Notices by Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)

Meanwhile, in China

*Well, y'know, all of "coding" has always been the easy-cyberguy way to seemingly accomplish some stuff without the hard work of hitting it with analog saws hammers hoes and shovels

*I get it why he's reasonably upset about the current irrational state of the human condition, but it's like he's never heard of religion or nationalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

*Nice bloody-shirt article about AI driving literally everybody nuts here. #massdelusion

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

*A million pledged for seven thousand dollars, what could go wrong

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ikko/ikko-mind-one-ai-smartphone

*Large Language Models say that human "developers" are a "mixed bag"

*Might sound odd, but that article may have already been written

https://www.wired.com/story/gpt-5-coding-review-software-engineering/

*Is a revamped castle in Norwich really "European News"? I guess those invading Normans from across the Channel would still quality as European

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/08/17/900-year-old-norwich-castle-reopens-after-major-275-million-revamp

*Man, the pop-science-jargon is epic in this one. #entanglementswapping #physics #bizarre

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work/

"It's gonna be AI vs CGI -- and we're not the bad guys any more! Our movie was made with 'hand-crafted CGI!'"

https://youtube.com/shorts/SbagaIyYTT4?si=joRd1fQg4O4sxNEe

"Oh my God what happened to that actress, what did she do at the clinic"

"Yamanaka factor-induced partial reprogramming of her mesenchymal drift"

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00853-0

*I quite like fractals but they still have the unfortunate color-palette choices that they did 40 years ago

https://youtu.be/sDGKZkx-icw?si=T2-_w9RFWpV5_Y_z

https://youtu.be/_bNBbBVBDZU?si=27ggYhjJWN3ew4mK

#deadmedia

*What if they're lastingly suspicious, just like those secret police in Turin

https://medium.com/@bruces/the-mysterious-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8

*AI cap-ex boom. Pretty much the only economic thing happening

"Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218

*These Slovenians 3DPrinted microscopic barcodes inside of a living cell.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13232

The Clickspring guy points out that there are no "absolute measurements" in his work. For years now, he's been hand-building an ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism just to eyeballing it

https://youtu.be/xwmxmUNA7Pw?si=NHFPAaes90hy4ea9

*The "Tesla Deaths" website. Not a lot of web-design frills in this one

*Lotta dead people, though

https://www.tesladeaths.com

*The science papermill mafia. What's the largest amount of black money that this "mafia" could possibly make?

https://www.wired.com/story/black-market-for-fraudulent-science-growing-faster-than-legitimate-research/

*Please transform this 1930s science fiction writer into a cyberpunk science fiction writer of the 1990s.

BingChaGPT: Your transformed cyberpunk sci-fi writer is on the way—think neon-lit dystopia, digital grit, and a typewriter swapped for a hacking rig.