bruces

bruces, 18 hours ago to random

*I wonder what people will make of assertions like this in a hundred years

bruces, 5 days ago to random

*These intensely weird musicians from Naples like to do 20-minute Youtube sci-fi movies instead of mere old-fashioned "music videos"

https://youtu.be/rH1xSA5se6c?si=rtLxxgLxYGZTP6Di

bruces, 7 days ago to apple

*Reduced to bribing the stockholders with the cash hoard #Apple #BigTech

bruces, 10 days ago to random

*I blame realistic utopias, in a public lecture with 35 slides

https://medium.com/@bruces/utopian-realism-a-speech-by-bruce-sterling-c315be2b0f44

bruces, 12 days ago to random

"There is great technology journalism being done today, but it tends to appear in specialist publications that cater to tech-savvy audiences," he pop-scienced, while writing a blogpost that wouldn't be seen by Google

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/debugging-tech-journalism

bruces, 13 days ago to ArtificialIntelligence

*Oh boy, a Large Language Model CRISPR generator. #geneticengineering #ArtificialIntelligence

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1.full.pdf

bruces, 14 days ago to random

"...strengthen American resilience in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape," he talking-pointed

bruces, 15 days ago to random

*If an AI shoggoth was attacking you, which of these stalwart characters would you choose to jump in its way

*The Mayor of Seattle, maybe?

bruces, 15 days ago to random

*Here to protect us from AI, presumably by throwing huge bales of VC cash at it

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-security-advisory-board-2024-04-26/

bruces, 17 days ago to random

*Well, yeah, that's him, all right

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/24/musk_moves_tesla_goalposts_back/

bruces, 17 days ago to random

*Why do they even go through the motions with schemes like this; why not just kill it offscreen, like with their car

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/apple-reportedly-slashes-vision-pro-headset-production-and-cancels-updated-headset-as-sales-tank-in-the-us/

bruces, 18 days ago to random

"These emails — which I encourage you to look up — tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

bruces, 18 days ago to random

*The mooks are here. #BicycleRepairman #BruceSterling #1996

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants/the-ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants-2024-i.pdf

bruces, 21 days ago to random

*I blame science fiction utopias

bruces, 22 days ago to random

*Take profits while you can, AI boosters

bruces, 24 days ago to random

*What tank armor looks like when cheap drones are dominant

https://www.europesays.com/1162603/

bruces, 24 days ago to random

*Man, that is some serious YouTuber contraption labor. The utter lack of consumer-friendliness is impressive.

https://youtu.be/nfna15r4EXM?si=glrvFSBVufwM1G3a

bruces, 25 days ago to random

*Handy cosmic-engineering tips there, I'll keep those in mind for my next half-billion years

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/a-survival-guide-for-the-end-of-the-solar-system/

bruces, 27 days ago to random

*It's a shame that Intel's new AI chip the "Gaudi 3" doesn't look like a molten art-nouveau blob from Barcelona

bruces, 29 days ago to random

*Wow, the new "demerit badges."

*I have never bought one of these., I just admire them -- their cultural sensibility

*There should be a whole set just for politics

https://tested-store.com/en-eur/collections/demerit-badges

bruces, 29 days ago to random

*Cassandra just showed up again in Pompeii

*Although, probably no one will take heed

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bruces, 1 month ago to ShareYourMusic

*Lavishly backed by Andreesen Horowitz, because who else

#GhostofTomPetty #musicians

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Hmm. This is a pre-refutation of the Vinge Singularity that I hadn't seen before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Science,_Big_Science

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Liking this life-extension effort as a YouTube social-media enterprise, complete with life-extension merch and a Patreon

https://youtu.be/TlPtdBnb0Hk?si=qzqj5LZt8VG15DVc

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Imagine being a large and agitated neutron star and you're somehow just a couple of kilograms short of becoming a black hole

https://www.mpg.de/21778967/0404-grav-mysterious-object-in-the-gap-152520-x