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by kire góngora
Orion capsules. Rooftop solar. Watercolor studios. Telescopes. Neuromancer. Cyberpunk never shows you who keeps the lights on, so I go find them. Engineers, artists and people quietly building a better future alongside the solarpunk and old sci-fi that imagined it first. Hosted by Kire Góngora, aka githugs.
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- Oct 4, 202636 min
SOVEREIGNTY (make believe as a method)
Wesley Herche spent years reading satellite imagery for the government and he works in solar now, and he’s building something he calls sovereign futures, which looks at centralized versus distributed technology and what that does to your sense of agency. We get into Snow Crash inspiring Google Earth, what Pakistan did with a pile of cheap Chinese panels, what sovereignty looks like for a town the size of mine, and why he says futures, plural, on purpose. Show notes: aslightlybetterpod.com/episodes/sovereignty/Full interview on Patreon Free book club and more on Patreon Hosted and produced by Kire, better known as githugs PS I think about my patrons every time I hit record. Thank you for believing in me!!
- Oct 3, 202619 min
BLUEBIRD (making art feel possible)
Cyberpunk always imagines fighting the machines with better tech. Krissa is doing it with a paintbrush. She’s a watercolor artist who owns a studio in a historic building where everyone is welcome. We talk about making art feel possible for grown-ups, why bad art is still good for you, the pumpkin spice latte of sci-fi, a data center that runs on human brain cells, and why her shop’s new buttons say “support human hands, not AI.” Show notes: aslightlybetterpod.com/episodes/bluebird/ Free book club and more on Patreon Hosted and produced by Kire, better known as githugs PS I think about my patrons every time I hit record. Thank you for believing in me!!
- Sep 30, 202615 min
ORION (speaking for the spaceship)
What if the most important part of a Moon rocket is the people on the ground holding their breath? Nick helps put the Orion capsule on top of the rocket at Kennedy Space Center, and he calls himself the Lorax for Orion because he speaks for the spaceship. Cyberpunk almost never shows you who keeps the ships flying, so we get into what stacking a Moon rocket actually means (explained like I’m five), holding your breath at separation, fourteen plants and a lemon tree, and what has to stay true for space to belong to everyone. Show notes: aslightlybetterpod.com/episodes/orion/ Free book club and more on Patreon Hosted and produced by Kire, better known as githugs PS I think about my patrons every time I hit record. Thank you for believing in me!!
- Sep 23, 20264 min
HIGH TECH LOW LIFE (fieldnotes)
Fieldnotes are the minisodes between full episodes where I answer your questions and ramble a bit. Shayari Mukherjee, a scholar in South Asia, sent me a three part question I haven’t stopped thinking about. Is “low life” a required part of cyberpunk? Can the main character come from the high life? And can the high life ever not be the villain? So I take them in order and detour through Westworld and Frankenstein, and end up somewhere I wasn’t expecting. Tell me where I’m wrong, I love to hear it!! Show notes: aslightlybetterpod.com/episodes/high-tech-low-life/ Free book club and more on Patreon Hosted and produced by Kire, better known as githugs PS I think about my patrons every time I hit record. Thank you for believing in me!!
- Sep 11, 20260 min
HELLO (what this show is)
This is a show about where we’re actually headed as humans and about the people already building that future. It’s not the version where everything is fine or where it’s all over, but something slightly better every day. Guests are futurists, scientists, engineers, writers, and people in small towns quietly doing the work. There’s a lot of sci-fi lore mixed in, because the stories we tell about the future are part of how we get there. Show notes: aslightlybetterpod.com/episodes/hello/ Free book club and more on Patreon Hosted and produced by Kire, better known as githugs PS I think about my patrons every time I hit record. Thank you for believing in me!!
About A (slightly) Better Tomorrow
Orion capsules. Rooftop solar. Watercolor studios. Telescopes. Neuromancer. Cyberpunk never shows you who keeps the lights on, so I go find them. Engineers, artists and people quietly building a better future alongside the solarpunk and old sci-fi that imagined it first. Hosted by Kire Góngora, aka githugs.
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