1/ My essay "Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code" is live. France controls 15 African nations and 180M+ people through the CFA franc currency. The details are shocking. Can Bitcoin be a way out? Farida Bemba Nabourema 🇹🇬 + Fodé Diop 🇸🇳 think so 🧵 bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi…

The narrative sounds simple: sanctions will crash the Ruble, isolate Russian economy, create massive inflation and hopefully Russia will cave. But the chart for EUR vs RUB stubbornly disagrees… What’s happening here? Are sanctions not working? Why? Important thread (I think)

A month later, what's happening in Russia's elites? I tried to figure it out. We'll see what they will say after another month of sanctions. But so far they helped to rally everyone around Putin faridaily.substack.com/p/now-were-goi…

Bob Katter’s Wikipedia is a wild ride

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Neal Stephenson’s epic WIRED essay on global internet cables from 1996 is an all-time great read on this (under-discussed) topic: wired.com/1996/12/ffglas…

So much Geelong negativity at the moment .. Anyone remember this bit of play from the 07 qualifying final vs Nth ? Probably the most beautiful football I’ve ever seen 😍😍 #GeelongStrong

How can this be 10 years ago

*DROUGHT DECLARED IN MOST OF ENGLAND BY GOVERNMENT BODY

AJ is getting KO’d in R8 tomorrow

Sammy’s moment 🥹 #AFLGF

What a shame to see Tolkien further bastardised by this Ring of Power BS

Why do none of the southern Italian joints in Melbourne sell Fritatinas? Smh

Just now: Security guard refusing to let me into the stadium for USA-Wales. “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.”

If Saudi Arabia win this game I am going to start praying #wallahi

The dark side of planned obsolescence

The scenes in Australia at 3.30am. The beauty of the World Cup.

Meanwhile in Argentina.

Riding on this Vespa I’m like Frodo carrying the ring