Bruce Sterling @bruces

@bruces
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"Oh my God what happened to that actress, what did she do at the clinic"

"Yamanaka factor-induced partial reprogramming of her mesenchymal drift"

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00853-0

*I quite like fractals but they still have the unfortunate color-palette choices that they did 40 years ago

https://youtu.be/sDGKZkx-icw?si=T2-_w9RFWpV5_Y_z

Breathing Julia Set

YouTube

*What if they're lastingly suspicious, just like those secret police in Turin

https://medium.com/@bruces/the-mysterious-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8

*AI cap-ex boom. Pretty much the only economic thing happening

"Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218

*These Slovenians 3DPrinted microscopic barcodes inside of a living cell.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13232

The Clickspring guy points out that there are no "absolute measurements" in his work. For years now, he's been hand-building an ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism just to eyeballing it

https://youtu.be/xwmxmUNA7Pw?si=NHFPAaes90hy4ea9

The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 12, Part 2 - Making The Lunar Phase Display "Pipe" and "Cheeks"

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*The "Tesla Deaths" website. Not a lot of web-design frills in this one

*Lotta dead people, though

https://www.tesladeaths.com

Tesla Deaths: Digital record of Tesla crashes resulting in death

Tesla Deaths is a record of Tesla accidents that involved a driver, occupant, cyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian death. We record information about Tesla fatalities that have been reported and as much related crash data as possible (e.g. location of crash, names of deceased, etc.). This dataset also tallies claimed and confirmed Tesla autopilot crashes, i.e. instances when Autopilot was activated during a Tesla crash that resulted in death.

Tesla Deaths

*The science papermill mafia. What's the largest amount of black money that this "mafia" could possibly make?

https://www.wired.com/story/black-market-for-fraudulent-science-growing-faster-than-legitimate-research/

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.

WIRED