bruces

bruces, 4 hours ago to random

*Man, those sure were some lonely, long-travelling photons. Those must be fossil photons older than the freakin' solar system

https://youtu.be/JZ_uyOQ61lg?si=KldTCet91L6615Ex

bruces, 4 hours ago to random

*Where the hell is that eerie place where you live, Captain Copilot

bruces, 4 days ago to random

*I bet it wasn't all that boring if you were a Google AI and you were just automatically scanning it

https://gizmodo.com/google-io-boring-gemini-ai-1851485806

bruces, 4 days ago to random

*Link rot and digital decay report. #deadmedia

"54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link that points to a page that no longer exists," etc etc

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

bruces, 8 days ago to random

*Where have I seen this before? Something something Japan something Detroit something

bruces, 8 days ago to random

*Giant "battery" tubs full of hot sand. This really has a post-apocalyptic tech feeling about it

https://youtu.be/bZ9TyJ1bQ3Y?si=5MG8-WAEyGGAGJmj

bruces, 9 days ago to random

*Thanks for teaching us, too bad we stole all your traffic so you can't teach us any more, how about some money, professor

https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partnership

bruces, 8 days ago to random

"Former smartphone giant Blackberry, now a security firm," *Good God, how terrible a fate is that

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-spyware-101/

bruces, 9 days ago to random

"undetectable to the human eye, but could be deadly to Tesla drivers"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/baidu_apollo_hack/

bruces, 9 days ago to random

*Bluesky inside-baseball.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/

bruces, 11 days ago to random

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

bruces, 17 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, 18 days ago to apple

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

bruces, 25 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, 22 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, 23 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, 26 days ago to random

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

bruces, 26 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, 26 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, 28 days ago to random

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

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

bruces, 28 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, 29 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago to random

*I blame science fiction utopias

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Take profits while you can, AI boosters