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“Where would I want to live?”
Reading Ayn Rand made @YaronBrook rethink his future in Israel. Here’s why he chose America.
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Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City just:
- Raised 108 15m stupas in nine hours with 40,000 volunteers
- Got a central bank that can hold Bitcoin
- Made a British peer chief justice
Britain can’t approve a bypass in nine years.
Small, nimble countries with a shared culture win.
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“You’re from Nagaland?”
@vikbharati couldn’t believe I’d been there. I never had to look for a place to sleep. People would come up to me and say, “Come and stay at my house.”
Full conversation 👇
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A lot of anxious talk about stockpiling atm. In my opinion, it’s a short-term fix for a vague problem.
Here’s the long-term strategy that worked for us: move out to the countryside and start a family.
You start thinking like a prepper quite quickly. Fewer trips to the supermarket means more food in storage. Slowly but surely you acquire more tools and fix more things than you buy. Low time preference stops being an idea and becomes a habit.
After a while it’s just a way of life. Being prepared is part of rural family culture.
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Finally, Socialism and Fascism explained like you are 5 years old:
Socialism is when the bully takes your lunch money, buys a pack of chips, and gives you a single crisp.
Fascism is when the bully tells you to buy a pack of chips, then takes the pack and gives you a crisp.
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One minute ahead of the gunboats.
@joequirkexults tells me how @GrantRomundt raced out into international waters with the paperwork @E1war and Nadia needed to enter Singapore, just before gunboats surrounded them.
A rescue story with a James Bond ending.
Full conversation in episode 106 👇
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Featured in this episode:
@joequirkexults of @Seasteading joins @MrTimothyAllen in @ProsperaGlobal.
Also discussed: @real_Arkpad and @E1war and Nadia’s seasteading story. @OceanBuilders
Episode notes:
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I tried to get @joequirkexults talking about something other than seasteading.
We ended up arguing about AI.
Floating homes, businesses that can leave, and whether a writer needs a human critic.
Watch/listen👇
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Unfolding as predicted. Nothing to do with protecting children.
🚨 NEW: Ofcom says all adults should have to use their ID to access social media.
• Ofcom has recommended four methods for verifying users’ ages ahead of the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, which is due to come into force in March next year.
• The four methods suggested, subject to government approval, are photo ID matching, banking-based checks, live facial age estimation and digital ID.
• The regulator noted that verifying the ages of 16 and 17-year-olds is challenging because many do not have credit cards, full driving licences or passports.
• Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said the ban can work if firms carry out highly effective age checks, and that the regulator will take action against companies that fail to comply.
A connected network isn’t truly yours if someone else can cut you off.
@polycarpweb5
#OpenSource #DigitalFreedom
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Very rarely do I find a podcast that completely blows me away and inspires me and delivers this much signal. Well done @polycarpweb5!
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If you're reading this, I'm telling you to stop scrolling and carve out the time to listen to this. Seriously.
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“The salary is a bribe for you to not fulfil your dreams.”
@polycarpweb5 on work, dependence and why sovereignty takes more than holding Bitcoin.
Full conversation 👇
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AI infrastructure can out-earn Bitcoin mining, but only with a customer ready to pay. Bitcoin miners have a built-in buyer; AI hardware needs an offtaker, making the opportunity bigger and the risk higher.
@dusan_matuska @AmityAge
#AI #BitcoinMining
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Or just tax less and reduce the size of the government.
それより、減税して政府の規模を縮小すればいい。
What happens when tech, science, and culture collide for a month? A pop-up village for the curious—part university campus, part Burning Man for geeks.
@joinedgecity @TelamonArdavani
#TechCulture #Innovation
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Pay your taxes. Then pay again to protect your shop.
Paris police have advised shopkeepers to hire private security ahead of today’s protests.
If basic protection costs extra, what exactly is the state’s side of the social contract?
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“How long before the Navy shows up and shuts you down?”
@YaronBrook’s objection to floating Free Cities: Bitcoin has no address to raid. A city does.
We disagreed about how far governments would go. This is the difficult bit of seasteading.
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“To edit who I am at the behest of the state? Then I’m already dead.”
Discussing @LucyTCWife’s case, @garethicke answers a personal question: would he risk 13 months in prison rather than change who he is?
Full episode 👇
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Solar power with a view! ☀️ A look from above at Veritas Village - Coronado, Panama, where rooftop solar panels meet beautiful views.
#VeritasVillages #SolarEnergy #PanamaLiving #VeritasAES