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Regarding #solarpunkArtContest , I got a reply from ArtStation saying that they won't collaborate for less than $25k. Well, I think that's out of the question, we'd need to work with smaller outlets. I'll try Behance as well.

#solarpunk #art

Continuing #solarpunk #art #contest idea: what if we pooled in some money (let's say a thousand USD) and approached some high-profile portfolio / art site, like https://www.artstation.com/ or https://www.behance.net/ ?

I think the biggest challenge would be convincing them to accept a Creative Commons license, but this could get Solarpunk at least as much attention as https://atomhawk.com/solarpunk if not more.

#solarpunkArtContest

Question to #art #mastoart people: do you know anyone with an experience organizing art contest? I was thinking about starting a Creative Commons #Solarpunk challenge (all entries must be CC-BY-SA or CC-BY) with some rewards.

Do you use any Static Site Generators? If so, which?

#webdev #web #blogging

I will give my talk "Technological Narratives: Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture" at this year's #36C3 ! Day 3 (29.12), 13:30, Art&Play Stage!

Hypothesis: corporations & hierarchies aren't more efficient than horizontal, organic forms of organization.

There's just more research into top-down management, which started with applying mathematics to management by the army in the second world war.

#solarpunk #anarchism

#newprofilepic by Marty Tina G. https://geezmarty.tumblr.com/

A wonderful introduction to what a #hackerspace is! #Solarpunk people, you may be interested in this form of technological commons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zccga90hcY

That is not an easy quest: we can try doing it with a hands-on approach, a call to adventure, a promise to see the fruits of your labour yourself, being more than a spreadsheet row.

With that we should be careful not to go into the "adventure economy" too much, not to land into the exploitation of Uber.

Today I realized that #solarpunk stories need to focus on people losing their jobs and respecializing. There are millions of miners worldwide who need to know that learning a new trade is normal and should have a promise, a vision of a good life after that.

Otherwise Solarpunk fails its most important duty: to dream up a better future for everybody, not just for the few of us who were lucky to choose "future-oriented" professions.

Finally finished the long-overdue

Solarpunk, cyberpunk, popculture: technological narratives tl;dr

https://alxd.org/solarpunk-cyberpunk-popculture.html

#solarpunk #cyberpunk #technology

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://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction may be a good response to #transhumanism #singularity , going into more ecological #solarpunk themes when thinking about design of our technology

https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html is a good followup

"Elements of our reality correspond to elements of fictional ones, sure. But I’m not saying that we live in a cyberpunk world. Rather, we live in a world that can be productively viewed through a cyberpunk lens. The difference is subtle but important — cyberpunk is the map, not the territory. "

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/10/27/the-cyberpunk-sensibility/

Very important text I recommend to all #cyberpunk and #solarpunk fans.

Do you know if an unpaid talk about technology and culture is counted as a copyright exception in Germany? I'm struggling to find good illustrations for what I'll be talking about on Creative Commons only.

#Germany #CreativeCommons

I don't know if I posted about my latest blogpost:

Hackers in popular culture - the curse of being an eternal rebel

https://alxd.org/hackers-in-popular-culture-the-curse-of-being-an-eternal-rebel.html

> Using "computeromancy" as an aesthetic makes true hacking much more tame and hackers' criticism of our capitalist culture - toothless. They're dangerous because they're skilled criminals / geniuses, not because they see more than us or raise valid points against how we use technology.