No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a CatDec 12
on kitkat, the beloved sf feline who was run over by an autonomous vehicle, and jackie fielder, the pandering sf politician who now wants to ban the vehicles altogether
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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.
No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a Cat
AI: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be FreeDec 10
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
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Breaking the Outer Space Treaty and Ascending to the StarsDec 6
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
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