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Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
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@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Vibe-coded replicas of established commercial software-packages
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Chelina Manuhutu Live at ANTS Ushuaia Ibiza," I like the way those syllables work, they sound very "tech-house" all by themselves
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Patient Chinese guys stole $100M with a supply-chain attack on crypto wallets
*They had to buy a wallet company first, but they got it done
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*They've been destroying themselves even without him, but now they can speed it way up
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@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*A fashion runway seems like a good arena for humanoid robots
https://mercisf.com/2026/10/07/robots-take-the-runway-at-sf-tech-week-come-dance-with-them/
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Ukrainian drones blowing up a Yandex data center. The distribited Internet was invented so that there wouldn't be any data centers to blow up.
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThese disinformation specialists must be a really busy bunch of people. Also, they must have a lot of well-paid enemies
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Lunar ultra-wideband coverage.
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*I've had that wise-duck AI experience, but now the duck is actively coaching, with agency. "A lot of people commonly do X in your situation, so tell me to do X and I'll do it for you"
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*What an interesting concept. All random typing, or text, is somehow subjected to a Shakespeare strange-attractor? How would that work, exactly
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Mathematicians publicly pledging to perform AI-free "human mathematics."
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@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Hmmm. These AI-generation credits are an in-house gamer-economy. #AI #monetization
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*What beautiful, unearthly jargon. It kills me that I more-or-less understand this
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*I've also read this remarkable book, and yes, the exciting and provocative topics that technologists talk about, those are not the vast bulk of commonplace and even antique things that people actually use […]
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*If there's a polar opposite to "traditional computer programming," it must be this
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Really piling on the self-justifying AI erudition there; you could spend half a lifetime plowing through the footnotes
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-history.html#future
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Man, that's a darn good video. For a one-shot, with no editing, good lord
@bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy*Could AI scan a thousand old DIY punk-hacker videotapes and find the maybe-15-minutes that are truly unusual and interesting
