Bruce Sterling @bruces
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Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
https://medium.com/@bruces
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https://medium.com/@bruces
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*A 30% Black Friday discount on medieval Italian chain-mail. #whatthehell #huh
https://youtube.com/shorts/_7LFDJWB0fQ?si=-GwGiEg0Yr5PW1I-
https://youtube.com/shorts/_7LFDJWB0fQ?si=-GwGiEg0Yr5PW1I-
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
*A 30% Black Friday discount on medieval Italian chain-mail. #whatthehell #huh
https://youtube.com/shorts/_7LFDJWB0fQ?si=-GwGiEg0Yr5PW1I-
https://youtube.com/shorts/_7LFDJWB0fQ?si=-GwGiEg0Yr5PW1I-
*Hmmm, nice sense-of-wonder prose there, really working it with the astronomical-writer writerliness in that reminiscence
https://carolynporco.substack.com/p/remembering-cassini-the-geysering
https://carolynporco.substack.com/p/remembering-cassini-the-geysering
Remembering Cassini: The Geysering Basin of Enceladus
November 27, 2025
carolynporco.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
*Hmmm, nice sense-of-wonder prose there, really working it with the astronomical-writer writerliness in that reminiscence
https://carolynporco.substack.com/p/remembering-cassini-the-geysering
https://carolynporco.substack.com/p/remembering-cassini-the-geysering
*When your weird and peculiar "cabinet of curiosities" is doing great, but there's some risk that it might lose its wonderment and turn into a boring scientific museum
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
*When your weird and peculiar "cabinet of curiosities" is doing great, but there's some risk that it might lose its wonderment and turn into a boring scientific museum
*How do you know when you've accumulated so much of this stuff that you're overloaded with it and actively dangerous
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
*How do you know when you've accumulated so much of this stuff that you're overloaded with it and actively dangerous
*At last, an entire light-day. That's a full 1/365th of a light-year. #spacetravel
https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/
https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth
The intrepid spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026.
The post Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth appeared first on Popular Science.
www.popsci.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
*At last, an entire light-day. That's a full 1/365th of a light-year. #spacetravel
https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/
https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/
*91 terms-of-art for things failing, collapsing, dying, and blowing up
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04524v1
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04524v1
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
*91 terms-of-art for things failing, collapsing, dying, and blowing up
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04524v1
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04524v1
'"Violent Nomad' bag. "Especially here in Texas." #ohgeewhiz #everydaycarry #gun #knife #tourniquets #woundclotter #etc
https://youtu.be/KAVwjtZZLZI?si=x0mQsTPeyGedsG90
https://youtu.be/KAVwjtZZLZI?si=x0mQsTPeyGedsG90
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
'"Violent Nomad' bag. "Especially here in Texas." #ohgeewhiz #everydaycarry #gun #knife #tourniquets #woundclotter #etc
https://youtu.be/KAVwjtZZLZI?si=x0mQsTPeyGedsG90
https://youtu.be/KAVwjtZZLZI?si=x0mQsTPeyGedsG90
*Liking the Cory Doctorow "reverse centaur" guy in the middle of the line-up there
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
*Liking the Cory Doctorow "reverse centaur" guy in the middle of the line-up there
Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, about 2,500 pages, that must have been a lot of folks
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, about 2,500 pages, that must have been a lot of folks
"Mobile Genetic Elements," this is quite an alarming biological paradigm here, it's like Lamarckism on cocaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_genetic_elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_genetic_elements
Mobile genetic elements - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"Mobile Genetic Elements," this is quite an alarming biological paradigm here, it's like Lamarckism on cocaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_genetic_elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_genetic_elements
*A pterodactyl flamingo who stood around in the shallows eating goop
*I bet he was more colorful than that
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
*I bet he was more colorful than that
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
*A pterodactyl flamingo who stood around in the shallows eating goop
*I bet he was more colorful than that
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
*I bet he was more colorful than that
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
Well, there goes the extrasolar visitor; so long, little green guy
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251121.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251121.html
