Bruce Sterling @bruces

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

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2026-08-20 12:17:05 CEST

*Zagreb, of all cities, has Europe's first robotaxis?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-autonomous-rides-zagreb-its-first-europe-2026-08-19/
*Also the "Verne" company is named after Jules Verne
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/127/312/691/208/302/original/bfdd9180153be7bf.jpg

2026-08-18 12:43:38 CEST

*25 years ago
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/116/095/647/226/557/original/9c689537f84f51c2.jpg

2026-08-16 16:27:50 CEST

*Offshored hacker-slave camps profit hugely, while ethnonational "sovereign cyberspace" forces ignore them and fight each other
https://www.techpolicy.press/amid-crackdown-few-signs-of-a-slowdown-in-scam-compounds/

2026-08-16 08:21:27 CEST

*I know that people practice anti-Chinese industrial espionage, but it's unusual to boast in English about it
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/13/mich-2000/

2026-08-14 20:35:37 CEST

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117094507707502754
*Hey wait, look, these global Internet ad companies are run by our national enemies
#note17d6…fz2p

2026-08-06 22:10:30 CEST

*It you are pro-AI or anti-AI, I would recommend that you look this over
https://boyswhocriedai.lovable.app/archive

2026-08-06 18:51:28 CEST

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html
*Gosh, there's all kinds of schadenfreude stuff to gloat about with the high-flying 20-something AI-booster zillionaire

2026-08-04 11:53:43 CEST

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

2026-08-03 09:54:56 CEST

*I admire these "scientific facts" of other eras. These are great artworks
*I don't frame them on the wall, but maybe I should
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/030/496/516/566/613/original/3dc33b3700dbb7a0.webp

2026-07-24 12:41:49 CEST

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

2026-07-24 11:16:50 CEST

*Hmm. Is it worse or better for the cause of the protesting students that the entire town goes dark because they made trouble
https://internetfreedom.in/iff-condemns-the-internet-shutdown-in-parts-of-central-delhi-no-suspension-order-has-been-made-public/

2026-07-13 19:43:22 CEST

*A desktop PC that costs $94K. That's kind of great. That's some old school powerhouse desktop computing there
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/913/903/477/450/020/original/23bcabf7dd033fb9.jpg

2026-07-13 19:08:42 CEST

*Energy too cheap to meter, as they used to say about another form of energy entirely
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/913/767/602/468/626/original/71f614638cfd0bb2.webp

2026-06-30 06:10:16 CEST

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

2026-06-24 12:38:10 CEST

*Asian neon has become so old that it's a vanishing handicraft.
https://youtu.be/2QfbvK3FCE4?si=SBA9WS6cZaZ83C8M

2026-06-17 10:47:16 CEST

*I guess I have to blame science fiction utopias for not making this important case for the trillion-dollar AI investors
https://europe2031.ai/summary/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/764/574/965/959/996/original/8acdd2692698c4da.jpg

2026-06-17 10:39:53 CEST

Well, you know, you just spend the two billion and install 3,000 car chargers all over Europe. #China #BeltAndRoad #solar #electrification
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/764/545/176/996/216/original/49a19605bee024f1.jpg

2026-06-10 13:44:07 CEST

*If you don't like the video antics of Melissa Backwoods, you probably just don't like extreme and weird modern cutlery #MesoAmericanCyberpunk
https://youtu.be/eOallTTlMV4?si=a24n68jax5BBi6mG

2026-06-02 23:42:56 CEST

*Well, if that's true, then who the heck is left who wants to attend a revamped Game Developer Conference
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/

2026-05-30 16:02:37 CEST

*India terraforming a new navy base so as to control the Malacca Strait. #China #SouthChinaSea #Iran #StraitofHormuz #deglobalize
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2026/05/08/india-to-build-strategic-outpost-near-key-shipping-lane-in-indo-pacific/

2026-05-15 14:43:03 CEST

*Moralizing essays about AI killer-drone ethics have more point to them when you and yours are getting blown up
https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/war-by-subscription-how-the-gamification-of-combat-became-the-dream-factorys-newest-product-ec7297aedc96

2026-05-13 18:17:35 CEST

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror
https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw

2026-05-05 10:19:47 CEST

*I'm assuming he just made this up, because this is what he himself imagines he is doing whenever he's killing time in social-media. #fearless #truthwarrior #oligarch #techbro
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/520/984/541/092/352/original/ab73ef52dfb1d683.jpg

2026-05-04 13:19:46 CEST

*You ever read that sober, analytical OSS operator-manual about smashing up and sabotaging every possible device and process in Nazi-occupied Europe
*Nobody ever calls those characters "Luddites"

