Kai Medina

Disabilities and Optimistic Futures (Part 1) Fighting modern-day eugenics in science fiction.

Shouldn’t we see ourselves in the future? Pushing back against modern eugenics.

open.substack.com/pub/theholis...

#autism #disabilities #scifi #sciencefiction

A photo of the pews at St nicks with a green stickman drawn perched on the edge of the pew.

I am absolutely incapable of sitting normally and so the ways I lounge on the pews at St Nicks are getting progressively unhinged. Found myself sitting on the back of a pew, facing backwards, perched with my feet on the little shelf like... Gimme a sec, lemme draw it... Like this... Recently.

This speaks to me.

[image of real-life beekeeper costume and a detail from a painting by Peter Brueghel the Elder]

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Running a panel at FAN EXPO Philadelphia!

This printed mandelbulb fractal is so crazy, like a turkey? Its painted and polished, with graphite paint. #fractal #3dprinted #art #trippy #mandelbulb

Why does Climate Change matter in my game? How Incorporating Science into Tabletop Gaming can be Useful.

So, there was a climate change denier at the sci-fi convention. Here are my receipts 🧾

holisticdice.substack.com/p/climate
#scifi #ttrpgs #climatechange

Glad to have it!

Burn and Bloom: The Hidden Role of Fungi in Fire Recovery New studies on fungal responses to the natural cycle of forest fires.

I wrote up a new article on how fungi react to wildfires!

open.substack.com/pub/theholis...
#science #fungi #mycology

Predicting Ecosystem Niches: Dimensional Math Meets Evolutionary Lines How can geometry and evolutionary history help predict how an ecosystem will be affected by climate change?

Predicting Ecosystem Niches: Dimensional Math Meets Evolutionary Lines

theholisticscientist.substack.com/p/predicting...

goblincore miku 🐌

It might be a crayfish chimney! 🦐

Hell yah

Add another layer of it being stitched together like an engine, where the winds and fires pass through worlds at alternating times, like building a van outside your garage, and you’ve got a recipe for a metal campaign.

Do fungi recognize shapes? Fungi don't have eyes or a brain, but their intelligent behaviors may surprise you. New research suggests that fungi may be able to recognize shapes.

. Most people know of the zombie fungus - but there is another fungus that parasites on that one, which is why the former doesn’t run ramped.
2. Fungi can sense shapes. Do what you will with that information: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

On Science Fiction, Neuroscience, and Dice. Where themes of Hive-Minds and Tabletop Roleplay overlap with our Future.

I’ve written an article on some overlap between roleplaying games, sci-fi/hive minds, and neuroscience using an actual neuroscientists game as a framework! Hope you enjoy:

open.substack.com/pub/holistic...
#ttrpg #tabletopgames #dnd

Made a discovery about Pixar’s Up (2009) and The Lost World (1925) at Philcon

I am very honored to have had my game ‘To Care is to Cairn’ featured at the New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference by Jacqui Lokum and Lucy Arrell! What an absolute joy.

kaimedina.itch.io/tocareistocairn
#ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgs

Matrix Games: War and Losing the Forest for the Trees A War Game's Influence with American Conflict, ChatGTP, and Forestry Education.

How are Tabletop RPG mechanics influencing actual war, using ChatGPT, and helping in forestry education?

holisticdice.substack.com/p/matrix-war

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #chatgpt