Writer, producer and podcast host, CoinGeek. Former BBC documentary director. History PhD student, University of Roehampton.

UK
Joined January 2009
We are self-sufficient in tomatoes this week…
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No I won't "say hello" to my "shiny new credit card". Please can we be addressed as grown-ups again? And I don't need to be told not to worry about the pin. Only that it hasn't changed.
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Stay in the shade! (Richmond Park today)
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Crypto regulation is coming to the UK: after a few years of inactivity, there's now an urgency to create a new regime. But is regulatory control compatible with encouraging innovation? My report on a recent London panel discussion: coingeek.com/crypto-assets-t…
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Couldn't say whether this is completely genuine, but it certainly seems to go well for all concerned…
Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room on Microsoft’s 50th anniversary … and are interviewed by Copilot!
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Looking forward to hearing from these five great startup founders at tonight’s #BLOCKDOJO showcase. Best of luck to them all!
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Critics are in a critical condition today - well and truly stunned...
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Amid all the noise, this could be what really needs attention: a brilliantly presented warning about the imminent dangers of AI.
New piece Keep The Future Human is out today. (🧵, link at end) Humanity has got about a year or two left to decide whether we're going to replace ourselves with machines – starting individually, then as a species.
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The psychology of entrepreneurs: I asked the startup founders of @Block_Dojo to do a personality test - and got some surprisingly neat results: youtube.com/watch?v=XseuyNfv…
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Some brilliant startups and impressive founders at this evening's @Block_Dojo Showcase! Good luck to them all and well done to the Dojo for helping them achieve so much already.
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"The most beautiful picture in the world, I am convinced, is Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola." It shone upon one as with a familiar beauty, though infinitely more divine than I had ever seen it before." Nathaniel Hawthorne at the Pitti Palace, Florence, 1858. It is still there.
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Why aren’t there more identical bags on airport carousels? I asked four rival AI services: link.medium.com/HK3r5uXKdOb
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Is @BBCNews ever going to stop talking about Oasis?
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Charles Miller retweeted
Farm produces food, fresh water, and clean energy in the desert
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In case anyone ever doubts that there's something special about live television... Amazing that the presenters managed to keep going and didn't just collapse in giggles.
#OnThisDay 1971: Blue Peter welcomed its biggest guest since Lulu the elephant. Despite being stuffed, it proved almost as unruly.
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