The Brave New World of Oligarch Lordships—Apparently They're AWESOME!

Originally published at: The Brave New World of Oligarch Lordships—Apparently They’re AWESOME! - TPM – Talking Points Memo

A couple weeks ago, the clarion of digital wrongdoing in the second Trump administration, Wired, published an article entitled ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’. I wrote about these guys, or one subset of them, in early January. Dryden Brown is chief of a startup called Praxis,…

And, naturally, they’ve shown their expertise by accidentally crashing several buggies.

Not enticing nor would I want such a state as a neighbor. They might well decide that the locals are inconvenient, run some gain of function research, vaccinate their own and do some crop dusting.