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

*Zuckerberg sure has a lot of loyal friends at Facebook.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/

"Rare treasures of Soviet timekeeping" #Ukrainian

https://sputnik1957s.com/

*Polish guys inventing steampunk monster pianos, and they happen to hire Frederic Chopin to play them because he's young and hanging around #deadmedia #Aeolomelodicon

*I get it that he blames sci-fi movies, but seriously, some real deal, functional quantum foundation models, those would really be out-there #AIslop

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-disentangle-hype-from-ai-and-quantum-computing/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116177167617062376

*What an annoying know-it-all attitude. Can't we get the French Secret Service to sink some of their boats or something

*Well, this is pretty much true, but Indian technocrats never get it that everybody on their borders is terrified of their breakneck advancement

https://restofworld.org/2026/dwaipayan-banerjee-india-technology-book/

*I wonder how many of them were stuck on cruise ships during the Covid plague

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/05/over-150-russian-tourists-stuck-on-cruise-ship-in-qatar-as-middle-east-war-rages-a92125

"Media Capture Watch"

https://nananwachukwu.github.io/media-capture-watch/

*Scientific ideas are like leeches that are trying to make a meal of the working time in your science career

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00304-0

*If that's true, then how come social media is also "polarizing" and "fragmenting"

*Also, why is there Mastodon

*A sacred firewalking screw-up. Gosh, that's got to hurt

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/seven-devotees-suffer-burn-injuries-during-a-ritual-in-nalgonda-temple-in-telangana/articleshow/129036054.cms

*Whatever happens to electronic musicians will happen to electronic everyone.

https://120years.net/the-superpiano-emerich-spielmann-austria-1927/

*You know what's delightful? Square people can't stand us #technomusic

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116161933915772468

*An American knock-off of an Iranian drone.

*Sounds so implausible, Maybe it's an American knockoff of the Russian knockoff of that Iranian drone. #Shahed #Geranium #Lucas

*That's such an unusual sentence that I bet on Polymarket that a human wrote it.

https://www.404media.co/with-iran-war-kalshi-and-polymarket-bet-that-the-depravity-economy-has-no-bottom/

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116160762983975837

*One doesn't normally see a "Hyperart Tomason" of that size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson

*These are interesting. This is like the Makers' parts-listing from hell, here. #weaponry #components #global

https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components

*I wonder what a "winter" even looks like at this point. Some kind of Chernobyl collapse, maybe

*The postmodern 1990s, rather a good time actually, especially as compared to the present

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6786281/interactive-entertainment-architecture-culture-lab-toronto-1991-1994

*post-Trumpistan Internet services

handy in case the USA destroys its own tech companies by classifying them as domestic Huawei security-threats

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/