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David Z. Morris, PhD

@davidzmorris.bsky.social
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Crypto, Finance, and Fraud - davidzmorris.substack.com "Stealing the Future: SBF and the Tech Utopians," Repeater Books Crypto OG. X-CoinDesk, Fortune. PhD UIowa 'Hardcore' - NYMag

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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At 1pm I will be live on the @ZKZeroKnowledge YouTube Channel with Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, authors of "How the Internet Disrupted Science." We are still figuring out our infrastructure, but subscribe and tune in on YouTube to watch the baby steps. www.youtube.com/@ZKZeroKnowl...
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Zero Knowledge
Zero Knowledge Group breaks down the stories reshaping fintech including the new stuff that everyone's talking about but few actually understand. New here? Start with "But Why?" — our explainer seri...
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TODAY at 1 p.m. ET, we join @davidzmorris.bsky.social for a livestream interview about our book. davidzmorris.substack.com/podcast
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you want to know where it all began, and how we got here, Paulina's book is the bible of countercultural criticism in Silicon Valley. Out of print for more than 20 years, the new UK edition is out this month with our sister imprint Zer0 Book (and with a new preface by David Z. Morris)
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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The second is "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech" by Paulina Borsook.
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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In "Stealing the Future," he narrates the case and explores its roots in Effective Altruism and the cult ideology of Rationalism, laying bear a network of influence that pervades Big Tech and the heights of the financial sector. Here he is laying out the basics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fim1...
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SBF, Effective Altruism, and the Billionaire Con of Silicon Valley
YouTube video by Zer0 Books and Repeater Media
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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The first is David Z. Morris's "Stealing the Future: SBF, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia".
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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I see a lot of people are just picking up on the weird "rationalist" doomsday sex cult behind Big Tech. For those just joining us, we've got a couple books to recommend if you want to know how we got here and what to do about it
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Melinda🗽🇺🇸 @melindajean.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The line of the century, or maybe the week from @davidzmorris.bsky.social “It’s not a coincidence that people with racist beliefs are so often incompetent fools.” 🎯🎯🎯 davidzmorris.substack.com/p/gold-and-i...
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👁️Gold and IQ: Twin Delusions (Theory of Money #1)
Giveaway: win a copy of “Hayek’s Bastards,” Quinn Slobodian’s new classic.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When a momentum fund like Situational Awareness takes huge losses, it’s the later arrivals who bought media hype who get washed out. Full Interview w/Wajahat Ali: davidzmorris.substack.com/p/zuckerberg... Buy Stealing the Future: www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fut...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The current AI bubble is the product of a much longer legacy: the 20th century push for data-driven command-and-control systems under the banner of "cybernetics." It is more or less explicitly aimed at deskilling the masses while centralizing elite power. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-cybern...
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👁️ The Cybernetic Disease
One impulse explains the last 50 years: Command, Control, Extract.
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My royalties are calculated every six months. So the next few weeks would be a GREAT time to buy Stealing the future. To nudge you, I’ve made the preview of one of my favorite sections of the book free. It's about sharks, death, and the Apocalypse. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-physic...
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🦈The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: Rationalism Against Reason
Prophecy and Immortality are two sides of the same delusion.
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026
I’m sorry i just nearly dropped my handheld while watching a reaction because WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS LINE FROM DRAKES ALBUM
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On the strange case of Katie Lin. Lin was a scam victim who hired a fraudulent tracing service to find her money. The report pointed to Tornado Cash, and she testified in Roman Storm's trial on that basis. Then the fraudulent trace was unmasked. youtu.be/kB5b0hOBuNY?...
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👁️ Video: Tornado Cash and Katie Lin
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The case against Roman Storm raises fundamental questions about freedom and privacy in the digital age. The trial was also marked by a bizarre tangle of procedural shenanigans. Most shocking may be the prosecution's mishandling of a witness named Hanfeng "Katie" Lin. (LIR)
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New today at Dark Markets. "Dead Eyes: Sam Altman's Worldcoin, Revisited." davidzmorris.substack.com/p/dead-eyes-...
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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
On these people’s insane beliefs about predicting the future with logic and reason etc, check out @davidzmorris.bsky.social’s book
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’ll be appearing with Wajahat Ali at 3pm today to talk about Palantir’s bizarre manifesto, Iran’s attacks on Data Centers, Sam Altman’s habitual lying … And why the OpenAI IPO might never happen. thelefthook.substack.com
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr...
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Consulting for a while has mostly been excellent, particularly working on messaging with the teams @HypurrFi, @spruceid and @HalbornSecurity. But my god, it's incredible how optional actually paying for services rendered apparently seems to lower-quality clients.
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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Twitter is down, but the one engineer whose passport they keep in a safe in Elon's empty office is working as hard as he can on it
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The deal where Perplexity would pay Snap $400M to add their search to Snapchat is dead. This deal never made any sense as there was no way Perplexity could afford this deal and they get very little out of it.
