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View More Newsfrom the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on Patreon. In this week’s episode, Mike and Ben cover: And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover: Our fun links this week are a replica of Scooby Doo’s Mystery-Machine and the Saltburn cricket scandal because we need more satire…
In brief Circle received a limited-purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services. The charter allows Circle to operate a New York trust company that can provide digital asset custody but cannot accept deposits or make loans like a traditional bank. The approval follows Circle’s recent federal banking charter approval and its acquisition of IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio. Circle has received a limited purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), giving the USDC stablecoin issuer another regulatory approval as it expands its operations.The company said Friday that under the charter Circle will…
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Note: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most famous Greek poet to make his theme the perilous homecoming of the Trojan War hero Odysseus, wroteAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians, Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.(The translation is from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s 1975 compilation, C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems.) Christopher…
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