2026-05-03 14:09:38 CEST

*If there are new "laws of nature" but only AIs can find them and describe them, are those even "laws"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260422044635.htm

2026-04-29 17:51:07 CEST

*All is not well in the Land of Microslop, my goodness what scoldings they're getting
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/github-is-failing-me-every-single-day-and-it-is-personal-after-xbox-and-windows-now-github-is-in-crisis-microsoft-what-are-you-doing

2026-04-25 11:06:30 CEST

*Well, of course "the public" hates the AI industry, but I think this article undersells how much the top people in the industry hate and distrust each other
https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash

2026-04-21 06:46:07 CEST

“The entropic energy of the proton motive force gets converted into the kinetic energy of the rotation,” *at the rate of 2,000 protons per second
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/

2026-04-18 13:42:29 CEST

*Well, that one's straight out of the tinfoil hat warehouse
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00330-2
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/425/525/568/947/544/original/65a846c6c70aea92.jpg

2026-04-16 07:44:33 CEST

"It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week’s big news in which the company formerly known as Facebook decided to shut down its Metaverse project on which it has, according to various reports, spent eighty billion dollars,' says Neal Stephenson
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild

2026-03-19 15:59:45 CET

"Whatever Happens to Musicians Will Happen to AI"
*I'm always referring to musicians and thir situations,, but I rarely talk to them directly. Here I do
https://medium.com/@bruces/whatever-happens-to-music-will-happen-to-ai-2026-9a4482a2a012

2026-02-28 07:31:34 CET

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
#note1ptv…zvqe

2026-02-20 05:12:04 CET

*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

2026-02-20 05:02:33 CET

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/100/965/943/491/071/original/1bd80b11d0345dc9.jpg

2026-02-09 13:04:32 CET

*How could that not be worth a trilliion
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/040/575/400/615/580/original/7aa32ba7ed9fe5ff.jpg

2026-02-09 10:24:26 CET

*When pigs fly
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/039/946/047/192/716/original/d4bc65b41b89e109.jpg

2026-02-03 15:27:18 CET

*Maybe if somebody printed this out and stapled it onto telephone poles outside of ICE headquarters
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/007/162/435/794/103/original/bde130abf036074b.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/007/162/897/802/753/original/a251c1512dff4cfa.jpg

2026-01-17 07:27:10 CET

*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes where the convenient Big Data already is
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/909/014/929/209/033/original/a7f651c96716b56d.jpg

2026-01-15 08:37:54 CET

*You have to wonder what an Internet-blackout USA would look like. There's some big civil disorder, "they" shut down the routers, and then what
*How do people even eat
https://curifem.github.io/iran-internet-blackout/

2026-01-10 06:30:54 CET

*I must have read a megaton of speculative tech-guru ramblings like this, and even written volumes of it myself, and yet that was still engrossing, and fun to read
*I don't *believe* it, but I thought about it
https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligences-so-far

2026-01-07 11:25:52 CET

*The WELL State of the World for 02026 is off to the races.
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

2025-12-25 08:07:30 CET

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/778/941/446/857/697/original/b45b3b970da1590d.jpg

2025-12-14 14:55:56 CET

They used to "laugh and call him nanes." Now they're all dead
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/718/260/876/592/875/original/c775c05823d40cf2.jpeg

2025-12-12 11:53:18 CET

*I just had Xtwitter Grok create a new business plan, so that Zuckerberg can abandon the metaverse and hard-pivot to headmounted AI.
https://tmblr.co/ZLUiJtiZryjtui00
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/706/218/418/969/403/original/37569d96c565206b.jpg

2025-12-11 16:42:29 CET

*Endless doomscrolling
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/701/692/980/090/143/original/eedefcd9aa5b1997.jpg

2025-12-08 09:34:40 CET

*It's great that it's cheap and "for everybody" when that is one of the least everybody-like images that the culture of 1912 could imagine
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/683/023/914/356/017/original/a3839b993e0a2071.jpg

2025-12-08 06:39:11 CET

*It worked great for the data set it was given
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/682/334/898/726/097/original/6bb2ef40675c4048.jpg

2025-11-15 12:41:34 CET

*Andre Leroi Gourhan was a 20th century archaeologist and technology theorist, and you would never, ever hear a YouTube 'knife guy" talking like this about knives, even if he is French
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/553/526/021/488/112/original/b2794cef0ce2829c.jpg

2025-11-15 10:29:49 CET

*Televisions and phones are for poor people.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/553/008/705/059/626/original/3017409dd563a52b.jpeg

