podfeet
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A firewheel flower (Gaillardia pulchella) in a vacant lot in our neighborhood 馃尰馃摲 #SF#bloomscrolling
Joachim
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Le mouvement #solarpunk, meilleure repr茅sentation 脿 ce jour d'un futur d茅sirable ? Alors que les 艙uvres de #SF font souvent une repr茅sentation distopique et pessimiste de l'avenir, le mouvement solarpunk y oppose la vision positive de mondes ruraux et urbains fond茅s sur une production alimentaire durable, les 茅nergies renouvelables, la disparition des 茅nergies fossiles, la proximit茅 et les transports collectifs.
Et vous, est-ce que vous voyez d'autres 艙uvres et cr茅ations artistiques qui donnent 脿 voir des futurs 茅cologiques et positifs ?
https://youtu.be/nHEn90QdvTs?si=KsKKmB6T4lODkt1C
(D茅sol茅 pour l'introduction de la vid茅o qui id茅alise totalement les g茅ants de la tech US...)
Hey San Francisco Bay friends! What are you doing next month, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, 8/3? Join me for the launch of my new book, Automatic Noodle, hosted by Noe Valley Books! I'll be in conversation with AI researcher @alex. It's FREE! RSVP now! https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz #sfba #sf #books
A bit further on, the author explains how to start your own "network state";
"Found a startup society. This is simply an online community with aspirations of something greater. Anyone can found one, just like anyone can found a company or cryptocurrency. And the founder鈥檚 legitimacy comes from whether people opt to follow them."
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-thousand-words
That's not a state of any kind, it's a cult.
(3/3)
@strypey
Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF
Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF
So I did a deep drive, and found a web version of the book I presume they're referring to, giving this definition;
"A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentence
So ... it's a distributed diplomatic entity, whose population consists entirely of landlords?
(2/?)
There are still seats available to see Susie Eddie Izzard's one-person Hamlet at ACT today and tomorrow, and if you are a fan of Izzard I suggest you go. I did not think she was going to be able to pull it off in the show's first few minutes but it really becomes quite a performance. #sfba #sf #theater