Bruce Sterling @bruces

@bruces
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*What would it take to make these severely nutty French-Canadian math-rock guys bigger than the biggest pop stars in the world

https://youtu.be/gBYrwJC_-gk?si=_qK7jfy4zrBcQ3qg

Angine de Poitrine – Sherpa | A DADA Film

YouTube

*Maybe we should be grateful that a YouTuber who collects combat knives and calls himself "Joe Doomsday" has such a modest number of followers.

*We've never been in such genuine danger from massive disaster, but the prepper-fad seems to be losing its cachet

https://www.youtube.com/@JoeDoomsday/videos

Joe Doomsday

I Collect Knives. It's my hobby. I do Not get Paid for this. I do these "Unboxing Reviews", to help other knife collectors and knife enthusiasts, decide if a certain Style or Brand of knife is right for them. I try to give all the Specs & let everyone who is interested, get a good look at these useful tools, so they can decide for themselves, whether to purchase or to pass. I just give my Opinion, based on My experience, with each blade. I hope my Reviews Help someone.

YouTube

*I wonder who was in a mood to loudly boast about the normally discreet and/or covert activities of India's Special Forces

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/how-nighttime-raids-heliborne-assaults-jungle-ops-made-indias-special-forces-legendary/articleshow/131114226.cms

How nighttime raids, heliborne assaults & jungle ops made India's Special Forces legendary - The Times of India

News News: The Special Forces (SF) are considered the cream of the Indian Armed Forces. Each of the three branches of the armed forces have their own SF units. T.

The Times of India

*Moralizing essays about AI killer-drone ethics have more point to them when you and yours are getting blown up

https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/war-by-subscription-how-the-gamification-of-combat-became-the-dream-factorys-newest-product-ec7297aedc96

War by Subscription: How the Gamification of Combat Became the Dream Factory’s Newest Product

For a long time, the worst thing imaginable about war was that it could become routine. It turns out the worse thing is that it can become…

Medium

*Is a minor Dyson-sphere of thousands of laser-linked AI satellites kind of overkill for generating 3D house videos

*Maybe not. Probably lolcats would be an even bigger business

https://youtu.be/u9m6tCZa2-k?si=Lmab4eN-LDBWuZpk

Starcloud Constellation Video Horizontal

YouTube

*Apple was throwing away those chips because they were iPhone garbage, but now the cheap laptop is a big hit

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/07/macbook-neo-shortages-force-new-a18-pro-run-doubled-production-to-keep-up

MacBook Neo shortages force new A18 Pro run & doubled production to keep up

Apple's MacBook Neo has been such a runaway hit that new buyers face a weeks-long wait for delivery, and the company has now doubled its planned production run and ordered new A18 Pro chips to keep up.

AppleInsider

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror

https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw

AI layoffs are here. This is how you keep your job.

YouTube

*There must be somebody somewhere who faithfully buys and listens to each and every one of these recordings #worldmusic #bizarre

https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/music

Sublime Frequencies

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels.

Sublime Frequencies
*How many "bugs" can some finite chunk of code possibly have? Will it ever run out of bugs? Can models just invent new forms of bugs to patch indefinitely?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@roadskater/116532384894638040

*Who is it that you imagine is tooting all this bizarre Mastodon fodder, using the Bruce Sterling name

*And if he's that good at it, why would you believe me if I claim that it's "me"