2025-11-14 06:42:57 CET

*Whoopee
https://youtu.be/ANhA94ZqnEQ?si=Yv_W4DGRoiZO9zxS

2025-10-30 07:16:52 CET

*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/461/652/201/115/788/original/2af579cc3adfc516.jpg

2025-10-27 07:12:28 CET

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/444/648/817/999/932/original/883a533761a5a546.jpeg

2025-10-09 14:51:13 CEST

*It was a giant working model of the entire Mississippi River... and it was built by prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model

2025-10-08 07:35:13 CEST

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice
*Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

2025-10-02 21:10:29 CEST

*I agree with ChatGPT that Bruce Sterling fans should read Cory Doctorow novels that don't exist
https://www.tumblr.com/brucesterling/796132113751687168/chatgpt-sci-fi-maven

2025-09-30 14:25:51 CEST

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/293/233/898/341/952/original/e78a982514e9e7e4.jpg

2025-09-29 12:55:50 CEST

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/287/218/306/102/514/original/d12ef9e66ecae51c.png

2025-09-22 07:45:09 CEST

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity"

2025-09-20 13:10:05 CEST

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/236/312/754/352/408/original/27a8d68a7bfa712e.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/236/313/279/977/593/original/347ab6677feced39.png

2025-09-19 07:11:31 CEST

*I wonder if "solving problems that are really hard" gains very much, compared to the much more serious issue of solving problems with solutions thar are really obvious
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-achieves-gold-level-performance-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/

2025-09-17 21:13:47 CEST

*Liking the use of bamboo there
https://youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?si=NJBhqKGLZNdgCf9N

2025-09-16 18:22:45 CEST

*One wonders what other entities have figured out 3D shapes in the Milky Way
https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k?si=l_Cjx8I02JLufbda

2025-09-15 16:58:44 CEST

IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Seagate cashing in on the Chinese surveillance and repression racket.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/silicon-valley-enabled-brutal-mass-detention-and-surveillance-in-china-internal-documents-show/

2025-09-15 16:06:34 CEST

*Magazine cover stories of mine that turned into Netflix "Love Death and Robots" cartoons. I forgot that I had these around here in Turin.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/208/694/101/603/005/original/81f2758645fdc71a.jpeg

2025-09-13 06:29:40 CEST

*Chock full o' nanoplastic.
*This alarming health-threat notion also applies to most every other organism on Earth, by the way
*There may be some clean ones in caves a couple of miles down
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/195/101/404/465/131/original/e8d66bb0cced4cf5.jpeg

2025-09-06 10:46:57 CEST

“This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic"
https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/

2025-08-30 17:23:48 CEST

*It's very sci-fi of me, I admit that, but I've always been charmed by the notion of some lonely Swiss patent-clerk messing around with some tabletop physics gizmo and accidentally destroying the Universe
*How often has that really happened, one wonders idly #reality
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/118/399/810/336/401/original/40deff932094e151.jpg

2025-08-28 16:40:46 CEST

"Open Source software is one guy off in the boondocks somewhere
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/106/907/389/303/503/original/95a8bd1ce3f852ed.jpg

2025-08-28 07:36:44 CEST

*What if an LLM-bot was left all alone in a Searle Chinese Room for a hundred thousand years, with no programmed purpose except to chew on the structure of language
Where would that language go? Would it even be "language," and if it isn't, then what is it

2025-08-28 07:30:18 CEST

*I understand what Stephen Wolfram is saying here, but after LLMs, I'm wondering if "language itself" doesn't hold and contain a whole lot of our so-called "intelligence"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/104/741/954/692/508/original/43449b6abaa53605.jpg

2025-08-26 21:24:39 CEST

Way to snake, snakey
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/096/699/614/401/393/original/f885de85f7ccbc9d.jpg

2025-08-19 11:59:36 CEST

*Well, y'know, all of "coding" has always been the easy-cyberguy way to seemingly accomplish some stuff without the hard work of hitting it with analog saws hammers hoes and shovels
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/054/841/086/995/196/original/3d0f642f248b98b7.jpg

2025-08-13 11:33:06 CEST

"Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/020/763/591/812/378/original/83793c66513414ce.jpg

2025-08-12 08:16:46 CEST

*The "Tesla Deaths" website. Not a lot of web-design frills in this one
*Lotta dead people, though
https://www.tesladeaths.com

2025-08-10 11:11:22 CEST

*Well, time to LLM-update the ol' Mastodon profile pic. #slop
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/003/689/473/468/667/original/0004ff486c2446c0.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/003/690/193/548/035/original/93fd57a2297575f2.jpeg

