• Acceleration Nation (121)
• Practical Seasteading (16)
• Tech Briefs (27)

Acceleration Nation (121)

Essays on accelerationism, libertarianism, crypto, pronatalism, and more.

• 2026-06-06 The Cowgorithm: AI Collars for Cows Are a $2 Billion Business -- Peter Thiel-backed Halter replaces barbed wire with an app and 7 billion hours of cattle data
• 2026-05-30 Bibliography of Libertarian Power
• 2026-02-11 The Good Neighbor's Project -- A call for feedback.
• 2026-01-08 The Right to Walk Away: Angor and the Future of Bitcoin Crowdfunding -- Angor gives investors what ICOs and crowdfunding never could: the cryptographic ability to recover their funds if projects fail to deliver.
• 2026-01-05 Don't let the Yuddites kill you and your loved ones -- The risks of risk mitigation
• 2026-01-05 The Case for Infinite Pie -- Why wealth inequality is both inevitable and desirable.
• 2026-01-04 Pro-AI companies -- Buy from these companies if you want to support an open, free, and private AI ecosystem
• 2026-01-04 Pro-AI lobbying forces -- NGOs, SuperPACs, and politicians who fight for AI freedom
• 2025-12-23 Gift Suggestions For Men -- Ideas from a nerdy, middle-aged bachelor
• 2025-12-18 Introduction to the Liberty Gardeners -- A censorship-resistant discussion group for principled, proactionary libertarians
• 2025-12-18 Why didn't Satoshi include strong privacy protections in the initial release of Bitcoin?
• 2025-12-16 Can AI Doomers and AI Accelerationists cooperate? -- How social policy bonds can incentivize peaceful co-existence with AI's.
• 2025-11-28 HAH: How to protect your financial privacy -- A collection of essays
• 2025-11-27 Some of my favorite comic strips -- Morbid, sexy, wholesome
• 2025-11-22 Bubbles of Freedom -- How privacy tech can help you defend yourself from obedience enforcement systems (aka social credit systems)
• 2025-11-18 A music haters list of beloved songs -- A list from a musical naif
• 2025-10-12 Why have authoritarian populists taken over libertarian spaces?
• 2025-10-01 Laugh in the face of death -- 31 of my favorite horror-comedies
• 2025-08-27 Should illegal immigrants be allowed to use government roads? -- The case for granting driver's licenses--but not voting or benefit licenses--to illegal immigrants
• 2025-08-25 A Free Klan Project in New Hampshire? -- Are Free Staters hypocrites for discouraging authoritarians from moving to New Hampshire?
• 2025-03-11 Ciudad Morazán: the future of libertarian power -- Why libertarians should be pushing to create more free private cities like Ciudad Morazán
• 2025-03-07 Retaliatory tariffs: don't follow the mob next door -- The US government should eliminate import taxes (aka tariffs) even if other governments don't.
• 2025-02-04 Why I think the J6 protesters should have been pardoned
• 2025-01-22 Don't Trust Trump
• 2025-01-22 Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht -- Free the tall poppies!
• 2025-01-13 Cop Minder Laws -- How to disincentivize Federal cops from enforcing federal laws that violate New Hampshire law
• 2024-12-17 New evidence for the horseshoe theory -- "Left-wing authoritarians share key psychological traits with far right, Emory study finds"
• 2024-12-17 Voluntary Alternatives To Government Services
• 2024-12-10 Windsong Cohousing: beautiful ecovillage inside a giant greenhouse
• 2024-11-17 Which form of taxation causes the least harm? -- The case for land value taxes
• 2024-11-15 The Case For Secession -- How to achieve peaceful national divorce.
• 2024-11-05 The LPNH endorses Chase Oliver for President. -- A parody from a better timeline
• 2024-11-04 The Case for the Abundance Network -- Some technocratic Democrats are trying to reverse some of their bad policies
• 2024-10-31 Citizen sovereignty not "open borders"