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Well, there goes the extrasolar visitor; so long, little green guy
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251121.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251121.html
"Everyday Weird." This is my favorite new oxymoron
*how can science be fiction, how can cyber be punk, how can everyday be weird
*And yet, obviously it is
https://youtu.be/LRfT98ndztk?si=ybIosTnAVNU6lvPb
*how can science be fiction, how can cyber be punk, how can everyday be weird
*And yet, obviously it is
https://youtu.be/LRfT98ndztk?si=ybIosTnAVNU6lvPb
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Everyday Weird." This is my favorite new oxymoron
*how can science be fiction, how can cyber be punk, how can everyday be weird
*And yet, obviously it is
https://youtu.be/LRfT98ndztk?si=ybIosTnAVNU6lvPb
*how can science be fiction, how can cyber be punk, how can everyday be weird
*And yet, obviously it is
https://youtu.be/LRfT98ndztk?si=ybIosTnAVNU6lvPb
*I quite like these modern functional-analog versions of ancient artifacts, like: what if Otzi the Iceman had some proper blade-steel instead of lugging that flint and copper
https://youtu.be/YX6rqCkTSqU?si=n2czlMurVGjL8JHz
https://youtu.be/YX6rqCkTSqU?si=n2czlMurVGjL8JHz
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
*I quite like these modern functional-analog versions of ancient artifacts, like: what if Otzi the Iceman had some proper blade-steel instead of lugging that flint and copper
https://youtu.be/YX6rqCkTSqU?si=n2czlMurVGjL8JHz
https://youtu.be/YX6rqCkTSqU?si=n2czlMurVGjL8JHz
*What does "life extension enshittification" look like, one wonders idly
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
*What does "life extension enshittification" look like, one wonders idly
*Dismal little Chinese lunar thanatosphere. Imagine having this bleak little deathtrap on your mantelpiece
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/china-moon-cotton/
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/china-moon-cotton/
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
*Dismal little Chinese lunar thanatosphere. Imagine having this bleak little deathtrap on your mantelpiece
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/china-moon-cotton/
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/china-moon-cotton/
*Nice one with the child-labor "jugaad" action there. It happens about a billion times a day but one doesn't see it on video all that often
https://youtube.com/shorts/KR3lt2pkd1A?si=IuLJDq28VTvicp77
https://youtube.com/shorts/KR3lt2pkd1A?si=IuLJDq28VTvicp77
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
*Nice one with the child-labor "jugaad" action there. It happens about a billion times a day but one doesn't see it on video all that often
https://youtube.com/shorts/KR3lt2pkd1A?si=IuLJDq28VTvicp77
https://youtube.com/shorts/KR3lt2pkd1A?si=IuLJDq28VTvicp77
*The thing I like best about YouTuber EveryDayCarry influencer zealots is that they're hard-put to carry the same product every day for six weeks
*As opposed to our prehistoric ancestors, who could carry the same kind of chipped rock for a quarter of a million years
*As opposed to our prehistoric ancestors, who could carry the same kind of chipped rock for a quarter of a million years
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*The thing I like best about YouTuber EveryDayCarry influencer zealots is that they're hard-put to carry the same product every day for six weeks
*As opposed to our prehistoric ancestors, who could carry the same kind of chipped rock for a quarter of a million years
*As opposed to our prehistoric ancestors, who could carry the same kind of chipped rock for a quarter of a million years
*How come everybody everywhere doesn't EveryDayCarry some everyday Swiss-Army-Knife? So handy, useful, practical, cheap,, well-designed, sturdily-made for modern Swiss living, etc etc #andreleroigurhan
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*How come everybody everywhere doesn't EveryDayCarry some everyday Swiss-Army-Knife? So handy, useful, practical, cheap,, well-designed, sturdily-made for modern Swiss living, etc etc #andreleroigurhan
*Andre Leroi Gourhan was a 20th century archaeologist and technology theorist, and you would never, ever hear a YouTube 'knife guy" talking like this about knives, even if he is French
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
*Andre Leroi Gourhan was a 20th century archaeologist and technology theorist, and you would never, ever hear a YouTube 'knife guy" talking like this about knives, even if he is French
*Televisions and phones are for poor people.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
*Televisions and phones are for poor people.
"The threat actor—whom we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group—manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration into roughly thirty global targets"
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"The threat actor—whom we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group—manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration into roughly thirty global targets"
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage