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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse] by Douglas Rushkoff @ The Guardian (4 September 2022) - Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences | |||
** They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down. | |||
** This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader? | |||
** The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”. | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Island Fantasy Island] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Island Fantasy Island] @ Wikipedia | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTOB-tkekEM Fantasy Island 1978 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet)] @ YouTube | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTOB-tkekEM Fantasy Island 1978 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet)] @ YouTube | ||
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=== Social media === | === Social media === | ||
* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1838285444879982861 Post] @ Twitter (23 September 2024) | |||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1686029291467784192 Post] @ Twitter (31 July 2023) | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1686029291467784192 Post] @ Twitter (31 July 2023) | ||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1456622432433881096 Post] @ Twitter (5 November 2021) | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1456622432433881096 Post] @ Twitter (5 November 2021) | ||
Latest revision as of 11:36, 23 September 2024
Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.
Hashtags
- #ExotemporalWealthManagement
- #RecklessBillionairesClub
Commentary
Bob the Pfully Pfizered Pfridge
Can the island have a large soup pot please? Big enough for six ... small horses. No, wait. Six ... large guinea pigs. We in NZ have an idea, er ... on the boil.
- Pfully Pfizered Pfridge @ Twitter (24 June 2021)
In the News
Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour is a World War II comedy war film about seven castaways who put aside their differences and fight with the United States Marines in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Saruman House is a fortress commissioned by the corrupt wizard Saruman, currently available for rent as a conference center or secret lair.
The useless poor are taking gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires.
"Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
![The City of Floating Islands is a city in [REDACTED] which requires that wealthy residents confine themselves to floating islands in the sky.](/w/images/thumb/8/82/City_of_Floating_Islands.jpg/120px-City_of_Floating_Islands.jpg)
The City of Floating Islands is a city in [REDACTED] which requires that wealthy residents confine themselves to floating islands in the sky.
Saruman House is a fortress commissioned by the corrupt wizard Saruman.
![How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying is a 1967/2021 American musical industrial training film based on the 1961 military program of the same name, which in turn was based on [REDACTED]'s 1952 Presidential Emergency Action Documents.](/w/images/thumb/c/c2/How_to_Pump_and_Dump_Your_Planet_Without_Really_Trying.jpg/107px-How_to_Pump_and_Dump_Your_Planet_Without_Really_Trying.jpg)
How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying is a 1967/2021 American musical industrial training film based on the 1961 military program of the same name, which in turn was based on [REDACTED]'s 1952 Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
The Metrics is an animated children's educational television series set on the artificial island of Springfield (near Billionaire's Island), and parodies American weights, measures, and the mathematical condition.
Bezos and Butt-Head is an American adult animated comedy television series about Bezos, a middle-aged billionaire, and Butt-Head, a teenage slacker characterized by his apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and failure to attract women.
"Wound in Old Wealth" is an anagram of "What Would Lenin Do?".
Lick the Toad is a Carnevale Tenebre sideshow attraction which compels ticket-holders to lick drug-seeping toads.
"Where NFT Has Gone Before" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Fiction cross-reference
- Bezos and Butt-Head
- City of Floating Islands
- Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5
- Found a dime in the park (21 July 2023)
- Gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour
- How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying
- Lick the Toad
- Reckless Billionaire's Club
- Saruman House
- The Metrics
- Vivisection
- Wealth
- Where NFT Has Gone Before
- Wound in Old Wealth
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse by Douglas Rushkoff @ The Guardian (4 September 2022) - Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
- They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
- This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
- The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
- Fantasy Island @ Wikipedia
- Fantasy Island 1978 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet) @ YouTube
- Thurston Howell III @ Wikipedia
- Gilligan's Island - The Howells' will @ YouTube