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Katie Martin

@katie0martin.ft.com

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FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, making bread, climbing, cycling, 6 Music Mum. I don't deserve my bad Uber rating and I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · Feb 14

If only there had been some kind of warning

- on.ft.com/40Zncmv

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

It's going to be a wonderful time to be a pervert

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

Sigh. The Pervert Glasses (tm) are happening whether we like it or not aren't they?

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4h

Apple made the right call pivoting from a Vision Air headset to a range of smart glasses, Mark Gurman writes in this week’s Power On.

Inside Apple’s Pivot From a ‘Vision Air’ Headset to Meta-Like Smart Glasses

After spending a week with Meta’s new display-embedded smart glasses, I’m convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles. Also: The company begins reshuffling its executive team, and its latest product launch is imminent.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

😂

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 9h

Goddammit @bryce.lol got the delicious suckling pig. This is top tier reviewing from @jayrayner1.bsky.social on.ft.com/4q7qhfW

‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

[FREE TO READ] Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20h

"Now, we know what you’re thinking: this is all very stupid and funny. And we agree."

Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 20h

Oh no 💎 🙌 😔 😢 😭
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Behold the trash crash

Pray for Dogecoin

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 23h

Well House of Dynamite is pretty terrifying

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Please don't give the SEC ideas

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Ate these cola bottles on Sunday...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

a man wearing a top hat and a vest is standing in front of a pile of rocks ..

ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a vest is standing in front of a pile of rocks ..

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Someone (American) was telling me this week that very soon, we'll be paying for donuts with tokenised intellectual property rights on the Blockchain and I'm like

a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie .

ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie .

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Really cool

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

"other majors" lol.

But dude, do you mean to tell me that reorienting your entire financial system towards daft tokens snapped up by hostile regimes that can use them to punish policies they don't like is a potentially bad idea?

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

"In 2025 a slab of prime Wagyu has become for the international wealthy what a sourdough pizza was for the British middle classes in 2010. It’s just dinner."

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

For the past few months, for the @ftweekend.com essay, I’ve been digging deep into the phenomenon of premium restaurant brands going global: the risks, the benefits, the way almost all of them end up serving takes on the same ingredients.

on.ft.com/3KS1Enr How high-end restaurants went global

How high-end restaurants went global

As a new generation sets out in the footsteps of Nobu and Zuma, Jay Rayner examines the rise of ‘luxe’ food chains — and whether it has come at a cost

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

A rally in the dollar would be super annoying for a lot of investors, and this is an annoying year so, ya know...

300 free clicks innit fam - on.ft.com/42y39gO

A dollar rally could be the next jolt for markets

[FREE TO READ] If a recent pick-up gathers momentum, there could be a scramble to reset portfolios

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

I think if you go with your eyes open with a firm plan to bank some coin and then GTFOOT then sure. As I say it's the people *in London* banging on about how great it is there but still *staying here* who get on my nerves

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Some people don't super love Dubai but they get offered good money for a good job and they go for a couple of years. Wouldn't be my choice but I get it.
But a lot of people have made "slagging off the UK and going on about Dubai" their entire personality and it's quite dull

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

I'm not begging anyone to stay. Off you go, have a nice time, watch out for the Russians

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

excellent plan

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

100%
life's too short

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

had a look at HERSCHT by Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai. It doesn’t have any full stops or paragraphs. I’m out

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

very reassuring to see frequent reminders that this is definitely not a bubble and everything is absolutely fine

(2nd image here is GS)

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

either/or tbqh