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If you know you know.  
If not… start the LearnOS.  
Hic sunt dracones 🐉

If you know you know.  
If not… start the LearnOS.  
Hic sunt dracones 🐉

https://deserted-ladybug-896.notion.site/NS-Learn-OS-1c4e55b8653780ca9c9bc23db470c352

TIL: There is a journal for Special Jurisdictions (economic zones) like ZEDES.

TIL: There is a journal for Special Jurisdictions (economic zones) like ZEDES.

https://journalofspecialjurisdictions.com/index.php/jsj/issue/view/7

Who's coming to the Network School via @Base Batches?

Base and the Network School have partnered up to offer 20 top builders from @Base Batches entry to The Network School.

The Network School, founded by @balajis, is a frontier community for techno-optimists on an island near Singapore. It’s a place where builders can hone their https://t.co/yeyOy6FuVg

Who's coming to the Network School via @Base Batches?

https://x.com/buildonbase/status/1911766402098450652

The revolution won’t be tweeted.  
But maybe… it will be sung.  
By a child with pizza in hand,  
while a track nobody asked for changes everything.

Farcaster

Farcaster rewards as UBI for a budding network state

If we’re going to build a world in which everyone will survive and anyone can prosper, it’ll have to start with initiatives like this.

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Genuine question. What should the ideal inflation rate be for a state?

Busting the myth of 2% from 🇲🇾 's top economist.

Full episode in link btw if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Djzu_6RQY&t=2s

on Honduran ZEDES:

A major goal for Special Economic Zones is to increase foreign investment. Honduras has had a lot of foreign investment leave over governance concerns, security, policy and regulatory uncertainty, etc. Foreign investment is down from levels of the 90's and early 00's when there was more stability. Honduras has limited natural resources or giant pools of Capital but has an incredible labor pool of hardworking people, thus requires foreign investment to build warehouses, manufacturing facilities, textiles, call centers, etc. Additionally, Honduran entrepreneurs require foreign investment to capitalize their own new companies and flywheel of capitalism. Without foreign investment there is a lack of opportunity. There are many examples of Special Economic Zones working from Shenzhen to Mexico.

First we built.
Then we remembered.
Now we call the world in the open. 🌏

Learnathon Archive — live.

First we built.
Then we remembered.
Now we call the world in the open. 🌏

Learnathon Archive — live.
https://deserted-ladybug-896.notion.site/Learnathon-Archive-1cfe55b86537808788f5fefad261b8c8

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that systems can be rebuilt.
that truth can be encoded and run forever.
permissionless. borderless. unbreakable.
a place where we aren’t just consumers.
but co-authors.
and yes, it looks like ashes now.

but you’ve read this chapter before.
you know how it ends.

just believe in the work.
believe in each other.
believe in the version of you
that stayed when it stopped being easy.
because when this cycle returns,
and it will return,
they’ll ask how you survived.
and you’ll smile and say:

“i didn’t.

i was reborn.”

How much of web three is simply an outlet for elite overproduction?

Network States may be the most likely source for a new innovative class of political ideas and leadership.

As the opportunity to build digital products becomes increasingly diminished by AI, the opportunity to build new political projects becomes increasingly realistic as the tectonic plates of world power shift. 

The next Mark Zuckerberg wont build a social network they’ll build a network state.

🙂 All right. Let’s go a few rounds. Our mutual friend @mazmhussain can adjudicate.

(1) First: startup societies are based on 100% consent. No one is there who hasn’t chosen to be there. No one is in a hierarchy if they haven’t opted into that hierarchy. Signing the social contract to join a community is much like signing a contract to join a company: you view the docs, make an informed decision, and opt out if it doesn’t work. That right to exit is the fundamental right.

(2) Second: not all existing laws are good laws, like the PATRIOT Act. Sunsetting *some* laws doesn’t mean you don’t believe in laws in the abstract.

(3) Third: you likely have views on what your ideal community would be. Maybe it’s a vegan village. Maybe it’s modern Amish, where tech is paused at the level of flip phones and people enjoy each other’s company. If you ever decided to build such a peaceful, opt-in community, then we would support you. And that’s what startup societies are about.