Bruce Sterling @bruces / is on Nostr

Bruce Sterling, an author, journalist, editor, critic in Turin, Austin and Ibiza
https://medium.com/@bruces

Last Notes

2024-08-08 15:08:18

*Why does NVIDIA even *need* to scrape YouTube and Netflix, isn't it enough for them to make their trillion bucks selling shovels in the gold rush
https://youtu.be/WbdHukwbRPk?si=lJEAvwFTwsyzGCK_

2024-07-30 11:31:54

*"Ukraine gleefully passing lethal intelligence to Al Qaeda" somehow not making it into the interesting text here. #waronterror
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/29/ukraine-military-intelligence-claims-involvement-in-deadly-wagner-ambush-in-mali

2024-03-24 03:14:18

*Is this true? Did any actual human eat an actual pill and try this?
https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2023/01/prime-posture-for-pill-taking/

2024-03-04 09:16:11

@michaelgemar *If you want to carry a multitool whose primary purpose is impressing other people, then I strongly recommend the baroquely elaborate Swiss Army Cybertool
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/036/658/484/801/128/original/3516f912f4434218.jpg

2024-01-18 16:23:26

*If Apple also flops, how long until somebody else somehow tries yet again
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/777/873/055/403/114/original/5b9f1197fd47898b.jpg

2023-11-23 10:16:04

*It's got no pen!! Where's the freakin' pen? Do I have to install my own custom scales and BUY a pen??
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/459/337/337/449/439/original/3b978551dbf1027c.jpg

2023-11-23 10:13:34

*I seriously require the Scissors, the Pliers, the Saw, the Pen and at least one good stout blade preferably locking, but does that really mean that I have to lug the huge, ungainly Champ around #EDC
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/459/327/996/310/000/original/4505e1695ff2804d.jpg

2023-11-18 19:18:54

*What gives with this? Has Sam Altman pulled a Sam Bankman-Fried here? #sams
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/433/163/133/971/469/original/53b9df15f2cb3e81.jpg

2023-11-17 14:20:25

*I kinda figured I'd get kicked out sooner or later
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/426/325/427/510/867/original/3ded30ff06e61655.jpg

2023-11-05 15:41:57

*That's not "the Louvre," that geodome is a Turinese public pop-up held together with tape and zip-ties
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/358/697/772/411/053/original/db99a7e69de12b35.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/358/698/724/339/156/original/be2f110161cfb775.jpeg

2023-08-17 06:10:56

*There ought to be a word to describe a complex, confrontational social-media experience like this, but I don't know what that word is
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/903/469/386/473/734/original/b67d159017bbd90d.jpg