as a friend of mine used to say, "Bait Shop Adolph Hitler"

Correlation is not causation but I hear a lot less yapping from the goldbugs now that bitcoins are a thing. Maybe its just the signal to noise ratio has changed.

Imagine what the world would have been like if they did this twenty years ago!

This is the British being difficult and trying too hard to be ‘Different’. I think the UK’s secondary schools have an early unit on contrarianism. Look at how many times the British voters have elected Tory government.

Thank you for working on climate change and politics! This is important stuff.

I’m a historian of central and Eastern Europe but I stopped telling people about what I do especially on airplanes. Because there is always a guy who says, “oh really? I’m something of a history buff myself…” & the next two hours are consumed with guy yammering away about WWII or Civil War trivia.

You probably don’t want to know. I know about it and it’s done nothing to improve my day.

Turn around is fair play…

Yes. 100% this. I would also include Steven Salaita on the list of cancelled people as well.

When are we putting AI on the blockchain, anyway