Luigi Mangione: China's Next Top ModelSep 4
shein used the face of accused murderer luigi mangione to sell $12 shirts — and behind the fiasco is a full-blown luigi cult in china that western media has ignored
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The Case for Turning Starbase Into a Special Economic Zone
a newly incorporated city on texas' southern tip could become america's portal to space — but we'll never get there under current regulations
Tomas Pueyo
Jun 2, 2025
One of the most potent ideas for actually building things in America again is to create Special Economic Zones (SEZs) — swathes of land that operate free of hostile regulation. The iconic example is Shenzhen, which China made an SEZ in 1980, stripping it of most regulation and allowing market capitalism to run free. As a result, Shenzhen became China's tech capital, a cyberpunk futurescape complete with high-speed rail and one of the world's largest ports.
In February, Tomas Pueyo proposed turning Guantanamo Bay into an American Shenzhen. Now, he's returned to explain why we should lift regulations on Starbase, the newly incorporated Texan city home to SpaceX. We could subsequently transform it into the world's first space portal metropolis — a bustling company town built around future travel to Mars, the moon, and wherever else we dare. Enjoy.
Luigi Mangione: China's Next Top Model
Five Years Later, Tech Is Still Censoring Kyle RittenhouseSep 4
revisiting one of the most tyrannical smear and censorship campaigns in modern history, unleashed by the media and major tech platforms on a 17-year-old boy
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Why Thiel Fellows WinAug 29
peter thiel paid cracked teens to leave college and stay weird. now it's a $750b startup pipeline
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