VintageVibes

I wonder if cities having a high proportion of knowledge workers that are all able to work from home has a big impact too. The less people gather in groups, the better.

tldr; Norway library politely tells Chinese book banners to go fuck themselves.

Good. China's leaders need more push back in their overreach in censoring content around the world.

The concept of property is highly important in terms of giving us a framework by which we can resolve conflicts over who has legitimate use or possession of things. Without the idea of property, you devolve into a might makes right scenario where the strong or sneaky can steal from anyone without recourse. That doesn't sounds like a society anyone would feel motivated or happy living in. Why try when someone can just steal away your hard work? It's why countries or communities that have gone down the road to socialism and communism have always invariably collapsed. Every anti-property proponent I have ever asked about where the vague lines of what counts as legitimate "use" or "possession" has never been able to provide a clear and consistent answer. Where does my use or possession end? For example, I trade two sheep for a bicycle which I need for transportation to get to my job. Can someone come along and take my bicycle any time I'm not using it? If so, how is this theft justified?

As a side note I'd like to add that I agree with your assessment of intellectual property. The arguments defending IP law are indeed weak, but when it comes to real things like money, goods, and land, property rights are a necessity to keep humanity from devolving to barbarism.

I was surprised this post didn't even mention the existence or development around decentralized P2P technologies for identity management. We have the tech, it's mostly a problem of marketing and network effect. Large centralized brands like Google or Facebook are convenient active hubs of interconnected identities, but these centralized apps have the major downside of eventually leaking personal data that we don't want them too. Not to mention at some point it just gets so tiresome to create yet another account, for yet another brand. We need secure means to manage our own online identity in a way that can interoperate with all the brands out there with minimal risk.