Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//pluriverse//sinophile//
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
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Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
· Sep 9
#sciencefiction #SFintranslation #vladimircolin #article #Chinese #imagination
I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.
I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.
#ancap #romania #guttingthestate #capital
New leader Nicușor Dan is practically the president of oligarchs, not very far from the euroskeptic opponent Călinescu, just that he's hustling for a different crowd. He's for austerity, deregulation & gutting the state.
👇🏾
www.libertatea.ro/opinii/costi...
New leader Nicușor Dan is practically the president of oligarchs, not very far from the euroskeptic opponent Călinescu, just that he's hustling for a different crowd. He's for austerity, deregulation & gutting the state.
👇🏾
www.libertatea.ro/opinii/costi...
Nicușor cel Mare: luați statul, dragi afaceriști, că noi nu știm ce să facem cu el
Nicușor Dan trece printr-o operațiune de tip „Nicușor cel Mare”. Am văzut-o și în cazul lui „Klaus cel Sfânt”, cel care ani buni nu putea fi întrebat de case pe care lua chirie, dar nu era proprietar....
www.libertatea.ro
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#ancap #romania #guttingthestate #capital
New leader Nicușor Dan is practically the president of oligarchs, not very far from the euroskeptic opponent Călinescu, just that he's hustling for a different crowd. He's for austerity, deregulation & gutting the state.
👇🏾
www.libertatea.ro/opinii/costi...
New leader Nicușor Dan is practically the president of oligarchs, not very far from the euroskeptic opponent Călinescu, just that he's hustling for a different crowd. He's for austerity, deregulation & gutting the state.
👇🏾
www.libertatea.ro/opinii/costi...
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
It's been 40 years since the NES was released in North America.
And a whopping 50 years for the CPU which powered it: the MOS 6502.
It launched at $25 in 1975, orders of magnitude cheaper than its competitors and became of the most successful microprocessors of all time. #NESdev
And a whopping 50 years for the CPU which powered it: the MOS 6502.
It launched at $25 in 1975, orders of magnitude cheaper than its competitors and became of the most successful microprocessors of all time. #NESdev
September 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's been 40 years since the NES was released in North America.
And a whopping 50 years for the CPU which powered it: the MOS 6502.
It launched at $25 in 1975, orders of magnitude cheaper than its competitors and became of the most successful microprocessors of all time. #NESdev
And a whopping 50 years for the CPU which powered it: the MOS 6502.
It launched at $25 in 1975, orders of magnitude cheaper than its competitors and became of the most successful microprocessors of all time. #NESdev
#games #pc #mdos #dos
This collection uses DOSBox to allow older original games to play on our modern systems (no rips no hacks). Has a #Linux native patch. The full pack pack includes 7,666 DOS games apparently.
Thx to Dan the Mechanist for this treasure 🤜🤛
www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html
This collection uses DOSBox to allow older original games to play on our modern systems (no rips no hacks). Has a #Linux native patch. The full pack pack includes 7,666 DOS games apparently.
Thx to Dan the Mechanist for this treasure 🤜🤛
www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html
eXoDOS
www.retro-exo.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#games #nesdev #nes #gaming #homebrew
morphcatgames.itch.io
Sorry, but I'm still gonna rave about how great Morphcat games truly are. Be it Micro Mages, Bobl and Super Bat Puncher 🎮 can't get enough of them. Looking fwd to their new rogue like.
morphcatgames.itch.io
Sorry, but I'm still gonna rave about how great Morphcat games truly are. Be it Micro Mages, Bobl and Super Bat Puncher 🎮 can't get enough of them. Looking fwd to their new rogue like.
Morphcat Games
morphcatgames.itch.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Yesterday morning I noticed a slime mold growing in one of my aquariums. So of course I set up a timelapse camera!
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yesterday morning I noticed a slime mold growing in one of my aquariums. So of course I set up a timelapse camera!
#theoryfiction #sound #Romanian #manual #noise
After 25 years PAN-A-SONYC the un-hearing un-use manual I wrote 25 years ago for Noesis publishing is online.
Thx 🤜🫷 to the valiant efforts of Cristian Drăgan co-editor of Draft Journal for Intermedial Archaeology.
draft-journal.com/bucharestolo...
After 25 years PAN-A-SONYC the un-hearing un-use manual I wrote 25 years ago for Noesis publishing is online.
Thx 🤜🫷 to the valiant efforts of Cristian Drăgan co-editor of Draft Journal for Intermedial Archaeology.
draft-journal.com/bucharestolo...
PAN-A-SONYC // PARTEA III - DRAFT.
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS SL-S113 Metodă de sinucidere autoprogramată în scopul cunoaşterii de sine. Cea mai recentă, cea mai eficace şi mai propice soluţie în faţa impotenţei cotidiene este oprirea: H...
draft-journal.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#theoryfiction #sound #Romanian #manual #noise
After 25 years PAN-A-SONYC the un-hearing un-use manual I wrote 25 years ago for Noesis publishing is online.
