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 (DIR) Post #AtTKyscjJbwexipEzw by cdarwin@c.im
       2025-04-26T04:50:02Z
       
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       A San Francisco-based nonprofit called the Seasteading Institute,  promotes “living on environmentally restorative floating islands with some degree of political autonomy.” The vision, as the Institute’s president, the “seavangelist” Joe Quirk, once told Guernica, is “startup societies where people could form whatever kind of community they wanted” — a libertarian-inflected world where, it is said, you could “vote with your boat,” relocating to a community in line with your views.The concept captured people’s imaginations long before it had a name. In 1895, Jules Verne published “Propeller Island,” a novel about a moving man-made island inhabited by millionaires. By the 1960s, real attempts were being made: Ernest Hemingway’s brother, Leicester, founded the Republic of New Atlantis, a bamboo raft anchored about six miles off the coast of Jamaica. (It washed away.) Still extant is the Principality of Sealand, founded in 1967 on a disused antiaircraft platform seven miles off the shore of Britain. The inventor R. Buckminster Fuller helped design a floating metropolis called Tetrahedron City; the project’s financier died, and plans to build it were abandoned.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/magazine/seasteading-libertarian-ocean-living.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
       
 (DIR) Post #AtTLKNhmwx2LRQRbRw by cdarwin@c.im
       2025-04-26T04:53:51Z
       
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       The history of seasteading is littered with cool-looking renderings that never came to be, for places with names like Oceania and New Utopia. “A lot of seasteaders are on Step 0.5: They’re just these guys on group chats thinking, Oh, it’d be so cool if we could live on the ocean,” says the British filmmaker Oswald Horowitz, who is working on a documentary about the Italian businessman Samuele Landi — a fugitive from the law who managed to live for 13 months on an 800-ton deck barge before a rogue wave hit the vessel off the coast of Dubai, killing him.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtTO6I7rCIgbwebume by a_cubed@mastodon.social
       2025-04-26T05:24:57Z
       
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       @cdarwin These people never learn.https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-libertarian-walks-into-a-bear-the-utopian-plot-to-liberate-an-american-town-and-some-bears-matthew-hongoltz-hetling/14022638?ean=9781541788497&next=tIt'd be sharks for a libertarian seasteading, instead of bears.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtUfARmHYdcJMkRShU by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
       2025-04-26T20:10:54Z
       
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       @cdarwin A number of libertarian groups have tried this and the result is abject failure.They attempted to create or capture communities, then model them around their idea about how stuff works. They often find out about costs they never considered. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetlingAdam Something:Libertarian Sea Pods: A Hilarious Aquatic Disasterhttps://youtu.be/5V_FM0mLC0cMS Satoshi - The Floating Crypto Bro Catastrophehttps://youtu.be/dv4H4trnssc