2025-02-23
It feels very comforting, in a Twitter-circa-2105 sort of way, to know that Evan was the only media member in attendance at small preliminary hearings in multiple states a year or two before an incredible, tragic story would become national news.
Wired
A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …
2023-08-19
I consider @ZekeFaux a friend so sometimes I'll think to blindly RT something he's written. I always read, though, because it usually takes only a few paragraphs to realize he truly does find the wildest stories that exist today. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out peopl...
2023-08-18
I consider @ZekeFaux a friend so sometimes I'll think to blindly RT something he's written. I always read, though, because it usually takes only a few paragraphs to realize he truly does find the wildest stories that exist today. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?” X: @bw , @bw , @joelwebers...