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

*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

*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

*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

*The Market Solution to the Existence of Humanity

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo

"...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/

*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

"Sunny Day Flooding" in the "Inundated Risk Zone" #twentyfirstcentury

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03062025/new-jersey-shore-towns-sea-level-rise/

*Snooty, indifferent "Andromeda Galaxy" can't even be bothered to crash into us.

https://youtu.be/o2x_31dE04s?si=6wKAlnmPHFdp8jdZ

*This seems like a prettty standard cyberwar report, except that it's the Chinese complaining at length, in English, about the Taiwanese

https://www.cverc.org.cn/head/zhaiyao/Investigation_report_on_Cyberattacks_launched_by_Taiwan_ICEFCOM_EN.pdf

*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its distance from the center of the Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo

*That seems fun.

https://danfaggella.com

*Almost four hundred AI-shoggoth memes collected during the past couple of years.

*I don't even search hard

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAw9HM

*What kind of inhuman fiend would pirate Makertainment merch, and worse yet what fan would wear that

https://youtu.be/nb1c07Q5VdM?si=XXuVpKy3IULStdVr

*Giant powned fraud networks that used to be televisions

https://www.wired.com/story/1-million-third-party-android-devices-badbox-2/

*Can LLMs do geolocation, well, yeah, sort of

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/06/06/have-llms-finally-mastered-geolocation/

*What if ICE kidnaps Elon and ships him to a camp in El Salvador

*Of course he lied on those visa forms, he lies all the time every day

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-trump-breakup-tesla-stock-price/

*Did you ever think of entering to maybe win a S+T+ARTS Prize? I must have met a thousand creative people who could plausibly win one of those.

https://ars.electronica.art/mediaservice/en/2025/06/04/starts-prize-winners-2025/

Ekaterina Timofeeva is a tattoo artist who blows up nuclear bombers with drone swarms

*Interesting list of banned people and organizations there #Russia #socialmedia

*European moon rover has a cute little house on it

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/europes-first-rover-to-land-on-moon-and-its-carrying-a-tiny-red-house/ar-AA1G8GZe?ocid=BingNewsSerp