Thx 🤜🫷 to the valiant efforts of Cristian Drăgan co-editor of Draft Journal for Intermedial Archaeology.
draft-journal.com/bucharestolo...
After 25 years PAN-A-SONYC the un-hearing un-use manual I wrote 25 years ago for Noesis publishing is online.
Thx 🤜🫷 to the valiant efforts of Cristian Drăgan co-editor of Draft Journal for Intermedial Archaeology.
draft-journal.com/bucharestolo...
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
a common misidentification in this article
What you got there is a dog SICK slime mold (Didymium spongiosum). Unlike its close relative the dog VOMIT slime mold (Fuligo septica) it prefers grass to dead wood & deposits calcite on its cortex rather than piles of microscopic chalk balls. Also the surface looks like weird crumpled grocery bags
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
a common misidentification in this article
Just found #GEB at a free library shelf in Steglitz. It was probably the first time I read about AI in a book as a young adult. They had a copy at the British Council. Only read fragments but it's not form felt very special - made up of whimsical socratic dialogues full of illustrations + formulas.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just found #GEB at a free library shelf in Steglitz. It was probably the first time I read about AI in a book as a young adult. They had a copy at the British Council. Only read fragments but it's not form felt very special - made up of whimsical socratic dialogues full of illustrations + formulas.
#bestread
#speculativefiction
"Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now"
#Review by @sshaviro.bsky.social about Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/neve...
#speculativefiction
"Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now"
#Review by @sshaviro.bsky.social about Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/neve...
Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now | Los Angeles Review of Books
The world of Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons” is rich, strange, and exhilaratingly beautiful; it is also violent and terrible.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#bestread
#speculativefiction
"Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now"
#Review by @sshaviro.bsky.social about Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/neve...
#speculativefiction
"Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now"
#Review by @sshaviro.bsky.social about Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/neve...
#mushroom #fungi #slimemold #sciencefiction
Waxcap, golden spindles, and dog vomit around an old ash in the Welsh countryside. Including a yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on a dead gorse branch.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Waxcap, golden spindles, and dog vomit around an old ash in the Welsh countryside. Including a yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on a dead gorse branch.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Sci-fi fungi round a favourite old ash | Gwyneth Lewis
Cwmtydu, Ceredigion: The tree has been laid low by dieback, but the treasures nearby bring to mind miniature brains, the smell of leather and bread-and-butter pudding
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#mushroom #fungi #slimemold #sciencefiction
Waxcap, golden spindles, and dog vomit around an old ash in the Welsh countryside. Including a yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on a dead gorse branch.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Waxcap, golden spindles, and dog vomit around an old ash in the Welsh countryside. Including a yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on a dead gorse branch.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
>>Once the record-breaking export figures came out, however, Israel’s war ministry publicly argued the opposite, claiming that the campaign in Gaza was what had led to the spike in exports by demonstrating Israel’s “unprecedented operational achievements” and “combat experience.”<<
The function of military asymmetric conflicts around the globe is advertising, mere publicity for the arms sales departments & military shows of an industrial-mil-entertainment complex. #Mustread article by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social via @the-syllabus.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/the-myth-of-...
jewishcurrents.org/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of Israeli Innovation
Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.
jewishcurrents.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
>>Once the record-breaking export figures came out, however, Israel’s war ministry publicly argued the opposite, claiming that the campaign in Gaza was what had led to the spike in exports by demonstrating Israel’s “unprecedented operational achievements” and “combat experience.”<<
Another 'manual' or media literaccy example is Ghosting: On Disappearance book by Dominic Pettman that take on the full impact of social neglect, analyzing what's afoot in today's media ecology, tech networks, political landscape, collective psychology.
dominicpettman.com/books/ghosti...
dominicpettman.com/books/ghosti...
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Another 'manual' or media literaccy example is Ghosting: On Disappearance book by Dominic Pettman that take on the full impact of social neglect, analyzing what's afoot in today's media ecology, tech networks, political landscape, collective psychology.
dominicpettman.com/books/ghosti...
dominicpettman.com/books/ghosti...
#literacy
What is need are also a series of udate to the usual literacy curriculum. New #manuals are needed and educational books that can open up, asses and unite futural and contemporary concerns and struggles. One such examples is rh Romanian initiative of a manual due to be published in Dec.
What is need are also a series of udate to the usual literacy curriculum. New #manuals are needed and educational books that can open up, asses and unite futural and contemporary concerns and struggles. One such examples is rh Romanian initiative of a manual due to be published in Dec.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
For those who are interested in classic science fiction:
This contains “The Stars My Destination” AND “The Demolished Man"
for $0.99
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
This contains “The Stars My Destination” AND “The Demolished Man"
for $0.99
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Classic Collection of Alfred Bester. Hugo Award 1953. Twelve books. Illustrated ebook by Alfred Bester - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Classic Collection of Alfred Bester. Hugo Award 1953. Twelve books. Illustrated The Demolished Man, Star Light, Star Bright, The Men Who Murdered Mohammed, The Pi Man, Adam and No Eve and ot...
www.kobo.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
For those who are interested in classic science fiction:
This contains “The Stars My Destination” AND “The Demolished Man"
for $0.99
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
This contains “The Stars My Destination” AND “The Demolished Man"
for $0.99
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
#socialist #spaceart #space #ddr #mosaic #cosmos #potsdam
I've visited with my cosmic partner JLS one of the most amazing mosaics I've seems.
