Myths As A Tricky Guide | Weekstarter 08-2026

It's one thing to talk softly and carry a big stick, but it's another to talk endlessly and have no stick at all.
-- Bruce Sterling (commenting on the European Union)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BruceSterling #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

#BruceSterling (@bruces.bsky.social)

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Dovremmo tutti riscoprire il luddismo. O per lo meno "La macchina della realtà" di #BruceSterling e #WilliamGibson, il #libro che ha iniziato la letteratura #steampunk | Rivista Studio https://www.rivistastudio.com/sangue-nelle-macchine-libro-luddismo/

@cultura

#UnoLibri #literature

Nel 210esimo anniversario della nascita di #AdaLovelace, un #film fantart-scientifico che credo non sia mai arrivato nelle sale italiane nonostante la presenza della sempre favolosa #TildaSwinton. Ed è giustificato che, per omaggiare la "prima programmatrice", vennero sperimentati set virtuali e ci fu pure un cameo di #BruceSterling. Conceiving Ada (1997) | https://ok.ru/video/1799043025455

@tecnologia

Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/17/stop-killing-games-again/

@bruces Snow Crash is full of gems like this one. Insights beyond, but yet seemingly inevitable and within grasp. The author, #BruceSterling, saw farther ahead than any other writer of that time. Read this book and you’ll be hooked on #speculative #fiction, hard #syfi or as I like to think, “pre-fact fiction.”

Thanks Bruce, so great you are on Mastodon!

#scifi #chrome #cyberpunk https://mastodon.social/@jef/115460264964984441

Moralkuglen
Jeg har læst “The Moral Bullet”, #BruceSterling og #JohnKessel. Quick fix. Spoilers. Nogen har opfundet en foryngelseskur. Eftersom alle jo gerne vil være yngre, så bliver den en del af samfundet, og alle kan få de indsprøjtninger, de har brug for. Effektivt er det udødelighed. Man startede med de gamle. Det her er simpelthen bare […]

https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/08/21/moralkuglen/