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

https://soundcloud.com/lawyerontheloose/a-hundred-years-from-now-caddiganbrennanstory-1914-coverversion

Is this "good" or "bad"

*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

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

*Given that it's from Ohio, that's some pretty good hot sauce, especially if you appreciate "pain as a flavor"

*Nuclear fusion and data center immersion cooling #overheated

*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/

*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

https://ericmigi.com/blog/july-pebble-update

*Good lord. #WilliamBlake #TheFall

https://youtu.be/ibA1ypB_ny0?si=vQaGSMVJgQCOoRkf

'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/

"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

*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/

*I went on a pilgrimage to the archaeology museum to commune with the world's first multitool. #Italy #AncientRome #materialculture

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCnhq8

"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."

https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/11/what-does-the-disappearance-of-nut-brother-reveal-about-the-plight-of-performance-artists-in-china/

*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

*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

*For all your high-street shopping needs #anarchofeminism

*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

https://youtu.be/EDKC77QS8WM?si=ixlrsGTP3u5fCjB_

*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

https://youtu.be/EDKC77QS8WM?si=ixlrsGTP3u5fCjB_

*Way to go, Thor Heyerdahl, who of course gets no credit for these belated genetics results

https://www.science.org/content/article/polynesians-steering-stars-met-native-americans-long-europeans-arrived