• 2024-10-31 The Negative Externalities of Immigration Suppression Laws
• 2024-10-23 QL: More calls for censorship by government officials
• 2024-10-23 Why are libertarians fighting each other? -- My take, plus some suggestions for reducing the conflict
• 2024-09-27 Where can I find a 160 IQ man who wants to have kids?
• 2024-09-26 Getting started with shotgun shooting
• 2024-09-23 How to turn foes into friends -- A show reel of masters of persuasion
• 2024-09-20 Free State Project FAQ -- Some answers for the haters
• 2024-09-19 Grandma's Gun -- Self defense recommendations for an elderly woman
• 2024-09-17 Why libertarians shouldn't threaten to assassinate the President of the US
• 2024-09-16 QL: Aging link round-up
• 2024-09-13 QL: Carpentopod, Australian/Canadian censorship, Israeli fertility, organ sales, Haitian IQ
• 2024-09-12 StableGold: Decentralized, Gold-backed, Private Stablecoin
• 2024-09-11 A brief introduction to social policy bonds
• 2024-09-11 The Gametogenesis Prize -- Healthy eggs and sperm at every age.
• 2024-09-11 The Genesis Prizes -- “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth"
• 2024-09-11 The RoboNanny Prize -- Incentivizing the birth of Betsy the robot
• 2024-09-09 QL: Reproduction roundup! -- Pig/human kidney transplant, human parthogenesis, cloned horse, and more!
• 2024-09-07 The Litany of Censorship
• 2024-09-06 QL: Open source, peer-to-peer, self-hostable alternatives to Patreon -- Subscriptions for heretics
• 2024-09-05 What technology needs to be developed for any human to have a baby at any age?
• 2024-09-04 The SafeWomb Prizes -- Tradable bounties for the development of open source, open hardware artificial wombs
• 2024-09-03 Hutterites: a model for communal childrearing?
• 2024-09-02 QL: Breaking Toys, Fishing For Megalodon, Redneck Harry Potter, Ayahuasca Trump -- And other AI generated movies
• 2024-08-29 New Hampshire: San Francisco for libertarians -- A sanctuary state for the liberty minded
• 2024-08-28 Why are there hostilities between the Zcash and Monero communities?
• 2024-08-27 Help free Ross Ulbricht and other political prisoners of the West -- Heroes in the fight against censorship, gun bans, and financial surveillance.
• 2024-08-26 A brief introduction to Ross Ulbricht -- A War on Drugs political prisoner
• 2024-08-26 QL: AI Doomers receive $1.6 billion | LLM's pose no existential risk | Monero anonymity improvement
• 2024-08-23 QL: Norwegian, California super-rich flee | UK censorship | Tabarrok on economic dynamism decline | Apocalypse Never | Abortion misinformation
• 2024-08-21 How I will prepare my future daughters for success
• 2024-08-20 The true purpose of government schools
• 2024-08-16 QL: Brain aging linked to lymphatic vessel decline, Alzheimers linked to untreated blood pressure, Hayflick, Epigenome Editing, Nanotoxicology
• 2024-08-15 IMPORTANT! Your Social Security Number Has Been Stolen -- Freeze your credit now
• 2024-08-13 A directory of AI firms
• 2024-08-13 Good Cop Bonds: how to incent bad cops to do good
• 2024-08-09 Public Wealth of Cities -- If cities managed their properties better, they could make enough profit to replace sales taxes entirely.
• 2024-08-09 The Free Nation Project -- ...a plan for creating the first libertarian nation state.
• 2024-08-09 Who do you trust?
• 2024-08-07 The Porcupine Voluntary Basic Income -- How UBI supporters could create a UBI for each other without coercing anyone else
• 2024-08-06 Accelerationist Documentaries
• 2024-08-05 Quicklinks: Open source voting machines, Immutable Democracy, StampID, BrightID, Bitpeople -- Technology to produce a free and fair election
• 2024-08-04 Quicklinks: ToughSF, faux rocks, Desolation Islands, Chinese electric tractors
