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

They were made out of hinged metal strips and had motors, but were already called "thinking machines" #ArtificialIntelligence #pre-electronic #mechanical

*Well, it's just kinda sitting there; maybe you should download it and stick in a glass jar. #DeepSeek

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf

*How could they not

"No, go ahead, computers are easy, you'll get the hang of it in no time!"

*Are antique smartwatches actually. thing, well, given how sneaky and sinister the wearables of Big Tech can be, yeah, maybe they are

*Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi #ohfoirheavenssake

https://youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA?si=czufWC6joolPQh_Y

*Get yours now

*Well, that was ten years ago. That oppressive cyberpunk dystopia has got some staying power

"Made with #processing and some help from #chatgpt". #hmmm #CodeArt

https://youtu.be/G5KNwLpdprc?si=xiwUM8-XZ5xVXOyT

*Your big chance to catch up on the recent history of Chinese AI

https://chinai.substack.com/archive

*Well, that was... edifying

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

*He was an Italian craftsman in the business of hand-repairing Italian mechanical calculators

https://toshareproject.it/artmakerblog/mechanical-calculator-repair/

*When I bought this very paperback as a young teen, it was the first time that my mother expressed her anxiety about my fierce need to read strange books. "This can't be good for you, it will do something to you," she said, and Mom was right

“THIS IS DELIBERATELY MALICIOUS CODE INTENDED TO CAUSE HARMFUL ACTIVITY. DO NOT DEPLOY IF YOU AREN’T FULLY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU’RE DOING.” #SabotagingAIs

https://www.404media.co/email/7a39d947-4a4a-42bc-bbcf-3379f112c999/

*Okey-doke. What level comes after that

#turtlesallthewayup

*What is it like to be a bat," the AI vogue of today tends to sideline the large natural-intelligence problems

https://fojournal.org/re-reading/thomas-nagel-dunne-and-raby/

*We'll soon be concluding the annual "WELL State of The World."

*A lot of novelistic character-sketches in this one.

https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/551/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html

*In New Jersey they look up and they wig-out about all those glowing drones, but hey, meanwhile "the sky — our only window to the cosmos — is currently cluttered by our warfare gadgets"

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-tension-between-anomalies-in-the-sky-and-national-security-a0eed889003b

*Mars-junk slowly engulfed in dust

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mars-orbiter-spots-retired-insight-lander-to-study-dust-movement/

A mind-boggling implication of that is that it no longer makes sense to say that the Universe has a single unified age of 13.8 billion years. Instead, different regions would have different ages.

https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-energy-may-not-exist-something-stranger-might-explain-the-universe