Here's an idea: instead of making sure old books are "suitable for modern readers," how about making sure modern readers are suitable for old books

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 24, 2023

In retrospect, perhaps $20 billion would've been better invested in lottery tickets than magic beans from two autistic band nerds pic.twitter.com/Mzh8pmEWWv

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 14, 2022

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The NY Post profiles the FTX founder/genius.

Biden’s second-biggest donor, cryptocurrency billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, a k a SBF, saw his business file for bankruptcy days after the election, but not before pumping $40 million into the Democratic Party to spend on “get-out-the-vote” and other shadowy ballot-harvesting mechanics for the midterms.

The shambolic 30-year-old whiz kid, once said to have been worth $16 billion, had spent $10 million helping get Biden elected in 2020.

SBF’s mother, Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, also is co-founder of left-wing political action committee Mind The Gap, which has raised a reported $140 million to help Democrats win elections through the same “get-out-the-vote” grift.

A more unlikely billionaire you could not find — and of course his money was built on thin air. A math genius with poor social skills, SBF reportedly lived in a “polycule” — a polyamorous relationship with multiple people — in a luxury penthouse with about 10 co-workers in the tax haven of the Bahamas, where his collapsed crypto exchange FTX was headquartered.

Otherwise, he was sleeping on beanbags in his office, eating vegan fries and, according to his own Twitter feed, popping amphetamines and sleeping pills to regulate his chaotic sleeping habits.

Now Reuters is reporting that between $1 billion and $2 billion of customer funds have vanished from FTX, conveniently after the Democrats safely spent his money.

At last report, SBF and his mysterious co-founder, Gary Wang, were being held “under supervision” by Bahamian authorities after reportedly planning to flee to Dubai, according to fintech publication Cointelegraph.

It is a stunning fall to earth. The financial media and big investors have feted the young billionaire as a saint who shunned earthly pleasures like Lamborghinis and Rolexes, but lived only to give away all his money and make the world a better place.

He was the most famous millennial adherent of a cult known as “Effective Altruism,” which originated at Oxford University, found fertile ground in Silicon Valley — and now has gone down in flames along with him.

EA is a disguised form of socialism, because all the “good” that is done just happens to match up perfectly with the left’s obsessions, whether climate change, social justice, equity, banning meat or his favorite, “pandemic preparedness.”

In a Nas Daily online video, an awkward Bankman-Fried was featured this year as a role model of altruism for young people: “Sam is not a traditional billionaire because he believes in the concept of ‘earn to give’ … Next decade he will probably give away more than $10 million … He wants to get rich in order to impact the world and change it.”

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Caroline Ellison, Ellison, the close business associate and confirmed ex-girlfriend of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, tweeted last year:

nothing like regular amphetamine use to make you appreciate how dumb a lot of normal, non-medicated human experience is

— Caroline (@carolinecapital) April 5, 2021

RIP "a day in my life as a tech company employee" Tik Tok videos https://t.co/y45ihM2Y50

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Catch the reply thread!

Vonnegut off the top ropehttps://t.co/TTp4Y2AoV5

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 3, 2022

I like the thing where people assume everybody working at Twitter is a computer science PhD slinging 5000 lines of code daily with stacks of job offers for Silicon Valley headhunters, and not a small army of 27-year old cat lady hall monitors

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 27, 2022

Thank god we're finally addressing the plight of America's most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduateshttps://t.co/zAeC0wgXyh

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 24, 2022

honest, kids, you just have to crane your neck a bit pic.twitter.com/nIzqFGOd0J

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 2, 2022

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— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 13, 2022

resume update:

Conversation Safety & Quality Associate, Twitter Inc., 2018-2022. Created bold initiative that resulted in a net $10 billion gain in shareholder value

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 25, 2022

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— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 24, 2022

Say what you want, but I'd rather eat it than a bathttps://t.co/H0gFYmnrrF

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 22, 2020

I know a lot of people lie about their age but this is ridiculoushttps://t.co/5qBeNXchHq

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