@alxd 1 The importance of Hacker Narratives
Is best. The others go negative.

What are the main 3 points?

@ryancoordinator asking for spoilers 3 months in advance? ;)

It will require a lot more work, but in short:

1. Cyberpunk (in popculture) is about a rebellion, not creating a consistent and comprehensive alternative

2. A lot of hackers internalize the aesthetics and values of cyberpunk, willingly portraying themselves as rebels, not builders

3. In order to be seen as more than just destroyers (in popculture), they need to paint a world they would like to create, which could be Solarpunk

@alxd I'm with you spiritually, solarpunk is important and spreading the narrative of building does matter (see my work on Greenpilling)

But the megacorps that are the hacker adversary in cyberpunk have never been more powerful and omnipresent, and the aesthetic continues to be cool

@ryancoordinator they sure are. Soon I'll finish translating my latest essay on that (already premiered in Polish). Let me give you a single quote:

"In our fight against corporations and capitalism, cyberpunk made us very save - because predictable - rebels." The corporations know the playbooks and know how to "play" every hacker story, because we agree for them to dictate the narrative.

To truly fight capitalism, you need to imagine an alternative.

@ryancoordinator going back to my HOPE2020 talk -

I don't believe hackers will succeed in re-taking the narrative until we can tell stories about Wikipedia. A global, civilization-level project, understandable by near everyone, and yet we don't talk about it in our culture! Wikipedians are not heroes, archivists and librarians are not spoken about, because we are supposed to be blind to the value of cooperation.