@Bruce Sterling @bruces
Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
https://medium.com/@bruces
Relays (1)
- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
*Introducing: household AI powered by hand-cranks and bicycle pedals. #designfiction
https://crankgpt.com
https://crankgpt.com
*Well, if that's true, then who the heck is left who wants to attend a revamped Game Developer Conference
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/
*Who else wants to pirate Chinese chips and loudly pretend to have built them
*Seems like a trend with legs, really
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/11-month-old-russian-outfit-claims-it-has-developed-16-core-and-32-core-processors-flaunts-cyrillic-badged-processors-chips-appear-to-be-sanctions-swerving-rebadged-chinese-loongson-processors
*Seems like a trend with legs, really
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/11-month-old-russian-outfit-claims-it-has-developed-16-core-and-32-core-processors-flaunts-cyrillic-badged-processors-chips-appear-to-be-sanctions-swerving-rebadged-chinese-loongson-processors
*Exciting sportsball news. No fans in the stands or hotels
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q34pxv79eo
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q34pxv79eo
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*Suzanne Ciani, famous pioneering 80-year-old electronic musician. Boy, does she ever sound Californian
https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ex-798-suzanne-ciani
https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ex-798-suzanne-ciani
*Trying to get Claude AI to outguess the histories of technical inventions
*I don't believe all this stuff, but this is quite an interesting exercise and might be helpful for design fiction
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-long-do-we-wait-for-new-inventions
*I don't believe all this stuff, but this is quite an interesting exercise and might be helpful for design fiction
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-long-do-we-wait-for-new-inventions
*It's fun when music is 50 years old and still sounds intensely eccentic and peculiar. It's like guzzling 50-year-old whiskey and getting completely looped
https://youtu.be/ZPDrlYDs7mI?si=9bT78c5KDPU_xzoy
https://youtu.be/ZPDrlYDs7mI?si=9bT78c5KDPU_xzoy
*What would it take to make these severely nutty French-Canadian math-rock guys bigger than the biggest pop stars in the world
https://youtu.be/gBYrwJC_-gk?si=_qK7jfy4zrBcQ3qg
https://youtu.be/gBYrwJC_-gk?si=_qK7jfy4zrBcQ3qg
*Maybe we should be grateful that a YouTuber who collects combat knives and calls himself "Joe Doomsday" has such a modest number of followers.
*We've never been in such genuine danger from massive disaster, but the prepper-fad seems to be losing its cachet
https://www.youtube.com/@JoeDoomsday/videos
*We've never been in such genuine danger from massive disaster, but the prepper-fad seems to be losing its cachet
https://www.youtube.com/@JoeDoomsday/videos
*Moralizing essays about AI killer-drone ethics have more point to them when you and yours are getting blown up
https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/war-by-subscription-how-the-gamification-of-combat-became-the-dream-factorys-newest-product-ec7297aedc96
https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/war-by-subscription-how-the-gamification-of-combat-became-the-dream-factorys-newest-product-ec7297aedc96
*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror
https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw
https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw
*Well, that was fun to read. I wonder how much of that will actually happen
Everything Trump touches dies, including even the greenhouse effect, and wow, that's a big one to kill
https://medium.com/@doctorow/demand-destruction-vs-fuel-superceding-infrastructure-f7521936320f
Everything Trump touches dies, including even the greenhouse effect, and wow, that's a big one to kill
https://medium.com/@doctorow/demand-destruction-vs-fuel-superceding-infrastructure-f7521936320f