Notices by Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social), page 3

"Of course we use the Humanizer, we don't want it to smell like Ai-writing" #Delvish #YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3110hx3ygp0

*i blame science fiction dystopias that are written entirely in the jargon of economics, "the dismal science"

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

*Literally "shouting at the cloud" here

*L33t hacker's ascii-centric website doesn't seem to have a single ad or tracker on it, what the heck gives with that

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

*Hmmm. Never read a critical AI-assessment quite like that one before. I bet I'll be encountering more of those

https://pop.rdi.sh/sovereignty-in-a-system-prompt/

*Everybody's a critic

*The old face of the Man in the Moon. He's aging, he's shrinking, he's wrinkling all over, poor fellow

https://scitechdaily.com/the-moon-is-still-shrinking-and-scientists-just-found-new-moonquake-zones/

*Oh brother

"Whatever happens to musicians will happen to futurists"

*For what it is, it's pretty good. It probably needs a sequel that goes a thousand years into the future.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12538

*Makers radicalizing against ICE with their 3DPrinters

*That's not all that radical, but it's pretty radical as Makers go

https://www.wired.com/story/makers-are-building-back-against-ice/

*I blame science fiction dystopias... no wait, I blame betting markets backed by Palantir and Trump Family members

https://defector.com/prediction-markets-are-betting-on-a-grim-future

*What petty, vindictive act will OpenAI, Anthropic and loose-cannon Peter Steinberger perform next to screw each other over and spitefully offend their own early-adopters

*It's gotta be SOMETHING. All they need to do is fire up their AGI agents and generate cosmic schemes to derail their own Singularity

"ClawHavoc." Those guys must be fun. #malware #agents

*The ones who got OpenClaw to work are "faced with sleepless nights and a complete existential crisis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVUQAYHwzI

The mistress of Pavel Durov has returned to her Dubai-centric lifestyle-blog scene

*I wonder if this has anything at all to do with Telegram getting banned in Russia

https://youtu.be/8XM0KcI-U5M?si=GxwnIvtMHawhI6Vh

"Agent skills"

https://clawhub.ai

*Antique auction, Lot 009: Apple Macintosh II Computer, 1987–90

https://youtu.be/es57eXdPQRY?si=-1qbgNT27lJx-09i

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/116090733942545438

*I enjoy a debate of this kind probably lots more than the next guy, but by "post-history" I mean statements about a world that's got no more "ontology" and no philosophers to have any

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/116090737962543312

*I can write a pretty good Marinetti parody, but I never yet got around to writing a Bifo parody, and you know, maybe I should

*Worst-of-both-worlds scenario

"people are worrying both that AI investment won’t pay off (the $650bn that the big four platform companies announced they’ll invest this year) and also worrying it will demolish other industries (both can be true)"