#BruceSterling
@bruces.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
*There are other cities in the world as nutty as Los Angeles, but in Los Angeles they really movie-poster it up. Like, the font choice is good and the cranks have cool made-up actor names
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
*There are other cities in the world as nutty as Los Angeles, but in Los Angeles they really movie-poster it up. Like, the font choice is good and the cranks have cool made-up actor names
*I like it when some standard Apocalypse crank has all the usual off-the-shelf stuff and also some "ice bombs"
*Like, tell us more about those coming ice-bombs
*Like, tell us more about those coming ice-bombs
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
*I like it when some standard Apocalypse crank has all the usual off-the-shelf stuff and also some "ice bombs"
*Like, tell us more about those coming ice-bombs
*Like, tell us more about those coming ice-bombs
*Yeah: what he said.
*And this is ten times more true for every cola-flavored sour UFO that glows all over, levitates livestock and does aerial loop-de-loops
*And this is ten times more true for every cola-flavored sour UFO that glows all over, levitates livestock and does aerial loop-de-loops
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
*Yeah: what he said.
*And this is ten times more true for every cola-flavored sour UFO that glows all over, levitates livestock and does aerial loop-de-loops
*And this is ten times more true for every cola-flavored sour UFO that glows all over, levitates livestock and does aerial loop-de-loops
*So then, any historical period that lacked Italian actresses would be a Dark Age, by definition 🤔🎭🇮🇹
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedi...
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
*So then, any historical period that lacked Italian actresses would be a Dark Age, by definition 🤔🎭🇮🇹
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedi...
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
*Even by generous Barcelona BCN standards, "Desigual Fungus Cowgirl" is a really weird look
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
*Even by generous Barcelona BCN standards, "Desigual Fungus Cowgirl" is a really weird look
*Extremely Milanese attitude in the MXP airport ad there, so stereotyped that it's almost endearing
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
*Extremely Milanese attitude in the MXP airport ad there, so stereotyped that it's almost endearing
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
*In glamorous Basel, the "Haus o' Electronic Kunst." Yeah, that's them all right
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mailchi.mp/hek/whats-on...
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
*In glamorous Basel, the "Haus o' Electronic Kunst." Yeah, that's them all right
mailchi.mp/hek/whats-on...
mailchi.mp/hek/whats-on...
*I like everything about this, except the prospect of paying honest money for it and actually learning something
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
*I like everything about this, except the prospect of paying honest money for it and actually learning something
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
*It's not helping matters here in Turin that the town is newly-saturated with "Italian Brainrot" slopjects
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
*It's not helping matters here in Turin that the town is newly-saturated with "Italian Brainrot" slopjects
*I get it that Italians totally dig H. P. Lovecraft, but H.P. Lovecraft repackaged to entertain little Italian kids, I don't even know what to say
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
*I get it that Italians totally dig H. P. Lovecraft, but H.P. Lovecraft repackaged to entertain little Italian kids, I don't even know what to say
*You can say that form quite a lot of things here in 2025 AD.
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
*You can say that form quite a lot of things here in 2025 AD.
*The "Post-Naive Internet." Post-Naive according to them, anyhow
www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
*The "Post-Naive Internet." Post-Naive according to them, anyhow
www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
*Our "Share Festival" technology-art show is happening right now during Art Week in Turin, Italy.
*We're always futuristic --->, while also becoming an electronic culture-heritage event
*We're always futuristic --->, while also becoming an electronic culture-heritage event
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
*Our "Share Festival" technology-art show is happening right now during Art Week in Turin, Italy.
*We're always futuristic --->, while also becoming an electronic culture-heritage event
*We're always futuristic --->, while also becoming an electronic culture-heritage event
*Well, if anybody would be up for that, it would be Rhizome
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
*Well, if anybody would be up for that, it would be Rhizome
*It can generate if you prompt it to generate
*Of course you'd have to weed out a hundred out to get a decent one, just as if you'd coded it on an 8-column green screen
*Of course you'd have to weed out a hundred out to get a decent one, just as if you'd coded it on an 8-column green screen
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
*It can generate if you prompt it to generate
*Of course you'd have to weed out a hundred out to get a decent one, just as if you'd coded it on an 8-column green screen
*Of course you'd have to weed out a hundred out to get a decent one, just as if you'd coded it on an 8-column green screen
*It kills me when a chatbot eruditely explains what it MIGHT generate and then refuses to do it for some goofy AI-ethics reason
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
*It kills me when a chatbot eruditely explains what it MIGHT generate and then refuses to do it for some goofy AI-ethics reason
*I'd give Bing some credit here and ungrudgingly admit that the one on the left is considerably better than the one on the right
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
*I'd give Bing some credit here and ungrudgingly admit that the one on the left is considerably better than the one on the right
*I like it when Bing/ChatGPT does his own art critique. He really seems to enjoy praising himself and overselling his artwork, to the point of mild delusion-of-grandeur hallucination, even
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
*I like it when Bing/ChatGPT does his own art critique. He really seems to enjoy praising himself and overselling his artwork, to the point of mild delusion-of-grandeur hallucination, even
"Please look at this crude black and white sketch of tumbling squares, and use an algorithm to make the movements of those squares more visually interesting and eye-catchingly complex. I want it so arty that I can frame it on the wall."
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"Please look at this crude black and white sketch of tumbling squares, and use an algorithm to make the movements of those squares more visually interesting and eye-catchingly complex. I want it so arty that I can frame it on the wall."
*I've been in Turin for 48 hours and already my IQ has gone up by ten points
*I'm used to this happening by now, I can feel it as a literal physiological process, like drinking from a Turinese "toret" public fountain
*I'm "smarter" and I know that, but frankly, I wouldn't say I'm any better
*I'm used to this happening by now, I can feel it as a literal physiological process, like drinking from a Turinese "toret" public fountain
*I'm "smarter" and I know that, but frankly, I wouldn't say I'm any better
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
*I've been in Turin for 48 hours and already my IQ has gone up by ten points
*I'm used to this happening by now, I can feel it as a literal physiological process, like drinking from a Turinese "toret" public fountain
*I'm "smarter" and I know that, but frankly, I wouldn't say I'm any better
*I'm used to this happening by now, I can feel it as a literal physiological process, like drinking from a Turinese "toret" public fountain
*I'm "smarter" and I know that, but frankly, I wouldn't say I'm any better
*I wonder what would happen if, as an experiment, you gave some famous living painter $32 million and said, here, take all this cash and spend every cent of that and paint something really awesome
October 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
*I wonder what would happen if, as an experiment, you gave some famous living painter $32 million and said, here, take all this cash and spend every cent of that and paint something really awesome