alxd writes @alxd@writing.exchange

https://youtu.be/vsbVvYCuh4g

Republica Accra 2018, a great take on creating technology in Africa

#africa #technology #blockchain (nope) #mpesa #solarpunk

Have you heard about FLOSS version of Meetup.org, https://mobilizon.org/en/ ?

More at https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data/

#framasoft #mobilizon

#paywall #irony

My friends have just launched a #solarpunk game about sustainable technology on Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radicalzz/noongk-game

Check it out!

I just remembered Ebocloud, a wonderful book I read a few years ago: a #postcyberpunk / #solarpunk vision of community-oriented transhumanism, a social network created to give people the sense of belonging and create healthy communities.

I can really recommend it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10011046-ebocloud

Idea: in order to be considered a full-fledged vision of the future #solarpunk needs to encompass several subcultures. It needs to allow for conflicts inside, people with very different visions. How could a Solarpunk #transhumanism look like and how would it work with, how would it clash with local de-growth movements? What about globalisation vs localisation of education? Those things will not vanish overnight.

My #solarpunk #cyberpunk #popculture talk from this year's #hopeconf is available at https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020/videos/209149752 :)

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/

My talk "Solarpunk, cyberpunk and popculture: Technological narratives tl;dr" got accepted to HOPE2020 ( https://hope.net )! I'll give it online between July 25 and August 2 this year!

#solarpunk #cyberpunk #popculture #HOPE2020

I'm slowly planning to start a blog focusing on #solarpunkReporting. Telling real stories, especially from the Global South in a #solarpunk way, seeing hope and patterns we can learn in the West in them.

I'm thinking going with a stand-alone blog and a medium.com mirror for bigger reach.

Do you have any recommendations, anything I should look into?

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

Plot Economics

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/03/09/plot-economics/

A very over-intellectualized, but extremely important text on how we're losing plots and #narratives during a plague - and how it's a good moment to reinvent them.

Great chance for #solarpunk communities.

A lot of countries are talking about sustainability, sick leave and social infrastructure. We can build on that!

I'm reading articles like https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727 and I'm thinking: in Europe the virus might be bad, but in the US it may decimate tens of millions of people. Scar the whole society, a few generation, scar the whole culture, induce a societal PTSD.

Am I right to be terrified of that?

#coronavirus #covid19 #usa

What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90473758/what-would-happen-if-the-world-reacted-to-climate-change-like-its-reacting-to-the-coronavirus

#solarpunk

What if #solarpunk took all the #cyberpunk cliches and creatively remade them?

#solarpunkSamurai with farming tools instead of katanas.

#solarpunkHacker rigging a new antenna for their community.

#solarpunkFixer who knows who in the world works on a similar project.

#solarpunkChat

Finished translating Solarpunk Manifesto to Polish!

I realized we don't really have a word for "sustainable" in Polish, the closest being a "balanced development". It's not "maintainable" either, so we came up with a new word: "trwalny", aligning more with "lasting" than anything else.

https://alxd.org/manifest-solarpunka-pl.html#manifest-solarpunka

#solarpunk #manifesto #translation

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.