Mastodawn

*Neal Stephenson explaining in detail that he didn't personally spend 80 billion dollars on impracticable ideas from one of his novels #Metaverse #deadmedia nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodiga...

My Prodigal Brainchild

My Prodigal Brainchild

Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

Graphomane

#BruceSterling 4d ago

*Ever put your mitts on a player-piano roll? Everything you're doing on Bluesky right now is a "player piano roll." #socialmedia #deadmedia #history #technology #futurism

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gqhhxcf5ge2o5o6sgrtpj6ci/post/3mjhvqh7ark2n

#BruceSterling 4d ago

*These Chinese guys think that AIs would work lots better if they abandoned clunky human language and just used model-native "latent space" *Of course, if that's true, then all the AI modelling built so far would be deader than Nineveh #deadmedia arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02029

arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02029

#BruceSterling 4d ago

*Hmm. How many of these are already dead *As opposed to the 90% that will shortly become dead. #deadmedia #AI

Podyatry Apr 8

#Media is no more. Because of "spiderman" WIFI which has removed real Media from Radio / TV analog signals & packaged digitalism into it, so what there is "Deadia" & not Media, & is no longer "As It Is" (Prabhupada quote) experienced

#DeadMedia
#MrMediaDead
#Deadia

Neural Apr 5

Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3334

#neuralarchive #neuralmag #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #mediaarchaeology #digitalpioneers #digitalheritage #obsoletetech #deadmedia #digitalpreservation #mediainstallation #timebasedart #newmediaart #mediaart #mediaarts #audiovisualart #audiovisuals #interactiveinstallation #interactiveart #digitalart #informationart #transmedia #softwareart #artsciencetechnology #netart #internetart #digitalcultures #analoganddigital #analoguedigital

#BruceSterling Apr 1

*Did you ever think about the people who hand-painted glass slides for magic lanterns? For a good long while, they were "magicians," almost #deadmedia

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ieipici6is42y7e6r2cvk4x2/post/3mig3khxbic2e

#BruceSterling Mar 25

*This woman's very genuine expertise in 100+ year old silent film is serving her well here. #mediastudies #deadmedia #deadAI

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tpg3qzw3niphci6ne5wdprfr/post/3mhunb6ff3k2l

C. Isaac Rockliff Mar 15

An edge-notched card for a picture filing system, categorizing images by attributes / characteristics like "spiritual or mystical" and "protesting or in revolt" (but not "that have just broken the flower vase" or "that at a distance resemble flies"). From Stanley Rice's Book Design: Systematic Aspects (1978). #deadmedia #punchcards #indexing

Bruce Sterling @bruces Mar 9

*Polish guys inventing steampunk monster pianos, and they happen to hire Frederic Chopin to play them because he's young and hanging around #deadmedia #Aeolomelodicon