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   anything-punk is starting to get a bit on  \________/\________/\___/____/
the nose  and is really  lazy, unimaginative
nomenclature but a little while back I barfed out[1] the idea of baudpunk as a
literary genre. a  throwback theme, a way to categorize  old "tech" media when
the author  or director's  tech imagination  has long  been superseded  by the
reality of our future.

   I stand by that and I think it's  still fun to use in that sense but lately
I've been knocking  the name around in  my head as a kind  of operating model,
giving name to something I was already doing.

   this is what I imagine as the framework of Baudpunk should be;

   firstly it's  an attitude that  no tech is  obsolete, things can  always be
repurposed, reused  or maybe  useful later.  what sets  Baudpunk apart  from a
collector is  in the  use of these  old pieces of  hardware or  software, they
aren't trophies or props, they're working pieces of history, be it doing their
original task or repurposed to some other job. older computers are low powered
but they're also solid  workhorses and, often, are just waste  or trash if you
aren't using them.

   which brings me to my second point; e-waste is a misnomer for "old stuff" -
if it works it's not waste, it's just not useful to you, it could be useful to
you later or useful to someone else. the term e-waste should primarily be used
for things  that need  proper handling or  destruction, for  example pillowing
Li-ion batteries, leaking capacitors or other  things that pose a risk just by
existing. everything else is just gear or kit, resources.

   lastly, and  this is a  personal point I want  to inject into  the Baudpunk
mindset at its  most base level, Baudpunk  is not a business.  it's a mindset,
it's a community.  Baudpunk is not Patreon and  YouTube sponsorships, Baudpunk
is not  flipping eBay or  Meta Marketplace finds  to collectors. you  can have
that kind of  mindset, it's not my  place to change that, but  that mindset is
anathema to the core of Baudpunk.

   it's   giving,  sharing,   learning,  creating,   repurposing,  scavenging,
stealing, trading, or even charging for an item or service but it can never be
profiting. be that profit monetary or social status.

   that's the B4UDW3RK5 way, that's the Embryonic way, that's my way.

   that's the Baudpunk way.

   thanks to  solderpunk[2] for letting me  bounce this idea off  him while it
pinball clattered around in my head and thank you for reading. be well.


[1] gopher://baud.baby/0/phlog/fs20180909.txt
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~solderpunk/



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