Kai Medina
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Kai Medina
@notkia.bsky.social
Ecologist, STEAM Educator, & TTRPG hobbyist. Good Stuff.

Website: https://kaimedinae.wixsite.com/notkia

Substack: https://kaimedina.substack.com
Shouldn’t we see ourselves in the future? Pushing back against modern eugenics.

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#autism #disabilities #scifi #sciencefiction
Disabilities and Optimistic Futures (Part 1)
Fighting modern-day eugenics in science fiction.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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.
August 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains
May 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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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/...
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.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Running a panel at FAN EXPO Philadelphia!
May 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This printed mandelbulb fractal is so crazy, like a turkey? Its painted and polished, with graphite paint. #fractal #3dprinted #art #trippy #mandelbulb
December 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
So, there was a climate change denier at the sci-fi convention. Here are my receipts 🧾

holisticdice.substack.com/p/climate
#scifi #ttrpgs #climatechange
Why does Climate Change matter in my game?
How Incorporating Science into Tabletop Gaming can be Useful.
holisticdice.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I wrote up a new article on how fungi react to wildfires!

open.substack.com/pub/theholis...
#science #fungi #mycology
Burn and Bloom: The Hidden Role of Fungi in Fire Recovery
New studies on fungal responses to the natural cycle of forest fires.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Predicting Ecosystem Niches: Dimensional Math Meets Evolutionary Lines

theholisticscientist.substack.com/p/predicting...
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?
theholisticscientist.substack.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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goblincore miku 🐌
November 27, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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
On Science Fiction, Neuroscience, and Dice.
Where themes of Hive-Minds and Tabletop Roleplay overlap with our Future.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Made a discovery about Pixar’s Up (2009) and The Lost World (1925) at Philcon
November 25, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 PM
How are Tabletop RPG mechanics influencing actual war, using ChatGPT, and helping in forestry education?

holisticdice.substack.com/p/matrix-war

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #chatgpt
Matrix Games: War and Losing the Forest for the Trees
A War Game's Influence with American Conflict, ChatGTP, and Forestry Education.
holisticdice.substack.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:05 AM