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Ten years since one of the greatest artists of the 20th century left us. 💜

MARISKS on Monday issued an alert warning shipowners that unknown actors, claiming to represent Iranian authorities, had sent some shipping companies a message demanding transit fees in cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin or Tether, for "clearance".

‘Tis truly a golden era for crypto scammers www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?

The geography of AI firms In this paper, we trace the geography and economic characteristics of firms that produce artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. Many economies around the world are evaluating their strate...

New paper and firm-level dataset on AI from my colleagues Vatsala and Kumar; check it out!

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Congrats!!

Blockchain fixed this*

* as in: fixed it as a problem, due to immutability

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I have nothing whatsoever against Arsenal. I do want to see Man City lose at anything though 😂

In the Premier League my sympathy is with Liverpool. But I dislike Man City, so I complain about Arsenal out of disappointment

Don’t make me tap the sign

Now done with the latest one, also great!

Meanwhile, things are going great in DeFi.
Blockchain fixes this.

By the end of the book it’s more nuanced of course 😊
Great book!

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It’s coming, and you know it.

Not me obviously, I remain very grounded and impartial. Have you heard about the blockchain?

I think social media has fried many people’s brains

I am both flattered and mercenary. This is the book @peark.es meant. He has an early copy, but it's out in May and available for pre-order now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

This will constrain bank lending

And when it started going up bigly, crypto markets went south
Makes you wonder 🤔

I am testing your resolve

You don’t need a reason to visit the Basque country.

R* hovering around the deserved rate™️
Cc @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Feels like Claude the last fee days

Thanks! 😍

Younger one is 10 y/o today. I am so old.

Who are the euro crypto bros? And who actually uses crypto?

in which I investigate - qui sont-ils, les breaux de crypteaux? wer sind die Cryptoscheissesprechermenschen?
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