🌐 Is Nomad List a network state?

In this fireside chat, OG nomad Pieter Levels and father of the network state movement Balaji Srinivasan discuss everything from making Europe great again and nomads politics to the influence of cryptocurrency and why AI makes digital passports inevitable.

Network State 2024 on YouTube

👩‍💻 The evolution of the digital nomad

As nomadism expands, its demographics and destinations expand with it. Today’s nomads are more diverse than ever: women, families, more varied cultures and backgrounds, and a myriad of remote career paths. How should nomad hubs adapt and thrive in this new era?

Lynn Brown for BBC

China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei are at loggerheads over a set of tiny barely habitable islands in the South China Sea. The latest escalation might even get the U.S. involved. What makes these remote outposts so critical?

Wendover Productions on YouTube

Many of Europe’s city squares and cobbled streets transform for the festive season, glittering with lights and often dusted with snow. If eating roasted chestnuts and drinking mulled wine is on your winter agenda, the continent’s 26 best Christmas markets for 2024 might surprise you.

Mary Novakovich, Qin Xie for TIME

🦇 Portugal’s ‘honorary librarians’

An unlikely guardian protects this Portuguese library, and has done so since the 1800s: the humble bat. Roosting quietly by day, its spooky residents take flight at night, defending 60,000 historic books from paper-eating insects. Visitors can watch as bats dive through gilded halls in a surreal, centuries-old evening ritual…

Cara Giaimo for Atlas Obscura

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