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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*Maybe I'll get an AI to clean that up for me, make it nicer... nope, it completely botched it, gosh, that's terrible
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
*Maybe I'll get an AI to clean that up for me, make it nicer... nope, it completely botched it, gosh, that's terrible
*If you know, you know. I need the t-shirt, seriously
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
*If you know, you know. I need the t-shirt, seriously
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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/
*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.
*Imagine marrying a gal who wants to truck this Iris Van Herpen fermented-sugarcane wedding-dress down the aisle. Either the worst thing or the best thing you ever did, boyo
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
*Imagine marrying a gal who wants to truck this Iris Van Herpen fermented-sugarcane wedding-dress down the aisle. Either the worst thing or the best thing you ever did, boyo
*Well, they just dug a fragmented, 2000-year-old wooden Hercules out of a pit in Ibiza
*Why did he feel the need to return at this point, one wonders
*Why did he feel the need to return at this point, one wonders
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
*Well, they just dug a fragmented, 2000-year-old wooden Hercules out of a pit in Ibiza
*Why did he feel the need to return at this point, one wonders
*Why did he feel the need to return at this point, one wonders
*Tattooed undertaker crucifiers. These guys sound pretty tough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*Tattooed undertaker crucifiers. These guys sound pretty tough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices
*Our tech-art festival is happening in Turin, Italy right now.
*We've been around a while. Also, we don't stop
*We've been around a while. Also, we don't stop
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
*Our tech-art festival is happening in Turin, Italy right now.
*We've been around a while. Also, we don't stop
*We've been around a while. Also, we don't stop
*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33
Is Marilyn not even 100 years old yet? Gosh, that seems awfully young, given that it's "Marilyn Monroe"
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Is Marilyn not even 100 years old yet? Gosh, that seems awfully young, given that it's "Marilyn Monroe"
*Generative art 1960s vs generative art 2020s
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
*Generative art 1960s vs generative art 2020s
*I'm by no means a great photographer but this snapshot is what Belgrade Serbia looks-and-feels like nowadays. #dubaionthedanube
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
*I'm by no means a great photographer but this snapshot is what Belgrade Serbia looks-and-feels like nowadays. #dubaionthedanube