A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/praxis-society-city-dryden-brown-peter-thiel/
Ephemerisle Is Waterworld With a More Realistic Budget
https://gizmodo.com/ephemerisle-is-waterworld-with-a-more-realistic-budget-5065227
Network sovereignty - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_sovereignty
Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State?
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/07/patri-friedman-and-mark-lutter-does-a-city-need-a-state/
The Bitcoin bros who want to crowdfund a new country
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl171lyewo
The Network State, Venture Capital and the Political Economy of Exit
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382796473_The_Network_State_Venture_Capital_and_the_Political_Economy_of_Exit
We need network societies, not network states — The Collective Intelligence Project
https://www.cip.org/blog/network-societies
What is the Network State? by Balaji Srinivasan (from Startup Societies Foundation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLq7AuLQL_w
Worst New Trend of 2024: Techno-Colonialism and the Network State Movement
https://gizmodo.com/worst-new-trend-of-2024-techno-colonialism-and-the-network-state-movement-2000525617
what’s bleaker: “What I’m really calling for is something like Tech Zionism”
or
“He recounted the story of one nomad bursting into tears while watching a family ride bikes together in a small city in Japan: His unfettered lifestyle had placed such simple joys beyond his reach.”?
https://x.com/iycrtylph/status/1799204817765863867