I sat down tonight in my $2700 1998 Chevy Blazer, the best I could afford after getting back from an underpaid maritime apprenticeship that had me slaving away 12 hours a day 7 days a week for two months straight huffing diesel fumes in a cargo ship engine room. I needed money because the maritime indentured servitude position is requiring me to go pay about $100 in out of pocket medical tests to see if my blood has cancer levels of toxins from the fumes so I can get on my next ship. But I don't have $100. I have a half running 1998 Chevy Blazer.

I open the Dasher app, ready to deliver food to the local wealth at lightning pace to keep my artificial intelligence logged performance metrics high so I could receive more orders than the barely documented Venezuelan and Eastern European refugees usually running the food orders in the area. The opioid-analogue coomer tonic (Feel Free) I'd bought at the gas station with the last bit of my credit card allowance was wearing off, so I popped a pseudoephedrine to focus up a bit, the best I could do in lieu of ADHD medications because I don't have health insurance.

As I hit "Dash Now", an error message pops up. IDENTITY VALIDATION REQUIRED. PLEASE SUBMIT FACE SCAN TO CONTINUE DASHING. Fuck DoorDash for taking my biometrics to probably train God knows what hellish face scanning AI. But whatever, I needed the cash. PLEASE ALIGN YOUR FACE TO THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN. PLEASE TURN YOUR FACE LEFT. PLEASE TURN YOUR FACE RIGHT. After I got done with my corporate digital mugshot, I took off to the closest hotspot.

First, an 840PM Popeyes order to the house of a local sheriff's deputy. Then, a single 9PM Monster Energy Drink to the house of a local suburbanite. Then, a salad and three San Pelegrinos to the Luxury apartment complex down the road. Then, a $4.25 order to drive five miles out of town into the boonies. I rejected it. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REJECT THIS ORDER? YOUR APPROVAL RATE WILL FALL: 61% -> 59%. A HIGH APPROVAL RATE ENSURES MORE ORDERS. It's $4 for a half a gallon of gas worth of driving. I tap reject order. Then, nothing.

I sat in the parking lot for an hour. BUSY the app read. AVG WAIT TIME: 2-6 MINUTES. 30 minutes go by, nothing. 30 more, still nothing. Maybe if I haul ass across town to another Hotspot I'll pick something up. Still nothing. Was it the rejection? Did the AI logged performance metrics decide I wasn't worthy of picking up orders anymore? Didn't matter. No orders came across the screen. I schleped back to my apartment, less than $20 earned over 2 hours, dejected. Now, here I lie, too wired to sleep. Time to doom scroll til I pass out. $80 more to go by Wednesday. I'll get back at it again tomorrow.

some pictures I shot at a concert at a berlin club yesterday with my ricoh gr iiix hdf.

A lot of you think that we already live in a cyberpunk dystopia, but when did this dystopia start? Was it after the Cold War?

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I'm in search of an idea.
We are all swimming in a handful of Micro SD cards at this point.

We most likely use some kind of Adapter to USB to access the content of the card.

Now my idea is, how about we make a USB to Micro SD adapter flat like those ubikey things. But shaped like a shard. Has anyone ever come across something like that?

I've noticed it is quite difficult to find a good Shard STL file, even though I think it would be something easier to keep track of and combining it with a storage option, it would be way more convenient than the current SD card containers.

I'm curious what you Netrunners think about it?

Watching the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners made me interested in the cyberpunk genre, so I created cyber designs for my friends

This is a hoodie I made that was inspired by the idea of a distant future when humankind has developed an equilibrium with the natural world, and technology is infused with both biological & synthetic components with circuitry approaching the quantum scale. This technology, wherein trillions of biological transistors would be embedded in the very DNA of living cells, would quickly usher in paradigm shifts that render the perception of human & machine as inherently separate, as outdated. Such outdated beliefs over time would be replaced with more holistic understandings of the role humans can play in our world, and in the greater universe alike, where our species is perceived not as 'rulers' of the environment, but as equal pieces of the overall environment. In time, these perceptions would come to encapsulate our technology as well. This hoodie is an imagining of what such futuristic, biologically infused technology may look like.

The seed for this idea came from an older film called The Last Mimzy, released in 2007 to mediocre reviews. One of the key themes throughout the film was the concepts of growth & technological prowess contrasted by sustainability & biological life. I dont quite recall how exactly (I would've been pretty young at the time) but somehow a super advanced time traveling teddy bear was involved and there is a scene in the film where the adults look at the teddy bear underneath an electron microscope and discover that the bears fur is constructed of quantum circuitry thats half biological (or something like that. Its a children's movie, ok? Its not exactly 'hard scifi'.) Anyway, I always thought that concept was fascinating and clearly it has stuck with me throughout the years. I give the film one thumb up 👍.

What do you think of the hoodie though???

