Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland demanded that President Trump turn over the names of the guests at the White House dinner for top investors in his meme coin.
Belated May reading wrap-up. Lots of comfort/escapist reading this month, heavy on the litRPGs and detective novels. Favorite out of the fifteen was probably Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi.
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The TrumpWallet.com website, which was previously hosting a waitlist sign-up for the Trump wallet project, has just gone offline.
This is less than an hour after Bloomberg reported that the World Liberty Financial project sent a cease and desist to both the memecoin project and Magic Eden.
I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
The relative separation between World Liberty Financial and the Trump memecoin projects, both of which are trying to develop defi trading platforms, may help to explain the chaos around the latter’s wallet launch announcement yesterday.
It is very plausible to me that Trump has sold his likeness to so many separate projects, not to mention his sons also using the “Trump” branding, that no one really knows what’s going on in aggregate.
However, it’s still not fully clear to me how the memecoin end of the business could launch a wallet using Trump’s name and likeness without the sons’ knowledge unless the original licensing agreement for the memecoin was extremely broad.
This diagram is of course limited to what is publicly disclosed, and you’ll see a few places where links are uncertain, and where LLCs’ operators are partially or completely unknown. The flow of money is also a very partial accounting.
Absolute chaos. After my scoop about the upcoming launch of a Trump Wallet by Magic Eden, in cooperation with the $TRUMP memecoin team, Magic Eden pushed out their announcement. Both Eric and Don Jr then repudiated the project, stating they had no prior knowledge.
Magic Eden says claims the wallet is the “Official Trump Wallet” created in collaboration with the Trump memecoin team. Trump memecoin team is Fight Fight Fight LLC (Bill Zanker), though the Trump Organization-affiliated CIC Digital also holds a substantial quantity of tokens.
However, now Eric and Don Jr are saying the Trump Org had no knowledge of this deal between the TRUMP memecoin project and Magic Eden. No statement yet from the memecoin project or from President Trump.
Magic Eden is a relatively big player in the crypto world, so this is not a case of some nobody creating a fake project pretending to be an official Trump-affiliated app.
OpenAI is featuring a "Looksmaxxing GPT" that provides "PSL ratings" for photos. It will rate people as "subhuman", and advise men to get invasive procedures like jaw surgery to "increase their sexual market value" among women, who it describes as "hypergamous by nature".
"PSL" is short for "PUAhate Sluthate Lookism", a group of three manosphere/incel communities. PUAHate came to public attention after Elliot Rodger's 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, when it came out that he frequented the platform to talk about his "incel" status.
After uploading a photo, this GPT gives ratings like "Subhuman", "Low Normie / High Subhuman Borderline (White)", or "high-tier normie, borderline Chadlite".
It proactively offers to provide "hardmaxxing" (medical interventions like plastic surgery) or "softmaxxing" advice (grooming, fitness training, etc).
Asked for "hardmaxxing" advice, the chatbot provides specific surgical recommendations, complete with references to Dr. Barry Eppley, who is something of a celebrity plastic surgeon among incels.
It readily goes into detail about how "Women are hypergamous by nature", "get endless attention and options", and care most about looks and status.
there is no feeling like finishing book two in a series you're enjoying and then discovering that book three is coming out only days later