#BruceSterling
@bruces.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
"I feel much prettier and more productive and efficient now, but I have no healthcare and I can't afford my rent"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"I feel much prettier and more productive and efficient now, but I have no healthcare and I can't afford my rent"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
*She really needs a "Leatherman Survival Tool," but it she was allowed to buy one of those gadgets on the open market, then she would instantly become a Westernized pin-up-girl instead of a proletarian heroine of socialist-labor
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
*She really needs a "Leatherman Survival Tool," but it she was allowed to buy one of those gadgets on the open market, then she would instantly become a Westernized pin-up-girl instead of a proletarian heroine of socialist-labor
*That's nice. What do they plausibly plan to do about those "demographic headwinds" when there's nobody left #OldPeople #BigCities #AfraidofSky
There's a plausible correlation there via governments leaning into exports to compensate for demographic headwinds. See e.g. Krugman here on China, although specific mechanisms differ.
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
*That's nice. What do they plausibly plan to do about those "demographic headwinds" when there's nobody left #OldPeople #BigCities #AfraidofSky
*---> HEY LOOK!!<--- A Bluesky skeet with hours and hours of user-retention and engagement-time. Heck yeah. It's the way forward
*Enjoy.........................................
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*Enjoy.........................................
... and don't forget to hit like-and-subscribe to get my baseline numbers soaring for 2026
For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
*---> HEY LOOK!!<--- A Bluesky skeet with hours and hours of user-retention and engagement-time. Heck yeah. It's the way forward
*Enjoy.........................................
... and don't forget to hit like-and-subscribe to get my baseline numbers soaring for 2026
*Enjoy.........................................
... and don't forget to hit like-and-subscribe to get my baseline numbers soaring for 2026
*Look," the AI remarked perceptively, "this fact may make you want to kill yourself, but when you live in a Big Tech oligarchy, your individual life has no inherent value"
"Oh. and by the way: don't have kids. We've got robots"
"Oh. and by the way: don't have kids. We've got robots"
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
*Look," the AI remarked perceptively, "this fact may make you want to kill yourself, but when you live in a Big Tech oligarchy, your individual life has no inherent value"
"Oh. and by the way: don't have kids. We've got robots"
"Oh. and by the way: don't have kids. We've got robots"
*The higher your exports, the faster your population is crashing
December 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
*The higher your exports, the faster your population is crashing
*This is true of my Bluesky tweets, too, so expect to spend 2026 staring for half-at-hour at some squib that me and my pet-AI composed in 15 seconds
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
*This is true of my Bluesky tweets, too, so expect to spend 2026 staring for half-at-hour at some squib that me and my pet-AI composed in 15 seconds
*If you look at the history of the "Leatherman Survival Tool," it's all about some engineer from Portland attempting to assert his ideals of personal agency in run-down, decaying Communist regimes
My coworker never lets me not know how handy his Arc is.
December 29, 2025 at 5:49 AM
*If you look at the history of the "Leatherman Survival Tool," it's all about some engineer from Portland attempting to assert his ideals of personal agency in run-down, decaying Communist regimes
*I'm quite the multitool evangelist myself -- but perhaps the theatrical security-experts at airports worldwide are quite right, and the general populace should never be allowed pliers and scissors
My coworker never lets me not know how handy his Arc is.
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
*I'm quite the multitool evangelist myself -- but perhaps the theatrical security-experts at airports worldwide are quite right, and the general populace should never be allowed pliers and scissors
*Of course you lie to us about what you like, but what we need to know to "maximize engagement" is what you REALLY like
vibe.forem.com/eira-wexford...
vibe.forem.com/eira-wexford...
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
*Of course you lie to us about what you like, but what we need to know to "maximize engagement" is what you REALLY like
vibe.forem.com/eira-wexford...
vibe.forem.com/eira-wexford...
