Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Ok solarpunk friends... if you want more people to know about solarpunk, I've got a thing you can do: request solarpunk books at the library.
This page has details about HOW and WHY and 10 Solarpunk Books Every Library Should Have.
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/for-libraries
#solarpunk #hopepunk #libraries #ClimateChange
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Requesting your library carry an author's book (which you can do online!) is win-win-win: you get the books for free, the library pays the author, and new readers will discover books on the shelf (or in the Libby app, if they have it).
Here's how to do it: https://susankayequinn.com/1-2-3-how-to-get-sues-ebooks-audiobooks-from-your-library
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱We are in a time of great cultural change, when the old ideas are pressed to their absurd extreme, breaking everything, and the new ones scream out through the pain.
Healthcare is a human right.
Trans people exist.
Billionaires should not.
No corruption.
No deal-making.
No kings.
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've also written stories re: morality & implications of creating "artificial intelligence" both enhanced humans& machine intelligence.
My Singularity series is about the human side, with these two short stories directly about limiting bot intelligence (much like Murderbot's governor module).
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱So why the resistance to Murderbot?
In short: cuz tech companies are using the "sentient bot" story as part of their genAI hype and con, both the cozy version and the scary skynet version (& AGI)
Longer reason: I've been increasingly concerned about our storytelling around AI for a decade...
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've read SF since I was a kid in the 70s & I've been a huge fan of "sentient robot" stories all along.
I,ROBOT & BICENTENNIAL MAN were some of my absolute favs & I was beside myself when I, ROBOT went to film.
These stories pinged hard on my social justice nerves plus it was nerdy cool tech.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've also written stories re: morality & implications of creating "artificial intelligence" both enhanced humans& machine intelligence.
My Singularity series is about the human side, with these two short stories directly about limiting bot intelligence (much like Murderbot's governor module).
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec).
I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've read SF since I was a kid in the 70s & I've been a huge fan of "sentient robot" stories all along.
I,ROBOT & BICENTENNIAL MAN were some of my absolute favs & I was beside myself when I, ROBOT went to film.
These stories pinged hard on my social justice nerves plus it was nerdy cool tech.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec).
I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I'm getting big vibes from folks about a renewed appreciation for/use of #libraries as a third space, things like seed libraries, tool libraries, places to work, even canceling streaming &checking out old media (some libraries have streaming services you can use!). Libraries are Old School, but I'm super into promoting them as a #solarpunk option & making people aware of all the things you can get beyond just books, but also books, including audiobooks and ebooks.
https://susankayequinn.com/1-2-3-how-to-get-sues-ebooks-audiobooks-from-your-library
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱PRO TIP: check out books from the library — their funding is often tied to circulation, you can literally keep them in operation by just shamelessly borrowing as many books as you can carry.
PRO TIP2: bring a book bag
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱In a time when it feels like everything is being torn down, build something — physical things, connections, the human infrastructure that makes everything better.
Now is the time to be foundational as well as stop the bleeding.