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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Jul-2025 00:53:06 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Jul-2025 15:47:28 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
Is this "good" or "bad"
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 15:33:21 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*I wonder if there's an inside-out way to do this, like you build some completely up-to-date 3DPrinted home and then you fill it with shabby medieval southern-Italian furniture relics
https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/a-slice-of-heaven-the-puglian-trulli-offering-pure-escapism
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 03:10:25 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
The burrowing, survivalist sort-of lizard here is what life-on-Earth looks like after a truly massive great-extinction
Ugly, but gets the job done
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 01:41:28 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Given that it's from Ohio, that's some pretty good hot sauce, especially if you appreciate "pain as a flavor"
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 22:31:36 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Nuclear fusion and data center immersion cooling #overheated
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 18:36:42 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Randomly scraping through megatons of people's hacked PC data, looking for anything you might monetize, sounds like a killer LLM app #darkside #AI
https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 14:53:47 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*This guy is re-making ancient digital watches, so of course he has to re-release the original 13-year-old support merch. #deadhardware #revival
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 06:35:50 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Good lord. #WilliamBlake #TheFall
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 15:33:27 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
'The new Commodore website pitches the company as a “digital detox brand [that’s] grounded in digital minimalism.” It rails against social media, glorifies the good old days of “techno optimism”...
https://www.wired.com/story/the-risky-business-of-bringing-commodore-back-to-life/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 08:43:11 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
"From your feedback, we understood that it may have been unclear that you retain ownership and control of your content" #weasel #AI
https://wetransfer.com/blog/story/wetransfer-terms-of-service-changes-july-2025
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 18:55:44 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*He scrubbed his Mastodon account because somebody's border cops will surely use it against him sooner or later
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/column_social_media_entrapment/
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 16:33:10 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*I went on a pilgrimage to the archaeology museum to commune with the world's first multitool. #Italy #AncientRome #materialculture
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 21:22:05 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
"This is not the first time “Nut Brother” has been subjected to forced disappearance. The artist-activist has been arrested and coerced into silence several times in the past decade."
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 12:37:33 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*This happens rather often in Italy: you see some gorgeous, overwrought artwork of Raphael's "Fornarina" and then the actual Italian girl wanders into the shot and she's some normal chick from the local bakery
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 02:02:12 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*So, they're claiming this extremely effective state-supported Ukrainian assassin was done in by an American stochastic terror network
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/the-base-terrorist-group-ukraine-assassination
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 16:27:01 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*For all your high-street shopping needs #anarchofeminism
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 00:17:52 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*The thing that's really interesting about this movie is that archivist Allison McGourtey obviously knows much more about Led Zeppelin than the surviving members can recall about themselves
*It's truly historical
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 00:15:10 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*That's a much better music documentary than I expected it to be
*Not a word about drug-crazed orgies with groupies in it, but, well, maybe there's been enough said about that
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:38:36 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
*Way to go, Thor Heyerdahl, who of course gets no credit for these belated genetics results
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