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

*In Putinstan/Trumpistan, everybody is All Nadya, All the Time

https://hyperallergic.com/1019147/nadya-tolokonnikova-builds-a-prison-of-her-own-geffen-contemporary/

*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

*She's almost a one-woman Fourth Estate at this point

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

*A carbon-nanotube motor.

https://newatlas.com/technology/kist-cnt-cscec-carbon-nanotube-wire/

*Now that's "folk music." A hundred years old, recorded on a wax cylinder, and they're Inuit in Greenland

https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/inuit-55-historical-recordings-of-traditional-greenlandic-music

https://www.academia.edu/102093759/Designing_the_Past

#atemporality #design #designingthepast

"Tyrannosaurus Rex" -- a conjectural creature of the 20th century

https://youtu.be/ZU-YBI0HykY?si=5r6ssyaEbiiBUg0H

*Well, uh.... they've been through plenty

*And it ain't over yet

https://youtu.be/S_dDfYL5Irw?si=0MR0TbPiQGHVrLpR

*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