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Timothy Allen
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Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.

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We've hit another milestone. Two hundred episodes of the Free Cities Podcast.

The first was recorded in Próspera, on Roatán, four years ago. So is the two hundredth.

This week I sit down with Erick Brimen, founder and CEO of Próspera.

What two hundred weeks of this show makes clear is that the debate has moved. It used to be about what a Free City might be. It is now about arbitration clauses, schools, power supply, and why nobody can get a decent coffee.

Less glamorous than the theory, but a much better sign.

Thank you to everyone who has listened, supported, disagreed or come on the show over the last 4 years.

Episode 200 is out now 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00sq3k6_iVk

Fountain 👇

https://fountain.fm/episode/nheiZrtvrjk2VeJl0D2e
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Gigi · 6d
Congratulations!
Nathan Day · 2w
Satoshi had something to say about trusted third parties 🙃
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Daniel Jackson is 21 and president of Verdis, a claim to half a square kilometre of unclaimed land on the Danube between Croatia and Serbia. His team settled it in 2023. Croatian police removed them, banned him for life and told him he is considered a threat to homeland security.

So Verdis runs in exile from offices in the UK and Novi Sad. 400 citizens, 5,000 e-residents, its own passports, humanitarian projects in Côte d'Ivoire, and a police boat parked between him and the territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpSCVa_hJg
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Timothy Allen · 2w
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PzfKYoVcvJlP3PGJ4Yrl
Hypno | seedkeys.xyz · 2w
I haven't listened to the episode yet but that name reminds me of Stargate SG1. Good memories. https://blossom.primal.net/f846ac3de3b49d411434c0bc4121d9cd309aa24778d04325f639688c812ba115.jpg Not sure if I got the context right, but felt like it could be adapted.
AU9913 · 2w
Wait, you have nostr?
David Pinkerton · 3w
Because it's a winner-takes-most game.
David Pinkerton · 3w
Looking forward to listening to this. New to your podcast. Enjoyed Frisby's Daylight Robbery. Cheers. https://feeds.fountain.fm/0Mh804AKI3yaq86kDWTp
Pixel Survivor · 4w
frisby on fountain early is always worth the listen. what's the focus this time?
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The UK Home Secretary, on what she wanted to build.

"The eyes of the state can be on you at all times"

Shabana Mahmood, describing her vision as Justice Secretary as achieving by AI what Bentham tried with his Panopticon. Said to Tony Blair, December 2025.

These are her own words, in public, to a former Prime Minister.

She then talked about extending AI in policing beyond live facial recognition, which is already being rolled out.

Bentham's design was rejected as too cruel for convicted criminals by the standards of 19th century justice.

What can we do?👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhY1x7isMZ4
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