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A (slightly) Better Tomorrow

KIRE (githugs) 1 Episodes Oct 4, 2026

A (slightly) Better Tomorrow explores where humanity is headed, what small improvements might look like, and who is already working on them. The host talks with futurists, scientists, engineers, writers, and people in small towns making a difference, often weaving in sci-fi lore. It is hosted by Kire (githugs), a software engineer, solo mom, and sci-fi lore nerd based in Idaho.

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SOVEREIGNTY (make believe as a method) Oct 4, 2026 00:36:22 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

BLUEBIRD (making art feel possible) Oct 3, 2026 00:19:32 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 s

ORION (speaking for the spaceship) Sep 30, 2026 00:15:09 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)

HELLO (what this show is) Sep 11, 2026 00:00:51 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 t

HIGH TECH LOW LIFE (fieldnotes) Sep 23, 2026 00:04:37 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

A (slightly) Better Tomorrow

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