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20 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Damn, "Machete" is a fantastic movie.
They literally crucify Cheech Marin.
Also Robert Deniro is somehow insanely good in this?

This movie is beamed from a parallel universe where Danny Trejo is an aging leading man and Bobby Deniro is gutting it out as a B villian.
This movie has so many setups and payoffs. Structurally, a masterclass.

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So over the weekend I executed my greatest troll ever, completely by accident.

TLDR: I made a joke about a technical limitation of Cardano, a bunch of NFT makers misunderstood it, and now there are copies of my Cardano troll embedded in the Cardano blockchain. 1/too many
Here’s the tweet, tossed off in response to an equally tossed-off Frank tweet. 2/16

If you monitor industry news, you’ll know this is NOT a joke about NFTs. NFTs are technologically dead simple. It would be downright absurd for a second-gen blockchain to not have them! 3/16
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15 Aug
Juzt short of 20 years ago, I got in a van and went to D.C. to protest the invasion of Afghanistan. At the time, this was basically considered a form of insanity. And for many years after, I even kind of cringed at my young self. 1/
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In Afghanistan, we were going after the Taliban! They helped do 9/11!

Sort of! 2/
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The same as most good wars wind up looking: like a war. 3/
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4 Mar 20
So, here's a new thing I have out today. I think the content is extremely interesting.

And if you click on it, you'll notice something else interesting.

1/12

fortune.com/2020/03/04/tes…
That's right - Fortune now has a paywall. A pretty tough one to get through! You might not like that.

But let me take you on a journey to explain why it's not just good for Fortune (hopefully), and for me , but for you, too.

2/12

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
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22 Jan 20
I've experienced some dramatic professional and lifestyle changes over the last few years, and it has indirectly taught me a hell of a lot about the psychology of my favorite topic - graft, deception, and fraud.

A quick thread about my money, and other people's.

1/7
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Here's the simple, profound thing I've finally learned:

Nice things are nice.

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17 Jan 20
I’ve been working on this story for two months. It is extremely disturbing, but important.

Bottom line: Russian authoritarianism has created a serious gap in global efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children.

That gap is called Yandex.

1/10

fortune.com/2020/01/17/yan…
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So, I spent some time looking into @coinbase's latest acquisition, Neutrino. What I found, just by reading existing reporting, is insanely dark, and could/deserves to become a massive scandal for Coinbase. Thread. /1
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