Neom twitter is endlessly fascinating. It’s like a platonic version of a Rorschach test.
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Search “Neom” … tons of tweets in all languages. Jokes, snarks, genuine interest…
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The etymology is fascinating too. Neom supposedly is a portmanteau of Greek Neo (new) and Arabic mustaqbil (future). But the Arabic only gets 1 letter so thing sounds like an ahistorical pharmaceutical name.
Side effects include headache, nausea… do not take Neom if blah blah
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Don’t forget… MbS is only 36. And has time, money, and power to burn on this. This will happen.
Fascinating scenario: it is built and struggles as an authoritarian panopticon prison but then Saudi Arabia unravels post oil and Neom declares independence. And goes Vegas.
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Kowloon + cyberpunk dystopia + stronghold of Jabba the Hutt = Neom in 2122. World burns. Mad max caravans head for The Line. Which defends itself with drones and javelins and hellfires. Oxagon is a 2d Death Star on the water, maintaining theater supremacy with rail guns, lasers.
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