“While casinos and junkets have for years served as vehicles for regional underground banking and money laundering, the proliferation of … underregulated cryptocurrency exchanges has changed the game, allowing for faster anonymized movement of funds"

From a 2024 UN report on money-laundering in casinos in South East Asia

Money laundering with casinos and with crypto aren’t necessarily separate issues, particularly with the rise of online and digital gambling.

Casinos can be and often are fined if regulators suspect money laundering - the majority have systems in place to crack down on it. Crypto is part of this arms race between casinos and criminals.

Expect =/= deserve

The black panthers open carried in part to expose the hypocrisy of a system that was already indiscriminantly violent towards black people

It is, yeah

It’s ‘psychic paper’, it shows what the holder wants it to. Like a super adaptable fake ID

It’s ‘shorted out’ like an electrical appliance would if you overload it, because it’s been asked to do too much

(in the Dr Who world, ‘magic’ things like psychic paper are acutally just advanced technology)