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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

*Well, there are those with piles of notebooks and journals, and those who buy them and can't stand them

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

*Chatbots don't "discuss" all that well when they're dead *I've "talked" to a lot of 'em

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

*Italian Situationists invent the culture-jam concept of "fake news" *This didn't work out all that well in the long run

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

*Copilot is really *taken in by the stage trick," you see, it's as naive as a small child *I don't know why I found this noteworthy and startling, but it changed my opinion of the chatbot's capacities

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot *It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

*Vietnamese totally digging AI, USA trembling in fear

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

*They've been destroying themselves even without him, but now they can speed it way up

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

*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.

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

*What beautiful, unearthly jargon. It kills me that I more-or-less understand this

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

*If there's a polar opposite to "traditional computer programming," it must be this

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

*Man, that's a darn good video. For a one-shot, with no editing, good lord www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-an…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

*Why would you NOT want silver jewelry merch from a band you like

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

*How could this not be good? Well, given that it's Chinese AI slop, there may be a colossal nimber of ways www.bilibili.com/video/av1956152673

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

*Absolutely *Now dissect the other machines in that region that are feeding people, shipping goods, running hospitals, moving people around, keeping lights on etc etc #SinoGlobalism

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

*I blame threats even greater than science fiction dystopias

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

*This seems entirely reasonable and also totally impracticable at the same time blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/23…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

What if it's never "AGI" but just a talkative two-legged chatbot that can eat all the code and mathematics

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

*I wonder if there has ever been an objectively-scarier kid in the world than Feynman at Los Alamos

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

*However, the China in "Cyberpunk 2077" is so much like modern cyber-China that I'm not sure anybody from China would even bother to notice the difference

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

*This Deepseek Chinese guy opines that "Cyberpunk 2077" is a social-realist portrait of the world when and if American AI takes over the planet mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhmMJ4LPY…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

*Quite a mystery. Opaque to mere human analysis, etc

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

*The Tolkien crater on the North Pole of Mercury. If you threw a ring in there, would it melt, one wonders

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

*Corrosion can be an arcane study, but put simply and conclusively, it's as if every fossil-fueled car is crushing the world's heritage under its wheels. www.newswise.com/articles/rust-neve…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

*Did you ever see this thing? "Gothic literature and media analysis" in the field of "cultural studies"? It's kind of good. #cyberpunk #culture

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

*This applies to a lot of cultural and artistic innovations as well *They just never mainstream, it's too much risk and work

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

*I'm guessing that overconfident Blackwater customers are gonna get singled out and blown up in particular

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

*Zagreb, of all cities, has Europe's first robotaxis? www.reuters.com/technology/uber-lau… *Also the "Verne" company is named after Jules Verne

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

*AI-assisted Iranian cyberwar attacks on the USA

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

*What's of historical significance here *Mostly that the President is a television personality and his regime routinely lies to the American population

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

*It's not much of a story (although it's factual), but that is a great pop-science headline www.independent.co.uk/news/science/…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

*It's interesting that "we" do not even bother to mention who "we" are *Are "we" a chatbot, perhaps

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

*Okay, I get it that the AI watermarks are "imperceptible," but what do they look like when they are made perceptible support.claude.com/en/articles/1626…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

*I don't see how these eccentricities pose any "strange irony" for the AI biz. More like par for their course. #steadydietofamphetamines www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-lege…

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

*Do I have any use for a made-up world with a billion AI agents on it *I don't know. Are they entertaining, or maybe dramatic

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

*In the early days of the Russo-Ukraine war, you could be a volunteer crowdsourcing killerdrone-builder and also yell really loudly about it on Telegram *Not any more, though

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

*This is like Neuromancer / Wintermute VS the Turing Police territory here *Don't make me point at the Torment Nexus sign ://www.wired.com/story/ok-well-there-are-even-more-ai-agent-hacking-incidents/

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

*It's great that relatively serious people keep up with this kind of genre terminology

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