Notices by Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social), page 2

*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/

*Hmmm. #embxodied #AI

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUn_ukSkUaJ/

*The state of the art in local complaining here in modern Ibiza

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116152853657663992

*Oh they did, did they. #Nordstream #pipelinewar #bloodforoil #whocares #sue-us

*This behavior has rather a "galactic panspermia" vibe

https://futurism.com/space/water-spraying-3i-atlas

*I like guys who personally solve cosmology and all of physics in their spare time

https://muellerberndt.medium.com/how-observer-path-holography-improves-on-the-standard-model-and-general-relativity-c971c376027e

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/116151543520203582

*Maybe some random Swiss patent clerk figured it all out and couldn't even be bothered to publish it

"Accelerated ageing tests on written voxels in borosilicate suggest data lifetimes exceeding 10,000 years."

*Well, how "Long Now" of them

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345

*Is it even technically possible to create a market that's more intensely enshittified than the "crypto market"?

*Maybe a darknet crypto market entirely owned and run by North Koreans could somehow be worse? I dunno. Concerning

Famous scientifiction author has some patents and has been known to lecture about physics

"I got replaced by a radio AI"

*Dhuranadhar is a cinematic emanation direct from the people they hate-and-fear worst, but I've never seen any film set in urban Pakistan that looks and acts this much like the real Pakistan

*It's like somebody finally noticed

*I wouldn't call #Dhurandhar a world-cinema classic, but this flick is a colossal megahit with the huge domestic audience it was built for. Also: I'm betting that millions of Pakistanis will watch it repeatedly

Stuff like: high-level Indian internal corruption is national security threat #1, while the sordid wreckage of Pakistan is merely threat #2

Also: it takes India five years to pull hardcore maneuvers that any other major planetary power would covertly do in five weeks

*Well, this movie is a gaudy, violent Bollywood gangster/terrorist/spy thriller, but it also talks geopolitics almost exactly like well-briefed Indian hardliner military analysts really do talk geopolitics. #Dhurandahr #Netflixed #watching

"Global Face Human Resources," helping Russia fight the war in Ukraine down to the last Kenyan

https://theins.press/en/news/289758

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116138807255867676

"the audacious task of computing literally every single combination of mutually visible points on Earth"

*What a peculiar story. It's a pity that the Trump US Dept of Justice has zero credibility, because it would be good to know what really happened

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-air-force-pilot-arrested-providing-defense-services-chinese-military

*I blame science fiction dystopias

*For their impact on stock market prices

*How come there's always just one single Singularity, can't we get killed by an agentic swarm of ten or twelve of them