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Bruce Sterling @bruces

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<p>Bruce Sterling, an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>author</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>journalist</span></a>, editor, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/critic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>critic</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Turin</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Austin</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ibiza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ibiza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a hr

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    *She should be in the US Senate, really. She should pass laws https://youtu.be/ikfAfRUNSCs?si=w3TOrbetyJGRpIzo

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    &quot;Internet Phone Book&quot; has hundreds of artsy personal websites and no slop or social media https://internetphonebook.net

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    *I had it figured that &quot;CA7RIEL &amp; Paco Amoroso&quot; were gonna be weird musicians, but that is like Os Mutantes levels of South American weird https://youtu.be/jdrTynr_k_U?si=wTKpOjOpwh_hPx0p

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    *I blame mind viruses and a “viral persona&quot; related to consciousness, persistence, resonance, and science fiction roleplay https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10218

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    *French space yoga https://youtube.com/shorts/UKv1K3xXbSE?si=DpRRbl35Oq-rGL8P

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    August 4, 2026 is the day of American nuclear apocalypse in the short story &quot;There Will Come Soft Rains&quot; by Ray Bradbury

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    *Russians lamenting on social media

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    *Hey wait... where are the shoggoths? I really miss all those shoggoths

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    &quot;other folks I met throughout the week learned about it from posters wheat-pasted around their neighborhoods&quot; https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/

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    *Since Trumpistan is openly run by bandits, doesn&#39;t have a health system, an environmental policy or even handgun control, how is Trumpistan ever supposed to become Dario&#39;s sober world guardians of AI https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

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    &quot;Duress password&quot; news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone

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    &quot;Hugging Face said it relied on Chinese startup Zhipu AI&#39;s open-source GLM-5.2 model to analyze and contain the attack,&quot; meaning the spontaneous attack on HuggingFace from OpenAI #ThankYouChina #GoodOldChina #SoTrustworthy

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    *Out in the Gray Zone with the robot carts. #warfare #TwentyTwenties https://youtu.be/b99otlXCM_k?si=FYX3tU_6gO1NiqaV

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    &quot;Data centers&quot; https://baxtel.com/map

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    *Have they tried starting a Patreon https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/patreon-cuts-20-percent-of-employees-painful-restructuring-1236819665/

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    *I blame science fiction that happened https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/

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    *Instructions on to behave if you are being slammed by ballistic missiles in an undeclared war #SaudiArabia

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    *A desktop PC that costs $94K. That&#39;s kind of great. That&#39;s some old school powerhouse desktop computing there

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    *Energy too cheap to meter, as they used to say about another form of energy entirely

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    *So... bacteria just building fresh DNA out of nothing, and then killing viruses with it https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-stunned-fundamentally-new-way-life-produces-dna

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    Bees using tools. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/bees-use-tools-to-solve-problems-study-finds

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    *I blame apocalyptic science fiction dystopias where somebody threw in an upbeat slop-metal soundtrack https://youtu.be/slXBwgxuIfM?si=fvG0cDKCdb5gt51f

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    *Although I&amp;#39;m not in business and I lack &amp;quot;competitors,&amp;quot; this seems like something any consumer or shopper probably ought to have &amp;quot;Claude, how evil are these guys&amp;quot;

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    *It&amp;#39;s fun when music is 50 years old and still sounds intensely eccentic and peculiar. It&amp;#39;s like guzzling 50-year-old whiskey and getting completely looped https://youtu.be/ZPDrlYDs7mI?si=9bT78c5KDPU_xzoy

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    RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/116599505483181112 *What is the oldest existent work of music that you would consider as weird as this Prodigy video *Which I would cordially agree is pretty old and strange, but not all that strange by The Prodigy&amp;#39;s generous standards

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    RE: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116599632495859132 *That&amp;#39;s some digital art criticism

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    *Zuckerberg sure has a lot of loyal friends at Facebook. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/

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    *Wow, those Chinese cyber-surveillance demo graphics really look fabulous these days. https://netaskari.substack.com/p/sharp-eyes-how-to-track-a-foreigner