mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch.cortexSoftware engineer corpo drone by day, cyberpunk edgerunner by night, and opinionated armchair quarterback 24/7. I love the Oxford comma and believe that you should also. I tend to post a lot when I've got a bee under my bonnet. There are a lot of bees and I have a pretty big bonnet.
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The more I think about it, actually owning something, whether it be media of some sort, self-hosted tech stuff, some random physical object, or really just anything that doesn't have any additional rental strings attached -- no matter how one acquired said item -- is one of the most cyberpunk (or maybe just plain punk) things one can do in today's society.
It's about agency and seizing the means of one's own quality of life. And being able to do whatever the hell one wants to do with that thing whenever the hell one wants to do it, including repairing it or repurposing it -- or even giving it away to someone else.
Personal autonomy is punk as hell these days. I wish that weren't the case, but sadly it is.
And just as a reminder - if you prefer a slow-roll, old-skool, classic BBS experience, may I direct your attention to https://totentanz.club/ ?
Relive the olden days of the Internet as they were meant to be! Publish some articles! Make some comments! Wait for hours or days between responses!
This is the good stuff, people. :bec_wink:
Well, I am no in the process of removing a previous black mark from my cyberpunk/hacker membership card as I have now finally started watching Serial Experiments Lain nearly 30 years since it first aired.
I've seen or read pretty much all the other seminal media in that particular genre, but never that one for some reason. I know, I know, you're all shocked, awed, and saddened that it has taken me this long.
And let me say that it's not exactly an easy story to grok the first time, so I'm really trying to pay attention and understand what it's trying to say in the time that was 1998. Understanding the time in which it was written and first aired is a pretty important bit of context to understanding the story, I think.
"It's a good thing climate change is a hoax" he says to himself, as he trudges home through an inch of snow and 27F temperatures in the middle of feckin' April.