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

*That was truly a weird mag. I read a lot of weirdness, but I used to read those and set them down so that my weird-ometer could reset.

https://arthurmag.com/read-the-magazine-in-pdf-format/?

*The joys of British imperialism in India; they died like flies, from disease mostly. #MarySomerville #scientist #memoirs

*Memoirs of Mary Somerville, 19th-century woman scientist and mentor of Ada Lovelace.

https://archive.org/details/b21960239

*Even the birds and worms are painted with the funereal #MarySomerville #memoirs

*Mary Somerville was a very unusual woman, but the striking part of pretty much any Victorian memoir is the incredibly high death-rate. Just, bodies strewn everywhere, orgies of grief.

*That took about 90 seconds

*I know that people get defenestrated, but, other than Russia, has there ever been another country, now or in the past, where so many people get thrown out of windows

*How did this become such a routine, long-term thing for them

*The Malaysian AI Office. They seem busy

https://ai.gov.my

*In the ongoing AI chip war between China and Trumpistan, Malaysia seems to have become the gray-market broker

*Malaysia, of all people

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chinese-ai-firm-deepseek-reportedly-using-shell-companies-to-try-and-evade-u-s-chip-restrictions-allegedly-procured-unknown-number-of-h100-ai-gpus-after-ban-but-nvidia-denies-the-claim

"Do you understand physics"

"Alas no for I am only an LLM chatbot"

*This is absolutely the weirdest make-believe "Western saloon" that I've ever seen in a movie #cinemamuto #Italy

*And the "cowboy costumes" are equally sublime in their off-the-wallness

https://youtu.be/vu0MndFp9aU?si=NjcNa-fLRQuH3GoN&t=116

*Meanwhile, in the glamorous world of surveillance capitalism

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/opinion_browser/

*Fifty long years of foreign tourists dancing on their island, maybe you can forgive the Ibizans for getting a little weary and blase about it

https://soundcloud.com/soundcloud-stories/sets/ibiza-summer-anthems

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme

*Won't get much traction on Xtwitter

*Character problems with LLM agents /chatbots as "workers" and "copilots"

*Well, there's another chunk of galactic slag zipping through our solar system

*The third one mankind has managed to notice

https://nriglobe.com/tech-news/nasa-discovers-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas/

*This soldier has used a lot of killer drones, and he says they are toys for rich people that are overhyped, buggy and balky

https://warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fought-in-ukraine-and-heres-why-fpv-drones-kind-of-suck/

*The "Los Angeles Police Department" are the Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat and they're inside your security cameras

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/23/lapdog_orb_network_attack_campaign/

*Well, yeah... Tolkien hobbit politics are indeed kind of obvious if you ever bother to think about them

https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/the-moral-economy-of-the-shire/

*Really working it with the off-the-wall historical techgnosis there. #mediahistory #occultism #madness

https://default.blog/p/lets-talk-about-chatgpt-induced-spiritual