Jamie Loftus

Adrian Dobb, a Stanford professor of comparative literature and German studies and the author of What Tech Calls Thinking, sees an encouraging sign in Stanford being only peripherally involved in the Bankman-Fried scandal.

That might not have been the case 10 years ago, he notes, when the Silicon Valley hype machine operated at more of a fever bitch than it does today.

Other than his physical location, it's actually not that connected to us for once, Dobbs said.

And that way, it's a sign of progress and also a little bit melancholy.

Stanford was a place where the future was shaped, so it's quite possible that's not happening anymore, that it's happening in the Bahamas now and only comes to Palo Alto once it gets indicted.

Yeah, other than the fact that he's here, he's not very involved.

That does seem significant to me.

It's funny.

Yeah.

Genius.

Yeah.

Well, she did scam Henry Kissinger.

And started going by Alan.

Yeah.

I say we give her six months off as a result of the Kissinger scandal.

So this brings us to the subject of what precisely Sam Bankman Freed has been up to in the nine months or so since his fall from grace.

The short answer is that he has not had a wonderful time.

In January, a month or so after he was granted bail under house arrest, the Southern District of New York accused him of inappropriately contacting former and current FTX employees in order to influence their testimony on his case.

Sam tried to frame all of this as part of his ill-advised apology tour that he embarked on last year in the lag period between FTX collapsing and his formal charges.

Oh, he's like calling them.