Living outside the state means living outside its protection racket. How do communities of individualists defend themselves without recreating the very structures they escaped? The answer lies in deterrence over firepower, distributed capability over centralized protection, and vigilance toward those who claim to guard you as much as toward external threats. View article →

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GrapheneOS now supports hardware-virtualized Linux environments on Pixel devices. Combined with OpenCode, you can run a complete vibe coding setup from your phone, with no vendor lock-in on either the operating system or the AI tooling. Here is how to set it up. View article →

The libertarian movement has spent decades oscillating between political reform and territorial escape, both of which have failed to deliver meaningful sovereignty. A third path exists: build parallel institutions that coexist with the state through systematic separation. Bitcoin, Nostr, and physical meetups have begun realizing this vision, offering practical sovereignty without waiting for seasteads or electoral victories. View article →

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Bitcoin's cultural mythos celebrates the HODLer as a paragon of deferred gratification, a being of superior moral fiber who resists immediate consumption in favor of future reward. "Have fun staying poor," they tell the uninitiated, certain that mere possession of an appreciating asset proves they have mastered the ancient virtue of patience. They invoke the concept of time preference, borrowed from Austrian economics, to frame their inactivity as civilizational achievement. The framing contains a fundamental error that reverses the meaning of the very concept it deploys. View article →