*In Putinstan/Trumpistan, everybody is All Nadya, All the Time
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 20:02:59 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 14:03:29 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*I've seen societies that are relatively humane, honest. aboveboard and just, and yet for 71 years I've chosen to abide in sleazy, haywire places like Texas, India, Italy, Serbia
*Why
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 13:51:59 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*She's almost a one-woman Fourth Estate at this point
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 13:48:07 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*A carbon-nanotube motor.
https://newatlas.com/technology/kist-cnt-cscec-carbon-nanotube-wire/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 13:29:11 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Now that's "folk music." A hundred years old, recorded on a wax cylinder, and they're Inuit in Greenland
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 22:11:23 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 15:50:12 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
"Tyrannosaurus Rex" -- a conjectural creature of the 20th century
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 01:14:52 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Well, uh.... they've been through plenty
*And it ain't over yet
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 15:20:05 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*People put up with the drone harassment because if you dare to put up a fuss about it, that's when the blockbuster glide-bombs arrive
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 15:19:13 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*I wonder if we have a general polycrisis situation coming where it's just anybody's random armed drones popping up out of trucks, freight cars, boats, and then buzzing over and pipe-bombing targets, anywhere, any time
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 15:02:43 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*There's a counterfactual history where Russian did NOT rashly invade Ukraine, and Russia's geopolitical position looks fabulous now, rarely better ever in Russian history
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 15:00:03 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*The Market Solution to the Existence of Humanity
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:22:56 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
"...drone warfare stacks against U.S. ground forces. How useful would our multi-million-dollar warplanes be against massed swarms of small Chinese drones, zipping around in helter-skelter flight paths at extremely low altitude?"
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/09/toward-a-new-understanding-of-air-dominance/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 22:52:13 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Chemtrail paranoia -- when you're pitifully afraid of the damaged sky overhead,, but you can't say the words "greenhouse effect" or "pollution"
https://apnews.com/article/chemtrail-louisiana-ban-conspiracy-e7562efe0251588978153cef30034e63
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 22:47:41 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
"Sunny Day Flooding" in the "Inundated Risk Zone" #twentyfirstcentury
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062025/new-jersey-shore-towns-sea-level-rise/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 18:16:39 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Snooty, indifferent "Andromeda Galaxy" can't even be bothered to crash into us.
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 17:32:53 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*This seems like a prettty standard cyberwar report, except that it's the Chinese complaining at length, in English, about the Taiwanese
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:58:45 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its distance from the center of the Earth
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:40:51 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*That seems fun.
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 01:49:01 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Almost four hundred AI-shoggoth memes collected during the past couple of years.
*I don't even search hard
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