What I read this week...

Midterms, FTX, Meta, Twitter, and Biden-Xi meeting

What I read this week…

• 2022 Midterms: Voters prefer sanity (Common Sense)

• Candidate quality mattered (FiveThirtyEight)

• Political media is broken (Popular Information)

• Democrats keep falling for ‘Superstar Losers’ (The Atlantic)

• The reason for Meta’s massive layoffs? Ghosts in the machine (WIRED)

• Inside the Twitter meltdown (Platformer)

• FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall (WSJ)

• Sequoia’s bad year just got much worse as its $210M stake in FTX looks worthless (Newcomer)

• Henry Paulson: A smarter China approach (Semafor)

• What the midterm results mean for Biden’s Asia trip and Xi meeting (NPR)

• Chip-making juggernaut TSMC eyes multibillion-dollar Arizona factory expansion (WSJ)

• Marriage is a team sport (The Atlantic)

On Twitter…

delian @zebulgar

Its impossible to write comedies with this good of a script SBF pitches the sequoia partnership Vision? "Buy a banana with fake internet money" Blows the partnership away. Wow. During the partner meeting ? PLAY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS This is god-tier comedy

unusual_whales @unusual_whales

SBF of FTX, "In 2008... no one knew how much risk was in the system until it all fell apart... compared to FTX, we offer complete transparency."

Sean O'Kane @sokane1

Dana Rubinstein @danarubinstein

At press conference in Brooklyn, @NYCMayor doesn't rule out using the Rat Trap he demonstrated at Borough Hall in his soon-to-be-announced rat mitigation efforts. But he refuses to say, because, he jokes, the rats might be listening. (This rat trap: nytimes.com/2019/09/05/nyr…)

nytimes.comRats Have Ruled New York for 355 Years. Can a Mystery Bucket Stop Them? (Published 2019)New York’s so-called war on rats is as old as the city itself, but the methods keep changing.

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