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by cepp 1319 days ago
> He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said. “It helps me unwind a bit,” he said. “It clears my mind.”

> Shortly before the interview, Mr. Bankman-Fried had posted a cryptic tweet: the word “What.” Then he had tweeted the letter H. Asked to explain, Mr. Bankman-Fried said he planned to post the letter A and then the letter P. “It’s going to be more than one word,” he said. “I’m making it up as I go.”

> So he was planning a series of cryptic tweets? “Something like that.”

> But why? “I don’t know,” he said. “I’m improvising. I think it’s time.”

I’m in disbelief that he not only gave an interview but that he told the interviewer this.

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> He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said.

FTX owns Storybook Brawl. So: SBF managed to plant an ad in an NYT story supposedly covering his massive fraud. I’m impressed. This is next level.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/22/ftx-us-acquires...

This is a person that clearly doesn’t expect a sentencing judge to be eventually reviewing their contemporaneous public statements.