SBF FTX WTF?

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Trump’s campaign announcement, election denying candidates’ failures in the midterms, and guest Matthew Zeitlin on the impact the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX may have on the Effective Altruism movement. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Donie O'Sullivan for CNN: “Facebook Fact-Checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Presidential Bid Announcement” Matthew Zeitlin for Grid: “Sam Bankman-Fried Gave Millions To Effective Altruism. What Happens Now That The Money Is Gone?” Kelsey Piper for Vox: “Sam Bankman-Fried Tries To Explain Himself” What We Owe the Future, by William MacAskill William MacAskill for Effective Altruism Forum: “EA And The Current Funding Situation” This American Life: “Watching the Watchers” Here are this week’s chatters: John: Jason P. Frank for Vulture: “Stephen Colbert, Emma Watson, and More Celebs to Relish in Pickleball Tournament”; Isabel Gonzalez for CBS News: “Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield Partner To Create Ear-Shaped, Cannabis-Infused Edibles” Emily: William Melhado for The Texas Tribune: “Federal Judge In Texas Rules That Disarming Those Under Protective Orders Violates Their Second Amendment Rights” David: Politics and Prose: City Cast DC Live Taping with Michael Schaffer, David Plotz, and Anton Bogomazov - at Union Market; Justin Jouvenal for The Washington Post: “D.C.’s Bitcoin King: Yachts, Penthouses, A Python — And Tax Dodging?” Listener chatter from Kelly Mills: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies, by Jason Fagone For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John contemplate the Thanksgiving traditions they would like to adopt or improve. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gapfest.
0:16.4	November 17th, 2022, the SBF-FTX WTF edition.
0:22.5	I am David Plott's of CityCast in Washington, DC.
0:27.0	John Dickerson of CBS Primetime is with us in New York as ever.
0:32.3	Hello John.
0:33.3	Hello David, I gave your title a hearty chuckle.
0:36.1	Thank you.
0:37.4	And not chuckling, dowerly staring down.
0:41.3	This Emily Bazzle on the New York Times magazine
0:43.0	in Yale University Law School, not dowerly, not dowerly.
0:46.1	Hello Emily.
0:47.0	Hey David, just looking up some good fresh cocktail chatter.
0:51.0	This week on the gapfest, Donald Trump
0:52.7	announces his 2024 campaign for president, then a lot of us,
0:58.6	like me, took solace in the fact that so many election
1:01.1	deniers lost last week.
1:02.4	Why did that happen?
1:03.3	What does it portend for American democracy?
1:06.6	Then the collapse of Sam Bankman-Freeze,
1:09.1	crypto-empire, we will talk to Matt Zitland of grid about it
1:13.0	and what it means for the effective altruism movement,
1:16.1	the very interesting effective altruism movement.
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