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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

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    Someone hacked the Epstein files in 2023.

    ”The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.” Apparently they didn’t realize they were on an FBI server.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    A gambler on illegal vs legal gambling.

    In this personal review of Everybody Loses, Jonny Auping recalls his time with a bookie: “thank God it was illegal bookies who got their hooks in me first. If it was the NFL and NBA peddling this stuff straight into my veins before I had any experience with my compulsions, I really can’t say how far it would have gone.”

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    Everybody Loses

    [My Time Back]

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Ben McKenzie has a new crypto documentary.

    Apparently he wasn’t satisfied with just the book. Sort of a shame McKenzie couldn’t release it on April 1, don’t you agree?

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    How Jeffrey Epstein tried to pressure Bill Gates.

    Fortune has a report on how Epstein got into Gates’ inner circle, and then leveraged a bridge player rumored to be Gates’ ex-girlfriend against him: “The richest man in the world is so cheap, his former bridge girl and toy, lives on a friends sofa,” Epstein wrote. Epstein wanted Gates to manage a “donor-advised fund” to reduce his taxes.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Another Silicon Valley titan was closer to Jeffrey Epstein than he’d previously admitted.

    In 2017, while Reid Hoffman was publicly expressing outrage at pervasive sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, he was privately emailing the sex criminal. In 2018, they discussed Coinbase investments. There sure are a lot of these guys, huh? Wonder why.

    Why is SpaceX going public?

    “I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Chilling effect go brrr…

    Jason Lee had this profile killed from an unnamed magazine because he didn’t like being asked a question about Scientology. Defector is publishing it anyway. Are there any cool Gen Xers? Starting to feel like the answer is no.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    I love a good AI rant.

    “If your best idea for what AI can do in the workspace is ‘replace a hundred human beings with a server rack doing the same thing’, you’ve got no business calling yourself a techno-optimist.” Let’s gooooo!

    Prediction markets want to eat the news

    Regulators noticed Polymarket and Kalshi rake in cash on sports bets. So now prediction markets are cosplaying as the future of news.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

    The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

    Elizabeth Lopatto