• 2024-08-03 Quicklinks: Reticulum Network, Earendil -- Encrypted, ban-resistant communication networks
• 2024-08-02 About Acceleration Nation -- "As man is, God once was. As God is, man may become."
• 2024-08-01 Uterus of the Dead -- ...and other surprising advances in fertility medicine
• 2024-07-30 Who would you want in your Presidential cabinet?
• 2024-07-29 How do you buy groceries with Monero? -- ...and other tips for using Monero in dailylife.
• 2024-07-22 Where have all the cypherpunks gone? -- A compendium of the modern cypherpunk diaspora
• 2024-07-08 How likely are you to become addicted to drugs? -- And what to do if you do become addicted.
• 2024-07-08 Ultra-low dose naltrexone bibliogrpahy
• 2024-07-07 HAH: How to avoid censorship -- Part of the Happy Anarchist Handbook
• 2024-07-07 HAH: How to defend yourself
• 2024-07-07 HAH: How to have fun -- Part of the Happy Anarchist Handbook
• 2024-07-07 HAH: How to protect your wealth / income
• 2024-07-07 HAH: How to protect your health -- Part of the Happy Anarchist Handbook
• 2024-07-07 The Happy Anarchist Handbook -- A guide to living the good life, the anarchist way
• 2024-07-06 How to secure a peaceful national divorce -- A bibliography for secession
• 2024-07-05 How government official maintain their extortion racket -- ...and strategies for escaping.
• 2024-07-05 How government officials enrich themselves at our expense -- Governments are stationary bandits
• 2024-07-03 An audit will not save you: libertarians only make up 15% of the population
• 2024-06-30 Libertarian strategies for dealing with the homeless and mentally ill
• 2024-06-12 If the "social contract" were written down, would you sign it? -- Time to break up with "bureaucratic boyfriend".
• 2024-06-11 How to lower your property taxes by separating "school and state" -- Strategies to achieve consensual schooling in your town.
• 2024-06-10 Lifebonds: how you can live to be 500+ years old -- You can't take your money with you, so why not spend it so you don't have to leave?
• 2024-05-15 A free society requires citizens who lust for liberty
• 2024-05-14 National electoral politics is a lost cause for libertarians -- Achieve liberty in your lifetime by moving to New Hampshire instead
• 2024-05-13 Benjamin Franklin's 200 year gift to "artificers" -- The Benjamin Franklin Trusts and the power of compound interest
• 2024-05-10 Jonathan Holdeen and the Great Unitarian Universalist Heist
• 2024-05-02 Breed 'em For Freedom! -- How Libertarians Can Conquer The Earth
• 2024-04-27 Consent for everything!
• 2024-04-26 How I think about cryptocurrency investing -- Don't buy just for profit; buy because you support the project
• 2024-04-25 Living Under The Eye of Sauron -- How you are being spied upon
• 2024-04-20 A Taxonomy of Taxes
• 2024-04-20 Monero for sex workers -- How sex workers can break the VISA/Mastercard monopoly
• 2024-04-19 Baby Mama, International -- How corporations can boost child reproduction rates
• 2024-04-18 Children of the state -- How government schools indoctrinate children to obey
• 2024-03-21 The case for libertarian hope -- Fourteen strategies to achieve a more libertarian world.
• 2024-02-18 How much would heroin cost if it were decriminalized?
• 2024-02-15 Why was New Hampshire chosen as the destination state for the Free State Project?
• 2024-02-09 My Favorite Quotes
• 2023-10-17 What if we purchased food the way we purchase education?
• 2023-05-06 The Case For Sponsored Immigration -- How to increase global GDP by $65 trillion dollars
• 2022-05-21 Shouting Fire In a Crowded Twitter
• 2021-09-04 How to perform a DIY chemical abortion
• 2021-07-19 Composting toilets for festivals
• 2021-01-27 Welcome to Accleration Nation
• How This Image Gallery Works

