Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 21hI am still working on my new painting. I am not sure of the title or what it is about yet. I think this is some sort of tunnel or space vehicle that the man and the woman are curious about entering, but that guy deeper in the tunnel is a little off-putting. 2131
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What is the deal in hotels, with body wash (aka soap), shampoo, and condioner being in identical bottles with ID unreadably small? Especially for the near-sighted. To what purpose? 2111
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Insomnia last night, 3:00 a.m. Turned attention to Euler's equation, e^(iπ) + 1 = 0, considered by some the most perfect formula. Proved it to myself using Taylor series. Fell asleep. Mathematicians have fun too. 1253
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026$5 Stag $3 Drag. At dances in early 60s the admission price would be cheaper if you had a date 191
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Incredible Mark Laidlaw video, "Attack the Sun". About being so insanely anti anti that you're against solar energy. In the end we will win. I think of Shelley's line, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" Or did he mean SF writers!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mj7...youtube.comMarc Laidlaw - Attack the Sun! (Official Video)YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw 2103
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here's my most popular story on Medium: selected bits from the Sprawl Trilogy, with my comments. To produce this, I read the books on Kindle, picking passages, and then commenting on them. I think Bill said it helped him in producing the Neuromancer series. Study up! medium.com/@rudyrucker/...medium.comNotes on Gibson’s Sprawl TrilogyAs I’ve mentioned, my wife Sylvia died eleven months ago, and I have to find ways to fill the empty time at home. Somehow I still haven’t… 2308
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our man Bruce S. Reposting an old story on Medium called "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google." Great graphic, too. bruces.medium.com/i-saw-the-be...bruces.medium.com“I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” by Bruce Sterling (2006)It’s a science fiction story set during the present year of 2026, which was originally published in “New Scientist,” twenty years ago. 0166
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New edition of BETTER WORLDS. "Three hundred and one bright, fantastical paintings by cyberpunk master Rudy Rucke. Includes detailed comments on the background and creation of the individual works." www.amazon.com/dp/098582722X 2114
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And my Armadillocon 1 post is on Medium as well. medium.com/@rudyrucker/...medium.comWriting Cyberpunk.White Light, Saucer Wisdom, Sqinks, and Juicy Ghosts 1144
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I just shared my Armadilocn 2 post on Medium. medium.com/@rudyrucker/...medium.comTransrealism, Telepathy, FilmifyingHere’s my secone post about Armadillocon in Austin. See my much longer Writing Cyberpunk post about Armadillocon 1 for more matrial, and… 083
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Simple bare link to play my Armadillocon panel with Bruce www.rudyrucker.com/blog/mp3/ruc...rudyrucker.com 0102
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Massive new blog post. Armadillocon: White Light, Saucer Wisdom, Sqinks, Juicy Ghosts. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/09... 181
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Now this is what I call a good photo. At the art museum in Austin. Barb called them high heels. Love that cloud. Leica with DNG setting. Yah, mon. 0162
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Back in the day. I was writing *Wetware*, around 1985. My office was an abandoned house in Lynchburg, Virginia. $50 a month. I was otherwise unemployed. Founding cyberpunk in a town run by an insane religious zealot. Good times. 2463
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I had but to drink the cup, to doff the body of the noted professor, and to assume that of Edward Hyde. I smiled; it seemed to me to be humourous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care. " --- R. L. Stevenson, JEKYLL & HYDE. === How NOT to prep for a panel...as I'd do in 80s. 092
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Men and war. Doesn't exactly take Dr. Sigmund Freud to figure out this monument at Texas state Capitol. Dick and balls! 261
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Interesting article, and it has one sort of quirky answer to why the AI's would kill us all, that is to say, for a reason that makes no sense at all to us. Robert Sheckley challenge: What might such a reason be? To increase the number of gnats. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...newyorker.comHow, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? 033
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New Rudy podcasts. #119 “Writing Cyberpunk. Rudy vs. Bruce.” A pro wrestling vibe. Edited it down a bit. #118 "Spec-fic. Telepathy." A short one after my reading. Fun trip. Many thanks to Armadillocon for inviting me. Good to see old Bruce. Photo by Barb Ash. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/podcast... 1244
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026White light girlfriend! I'm next. Merge, baby, merge. 081
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Lone Star State. I kicked ass at my Atmadillocon panels. Founded Cyberpunk with SOFTWARE. Hilbert space vision of quantum telepathy. Radical revolution in new JUICY GHOSTS. 1142
