Hey, travelers! No bedtime stories, this week. I am preparing for a job interview and setting up a new workstation, and it has consumed most of my time and energy. All good things, just a lot all at once. :)

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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

Attention, Explorer! The remains of a once-loved civilization litters the horizon of tonight's full-dive. So, steel your nerves and step into to the stasis bit matrix with two short vignettes: The Whispering Delve and Amalis IV. Initiating neural hand-off in
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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

Greetings, Traveler. Our journey through the fleeting dreamscape of New Cyberia continues with a trifecta of planetary vignettes: Through the Horizon, Torqued, and A Cloud of Light. Initiating neural hand-off in
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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

A lullaby of sorts and a distant, final broadcast reverberate through the shared neural-stream of tonight's triptych stasis sim: Fluttering Above, Phase 2 Activity, and The Celestial Dance. Initiating neural hand-off in 3...2...1...

Thank you for listening (or reading!), and thank you for sharing the ones you enjoy with the people you care about.

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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

Greetings, travelers! Our journey through the dreamscape of New Cyberia continues with Transmission 8: Homesick and The Simulation Aleph. Stasis locks will remain in place as we approach the jump window. Initiating neural hand-off in 3...2...1...

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I've been thinking today about Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia and how I landed on that name for the project. I've had a handful of folks excitedly ask me more about it, as if it's a specific place and I always wax poetic about it briefly before I tell them it's an idea, not a place... but that it could be, if we wanted. So, I thought I'd share some of how I landed on the title with you fine folk!

But yeah, It's kinda hard to put your finger on New Cyberia, a aspiring notion about the nature of the reclaimed ephemera of our shared experience of cyberspace. You know?

Cyberia itself has been written about and explored ad nauseam for almost half a century, a hopeful celebration of "the new" that would surely emerge from our collaborative cultural experiment in cyberspace. One that would ultimately be doomed to the Neo Colonialism of globalists and hyper-capitalist ideologues. I was there for a lot of it. I saw it and even I don't always understand it. The mechanical, sure, but the ideological... that's a beast I've yet to best in any meaningful way.

But New Cyberia? Honestly, NCB is different for everyone. For me, at its core, it is the reclamation of the hopefulness and the aspiration of that seemingly ancient idea. Hyper-progressive and not culturally regressive. A celebration of The Strange Oneness of humanity as it careens through space on our Pale Blue Dot. The promise and empowerment of the old internet, without the cruft thrust upon it by entrepreneurs and tycoons.

The term was dropped in my lap a couple of years (and identities) ago, here on hackers.town, by our admin @thegibson , someone not shy about late-night, fire-side pontification. He dropped the idea with a smattering of borderline psychedelic imagery, like an abstract poem existing only in the ephemera of imagery, a rumination on the internet of old -- an experience we share, despite being separated by time and space. It turned those conversations, that sometimes feel like a wake, into a goal. A trajectory. An aspiration.

Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia was originally going to be from The Void or The Abyss, but those lacked the resolute hopefulness that I personally feel when I write speculative fiction -- including the moments that lean heavily into horror. I realized that NCB was the right word for the premise behind my stories and vignettes. So that was it: they're bedtime stories, inspiring the dreams of a reclaimed and empowered, yet shared future.

So, yeah. welcome to the my little slice of the dreamscape of something better, if not occasionally melancholic: something specifically ours.

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Can I share with you some of what inspired me as a young artist and what eventually lead to Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia?

This is one of the many things that have inspired my style of writing and creative emoting/performance. You could draw a straight line between this and Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia.

I discovered this a long time ago in the movie Fallen Angels. I think like a lot of creative types, I get huge inspiration from films like that.

Yeah it's melancholic, a bit, and heavily speculative in a way that works well with poetry. Things like this make me sit for a while after they stop and let my imagination find its way back home.

So here' s a peak into the oddity that is VOLTUR.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EbkhklwAco

Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia

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Greetings, fellow Travelers!

Where will our adventures through the dreamscape of New Cyberia take us this week?

Will we peer over the shoulder of the abyssal hacker?

Or will our research cluster continue its search for the simulation aleph?

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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia continues this week with two moments of humanity, set against the contrast of the inhospitable void of space. A celebration of the quiet moments in between. Moments perched on the precipice of adventure, signal in the noise of chaos.

NOTE: This episode mentions alcohol.

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When I record #BedtimeStoriesFromNewCyberia I feel like C-3PO telling stories.

This weekend is the start of the second month of weekly releases of Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia.

There's something beautiful in watching a project that was built to be ephemeral start fading out at the edges, disappearing into the odd, digital abyss that it celebrates.

There's also a strange and alluring morbidity in it, something uniquely human, that has always looked over my shoulders. Something I celebrate in my own way.

Anyway, the next few parts are short, but interesting, and we'll start exploring strange planets with almost psychedelic dangers that threaten in unimaginable ways and we'll celebrate humanity with joy and sorrow.

I'm going to be exploring adding interactivity to our journey and maybe increasing the frequency. Looking into artwork to accompany the posts. It's going to be a fun month for NCB.

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Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia hurdles through the aether, a destination unknown, our journey one of intimate reflection. What it means to be us and what of us the things we create echo. So, slide into your space jammies and tune your subspace receiver to NCB for tonight's sims: The Hands of Axion IV and The Weight of a Man.

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We continue our Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia journey deeper into the abyss, our Pale Blue Dot fading into the distance, a delicate point of light and digital radiance in the cacophony of galactic noise. So, log into the Stasis Meta-Consciousness and fire up tonight's sim: High Value Salvage and Repair Corridor. Sleep well, Traveler.

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I thoroughly enjoy pretty much every part of the #BedtimeStoriesFromNewCyberia project. Writing, recording/reading, sound design, sharing with like-minded folk on the fediverse.

What a treasure to be able to do this!

In this week's Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia, we dip our toes into the tidal bit matrix, exploring the darker reality of cryo-sleep with two vignettes. So nestle into your bio-control chamber and set your neural interface to receive tonight's sim: Brain Burn and Tragedy in Stasis.

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If you are into #BedtimeStoriesFromNewCyberia but looking for something longer form to accompany your bedtime stories, you should check out Jupiter's Ghost! @ajroach42's collaborative project absolutely is a kindred spirit, I think.

Here's a link: https://intergalactic.computer/social/2023/01/episode-two-michael-mouse/

Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia continues this week with a couplet of microfiction, wandering through the transit stations on the edge of local space, peering into the vast abyss. So, relax into your full-dive cryo-pod and let the hum of the X-10 Jump Core gently carry you into this week's stasis sim: Myamoto Stasis Bay and Haumea Transit Station. *Neural Hand-off in 3... 2... *

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