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This week, Briahna spoke to Teddy Schleifer, a journalist who covers Silicon Valley billionaires for Puck News, about Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, and his obsession with media. Why does he keep exposing himself via high profile interviews (and DM exchanges) that amount to free depositions for the SEC and DOJ -- both of whom are investigating him? Was his emphasis on "effective altruism" part of his effort to charm the media into seeing him as a good faith actor in an unregulated financial sector primed for fraud? Is it possible to be a "good billionaire?" This conversation took a philosophical turn. Come for a play by play of his NYT DealBook interview, stay for a materialist analysis of billionaire philanthropy.

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Anonymous

It’s going to come out that SBF was a Zionist and heavily connected to Mossad, usually through three person removed connection. He was to be the next Adam Neumann if his gambit came to fruition instead of being scrutinized prematurely.

Anonymous

If you want a case study in "effective" altruism, I recommend this article on Bill Gate's efforts with COVID: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969 He blocked efforts to lift patent restrictions on the vaccine, then proceeded to fail to meet any of the goals they had set with testing or delivery of the COVAX shots. By September 2021, COVAX delivered only 319 million shots, (remember this is a worldwide effort), reaching 960 million by January 2022. This monopolized most of the resources available to lower income countries. Remember, that Omicron emerged in late November 2021, so by January 2022, these shots are mostly obsolete.

Anonymous

This guy really buys into EA and SBF's belief in it, which is pretty sad....so is his continually calling a subject by their first name

Anonymous

His defense of SBF's political machinations for his own benefit was pretty lame too

Nathan Ngumi

A very interesting conversation. Samuel Bankman-Fried is an intriguing figure. How this case plays out will importantly set a precedent for future crypto fraud schemes and conspiracies. The US government better get this right.

Anonymous

SBF is simply a conman. And all conmen think they can talk their way out of literally anything and that is what he is trying to do right now. Potenial jurors watch TV too! At the end of the day, he took customer money and loaned himself $1bn! All these democratic donations and media access was a brilliant move ... future get out of jail free cards.

Dan

The rise is RSV, Flu, Strep, etc that is overwhelming hospitals and causing shortages in children’s medicine is due to COVID. 80% of school aged children were infected last winter when we were dumb enough to open schools back up. COVID-19 causes immune system damage which is compounded by repeat infections. RSV had lots of spread last year without the spike in hospitalizations. “Immunity Debt” makes no sense and is an absolute lie! There is zero coverage of this in the mainstream press. Have Immunologist Anthony Leonardi on the pod! https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/07/COVID-Reinfections-And-Immunity/

Anonymous

she questions intent and doesn't hesitate to speculate on what they are thinking.