A bizarre tech-fueled ideological movement is growing. Proponents of the “Network State” seek to create privately owned, anarcho-capitalist, “autonomous” cities—the likes of which are the urban planning equivalent of cryptocurrency. It’s basically a high-tech version of Galt’s Gulch, the utopian […]
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The Tesla Cybertruck has invaded Europe, and European road safety organizations are freaking out over it. Over half a dozen NGOs—including the European Road Safety Council and the International Federation of Pedestrians—recently co-signed an open letter arguing that Elon Musk’s
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Newsmax, the Trump-happy news broadcasting network accused of spreading the former President’s addled 2020 election conspiracy theories, has agreed to settle its defamation case with Smartmatic, one of the voting machine vendors that figured prominently in said conspiracy theories. It’s
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