Practical Seasteading (16)

Hands-on guides for living and building at sea.

• 2026-02-25 What does a successful "Free State Project" look like to you? -- A "back of the envelope" calculation
• 2025-10-15 Super Strong Water Resistant Paper Mache -- An inexpensive material for making seasteading mockups
• 2025-10-10 How to Waterproof Cardboard / Paper Mache
• 2025-10-05 Small Transportable Nuclear Reactors -- Nuclear power for seasteads
• 2025-04-25 The FEMA Guide To Food and Water Storage in an Emergency
• 2025-04-05 Practical seasteading: How to keep clean in the middle of the ocean -- The definitive guide to cleaning with bleach
• 2025-01-17 How the Cape Romano sea domes could've survived
• 2024-12-26 Practical Seasteading: Stop Buying Proprietary Batteries -- Ceenr and The Cordless Alliance universal battery systems
• 2024-12-19 Practical Seasteading: How to paint a faux bronze patina onto concrete
• 2024-12-18 Practical Seasteading: How to fight rust -- Preventative measures, DIY Evap-O-Rust, silica gel, bluing
• 2024-10-28 Sifting the wheat from the chaff: how to screen for sincere libertarians
• 2024-08-22 Where you gonna go when tyranny arrives? -- A review of pro-liberty sanctuary cities
• 2024-08-21 QL: Ice cubes that don't melt | Icesteading | Maine lakesteaders | Bio-inspired concrete
• 2024-08-16 Are seasteads "technically impossible"? -- In defense of the trailer parks of the sea
• 2023-05-06 How To Avoid Government Immune Systems.
• 2022-01-27 Inexpensive home construction with Epic concrete mix (shredded styrofoam + cement + paper pulp)

Tech Briefs (27)

Technical how-tos and tool guides.

• 2026-06-12 How To Escape The Five Riders Of The False AI Apocalypse -- Open Source, Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Alternatives To Authoritarian AI
• 2026-06-06 Tutorial: Live HTML Preview in Brave While Editing Markdown in Neovim
• 2026-06-05 Tech Brief: Uncensored AI Image Generation for Adult Content
• 2026-06-03 Card Sizes, Educational Card Games, and Dual-Purpose Decks
• 2026-06-03 First Offshore Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center Deployed Off China's Coast
• 2026-06-02 Tech Brief: Making a Single Page Full-Width When the Site Theme Uses a Narrow Column
• 2026-06-01 Self-Hosted ar.io Gateway on Hetzner Cloud
• 2026-06-01 Privacy Hosting: VPS Providers That Accept Monero
• 2026-06-01 Open Source Alternatives To Proprietary Services
• 2026-06-01 Tech Brief: Wide Columns and a Frozen First Column in an HTML Table
• 2026-05-29 Permanent Web Deployment: Five Bugs and Their Fixes
• 2026-05-27 Who to Follow on Sovereign X
• 2026-05-15 Don't Let Google Put You On A Leash
• 2026-02-13 TechTip: Fixing "Display Output Is Not Active" on Arch Linux ARM (UTM/QEMU, Apple Silicon)
• 2026-01-09 How To Use Odysee/Arweave To Escape Youtube Censorship -- "I literally had to go through our drafts and nix about 80% of the episodes that we were planning to record just because YouTube will not allow that anymore."
• 2026-01-08 Store Images on Arweave for 200+ Years (For Free) -- A decentralized, censorship resistant, permanent storage system
• 2026-01-04 Sovereign AI Stack: Decentralized Resistance
• 2026-01-03 How to buy Monero privately (no KYC/AML) with Retoswap -- This is also the path to buying Zcash privately.
• 2026-01-03 How to install Zashi zcash wallet
• 2025-01-02 How to avoid being held hostage by Google -- Download your data now
• 2024-07-30 How to Make Your Business Censorship-Resistant
• 2024-07-30 How to defeat censorship with sovereign software
• 2024-07-05 How to accept anonymous Monero payments with BTCPayserver
• 2024-07-05 How to buy Monero with cash by mail -- How to avoid inflation, confiscatory taxes, and keep your financial privacy
• 2024-05-10 Venice.ai: a private, uncensored, AI chatbot -- Release announcement from Erik Voorhees
• 2023-11-06 A short guide to getting started with Nostr
• 2023-06-26 How To Escape App Store Censorship -- Liberation via PWA's and Webassebly