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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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New Free Cities Podcast with Gareth Icke.

Gareth is David Icke's son. He's a really nice bloke: less about the lizard people and more about practical solutions to authoritarianism.

We get into the digital panopticon, political saviours, personal responsibility, peaceful non-compliance and what he thinks of his dad's ideas.

Watch👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhY1x7isMZ4
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Loving the interviews man! the one with expat obey was wrong about el Salvador. It does have territorial taxation
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NEW episode. Early access is live now on @fountain_app

This week: Gareth Icke.

We get into David Icke (his dad), the digital panopticon, political psychopaths, Brexit, COVID, conformity, political saviours, peaceful non-compliance, parallel systems and the question of what you actually build when you stop believing politics will save you.

🎧 Listen early on Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/9ZsXCoUk7wvnv4nYGLPz

General release Friday.
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New episode is live for Fountain subscribers today. Everyone else, Friday morning UK time.

Two founders, recorded back to back in Austin, who could not disagree more about what AI is going to do to us.

Liam Martin has built a tool that makes a working digital twin of you out of your emails and calls. He thinks tens of millions of jobs could be gone inside a year, and has bought twenty acres in the Canadian woods with its own water and power.

Nick Francis built one of the first fully remote company back in 2011, when people still made fun of him for it. He calls himself an incredible optimist, reckons more software engineers are being hired now than ever, and says the last ten per cent of any job, the craft, is the part AI will never touch.

One of them is wrong. I still don't know which.

https://fountain.fm/episode/obkVbUYCKw2MkAP887Uw
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Ever heard of Universe 25?

Ethologist John Calhoun gave mice paradise. Unlimited food, water, nesting material, no predators, no disease. Nothing left to solve.

They bred to 2,200, then unravelled. Pups abandoned. Males violent, others just grooming in corners all day. Births stopped completely. Day 1,588, the last mouse died. The pen still had room for a thousand more.

Calhoun's read: scarcity never killed them. The absence of any role worth filling did.

Now say it again with AI as the abundance. Code writes itself. Analysis, admin, design, decisions, all handled. The output keeps arriving whether or not you turn up.

The question isn't whether we can build the utopia. It's whether we can build one that still needs us in it.

Full episode👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqCcAAHGLY
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Fifty years ago, men were raising flags on seamounts in the Pacific and declaring their own countries.

Mark Frazier knew them. He was a reporter on the ground when one of those breakaway nations collapsed. He has spent the half century since working on free zones in more than fifty countries, and he has watched almost every way these things can fail.

The lesson he drew is the opposite of what most people in this space believe. You don't build a free place by pushing it on a government. You make it a prize that governments compete to win. He once had twelve countries bidding to host a single project.

His take: The answer to capture and control is not to seize power but to make it pointless. In a world of real abundance, there is no scarcity left to fight over.

I sat down with him for two hours. It is, as far as we can tell, the only long conversation with him that exists.

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

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