SFist Tonight: Luddites and Technophiles

At the Roxie, (3117 16th St. between Valencia & Guerrero) it's FARMCORE, a documentary about punk rock's 1980s home in the Mission, The Farm. The screening is a benefit for San Francisco Indybay Media and Oaxaca Indymedia. The film documents the punk scene (Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, and Black Flag played there, to name a few) and the staff’s struggles to keep the doors open while battling a greedy landlord and hostile police, until the place became an early victim of Mission gentrification and “live-work” loft conversion schemes (now you can say, "Ellis Act Evictions, that's sooo 1987"). In its heyday, the Farm also provided a place for community gardens, an urban barnyard, an art gallery, child daycare center and a multicultural community space. (7 & 9pm)

The Long Now Foundation presents "'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?" a discussion with Philip
Rosedale, founder and CEO of the massive role-playing game, "Second Life." Real universities teach courses within "Second Life" and real corporations sell goods there, with virtual currency that can be exchanged for real money. Rosedale will explore some of the early lessons about long-term thinking (and everything else) to be gleaned from the emergent behaviors of massive multi-player world building. Rosedale valiantly fills in for Francis Fukuyama who was supposed to talk about whether history has truly ended but instead suffered a motorcycle accident and broke a few bones. (Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, 7pm)