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.
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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.”
Vance, who was an investor, board member, and spokesman, claimed AppHarvest was “a great business that’s making a big difference in the world.” It declared bankruptcy last year.
Several former employees told CNN they thought Vance and other board members should have recognized and responded to warning signs that company officials were misleading the public and their own investors.
Randal Cooper imagines a response to a user trying to quit the platform formerly known as Twitter:
These actions constitute an illegal one-person boycott that infringes on our client’s constitutional right to free speech, as well as his right to monetize that speech in several ways, and has caused him irreparable harm.
[McSweeney's Internet Tendency]
