered $100 billion in Nvidia chips for that cloud. Oracle gave OpenAI $300 billion in cloud credits. OpenAI ordered Nvidia chips for Oracle data centers. The same dollars circle through different companies and get counted as revenue multiple times. Nvidia books sales, but nobody actually pays. The bills age. The inventory piles up. The cash never comes... The AI companies in order to make it look good, they are cooking the books!"

https://johnsonwkchoi.com/2025/11/22/breaking-the-610-billion-ai-ponzi-scheme-just-collapsed/

#OpenAI #NVidia #Ponzi
Illustration from Bloomberg related to an AI funding loop.
Douglas Edwards :neurodiv:dedicto@zeroes.ca
2025-11-03

At this point #Trump is a quantum superposition of #Hitler, #Nero, and #Ponzi.

2025-11-02

Die so genannte #Weltwirtschaft ist jetzt "offiziell" ein #Ponzi - Schema und ne #Investmentblase.

Yeah 🥳🚀🎊🎉🎖🏆🎰🎢🏚

heise.de/news/WEF-Praesident-B

🎆

Michael J Burgessbeitmenotyou@retro.pizza
2025-10-30
Kyesos - The Big Gameovskikyesos.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-10-20

#CeMoment où tu découvre sur X les #TechnoDroitards fans de #Ponzi qui te bloquent systématiquement lorsque tu as plus de 2 arguments crédibles à opposer à leurs monologues de marketeux opportunistes... #Priceless ^^' "It's okay"

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