Sadly it's endangered and slated for destruction. It's a blemish on the neo-Prussian lordly Reichsbürger makeover Potsdam is getting.
It's street level.
I've visited with my cosmic partner JLS one of the most amazing mosaics I've seems.
Sadly it's endangered and slated for destruction. It's a blemish on the neo-Prussian lordly Reichsbürger makeover Potsdam is getting.
It's street level.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#gaming #games #game #history #gaminghistory #consoles #japan #romania #socialistbloc #arcade #gamedev
Most amazing exhibition just being installed and soon to open in fhe Bucharest city center and I'm not there. Can barely believe my bad luck. Bogdan Otaku Gorganeanu, good friend, is co curating.
Most amazing exhibition just being installed and soon to open in fhe Bucharest city center and I'm not there. Can barely believe my bad luck. Bogdan Otaku Gorganeanu, good friend, is co curating.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mieterecho saying if like it is living in #Berlin 's "asset #capitalism" without propriety nor asset.
End station #homelessness. Lack of #affordable #housing is visible everywhere and no one can turn a blind any longer.
End station #homelessness. Lack of #affordable #housing is visible everywhere and no one can turn a blind any longer.
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Mieterecho saying if like it is living in #Berlin 's "asset #capitalism" without propriety nor asset.
End station #homelessness. Lack of #affordable #housing is visible everywhere and no one can turn a blind any longer.
End station #homelessness. Lack of #affordable #housing is visible everywhere and no one can turn a blind any longer.
Probably the best daylight (sadly getting shorter) patterns and colors of the year. Magick #autumn sunny delight. Only one quince this fruitless year from great-grandfathers tree, and what a perfume...
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Probably the best daylight (sadly getting shorter) patterns and colors of the year. Magick #autumn sunny delight. Only one quince this fruitless year from great-grandfathers tree, and what a perfume...
#balkan
Nice #review of books and the preferred historical philosophy (if one can call it that) of recent & probably most popular reading materials in #Romania (beside self-help/motivational): #history. Alex Cistelecan dissecting ingrained platitudes & trappings.
revistavatra.org/2020/10/06/a...
Nice #review of books and the preferred historical philosophy (if one can call it that) of recent & probably most popular reading materials in #Romania (beside self-help/motivational): #history. Alex Cistelecan dissecting ingrained platitudes & trappings.
revistavatra.org/2020/10/06/a...
Alex Cistelecan – Istoria sensului de pe urmă
La o privire sumară asupra ofertei editoriale de la noi, s-ar zice că, în mod oarecum surprinzător, pe lângă segmentele de mare succes ale spiritualității și self help-ului, un al treilea performer…
revistavatra.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#balkan
Nice #review of books and the preferred historical philosophy (if one can call it that) of recent & probably most popular reading materials in #Romania (beside self-help/motivational): #history. Alex Cistelecan dissecting ingrained platitudes & trappings.
revistavatra.org/2020/10/06/a...
Nice #review of books and the preferred historical philosophy (if one can call it that) of recent & probably most popular reading materials in #Romania (beside self-help/motivational): #history. Alex Cistelecan dissecting ingrained platitudes & trappings.
revistavatra.org/2020/10/06/a...
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“The forces pulling Sudan apart have little interest in ending this war, which has created the sort of enclave capitalism that will likely be characteristic of the Horn of Africa in decades to come.” | @joshuacraze.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“The forces pulling Sudan apart have little interest in ending this war, which has created the sort of enclave capitalism that will likely be characteristic of the Horn of Africa in decades to come.” | @joshuacraze.bsky.social
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
good morning youtu.be/akFY7iUR8pY
The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life
YouTube video by Acid Horizon
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
good morning youtu.be/akFY7iUR8pY
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Over the last two years, I’ve been working with Aziz Hazara on an essay for Triple Canopy about ‘Coming Home,’ his extraordinary art project, which has been transforming the trash the Americans left behind at Bagram, Afghanistan. ‘Junk Empire’ is now out! canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/jun...
Junk Empire | Triple Canopy
Like all great found objects, the butt plug invites questions.” On American waste in Afghanistan....
canopycanopycanopy.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Over the last two years, I’ve been working with Aziz Hazara on an essay for Triple Canopy about ‘Coming Home,’ his extraordinary art project, which has been transforming the trash the Americans left behind at Bagram, Afghanistan. ‘Junk Empire’ is now out! canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/jun...