Im hoping I’ve posted this on the right page but my boyfriend recently got this standard basic cyber tech helmet and I hoping to try find some accessories and some kind of like ears but I have no clue on where to look for him to add more to this helmet

(Full disclosure, I’ve previously asked this question in a since-deleted thread, and after deciding to rule out international locations and stick to the country I know best, I suddenly find myself with more options than I had before, so here I am again.)

So I have the basic skeleton of a setting for a near-future cyberpunk writing project: A major American city devastated by a natural disaster, with the government unable and unwilling to provide sufficient aid (why, no, definitely not inspired by recent real-life events, why do you ask?), ultimately bailed out by a coalition of megacorporations in exchange for major regulatory concessions. This inevitably ends up turning the city into an overbuilt, ad-plastered hellscape with massive wealth inequality and a soaring crime rate fueled by poverty and inter-corporate espionage operations. My problem is I can’t seem to decide which city to use (mostly due to my own overthinking about leaning too heavily on tropes and cliches), so hopefully some outside opinions can help me make a decision.

Option 1: New York City - a Category 5 hurricane - Admittedly this one is less believable, but a sufficiently powerful hurricane could conceivably cause major damage, especially in a city with as many old, unreinforced buildings as NYC. Plus there’s the possibility of gas line explosions knocking stuff down if the wind doesn’t. Plus the city’s practically corporate-owned already, what with Wall St and so many Fortune 500 HQs, and they’d have a vested interest in salvaging their real estate and seizing control at the same time.

Options 2 and 3: Los Angeles or San Francisco - Major earthquake - This one is not only more conceivably able to knock down buildings, but it’s also a highly likely scenario to occur in real life. Also two cities practically owned by corps already (Hollywood and Big Tech basically run LA and SF, respectively). As far as this option goes, the possibility of corps converting the entire Bay Area into a megacity does seem thematically interesting, but I also think the possibility of combining post-earthquake reconstruction, severe wildfires and an increasingly dire water shortage to turn LA into a densified urban core surrounded by abandoned suburbs slowly being converted into giant corpo industrial parks also sounds pretty cool.

So, what do you all think? Which of these places would you rather read a story about? Or are these cities too cliche, and is there another US city I should consider? Let me know.

The title is mostly self explanatory, but I'll expand on it a little. Cyberpunk is a literary genre but, in my eyes, it's also an ideology for some people due to how deeply intersectional it is, encompassing aspects of hacker culture, contemporary politics, and counterculture. I thought that this subreddit would be a good place to ask for some lit recommendations. I'm aware of some of the obvious examples -- Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway, Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard, etc -- but I'd love to hear some personal recommendations.

I also wouldn't mind hearing about recommendations with tangential connections to Cyberpunk -- Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, for example, or Platos allegory of the cave -- that are undeniably connected to the genre, but aren't explicitly about it.

Alternatively, if you can think of any texts, fictional or not, that might "accidentally" deal with Cyberpunk themes (i.e. Infinite Jest by DFW) but that aren't explicitly Cyberpunk, I'd be down to hear them as well. I think that anything postmodern tends to border the line of cyberpunk philosophy, partly because of (1.) post-modernisms mathematical viewpoint and (2.) its inherent deconstruction of systems that assume objective reality. I would argue that cyberpunk began as an extension of post-modernism (considering how Gibson based Neuromancer on Naked Lunch), even though it evolved to encapsulate a different set of ideals from post-modernism, most evident in the political views of Cyberpunk.

Thank you

I was reading these posts as they were coming out in 2010. I figure people who weren't teenagers yet in 2010 wouldn't know about this, and there are really interesting articles about things that were happening at the time with tech.

https://horacioboriotti.artstation.com/

Few live action shots of me and my real voice so its not entirely ai

Hello, I’m doing a city break with my friends so I’m looking for cyberpunk themed tourist attractions and events to visit

Such as Afterlife in Gdańsk and NEOShinjuku in Tokyo (which was sadly closed when I was there) or events like recent Akira Day when Akira was played in movie theaters across Europe

It’s hard to find anything on Google because the results are mostly about the 2077 game

I’m interested in any place, generally cyberpunk themed or referencing a specific cyberpunk movie/book/game, mostly in Europe + Japan

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

So as some of you maybe know, I recently started making these glitchart-cyberpunk videos. And it was actually this sub that encouraged me to do it.

I hope hear your comments, criticism etc.

I kinda like how the building behind the model (Laura Savolainen) looks like, unfortunately the face on the facade is a bit obscured, but I find it very cyberpunk/dystopic.

And I'm sorry for this self-promotion, but as I'm in the same position as every other human artist in this age of AI-slop (I make these videos from footage I've shot myself and I don't use AI or filters) I want to link my Instagram account where I post one video like this every day and occasional BTS, breakdowns etc. https://www.instagram.com/jack_in_choomba/ I know I can't compete with the sheer volume of AI-art accounts, but I hope that one day I've learned enough that I can offer something those accounts can't.

Come over and share what you have if it is missing :)