







Looking at the FTX implosion and the increasing likelihood of Bankman-Fried ending up awkwardly in a courtroom and feeling pretty good about this February fireside where I talked about the state preference for 'meatspace' strategies: https://t.co/WhY3sOwLeZ— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) November 15, 2022
Transcript of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Interview at the DealBook Summit (Published 2022)
In a discussion with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times, Sam Bankman-Fried blamed “huge management failures” and sloppy accounting for the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

Vegetarian buffet and a ‘free dental’ raffle prize: Greens launch bullish bid to ‘take our country back’ in Victoria
New federal leader David Shoebridge says November’s poll will herald the start of an ‘extraordinary moment’ as Greens hope for best-ever state result

This is a thread of my thoughts and feelings about the actions that led to FTX’s bankruptcy, and the enormous harm that was caused as a result, involving the likely loss of many thousands of innocent people’s savings.
This is a thread of my thoughts and feelings about the actions that led to FTX’s bankruptcy, and the enormous harm that was caused as a result, involving the likely loss of many thousands of innocent people’s savings.— William MacAskill (@willmacaskill) November 11, 2022
matthew ellis on Twitter / X
Lots of reviews of @AntonJaegermm’s Hyperpolitics in the past few months but I have to say the latest episode of @leftofphil is the only one that seems to understand the stakes for the conjuncture we’re in https://t.co/xnYA34JkOp— matthew ellis (@matthiasellis) September 21, 2026
Former Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb Joins Raw America
Lamb talks about John Fetterman’s dereliction of duty, and why Pennsylvania could be key to Democrats winning back control of Congress in November

Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
If Sam Bankman-Fried is convicted in the upcoming FTX fraud trial, Lewis’s admiring biography will take an awkward place on the shelves of history.

Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
What Does Sam Bankman-Fried Have to Say for Himself?
An interview with the disgraced CEO.

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed (Published 2022)
Mr. Bankman-Fried said in an interview that he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs. But he shared few details about his handling of FTX customers’ funds.

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How Not to Play the Game
Magic beans, Bahamian penthouses, old-fashioned fraud and other important SBF-inspired insights. A postscript to Bloomberg Businessweek’s The Crypto Story.

Sam Bankman-Fried Draws From Vast Vocabulary of Weasel Words During Cross-Examination
During Sam Bankman-Fried's cross-examination on Monday, the disgraced FTX founder seemd to suffer from memory loss and evaded prosecutions questions.

Ken Paxton wanted to limit forum shopping. Now lawyers say he’s improperly seeking favorable courts.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified at least 30 lawsuits filed by the attorney general over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed.

What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about "longtermism"
I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse

Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
public health guy
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
public health guy
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption