Exploring solarpunk as a memetic engine, cultural fracking, and how worlds are the medium of the 21st century.I'm joined by Jay Springett (@thejaymo), solarpunk steward, world-runner, and author of thejaymo.net. Together we dig into how cultural fracking has left our collective imagination hollowed out, what it means to treat worlds as a creative medium, and why protocols and infrastructures may be the real artforms of the future.We discuss copyright battles from Napster to Disney to AI training data, the parallels between hip-hop sampling and machine learning, and how solarpunk thrives not just as an aesthetic but as a generative memetic engine for imagining alternate futures. Along the way, Jay traces a line from D&D in 1974 to MUDs to corporate canon world-running, unpacks "protocol art" as artistic gestures upstream of production, and argues that futuring itself can provide a laboratory for testing ideas for what comes after the fall of empires, because as Jay tells us, you can't fight a culture war unless you're making culture.-it's ya boiLinks:Jay Springett:https://thejaymo.nethttps://x.com/thejaymohttps://bsky.app/profile/thejaymo.netYour Host, Lance "it's ya boi" Robotson:https://robotson.mediahttps://x.com/robotsonhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotson.media

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