SBF Arrested + 2023 Predictions + Your Questions Answered

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The year of the “mini-Musk” chief executive, the end of homework as we know it, a crackdown on TikTok and other predictions for 2023. Also, Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and answers to our listener questions.

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0:00.0	Kevin, I'm sitting with you here in the studio and I have to ask, is that a fidget spinner
0:05.5	that's in your hands?
0:07.5	It is.
0:08.5	I did recently acquire a fidget spinner actually inspired by some of our conversations about
0:14.0	San Bankman Fried, who also is a big fan of the fidget spinner and, you know, a guy
0:20.0	really seek to emulate.
0:21.7	I didn't realize that SBF was a fidget spinner.
0:24.0	Like, what do we know about his relationship with fidget spinners?
0:26.8	Well, he used one or I don't know if they let you have fidget spinners in jail, but he
0:31.5	did use one and it was a way to deal with his nervous energy.
0:35.8	But this one that I have, it's not just a normal fidget spinner.
0:40.4	It's a new one that has these little bubbles that pop.
0:44.3	Well, I mean, this is a show about advancements in technology and so I just want to thank
0:48.2	you for bringing that one under the show.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.2	You know, SBF went from a fidget spinner to spinning one of the greatest financial frauds
0:55.7	in history.
0:56.7	So I'm looking forward to seeing what you're going to spin in 2023.
1:02.7	I'm Kevin Rus, tech columnist for The New York Times, and I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
1:08.8	And this is Hard Fork.
1:10.3	This week on the show, a conversation with the Times David Yaffe Bellany about the arrest
1:15.6	of San Bankman Fried, later in the show Kevin and I make our big 2023 predictions.
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