I write science fiction, draw, paint, photobash, do woodworking, and dabble in 2d videogames design. Big fan of reducing waste, and of building community
That’s fair, but it’s also worth noting that some of the absolute classics like the original Ghost in the Shell also forgo that one.
Over the last couple decades cyberpunk kinda infiltrated mainstream science fiction - it’s hard to find scifi without at least a few cyberpunk elements these days. To the point that making something that checks all the boxes or avoids them all both seem to be a very deliberate choice now. It can make drawing a line around the genre kinda difficult.
Megazone23 is the reason I’m not allowed to choose movies/shows for TV and takeout night with friends anymore. What a weird, stupid, amazing mess. 100% worth it.
Not sure if Aniline wood dyes are all that different but they also work really well!
I’d definitely recommend adding Space Sweepers for something fun and upbeat (for cyberpunk).
For a scifi horror with more cyberpunk elements than you might expect, I’d suggest Morgan (2016).
Soldier (1998) might be too much of a stretch but it’s got a lot of the elements (minus an evil corporation) and it’s a solid film.
Edit: I forgot Outland! It’s great, plot is basic but works, actors are fun (it’s got Sean Connery) and the aesthetics/sets are prime Alien/Aliens territory. I think of it as being set in the Aliens universe.
This is a great fit, thank you!
Thanks! I found them over on the subreddit and have started digging through their articles. Good to know about any bias.
Thanks! I’ll take a look and see what I can find
Thanks, I’ll try to find a copy (or just read the internet archive copy) - it sounds like it’s long enough and covers enough that there should be something on rural areas
I’ll take a look! I’m aiming to have more sections on library economics so it might tie into that too
Seconding !music@slrpnk.net but in general I’d associate folk and punk rock because of their protest roots.
I think Holmes exclusively cheated investor-class rich people
The important thing is that the orks trust it
That’s a huge improvement!
This is awesome news! Thanks for letting me know! I’ve been waiting to see these sails get real world use
The big display screens made for corporations are supposed to be high quality TV hardware minus the ‘smart’ features - if you can find a used one without burn-in. But I don’t know specifics for makes or brands, sorry. I get my TVs from ewaste so the goal there is mostly just to limp it along while ignoring whatever problem caused the original owner to throw it away.
There are some interesting oven designs that use rooftop solar collectors (mirrored troughs with a tube of transfer fluid running through them) connected to normal-ish form factors ovens downstairs. It’s basically the same setup for solar steam generators (if you run a business that uses a lot of steam). The only problem is it’s a direct use of the heat without much storage (from what I remember) so you can’t really start baking before sunup.
There are also some cool designs for direct solar that point a reflector dish into a hole in a wall (the inside of the hole is the inside of an oven in the kitchen). Tamara solar kitchen has one but there are lots of similar versions.
There’s a bunch of them!
I gathered up all the examples I could find awhile back:
The IRL and proposed examples are about halfway down the page.
I’m honestly not against using Facebook to actually do some good if you already have an account - there’s something to be said for using the places people where people are already hanging out. But if you don’t have one, it’s definitely not worth making one.
Freecycle has local sites for different locations, there might be one for your community. And Buy Nothing has been trying to move off Facebook (to an app, unfortunately - I don’t like apps) so that might also be an option. Both host the right kind of community for this kind of project.
One other thing I’ve had some luck with is just putting up paper flyers. I try to look for the places where people already congregate or where lots of staples and thumbtacks indicate that other folks felt it was a good spot for flyers.
It’s also worth noting that while resellers can be annoying they can also fit a useful role in a network whose job is to keep stuff out of the landfill. When I’m giving away something nice through Buy Nothing I might prioritize people who also give stuff away, or at least seem to participate in good faith but there’s been times when I had acquired some niche ewaste normal people don’t need that I was happy to give it to a guy who would almost definitely sell it on ebay because that was the only likely way it’d find a home (and if it nets a retired guy in town $20 that seems okay).
At the Swap Shop where I sometimes help out, we can’t afford to be as choosey, but volunteers generally know who the resellers are and when they show up. We often put new or nice stuff out throughout the whole time we’re open rather than just upfront so other folks have a chance to get it, and often set things aside for specific people when we know they’re looking for something. We also have a limit on how many items people can take per week.
Generally it’s less of a problem than it probably sounds like. Some volunteers get annoyed by people taking tons of stuff, but I’ve seen the piles of stuff that still goes into the waste stream because we don’t have room for it.
In the end of the day I think it’s a bit of a headspace thing - the worry/anger that someone will game the system can make you miss the sheer amount of good it can do even with a few jerks in the mix.
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