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026With Bruce Sterling at the Armadillocon in Austin, Texas. Piling on the BS. 3564
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Worries. 1. Trump's military base at the White House makes it hard to evict him when he won't leave. 2. He fires independent leaders from the Army so he has goons to enforce a police state. A method behind his madness. Don't forget to vote. 4274
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Tattoo parlor in Fort Bragg, CA, run by a spritely lady named Chinchilla. 160
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This what I've been telling everyone since my WARE novels in the 80s. We won't huge, electricity-gobbling factories full of chips. Bio is the way to go. It's nature's wat. corticallabs.comcorticallabs.comCortical LabsWe've combined lab-grown neurons with silicon chips and made it available to anyone, for first time ever. 2193
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My prints on sale in the Haight. Borderlands Books. With Jude and Alan. Will be up for a long time. Check it out. 2367
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Up in Fort Bragg, California, visitng Isabel with Barb. I love the giant kelp whips. 0151
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Great new video and song by Marc Laidlaw. Check it out. youtu.be/gJV0rMQ9m28?...youtu.beMarc Laidlaw - Coeur Cerise (Official Video)YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw 041
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Under the spell of Bruce Sterling once more, I'm actually reading a lesser-known novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Kidnapped". Largely written in Scottish dialect, like Uncle Scrooge used to talk. Such purple prose, such schoolboy drama, sort of like a video game, but very rich and great fun. 1181
Reposted by Rudy Rucker#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 31/08/2026*A guy who totally gets it about the beatnik roots of cyberpunk: Prof Rudy Rucker. *Rudy's a teacher, but nobody ever teaches his cyberpunk novels in high schools. "Today, class, 'Space-Time Donuts' and next week 'The Sex Sphere'" *The only cyberpunk science-fiction writer who is a scientist 48013
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Give us this day our daily hackathon. Designing the next edition of my art book, Better Worlds. 182
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Here in Geek Alley, I spent the afternoon linking my new phone camera with my desktop. Motto for learning a new computer skill: "You have to make every possible mistake." Over time, you learn to learn to make them faster. 0101
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Interesting cut I've never heard. Bo Didddly describing the start of his career. music.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPq...music.youtube.comBo Diddley - The Rhythm That Shook The World. Over his signature beat Bo recounts his 1st hit recordYouTube video by MrDomin099 Stone 052
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Graffiti in the woods, it says Abel. We were walking up a stream there today, me, my son, and my grandson. A good day. 0102
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One of my bigger events, a TEDx talk in Brussels, 2011. I'm laying down my ideas about the lifebox and software immortality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdd...youtube.comTEDxBrussels - Rudy Rucker - Beyond Machines: The Year 3000YouTube video by TEDx Talks 083
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This phone is kind of incredible. A nice blank day awaits. I guess I'll shower and then see about getting the old paint cans out of the basement. 0160
Reposted by Rudy RuckerFúrioso 🇵🇹 @pthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In the American Galactic Cluster. 021
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Abd this is planet America. In the America Way Galaxy. 2102
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My pixel 11 camera phone has a VERY good zoom. 1141
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026San Jose Hall of records, ultra modern, kind of Kafka-esque and creepy. Birth certificates, wedding chapel, death certificates. The Great Wheel. 093
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So, another painting. "Maze." Wild explanation in the Catalog. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/ru... 071
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Time to sell some paintings. Big cuts. Check it out. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/pa... 052
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"The same yet changed I rise again." In Latin of course. Bernoulli's epitaph, about the logarithmic spiral. Maybe I'll write again. Wondrous beach at Davenpoort. Joy. With Barb. 0153
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I don't think it's super well-known but I do have a podcast. Topoics: Cyberpunk, AI, science fiction, mind, literature, beatnik, Phil Dick, infinity, fourth dimension, math, sex, robots, drugs, revolution, space, aliens, telepathy, immortality. www.rudyrucker.com/podcasts/ 1133
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Good news, the turbulence on the sun surface forms scroll patterns like my beloved Belusov Zhabotinsky cellular automata rules. Also seen in ordinary water turbulence. www.newscientist.com/article/2583...newscientist.comMost-detailed-ever image of sun reveals roiling waves for first time | New ScientistRemarkable images of the sun show vortices on its surface that have never been seen before because they are so small 0101