Sneaky Yeezys, Bird lies & fixers of the insanely wealthy 👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings!

No shortage of news this week, so buckle up.

• The world of crypto is in another tailspin because of one shady nerd:

  • “Bankman-Fried’s Cabal of Roommates in the Bahamas Ran His Crypto Empire – and Dated. Other Employees Have Lots of Questions”

  • “Inside the very millennial life of 'bankrupt' FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried: Teetotal vegan gamer, 30, who claims to sleep four hours a night on a BEANBAG in his Bahamas penthouse that is also his office (which he shares with nine co-workers)”

  • “FTX Idiots All Shared A Therapist”

Fintwit @fintwit_news

@stoolpresidente Dave Portnoy’s investing journey

• “Inside the Hell of Purchasing Taylor Swift ‘Eras Tour’ Tickets: Crashes, Queues and Crying”- A good percentage of TikTok was collectively melting down about all this today.

• “Detective Leah Remini Just Dropped Another Scientology Bombshell”- Leah Remini is my hero and should be protected at all costs (because I am worried about the people she’s absolutely pissing off).

• “Adidas Confirms More Yeezys on the Way!!! But, with Different Name”- Gross.

• “Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin Spills About Her Next Act—Dinner Parties on House Arrest”- With Caroline Calloway no longer hosting her salons in NYC, seems like Anna’s apartment is going to be the new influscammer (can we make that a word?) event spot.

• “An influencer and OnlyFans star said she had no choice but to spend $10,000 on 2 Harry Styles concert tickets because she wanted to sit close to the stage”- It’s cute to see how out-of-touch wealthy folks are with everyone else’s reality.

• “The Fixers Who Do the Impossible for the Filthy Rich”- Again, cute! So out-of-touch!

• “Jacqueline Fernandez: The Bollywood actress caught up in a 'gifts scandal'“- Writing this newsletter has made me realize how frequently horses are gifted to other people. Wild.

• “My PR Day of Yes”- This article is the representation of why I had to transition out of public relations.

• “‘Rock Star’ Con Artist Ran Wild. Then He Met Dick Vitale.”- It’s wild that with a lot of confidence, audacity, and some luck— it’s relatively easy to become a massive con artist.

• “Project Veritas Sues Ex-Staffer-Turned-P0rn Star for Leaking Company Secrets”- This feels like a documentary waiting to happen.

• “The Most Seductive Chef in Miami Is Turning Brunch Into P0rn”- While this would be my absolute nightmare, I’m not gonna yuck people’s yums.

• “One Couple Was Charged $10 Every Time They Locked A Room, And 10 More Hidden Airbnb Fee Stories”- Long overdue on the fee transparency!

• “Crypto, for cool girls”- Ya, and us cool girls are now also poorer girls.

• “Bird tells SEC it overstated revenue for two years”- It probably didn’t help that scooters were also being tossed into rivers.

• Twitter’s spiral continues:

  • “Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down”

  • “Musk fires Twitter engineers after critical posts on Twitter and Slack”

  • “How Much Did Twitter's Verification Chaos Cost Insulin Maker Eli Lilly and Twitter Itself?”

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

NEW: A senior member of Twitter’s legal team just posted this message in Slack:“Everyone should know that our CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer ALL resigned last night. This news will be buried in the return-to-office drama. I believe that is intentional.”

ian bremmer @ianbremmer

what a sentence

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More Serious Stories

We realize some of these can be triggering for some readers, so feel free to skip!

• “Disturbed young men in women-hating 'incel' cult are hammering their faces in a bid to improve their looks and achieve the facial shape idealised in their toxic online forums”

• “More Than 800 Passengers Got COVID On A Cruise Ship, Which Then Let People Off In Australia”

• “It’s Scary And Stressful”: Some OnlyFans Creators Are Complaining About Two-Month Payment Delays”

• “A woman was found dead in Yosemite. Now she's been linked to a cult and a serial killer.”

• “YouTuber Holy Soup Crimes, Bat Girl!!! Woman Arrested for Eating Bats On Camera”

• “KFC apologizes after Kristallnacht promotion in Germany”

• “Meta Has Cut More Than 11,000 Workers In Its First-Ever Mass Layoffs”

• “Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees”

• “Retroactive jealousy is a uniquely online affliction”

• “My weekend at OneTaste, the ‘s3x cult’ made famous by Netflix’s Org@sm Inc”

• “Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff”

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