Looking for books with a solarpunk flavor. To start things off I'd suggest Chambers' "A Psalm for the Wild Built' and Doctorow's "Lost Cause."
Anyone have favorite or go-to books to suggest?
Consolidating the recommendations and de-duping here.
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin (I'm currently reading this!)
The Dispossesed by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler
The Past is Red by Catherynne Valente
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett
Murder in the Tool Library by A.E. Marling
Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Massive by Brian Wood (graphic novel series)
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
What is Social Ecology - Murray Bookchin
Community by Peter Block
The Future by Naomi Alderman
I read The Dispossessed in college an eon ago. I didn't see it as all that positive an outlook. But it has been a minute. After I posted this last night I noticed the literature tag and saw another Lit post that mentioned A Prayer. I hadn't realized that Chambers was writing it a series. Psalm was such a good self contained story. In fact, the main character reminded me a lot of Boxer from Animal Farm. Don't get me wrong, I was enthralled and read it straight through in what was one Hyperfocused setting, but I found it more heartbreaking than enticing. I'll have to give it a re-read.
Looking for books with a solarpunk flavor. To start things off I'd suggest Chambers' "A Psalm for the Wild Built' and Doctorow's "Lost Cause."
Anyone have favorite or go-to books to suggest?
I haven't thought of graffiti in an age. Thanks for the Handspring into the way back machine.
Also, TS/SCI isn't worth much more than secret. If you have a Poly, move to Baltimore, land of Cheap living, and work near Meade.
This. Developer hiring manager here. The tech stack represented in your resume matters a lot in federal work, where we are working in environments with a lot of pre-existing requirements. Also, don't get caught up looking for TS jobs. TS tunnel vision can be salary limiting.
Take a systems engineering course. You'll be a much better technical PM with a high level understanding of how systems fit together.
if the owner is making 3-5k month and there was another 35k annually on top of that then it sounds like the profit is around 75- 85k per year. If 249k is the ask for a sale of the business and all assets and the revenue is consistent across years, then that is about a 3xmultiplier on profit. And a 30% ROI. But if you need the Internet to answer this question, then it sounds like you have not really considered this deal, and your readiness for it, fully.
Lucifer's Hammer. Larry Niven I think. Dies the Fire series by SM Stirling if you like a slightly more fantastical angle.
Forgiven. My accountant didn't advise QBO. She just hasn't advised me to move on yet.
And she wasn't "good enough", only "better than."
It's not better than a good narrator. But it is way better than a bad one. If there was a better digital reader than Alexa I could pay for I would. And I'd still rather have a voice actor deliver the content. My point is, it's not an either/or proposition. We all benefit from an increased offering of services. I don't lament the end of cottage weaving of necessities either.
For instance. I love the Iron Druid Chronicles. Hate the audio book. Returned it and let Alexa read when I needed my eyes for other things.
Human artists are “trained” on the work of human artists who were not compensated for their work’s use in the development of the new artists that they will now compete with. Everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants. Go on back to your cinnabar red if you are afraid of progress. Also give up Photoshop filters and transforms. Give up auto tune. Give up editing software and go back to cold reads and Foley for radioplays.
Or understand that you can still have all of that and also open up a whole world of new stories and formats and perspectives that new tools and techniques allow and provide.
When trained machine voices are near as good as good voice actors I may well buy a book voiced by one. Alexa is already better than bad voice actors. Artists with creativity and a good eye, or ear, or idea will be better at teaming with ai, will get more done than they could have otherwise, and stay ahead of the hacks and the luddites. Find the sweet spot and create better shit.
Life. Art. AI. None of them is a neo-malthusoan race to the bottom.
Also, if you are seeing reporting on an accrual basis and have a lot of outstanding AR then you might see more in the net profit line than you see in your cash accounts.
I go to my accountant's poker game.
Hmmm. My 5k kg loss came after I captured a space raven and souped it up.
Lost 5k kg of cargo. Switch back to my big hauler. Still no hoard.
Also a tech related HUBZone here. We rarely see items in our relevant NAICS. See a lot more in trades and physical security.
Still cheaper than an MBA.
I'm using the free version of Hubpsot. Nice tie-in with outlook.
This is bad advice. Unless your mom is going to execute operational contro,l this nonsense is not getting you past the SBA.
I can't even make the first fertilizer. I have the "Jar of Something" but no more conversation options with huck, no more letter topics and nothing to find in the Miasma. Am I glitched?
For a fictional approach on mesh networks, Doctorow covers a lot of this ground in "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"
Just thought about a solarpunk internet
solarpunk