A symphony orchestra in masks and helmets perform for Hong Kong's protesters
The Black Blorchestra performs a gorgeous and stirring rendition of "Glory to Hong Kong" for an audience of protesters in HK, all dressed in the uprising's defacto uniform of masks and helmets....
View ArticleThis new fiction anthology is punk as f*ck
A Punk Rock Future is a brand new fiction anthology featuring 25 speculative sci-fi and fantasy writers smashing the State in whatever fantastical futuristic form that it might take. Editor Steve...
View ArticleCan you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
Apparently a 13-year-old Julia Stiles appeared in an episode of PBS' Ghostwriter series, playing the hacktivist editor-in-chief of the Hurston High School newspaper in "Who is Max Mouse?" Do let us...
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The Pentagon is training an army of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts.
Tired: a plague of locustsWired: a legion of cybernetically-enhanced locusts trained by the US military to sniff bombs That's the new goal, according to Stars & Stripes magazine: Navy-funded...
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Protestors use facial recognition to ID cops with hidden badges
Well, isn't this cyberpunk AF? From The New York Times: Mr. Howell, 42, is a lifelong protester and self-taught coder; in graduate school, he started working with neural net technology, an artificial...
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404ever is a cool new serialized cyberpunk story about social media influencers
I've been following the visual artist Lordess Foudre on Instagram for a few years now. Her retro futuristic work takes a kind of vaporwave-cyberpunk approach to examining and deconstructing social...
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Terrorwar is a cyberpunk riff on the war on terror in our minds
Author Saladin Ahmed was tapped last summer by Substack's new comic book platform. He had previously written the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, and later wrote several...
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Matt Bors, founder of The Nib, is launching a new sci-fi satire comic
In April 2021, political cartoonist Matt Bors announced his departure from The Nib, the political webcomic site he helped create. I've always enjoyed Bors' satire, particularly his Mad Max-esque...
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Scissor Sisters' BabyDaddy has a new cyberpunk comic book, and it's great
Writer Scott Hoffman has just released his first comic book, Nostalgia, a stunning new cyberpunk story with gorgeous, moody digital painting by artist Danijel Žeželj. Here's the official brief...
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