Let A Thousand Nations Bloom: Recent Episodes
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1. Start Your Own Country! – Reason.com John Stossel just published a write-up of his recent show on seasteading. Joe Quirk has fine-tuned his answers for tough questions. 2. Hong Kong Protests Challenge China With No End in Sight, Epoch Times If you’re not following the Epoch Times coverage of the Hong Kong protests, […]
I write that “[a] decentralized ecological approach would recognize that managing emissions is one part of a larger equation that includes the natural carbon cycle…” And we can’t take ourselves out of the equation either. Humans have been managing the ecosystem for 400,000 years. If you’re not reading Erraticus, you should. It is an online journal focused […]
- The blue economy and seasteading: A key growth driver for Singapore, Opinion – THE BUSINESS TIMES by Joe Quirk and Yap Shi Wen SINGAPORE is well-positioned to capitalise on the convergence of the growing blue economy and the emergence of seasteading, with the potential to become a prime mover in the development of floating […]
I recently finished Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism, which makes the case for an international order based on nationalism – or rather, nationalisms, plural. Hazony heads the Herzl Institute – a Zionist organization named for Theodor Herzl, a founding father of the modern state of Israel – and speaks favorably (if guardedly) of nationalist movements […]
Combating the modern malaise with aquatic art The Sacramento–San Joaquin’s 10,000 miles of river delta offer a vast blank canvas for interactive floating art. This canvas moves and breathes with the tide. The flood tide holds back the river’s westward flow and the ebb sucks it out to sea with surprising speed. It took a little […]
The frontier is near; the ocean is far Back to the Future: Seasteading 1.0 This July, an eclectic mix of sailboats, DIY platforms, repurposed barges and tugboats will converge on the Sacramento—San Joaquin river delta for the 10th annual “Ephemerisle” festival. What began as a small-scale experiment in floating, autonomous living, aka “seasteading,” was supposed to […]
Lebron James is strong. How strong? So strong that he broke his own hand punching a whiteboard in frustration after losing the game 1 of the NBA finals against the Warriors. He admits he basically played the last three games (all of which they lost) with a broken hand. Clearly, this is not the kind of […]
I recommend Jacob Lyle’s young-but-excellent podcast, Human Matter, to all readers of this blog. It was clear from the first episode (on existential crisis), featuring Dane Johnson, that Jacob has a knack for making his guests feel comfortable – drawing out their stories and ideas – and “exploring the anomalies at the edges of human experience.” […]
WIRED podcast, Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, has a new hour-long podcast with Joe Quirk, in which he makes the case for seasteading to a sympathetic host: Eventually the Seasteading Institute hopes to develop floating platforms for individual families, which would make it easy to leave one seastead and join another. Hopefully that sort of […]
Governor Moonbeam is howling, and it’s not on account of this week’s supermoon. “This bill will divide the blue states from the red, the Democrats from the Republicans. It is evil in the extreme,” Gov. Jerry Brown said in a call with reporters. Governors howl: Why tax plan would hammer blue states, SF Chronicle, 12/5/17 […]