2025-08-03 07:24:38 CEST

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/963/164/088/679/826/original/2cb2881df3c68443.jpg

2025-07-05 09:08:09 CEST

*Even the birds and worms are painted with the funereal #MarySomerville #memoirs
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/799/363/036/447/770/original/f215aab8cf22056c.jpg

2025-07-04 16:57:28 CEST

*I know that people get defenestrated, but, other than Russia, has there ever been another country, now or in the past, where so many people get thrown out of windows
*How did this become such a routine, long-term thing for them
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/795/545/687/209/030/original/13f2bd2b71bb7fdb.jpg

2025-07-04 08:36:45 CEST

*Meanwhile, in the glamorous world of surveillance capitalism
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/opinion_browser/

2025-07-03 11:44:05 CEST

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme
*Won't get much traction on Xtwitter
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/788/651/623/634/335/original/77b8e2e2951051dc.jpg

2025-06-29 18:52:27 CEST

*It's a big subcontinent, India
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/767/686/206/919/169/original/615914f233e6447c.webp
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/767/687/026/952/206/original/d3407e6ab24f5d45.webp

2025-06-24 06:38:18 CEST

*Have I become old now, or does this really seem like an exhaustingly difficult hobby
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/736/487/083/634/839/original/065cb461c2bc01bb.jpg

2025-06-21 07:42:04 CEST

*Is there anything lonelier than some ionized gas molecule out between the galaxies
https://www.404media.co/one-of-the-universes-biggest-mysteries-has-been-solved-scientists-say/

2025-06-16 07:41:16 CEST

*Fossil-fueled AI, deep in the heart of Texas
https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/12/texas-ai-artificial-intelligence-demand-100-gas-plants-data-centers-pollution-eip-report/

2025-06-12 06:51:57 CEST

*She's almost a one-woman Fourth Estate at this point
https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

2025-06-10 07:59:59 CEST

*The Market Solution to the Existence of Humanity
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo

2025-06-07 20:58:42 CEST

*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its distance from the center of the Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo

2025-06-01 14:28:28 CEST

*How hard do you have to push this to figure out that LUCA, the "Last Universal Common Ancestor," is OLDER than the Earth, and arrived here from somewhere else? #panspermia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38997462/

2025-05-27 07:23:55 CEST

*Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but actually fun -- unless your increasingly dystopian society is on a visible downward spiral and everybody knows it
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping_up_appearances
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/578/122/020/917/556/original/cf7ee93ed9b5c64c.jpg

2025-05-20 07:16:58 CEST

*Hey look. "Vitalism." What age-old doctrine is next to come back from the dead, "spontaneous generation" maybe
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/living-things-strange-light-glow-life-death-b2754168.html

2025-05-19 21:04:12 CEST

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/536/051/336/599/697/original/63dd49e689294306.png

2025-05-15 09:10:33 CEST

*The "gray zone." It's the Ukraine-Russia military no-man's zone, infested by killer drones, where it's difficult for any human being to survive.
*There doesn't seem to be any inherent limit to the size of a "gray zone"

2025-05-12 18:39:56 CEST

*Well, that's fun
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/495/847/890/893/029/original/5933887ed8db8ece.jpg

2025-05-12 08:50:47 CEST

*Drone "hubs." Drone "nests." Is there a proper military term-of-art for where battlefield drones are serviced and piloted? A "drone airfield"? A "drone fortress"? #dronesdronesdrones

2025-05-12 08:27:29 CEST

*What would the world be like if this kind of sound-design was somehow legally mandated and enforced
https://designobserver.com/a-quieter-place-sound-designer-eddie-gandelman-on-composing-a-future-that-allows-us-to-hear-ourselves-think/

2025-05-12 07:56:17 CEST

*You have to hope they were buried by somebody tenderly sentimental about them, as opposed to somebody embarrassed about them who just didn't want them publicly displaying their affection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Valdaro

2025-05-07 13:22:23 CEST

How fat is Kim Jong Un?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/466/287/242/999/408/original/4421eb762f1fee32.jpg

2025-05-05 20:57:50 CEST

*Greenland -- one of the last remaining homes of good journalism
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/456/753/954/608/939/original/1484ced1965f0d85.jpg

2025-05-01 09:46:27 CEST

*Weaponized "mirror bacteria" that turn everything into gray goo
*Could that really happen, well, yeah, maybe
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

2025-04-24 04:09:01 CEST

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/390/501/707/138/901/original/7c614da7f3f3dbb7.jpg