People knock Bitcoin as only useful for money laundering, buying drugs, and allowing the most annoying person you went to school with to be vindicated by their speculative bets on it. So I guess it's cool we can now also add 'enabling North Korea to boost its economy by 20% in a single hack'.

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I tell my students: you wouldn’t get a robot to lift weights for you at the gym, but you would use a forklift in a warehouse.Consider which work is which.

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Personally I think it's a accurate (and amusing) description for a certain group of the left who are closer to libertarians than actual left wing people. Whose main driver is quite different to collective action and often just... reject wider policy/trade offs. It captures that thought style

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can we just spare a moment to reflect that Binance would have been plying its trade here if it hadn't been for the FCA being like

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The Telegraph obituary of Patrick Stewart is, as usual, extremely good, not least this detail about how his brief, pre-acting career as a journalist on the Dewsbury Reporter came to a sudden end.

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