alxd writes @alxd@writing.exchange
Programmer, hacker, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives.
My talk "Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture: technological narratives tl;dr" will premiere on HOPE2020 this Monday 27th of July 15:00 CEST / 11 EST!
Have you heard about The Story Engine by Peter Chiykowski? http://www.storyenginedeck.com/
Together we made a free app to generate your own story prompts deck: https://cardcreator.storyenginedeck.com/
You can read more about it at my blog: https://alxd.org/the-story-engine-card-creator.html#the-story-engine-card-creator
What's the most #solarpunk #rpg you know?
My pick would be Legacy: Life Among The Ruins ( https://ufopress.co.uk/our-games/legacy-life-among-ruins/ ) - a post-post apocalypse where you rebuild the society, controlling both a single character and their faction. About few years pass between each session and you're encouraged to play generations of characters, seeing as previous choices influenced today.
I will give my talk "Technological Narratives: Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture" at this year's #36C3 ! Day 3 (29.12), 13:30, Art&Play Stage!
A nice #solarpunk panorama by Blue-Hearts licensed CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://www.deviantart.com/blue-hearts/art/SB-Launch-781926712
https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/
Properly researched comparison of a few password managers: 1Password 7, 1Password 4, Dashlane, KeePass, and LastPass.
An awesome #Solarpunk #art panorama by James McKay ( https://engineering.leeds.ac.uk/staff/216/James_McKay )
It's not Creative Commons, but as he writes:
"You're welcome to use it, but note there are various other people using it as well (and it has also been used for the cover of a book www.unlockingsustainablecities.org ) - I hope it inspires as many people as possible"
Keep in mind that he organizes a Solarpunk Art competition I mentioned in my previous toot!
Is there any #Solarpunk speaking #japanese ? I would like to contact https://twitter.com/munashichi/ , the author of some extremely famous Solarpunk art and commission something on #CreativeCommons for everyone to use.
Sadly, he / they don't reply to English emails and tweets.
I was looking for #CreativeCommons #solarpunk #art and I found this awesome CC-BY-SA-NC piece by David Revoy: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article201/fantasy-landscape
(thanks to <CalimeroTeknik> for showing me that!)
Coming back home from #35C3 I wanted to introduce an awesome Creative Commons artist to you: Lisa "Mullana" Schmidt to you!
You can read more about her at http://mullana.de/ and http://tapas.io/mullana . She tweets under https://twitter.com/mu11ana .
The picture below is CC-BY-SA-NC 4.0 :)
Just gave a hackers / #solarpunk lightning talk at #35C3 ! Hopefully some more Congress people will get interested in the genre! :)
Photo by Thomas Olsen
European colonialism left Africa with a lot of standards unadjusted to local needs.
Dress codes of schools all around Sub-Saharan Africa require young girls to have straight hair. The problem is that Africans have naturally curly hair, requiring lengthy and expensive straightening, putting a burden on poor families and enforcing white beauty standards.
Mugethi Gitau gave a great talk about it: https://re-publica.com/en/session/politics-natural-hair
I just found out that most of the youtube radio animation loops I kept seeing in the last months are a work of one brilliant artist: Juan Pablo Machado - http://jpmachado.art/en/about/
Coincidentally, they would be absolutely perfect for #GliderInk
Added to moodboards.
Image copyright by jpmachado
Another #GliderInk character - #AmandaTheAnarchist :
As probably the most socially experienced member of the 'space she loves communities and working together. Sadly, some of the hackers refuse to respect non-programmers, and she's "only" a competent sound engineer.
Amanda fights for #feminism and wants to show people the regenerative anarchism.
She's emotionally mature, sex-positive and open to talk about it. She wants to be a protective "big sis" for Suz and introduce her to adult life.
#Monopoly for millenials
"Forget real estate: you can't afford it anyway."
It's a real thing. #capitalism pretending it's aware of itself.
An anarchist collective https://calafou.org in Catalonia houses a DIY Bio #gynaecology group #GynePunk:
http://www.makery.info/en/2015/06/30/gynepunk-les-sorcieres-cyborg-de-la-gynecologie-diy/
They are working on open hardware gynaecological tools and emergency kits, trying to decolonize a medical field which wasn't created _for_ women.
Their blog: http://gynepunk.tumblr.com/
There's a scientific paper about them: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2016.1218353
Photo: Paula Pin / Creative Commons
One of the nicest realistic pieces of #GliderInk #art inspired by #34C3 . Officially you're not supposed to take photos, but you can still sketch people :)
While I'd like to limit how much visually dark themes there are, this one is marvellous.
For more, check out the moodboards: https://pl.pinterest.com/alxd7156/glider-ink-comic-inspirations/
CC-BY-SA Alicja Wilkowska
One of the characters I created for #GliderInk after a lot of interviews is #SuzanneTheInventor.
She was born without a hand and wants people to perceive her as whole. She doesn't want to wear a useless prosthesis just to fit in! Instead she modifies all the technology around her to be able to use it naturally.
That's a story which shows humanity behind the tech, real needs and struggles. It helps people understand hacker culture much better than a "tech whizz".
art CC-BY-SA Kimiooon
Programmer, hacker, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives.