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Snap reportedly set for major layoffs as Perplexity deal falls apart - PiunikaWeb
Snap is set to announce layoffs that could cut 15–20% of its workforce, while the $400 million Perplexity deal has reportedly fallen apart entirely.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happy Jackie Robinson Day! “I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.” Jackie Robinson, Stamford, Connecticut 1972
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A lot of my readers these days are not crypto natives. So today's Dark Markets is a normie rundown of the hilarious feud between @justinsuntron and @worldlibertyfi. For a crypto fraud watcher, this is basically the Superbowl. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...
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👁️ How the Trumps Scammed Crypto's Dumbest Scammer: Justin Sun and $WLFI
As a great man once said of far more impressive creatures: Let Them Fight.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
CEOs when the CFO suggests blaming the layoffs on AI instead of the economy or declining sales.
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A point I almost never see made: If we get rid of just a few of the billionaires, we'll get a whole lot more millionaires.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/04/2026
“True story. I was at a public meeting a few weeks ago and went slightly over my speaking time and got thrown in the slammer there in China, I mean Rogers county,” Blanchard shared at another public event. Here's what went down: www.404media.co/farmer-arres...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It’s wild that the biggest threat to world peace and the global economy is the president of the United States of America.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Great AI Leap Forward draws parallels between the corporate rush to adopt AI and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. It laments people building with AI without knowing how to use evals or the domain knowledge to vet the results. Creating value for customers falls by the wayside to chase AI adoption goals
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
After two weeks of digging, I think there's a verrrrrrry real possibility that OpenAI's planned IPO for late 2026 crashes and burns. A few points: - OpenAI's $122b raise was co-led by Softbank and Masayoshi Son - the same guy who told WeWork's Adam Neumann that he "wasn't crazy enough." 🧵follows
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@davidzmorris.bsky.social on the "scary parallels" between OpenAI and WeWork. What part of this #AIBubble story also applies to Anthropic, CoreWeave, and other major AI players with no strategy other than repeating the very dubious narrative about the world-changing properties of LLMs?
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OpenAI is Just WeWork With Extra Steps
It's the same picture.
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
People who say gambling makes things more fun have never truly committed themselves to standing on the sidelines, making fun of the people gambling
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tesla getting nuked by a JPMorgan analyst report would objectively be the funniest possible outcome Therefore . . .
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 06/04/2026
JUST IN: JPMorgan warns Tesla could drop 60%, giving TSLA a sell rating with a $145 price target after Tesla missed Q1 deliveries by 7,600 units and built a 50,000-unit inventory surplus.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/04/2026
Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Enjoying @davidzmorris.bsky.social’s book on Sam Bankman-Fried & the philosophy he used to justify his scams and that still today motivates a lot of both crypto and AI proponents. In short, they think they’re philosopher kings who can predict the future with math and logic, and that democracy is bad
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A judge has thrown out the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against advertisers for boycotting Twitter after he turned into an online nightclub for Nazis.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit by Musk's X Corp accusing advertisers of illegal boycott
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit ​that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major ‌companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boyco...
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BobbyGvegas™ … Heretic ☑️ @bobbygvegas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This mysterious 15 minutes smacks of insane corruption in Trump's orbit www.rawstory.com/trump-corrup... @benmckenzie.bsky.social @davidzmorris.bsky.social @profgalloway.com
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This mysterious 15 minutes smacks of insane corruption in Trump's orbit
Friends,Margaret Ryan, the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission — the agency tasked with investigating insider trading and other illegal activities in financial markets —...
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 25/03/2026
OMG that guy saying Lefties want gambling prohibition was making the argument that gambling prohibition leads to massive increases of criminal funding. You know that Polymarket doing assassination markets is not only great for money laundering, but also would be illegal if we wanted it to be lol
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today's edition of Dark Markets is, for better or worse, a grim meditation on one of the worst weeks for systematic elite fraud in my lifetime. I'll be going live at 10am ET to talk through it. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-bust-o...
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👁️ The Bust-Out at the End of America
Our supposed leadership class are stealing everything - and wrecking the house in the process.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down. An amazing coincidence.
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Will MacAskill spends a couple of pages of the founding text of Effective Altruism arguing that being motivated to fund cancer research because you have a relative dying of cancer is immoral. Empathy has always been their enemy.
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David Z. Morris, PhD @davidzmorris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
OpenAI is offering 17.5% yield to private equity firms. If that were a bond, it would be the most garbage of the garbage penny-stock tier: The high interest rate implies HUGE risk of default. The reason it’s NOT a bond is PE keeps loans from impacting public lending markets. x.com/Techmeme/sta...
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JacqueBlue @jacqueblue.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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