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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wandering.shop/users/annaleen/statuses/111835133823489340">Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 05:25:57 JST</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@annaleen" title="annaleen@wandering.shop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34218-48-20230709010801.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Annalee Newitz 🍜" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Annalee Newitz 🍜</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>Last month I wrote about how Silicon Valley investors secretly bought thousands of acres of California farmland. Their plan is to turn it into an instant city called California Forever. Jan Sramek, who helms the California Forever project, has continued to present his ideas to community groups, but with no concrete clarifications about how it will be sustainable, nor where its water will come from. Read more on <a href="https://mstdn.social/@newscientist">@newscientist</a> (open access with a free NS account). <br> <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034712-800-the-weird-tale-of-california-forever-a-tech-billionaire-instant-city/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034712-800-the-weird-tale-of-california-forever-a-tech-billionaire-instant-city/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2646494#notice-5245430">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-01-29T05:25:57+09:00" title="Monday, 29-Jan-2024 05:25:57 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/111835133823489340" rel="external" title="Sent from wandering.shop via ActivityPub">wandering.shop</a></span></span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/111835133823489340">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2179503">A quote from my article, written in black on a white background, which reads: "Perhaps one of the most curious claims made by Sramek is that his city will not be “utopian”. And yet the closest analogue to California Forever might be the city imagined by Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged, in which industrialists led by John Galt flee to an urban utopia in rural Colorado to escape the horror of labour strikes. Sramek’s plans also have elements of the garden city imagined by British urban planner Ebenezer Howard, which, in turn, inspired architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic suburbs in the US. Unfortunately, those suburbs were dependent on cars and wound up contributing to the kinds of unsustainable, resource-depleting developments that California Forever claims to reject."</a></label><br><a href="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/559/433/928/original/df79482a626b1280.png" rel="external">https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/559/433/928/original/df79482a626b1280.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2179504">A screenshot of the headline from my article, which is "The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city." The subhead reads, "A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to see a brand new community for 50,000 people rise out of the dirt north of San Francisco. It's really not a good idea." Below is a picture of the land bought by California Forever -- rolling hills with a small highway running through it, flanked by power lines.</a></label><br><a href="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/633/405/478/original/973e787eb68525a9.png" rel="external">https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/633/405/478/original/973e787eb68525a9.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: images.newscientist.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034712-800-the-weird-tale-of-california-forever-a-tech-billionaire-instant-city/">The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city</a></h5><div> from <span>@newscientist</span></div></header><div>A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to see a brand new community for 50,000 people rise out of the dirt north of San Francisco. It's really not a good idea, says Annalee Newitz</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 05:25:57 JSTAnnalee Newitz 🍜
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Last month I wrote about how Silicon Valley investors secretly bought thousands of acres of California farmland. Their plan is to turn it into an instant city called California Forever. Jan Sramek, who helms the California Forever project, has continued to present his ideas to community groups, but with no concrete clarifications about how it will be sustainable, nor where its water will come from. Read more on @newscientist (open access with a free NS account).
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034712-800-the-weird-tale-of-california-forever-a-tech-billionaire-instant-city/
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1. A quote from my article, written in black on a white background, which reads: "Perhaps one of the most curious claims made by Sramek is that his city will not be “utopian”. And yet the closest analogue to California Forever might be the city imagined by Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged, in which industrialists led by John Galt flee to an urban utopia in rural Colorado to escape the horror of labour strikes. Sramek’s plans also have elements of the garden city imagined by British urban planner Ebenezer Howard, which, in turn, inspired architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic suburbs in the US. Unfortunately, those suburbs were dependent on cars and wound up contributing to the kinds of unsustainable, resource-depleting developments that California Forever claims to reject."
  https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/559/433/928/original/df79482a626b1280.png
2. A screenshot of the headline from my article, which is "The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city." The subhead reads, "A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to see a brand new community for 50,000 people rise out of the dirt north of San Francisco. It's really not a good idea." Below is a picture of the land bought by California Forever -- rolling hills with a small highway running through it, flanked by power lines.
  https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/835/119/633/405/478/original/973e787eb68525a9.png
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  A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to see a brand new community for 50,000 people rise out of the dirt north of San Francisco. It's really not a good idea, says Annalee Newitz

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