alxd writes @alxd@writing.exchange

In search of something relaxing to do away from a computer and not as eye taxing, last year I started #composing some small #music pieces on #teenageEngineering #opz . It's a beautiful tiny synthesizer with incredible capabilities.

This is one of my first arrangements - I need to come up with a good ending for it, but otherwise I really like it :)

No title yet, it'll be on CC-BY-SA once I finish it.

CoAct, a Citizen Social Science organization is having an open call for proposals on Gender Equality research - up to 20kEUR per grant.

More info at https://coactproject.eu/opencalls/

#research #citizenscience #genderequality #grants

I got a portrait from one of my mid & high school cybersecurity students from Austria, Larissa Marbler!

If anyone is interesting in my Cybersecurity & Fake News curriculum for high schools, it's at https://slides.com/pawelngei/cryptoparty-2021 and https://slides.com/pawelngei/understanding-fake-news-2021

#cybersecurity #education #cryptoparty #fakenews #highschool

Since my blog tagline for some time was a "Solarpunk Hacker", I began playing with some solarpunk and hacking symbols to create a logo. An early draft:

I like that it represents both Open Source, a sun, dynamic arrows and a person silhouette in the middle. Lots of symbollism.

#solarpunk #floss #opensource #logo #design

#paywall #irony

My talk "Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture: technological narratives tl;dr" will premiere on HOPE2020 this Monday 27th of July 15:00 CEST / 11 EST!

https://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/talk/N7ARAC/

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

#writing #writingPrompts #rpg #cards #app

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.

#keepass #infosec #security

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 would like to propose a new topic for #94C3 : Stop Calling It a Cyberpunk. Anyone from #CCC who knows how to push this proposal?

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 :)

#art #illustration #netNeutrality

Just gave a hackers / #solarpunk lightning talk at #35C3 ! Hopefully some more Congress people will get interested in the genre! :)

Photo by Thomas Olsen

#SolarpunkReporting

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

#solarpunk #afropunk #feminism #naturalhair

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

#art #illustration

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.