Alfons Scholing
Founder & Creative Director | NotYouAgain.ai | z1n3.press | solidred.consulting
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The NYA Network is an independent creative, educational, publishing, activist, and experimental media ecosystem built around Alfons Scholing’s NotYouAgain.ai studio identity. Across its connected URLs, the network combines design, AI tools, public debate, civic education, youth thinking, games, satire, merchandise, programming, and cultural commentary into one larger alternative knowledge infrastructure.
At its core, the network behaves like a distributed studio-lab: part magazine, part classroom, part shop, part debate platform, part game-world, and part social-art project. The different sites each have their own tone and purpose, but together they form a recognizable system: critical, playful, activist, educational, anti-boring, and visually driven.
Network identity
The NYA Network presents itself as a creative and social infrastructure for people who think, make, argue, learn, design, code, and resist. NotYouAgain.ai is described publicly as the central site of the network, bringing together “concepts, testimony, publishing, consulting and connected ventures.”
The network’s recurring themes are:
Creative independence — art, design, publishing, merchandise, and studio work outside traditional gatekeeping.
Pedagogy and self-education — programming, youth think tanks, democratic learning, game-based courses, AI literacy, and symbolic thinking.
Civic and democratic debate — open discussion, public voice, anti-fascism, climate justice, digital rights, labour rights, migrant rights, and equality.
Satire and character-based learning — funny uncles, zombies, pawns, mice, snacks, shadows, and otaku aesthetics become teaching metaphors.
AI and interface experimentation — search panels, terminals, dashboards, assistants, shops, games, and interactive publication formats appear across the network.
URL descriptions
some-b.info
some-b.info functions as an AI-flavoured search and index layer for the NYA ecosystem. Public search results describe it as “the artificial intelligence search engine of the Not You Again studio education network,” while the site itself presents a command-like interface with “mode codes,” “Ask,” and studio contact actions.
Role in the network:
The index, search brain, and entry point for navigating knowledge across the studio network.
074ku.ai
074ku.ai is the network’s design webshop and merchandise boutique. The site identifies itself as “074KU.AI · European Dutch design webshop · NotYouAgain Network” and currently shows a shop catalogue with apparel, bags, pillows, backpacks, dresses, athletic shorts, and other print-on-demand products.
Role in the network:
The commercial design outlet: wearable graphics, lifestyle goods, visual branding, and the merchandise face of the NYA universe.
surroundedbyzombies.com
Surrounded by Zombies is an online lab magazine focused on “Education and Entertainment about toxicity.” Its navigation links directly to other network projects including Ask La Gaffe, Pawn Army, Mini Mensa, 074KU Programming, One Snack A Day, and Open Democratic Debate.
Role in the network:
The cultural magazine and toxicity-analysis hub: a place where society, media, behaviour, conflict, and “zombie” metaphors meet.
opendemocraticdebate.eu
OpenDemocraticDebate.eu, branded as O.D.D, presents itself as an “Independent European News Portal.” Its public sections include climate justice, peace and solidarity, public services, migrant rights, corporate accountability, democratic reform, anti-fascism, civil liberties, anti-racism, equality, digital rights, disability access, gender and LGBTQ+ rights, housing justice, and labour rights.
Role in the network:
The civic and political platform: open debate, European news, activist categorization, and democratic public voice.
asklagaffe.com
Ask La Gaffe is a character-driven educational and satirical site. Its public title describes it as “that one uncle everybody loves” and frames the character as a funny, wacky uncle who explains complex things through humour.
Role in the network:
The comic explainer: intergenerational translation, jokes, dad wisdom, accessible explanations, and absurdist teaching.
onesnackaday.com
One Snack A Day is connected to democratic pedagogy, care, child development, communication, autonomy, trust, and playful learning. A related public post describes the project as growing from Dog Years into One Snack A Day, with tags including democracy, children, pedagogy, attention, autonomy, communication, behaviour, love, development, parenting style, relationships, and trust.
Role in the network:
The care-and-pedagogy project: small daily learning, child-friendly democratic culture, attention, routine, and emotional education.
pawnarmy.com
Pawn Army is branded as “Real World Chess Tactics.” The site mixes current news snippets with chess-like reminders such as “one smart move can change the whole game,” and references tactical thinking, forks, and strategic opportunities.
Role in the network:
The strategy and tactics wing: chess as a metaphor for survival, politics, decision-making, systems thinking, and everyday power.
lightandshadowgame.com
Light and Shadow Game appears as a game-oriented and strategy-themed project connected to anxiety, grey-world navigation, Go, and systems thinking. A public social profile description for “Light & Shadow” describes it as a shadow-puppet platformer where the player faces anxieties, pushes past depression, and seeks moments of joy in a grey world.
Role in the network:
The game and emotional-systems project: shadow, strategy, Go logic, mental resilience, visual metaphor, and play-based learning.
minimensa.com
Mini Mensa is presented as a Civilian Youth Think Tank. Search results describe it as “a youth think tank for ambitious young people with ideas to test, sharpen, and share,” while the site itself uses the phrase “The mouse in a big, big world.”
Role in the network:
The youth intelligence and civic-thinking lab: essays, proposals, research, debate, and young people learning to think publicly.
074ku.eu
074ku.eu is the programming and “Shadow School” learning side of the network. It presents itself as “074KU.EU — Learn To Program” and explains coding, algorithms, programming languages, and formal logic. It also lists free or pay-what-you-want night courses such as Pawn Army Chess Logic, MiniMensa Youth Think Tank, Democracy Systems Lab, Pictographic Code, Streetknowledge Studio, AI Desire & Limits, and Ask Your Dad.
Role in the network:
The educational engine: coding, cyber security, AI ethics, systems thinking, symbolic logic, and self-training courses.
One-sentence positioning
The NYA Network is an independent Dutch-European creative intelligence network by Alfons Scholing, combining AI, design, activist publishing, civic debate, merchandise, pedagogy, games, satire, and programming into a connected ecosystem for people who want to think sharper, speak louder, learn freely, and build their own cultural tools.
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