Pirate Wires

The Pirate Wires newsletter offers a concise recap and commentary on current happenings, while the podcast episodes and in-depth essays explore unconventional, challenging, or intriguing subjects that capture my interest.

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Make America Jacked Again: The Case for Government Fat Camps

1 week ago | piratewires.com | Oliver Bateman

40% of Americans are obese, 71.6% of adults over 20 are overweight, and for the first time in decades, life expectancy is falling due to chronic illness. wtf is going on?
What Does Waymo Mean?

2 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

arson, looting, and police getting pegged âin the face with a brick,â a portrait of the "rebel faction" that overpowered this weekend's protest
"It was chaos" — The LA Riots, a First Hand Account

2 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

a simple look at the publicly available timeline shows it was not possible for piker to have been detained for “hours.” the media breathlessly repeated his lie in unison regardless.
Right Wing Civil War

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

The Day After the Election, Mainstream Media Turns on Americansnyt, atlantic, and msnbc are aiming their rage at americans after trump’s win, but other outlets seem ready to navigate an entirely revised political and cultural environment
The Elimination of All Sentient Life on Earth

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Katherine Dee

why a community of depressed young men with nothing to lose is convinced the only way out of their misery is gender transition
More American Than America

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

While my career technically began in publishing in 2009, my journey through venture, and tech, and ultimately the kind of publishing I do today all began with Peter Thiel, who I first met that same year at a meet-up for a wild little organization called the Seasteading Institute.
The Case for Turning Starbase Into a Special Economic Zone

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Tomas Pueyo

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.
Smoke Signals

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

american transit projects cost five to ten times more than our international counterparts' while taking years longer to complete. here's why — and how we can build again.
What I Saw, as a Former Blob Media Journalist Who Is a Girl, at the Hill & Valley Forum

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

pirate wires #138 // disney‚Äôs true legacy is the innovation of the charter city, and america‚Äôs path to the golden age begins with the resurrection of his vision
Freedom of Leech

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

npr’s ceo has has a near perfect record of ideological opposition to silicon valley, even arguing at oxford in 2018 that the rise of tech ‘empires’ are a net negative for society