MAT HONAN

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Just epic confidence from Sequoia in publishing this on its website. This guy is in a fucking gank, alright https://t.co/HI9eZAdgx8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Wait you can.... buy a banana? https://t.co/LIB4uxq3X8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh. https://t.co/xmLLJ0oDdh — PolitiTweet.org

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"The problem, as Bailhe saw it, was that FTX didn’t appear to need any money. She was correct, but what she didn’t know was that SBF was starting to think about raising money anyway. Alameda had some unexpected losses due to so-called counterparty risk." Huh, okay, so... — PolitiTweet.org

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"“And, so, [SBF] is committed to making the right chess moves for FTX to eventually be able to legally do everything they want to do in the U.S.,” Bailhe says—“not by asking forgiveness, but by asking permission.”" I see, I see. Sounds pretty cool? — PolitiTweet.org

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"As Covid-19 descended, Michelle Bailhe, a young gun at Sequoia Capital, and veteran partner Alfred Lin were starting to closely examine the crypto space." Mmmm-hmmm. Go on? — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine if Sequoia had spent as much time doing due diligence on FTX books as it did on a 14-thousand word hagiography of its founder — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @niallfirth: Tidal, an Alphabet X moonshot, wants to see how good seagrass is at sucking down and storing carbon dioxide. Great read fro… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomwarren Oh noes they took it back https://t.co/w1afISXZc6 — PolitiTweet.org

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So, maybe a different type of moonshot than, say, space elevators, but still represents a massively ambitious program meant to spur new industry developments — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s also part of an effort to ensure industries can address environmental dangers, and that ecosystems can survive in a hotter, harsher world. — PolitiTweet.org

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This, along with other climate initiatives in X pipeline suggest it is moving away from fantastical individual breakthroughs toward developing large scale systems tools that leverage what its parent is already good at (like AI and robotics) — PolitiTweet.org

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Alphabet’s moonshot factory X has a new push to measure and track seagrass on the ocean floor - and ultimately the CO2 it captures - using camera arrays and machine learning. @jtemple has the story: https://t.co/xKgxyjRjna — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidmackau: @mat bed so empty tonight :( — PolitiTweet.org

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Will never be able to see ~Steve Kornacki after midnight~ and not think of the @davidmackau tweet — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mmasnick: As expected, Elon seems to be discovering that everything that Twitter did before existed for a reason, but since he declared… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KateClarkTweets: “That leaves SBF’s net worth at about $1 billion, down from $15.6 billion heading into Tuesday. The 94% loss is the bi… — PolitiTweet.org

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I either shared my first Signal story with a small group of friends or like 600 people I guess we will see! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @megancgraham: Binance says it’s buying FTX: https://t.co/gT8vUIGay5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GrahamStarr: BREAKING: Binance buys FTX https://t.co/TCF03sHBqL via @crypto — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lucky225: @mat (I am surprised @AOC's bug wasn't mentioned tho which was probably the first sign of trouble lol) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @niallfirth: Slashing the engineering teams at Twitter will come at a cost to the site's stability—and we can already see it starting to… — PolitiTweet.org

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All those weird little ticks that keep showing up are an indication of larger problems https://t.co/4Lfn7Flo3d — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LaurenGoode: I'm suddenly unable to remove the (Parody) from my profile name, though I can edit other information in my profile 🙃 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LaurenGoode: lol omg am I stuck with Parody forever — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ftrain: Incredibly pleased to announce that in order to ensure that Twitter is the global town square, I am no longer allowed to change… — PolitiTweet.org

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@fxshaw Could be an entire course tbh! — PolitiTweet.org

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Today’s Platformer is genuinely one of the craziest dailies I’ve ever read. It’s got like six novels worth of plot crammed into a daily beat story/email. And there was a lot it didn’t even get to! Cannot even imagine the mess that’s coming tomorrow — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CaseyNewton: More news: Twitter Blue only had around 100K active subscribers, and if the company goes forward with its plan to reduce a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Everybody is talking about Mastodon and I’m just like ahhhhh what is the password to my Peach? — PolitiTweet.org