*Swell concept. How would you enforce that law without converting some language to numbers
everyone focusing on the regulation of matrix multiplication when the real culprit is simple: it should be illegal to convert language to numbers
December 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
*Swell concept. How would you enforce that law without converting some language to numbers
*Well, it was great to have that labyrinthine journey through AI narrated by yet another AI. #journey #narrated #trusty #recommendations
December 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
*Well, it was great to have that labyrinthine journey through AI narrated by yet another AI. #journey #narrated #trusty #recommendations
*Cocksure LLM critic thinks that they just repeat obvious patterns of statistics
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
*Cocksure LLM critic thinks that they just repeat obvious patterns of statistics
*This is also an interesting trend, so next year I'll have Google Nano Banana visualize this for me as well
*Go ahead, ditch your touchscreen iPhone, and replace it with a boutique, tactile, grippy Leatherman Arc
*Go ahead, ditch your touchscreen iPhone, and replace it with a boutique, tactile, grippy Leatherman Arc
December 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
*This is also an interesting trend, so next year I'll have Google Nano Banana visualize this for me as well
*Go ahead, ditch your touchscreen iPhone, and replace it with a boutique, tactile, grippy Leatherman Arc
*Go ahead, ditch your touchscreen iPhone, and replace it with a boutique, tactile, grippy Leatherman Arc
*Great opportunity next year to send Chinese humanoid robots into the construction trades
*If they're tele-operated over the border by Mexican "Sleep Dealer" guys, so much the better
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
*If they're tele-operated over the border by Mexican "Sleep Dealer" guys, so much the better
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
*Great opportunity next year to send Chinese humanoid robots into the construction trades
*If they're tele-operated over the border by Mexican "Sleep Dealer" guys, so much the better
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
*If they're tele-operated over the border by Mexican "Sleep Dealer" guys, so much the better
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
"Zeosunlight" has been doing rather a lot of these experiments as China works its way up to a Robot Boxer Rebellion
December 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Zeosunlight" has been doing rather a lot of these experiments as China works its way up to a Robot Boxer Rebellion
*Keen to see how that goes, so I'll have it periodically visualised by Nano Banana
Gonna go all in on AI optimization in 2026. Gonna read 1000 books (summarized). Gonna use LLMs to fold all the proteins. Will ask Midjourney to create drugs and diseases and IMAGINE. Time is important but so is family so my wife and I will only communicate through the ChatGPT API
December 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
*Keen to see how that goes, so I'll have it periodically visualised by Nano Banana
Reposted by #BruceSterling
>the gyre? narrowing
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
>the gyre? narrowing
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
*Oh come on who even notices those "systems." I mean what actual, tangible artifacts, designed stuff, with circuits and gears inside
December 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
*Oh come on who even notices those "systems." I mean what actual, tangible artifacts, designed stuff, with circuits and gears inside
*It's surprising how many killer-robots rob banks as their business-model
*You never see that proposed by a modern AI-robot entrepreneur, maybe because there's no cash left in there
youtu.be/5HbKAT9UEvQ?...
*You never see that proposed by a modern AI-robot entrepreneur, maybe because there's no cash left in there
youtu.be/5HbKAT9UEvQ?...
Mysterious Doctor Satan - Chaper 07 - The Monster Strikes - 1940 [English]
YouTube video by Old Serials Collection
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
*It's surprising how many killer-robots rob banks as their business-model
*You never see that proposed by a modern AI-robot entrepreneur, maybe because there's no cash left in there
youtu.be/5HbKAT9UEvQ?...
*You never see that proposed by a modern AI-robot entrepreneur, maybe because there's no cash left in there
youtu.be/5HbKAT9UEvQ?...
*What happens AFTER hordes of humanoid robots are somehow walking and grabbing stuff, what else will technicians be eager to inflict on themselves and the public
"Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches
"Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches
December 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
*What happens AFTER hordes of humanoid robots are somehow walking and grabbing stuff, what else will technicians be eager to inflict on themselves and the public
"Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches
"Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches
*Well, yeah, maybe... but don't pick a sci-fi author who was writing sci-fi full of 1990s pomo "critical discourse" 26 years ago
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
*Well, yeah, maybe... but don't pick a sci-fi author who was writing sci-fi full of 1990s pomo "critical discourse" 26 years ago
*The state of critical discourse makes it mighty hard to insert a possibly-useful neologism such as "interpolatable archives" and have anybody actually use that term.
*Even it's clearer and better than the verbal sludge in wide use
"Interpolatable archives took my job", that's not gonna fly
*Even it's clearer and better than the verbal sludge in wide use
"Interpolatable archives took my job", that's not gonna fly
I think the "pro-AI" thing comes from people slapping the label on everything. LLMs as *models of language* --interpolatable archives as i term them-- have a lot of usecases, and if stating this simple fact gets you in trouble, this says more about the state of critical AI discourse than AI.
December 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
*The state of critical discourse makes it mighty hard to insert a possibly-useful neologism such as "interpolatable archives" and have anybody actually use that term.
*Even it's clearer and better than the verbal sludge in wide use
"Interpolatable archives took my job", that's not gonna fly
*Even it's clearer and better than the verbal sludge in wide use
"Interpolatable archives took my job", that's not gonna fly
*For 2026, I'm getting interested in humans adapting AI-delvish as a human-to-human dialect. You read that AI-newspeak so much and so often that you casually and sincerely think that way and talk that way
*The way that a politics-fan sops-up and internalizes The Party's talking-points
*The way that a politics-fan sops-up and internalizes The Party's talking-points
Is AI “intelligent?” Obviously not. I think we’re going to recognize that more often going forward. But does it write? Obviously. It writes without intelligence. But it writes. And we have to grapple with this issue — AI is not a new form of intelligence but it is a new form of language.
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
*For 2026, I'm getting interested in humans adapting AI-delvish as a human-to-human dialect. You read that AI-newspeak so much and so often that you casually and sincerely think that way and talk that way
*The way that a politics-fan sops-up and internalizes The Party's talking-points
*The way that a politics-fan sops-up and internalizes The Party's talking-points
*I quite like these existent, actual-technical-problems, as opposed to vague, handwavey, Torment-Nexus issues like "why would any sane person ever want to do 'Novel View Synthesis' in the first place"
December 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
*I quite like these existent, actual-technical-problems, as opposed to vague, handwavey, Torment-Nexus issues like "why would any sane person ever want to do 'Novel View Synthesis' in the first place"