In which a scientific feud gets surprisingly personal:
When During looks at a bone, she sees a chemical matrix waiting to be investigated. She sees an opportunity to extract information. When DePalma looks at a bone, he sees a narrative. He tells stories about the bones, some of them true.
[Intelligencer]
More than 1,000 people will lose their jobs — and others will be relocated to sites outside China. This follows Microsoft’s similar move in May. In a call, an IBM exec blamed increasing competition in China.
Michael Lewis has a new essay to accompany the paperback version of Going Infinite, a book about Sam Bankman-Fried that appeared just before his trial. Sure, SBF did crimes because he was an arrogant gambler, but Lewis still loves his gamer son.
[Washington Post]
Conway wrote a furious, and occasionally all-caps, email to his former crypto allies, including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, after finding out they were going to try to unseat Senator Sherrod Brown. “Im the one using my 25+ year old personal relationships to help this movement the most significantly and not one person bothered to inform me.”
The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks’ loan books and, in one case, was a factor that crimped compensation for a bank’s merger department, according to people involved with the deal.
Oh.
Sam Altman’s crypto-adjacent Worldcoin has irritated global regulators:
It has been raided in Hong Kong, blocked in Spain, fined in Argentina and criminally investigated in Kenya. A ruling looms on whether it can keep operating in the European Union.
This in-depth story about Silicon Valley power couple Ben and Felicia Horowitz suggests that the catalyst for their political about-face was receiving criticism from the left. “Multiple sources close to the couple said the social media backlash affected them deeply.”
[The San Francisco Standard]
You can pay to see if your partner will respond to a stranger’s flirty DM — and TikTok has turned this into a thriving subculture.
“On one hand, it’s like, fuck yeah, we got this guy,” Monzon told me. “But on the other hand, it’s like, ‘Fuck.’ This girl’s life is…she’s heartbroken now.”
