bruces

bruces, 12 hours ago to random

"Lostwave," which is not so much actual lost music, as which lost music has been lost to which interest group

https://globalnews.ca/news/10485469/lostwave-most-mysterious-music-genre/

bruces, 1 day ago to random

"Humor is a human phenomenon"

*Is this actually true? It must be true of verbal humor -- but maybe there are animals funnier than people, when seen by animal standards

bruces, 1 day ago to random

*What would "animal humor" even look like -- practical jokes, deception, physical slapstick, mime, camouflage, maybe some comic songs

bruces, 1 day ago to random

*Hey wow. That seems to work a lot better than i expected. #disenshittified #AIFree

bruces, 2 days ago to random

*"Miyake Events." Apparently there hasn't been one since 1279 AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

bruces, 3 days ago to random

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

bruces, 3 days 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, 7 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, 7 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, 12 days ago to random

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

bruces, 12 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, 12 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, 12 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, 12 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, 12 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, 15 days ago to random

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

bruces, 20 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, 21 days ago to apple

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

bruces, 25 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, 26 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, 28 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, 29 days ago to random

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

bruces, 29 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, 29 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, 1 month ago to random

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

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