ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

A Republican elected official proudly declaring he has no problem with agents of the state shooting unarmed citizens in the face if they annoy the regime. It is impossible to make democracy work with a party that not only tolerates people like this, but elevates them to positions of influence.

I appeared on New Books in Economics to talk about my book “Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia.” “It dives into the thought processes driving not just SBF," said my host, "But a lot of other tech elites.” megaphone.link/NBNK5466962448

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

The fact that Silicon Valley is full of amateur race scientists isn’t just a coincidence: it has actively misdirected billions of dollars towards neural network/LLM based AI models that are ultimately little more than a parlour trick.

Easily the most shocking fact from Karen Hao’s's "Empire of AI" so far is that OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever championed compute scale as a path to AGI because he thought ~"animals with larger brains are more intelligent." This is false both on a species and individual level!

Fucking crazy parapolitics and American degeneration via crypto Mormonism. @davidzmorris.bsky.social has hooked a great story davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-libra-...

And now for the greatest challenge of my life: Do I have the willpower to defeat semaglutides

Today, I wrote about one of the most bizarre connective webs in recent history: The lineage from Evril LeBaron, the mass-murdering “Mormon Manson,” and Hayden Davis, the scammer behind $Libra, which led to impeachment for Argentinian President Javier Milei. open.substack.com/pub/davidzmo...

Comments from Maduro over the past few years I find important.

The US government is gonna do what it always does: Coup Latin America to preserve American investments. Like Prospera. We are losing COUNTRIES to tech fascism, to the Network State, every year now.

The most opened edition of DEPTH PERCEPTION was @markyarm.bsky.social's conversation with MSNBC’s @chrislhayes.bsky.social about his book, 'The Sirens’ Call,' which explores how tech has made so many of us lose focus. depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/msnbc-chri...

Finally feel like an actual professional financial journalist (paying full freight for an FT subscription)

God I love Linkedin

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

More and more, people are saying, it's their favorite line in the entire book.

Finished “The Loop” today. Excellent. Highly recommended. @byjacobward.bsky.social is a clear thinker. A lot of very important stuff coming up in 2026… khit.org @benmckenzie.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com @davidzmorris.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @cnn.com

80,000 hours is a podcast formerly associated with Effective Altruism. The phrase "Effective Altruism" has now been seemingly *entirely* scrubbed from the show's website. Movement founders aren't even named in full - just "Ben" and "Will." Rest in Piss. 80000hours.org/about/

Really cooking for tomorrows newsletter davidzmorris dot substack dot com

If I paid $5 for a vinyl record and it turns out it’s not very good (Keith Jarrett), is it a sin to just throw it away?

The gross part of this isn't that he's actually encouraging his kid to use AI - believe me, these people know just how toxic their creations are, this is a larp. The ick you're feeling is a VC farming his own child for content in an ideological battle on the side of evil.

I've been a holdout on Twitter/X mostly because it remains a useful news source in crypto and finance, but things have continued to degrade apace. It's still necessary for me to retain some presence Over There, but I have a feeling I'll be more present here in 2026.

Dropping a quick book rec for @davidzmorris.bsky.social 's Stealing the Future, on FTX. I hadn't dug too far into this story and appreciated the accessible information on the details of the financial crime. A passage that very much stood out to me:

America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... … “Casino Capitalism” runs wild. Let’s toss in some AI and crypto; what could possibly go wrong? @benmckenzie.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @davidzmorris.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com

I just finished this killer book by @davidzmorris.bsky.social — “Stealing the Future.” Among other things, it should serve as a dispositive amicus brief in support of unanimous appellate court upholding of the conviction of the preposterous crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried. @karaswisher.bsky.social

Reading my own book and the critics are right, it's among the most important of the year

KHIT.org update… @benmckenzie.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com @davidzmorris.bsky.social, gentlemen, excellent work. Exigently (albeit depressingly) timely. May you all get wide airing. @karaswisher.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @wsj.com

Thanks to Adam Lowenstein for his great and perceptive review in the American Prospect, and this even more pithy and succinct summation: It’s all about power. It has always been about power. adaml.substack.com/p/tech-lies-...

Reminds me of @davidzmorris.bsky.social's take on Michael Lewis' use of the lynching metaphor:

Stealing the Future is "Among the Most Important Books of the Year" - The American Prospect I'm basically going to be posting this every day for ... the next year? The rest of my life? We'll see. prospect.org/2025/12/09/a... www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fut...

The American Prospect calls Stealing the Future "One of the most important books of the year." "Morris’s account of Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall is riveting." I am absolutely floored. www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fut... prospect.org/2025/12/09/a...

Man, I don’t feel young anymore, and Nuzzi is older than I am

Gawker doesn’t look so bad now does it, you massive pile of shit?

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

The Context: 💭 Barbara Fried misrepresents SBF's crimes Barbara Fried has apparently stepped in to defend her son, Sam Bankman-Fried, and has continued the family history of deceit. Latest from @bft.wtf Subscribe and read 👉 mailchi.mp/3d06016cc97c...

lol did you see my newsletter about his mother’s screed

I shitposted my way through Sam Bankman-Fried's recent appeal hearing. It will cleanse your fucking soul to read about just how badly this massive dumbass embarrassed both himself and his 'elite' apellate lawyer open.substack.com/pub/davidzmo...

New awareness campaign

Today is Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal. It barely matters. But last week his mother Barbara Fried published a lengthy argument for her son's innocence - it's at least inteteresting. Like all SBF defenses, it shows a massive, wilful blind spot. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/why-sbfs-m...

The "Free SBF" crowd (which historically includes @nytimes) wants to normalize two things: 1) Illiquid venture investments are morally the same as cash in a vault. 2) Sometimes venture investments go to zero overnight for no reason and it's nobody's fault

Question for self-employed/SMB people: Have you experimented with setting aside a single day for any and all "admin" work? How did it go?

Preorder @davidzmorris.bsky.social's book, "Stealing the Future: SBF, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopianism" at the link in our bio and get 20% off now!

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

In case you missed it, here's my most recent newsletter article -- on Eliezer Yudkowsky's very long history of defending incredibly dumb ideas. Why anyone takes this guy seriously will forever be mysterious to me. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yu...

fucking hell do actual academics think we need evidence that a statistical probability model is a statistical probability model and not a sentient being who understands meaning? next research question: is my kettle powered by electricity or a tiny fire spewing dragon who lives in there?

I sat down with producer Eleanor Pahl and composer Altus Noumena to talk about our series Crypto Crooks, and plans for TORNADO, our series about Roman Storm, to be funded by our @OctantApp grant. Eleanor's discussion of the advantages of audio is particularly great. youtu.be/q0cvkK7e0k4?...

Coming tomorrow at Dark Markets (davidzmorris.substack.com): On Friday, crypto markets experienced massive volatility and the liquidation of $19 billion in leveraged positions. I’ll have a rundown of the complex interacting elements that led to this (mostly) Flash Crash, and some lessons learned.

"Stealing the Future," the inside story of one of the greatest financial scams of the century, and a deep-dive into the cult of techno-utopianism, will be out November 11th with Repeater Books, by @davidzmorris.bsky.social. Pre-order it now at repeaterbooks.com/product/stea...

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.