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Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling

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"Those were the days, I thought, taking a swig of lukewarm whiskey from a chipped mug." gemini.google.com/share/3252a4...

‎Gemini - Cyberpunk Glory Daysgemini.google.com Created with Gemini

*Over the years, I have diligently purchased rather a lot of Brian Eno emanations that don't work as works-of-art, and do I mind that? Not one bit! youtu.be/z-dnmHpUdFw?...

Brian Eno - Stiffyoutu.be ‘Stiff’ - vintage Eno with its irreverent lyrics, humour, and uniquely identifiable sound was originally included on the highly elusive Eno album 'My Squelch...

*Yeah? You should drop by some time. #Barcelona #Ibiza

This is my neighborhood. 🥔

*"Given that science is written with LLMs, then science-fiction should also be written with LLMs," he delved meticulously #Delvish arxiv.org/pdf/2404.01268

*Detecting LLM Delvish by looking for "excess style words" (sometimes known as "fluff"). #Delvish #meticulous #comprehensive #intricacies #etcetcetc arxiv.org/pdf/2406.070...

*Where does AI "botshit" actually come from? Well, from some entrepreneur in the business. #delvish www.theverge.com/24195879/adv...

The chum king behind those AI articleswww.theverge.com One man has left a trail of chaos and affiliate links all across the media.

*I wonder *how many* couples hide their burner phones inside hollow books *As opposed to, you know, hiding your pirated e-books inside your phone www.bbc.com/news/technol...

*After a hard day in Barcelona shooting tourists with your water-pistols, you and the midnight-tapas pals are gonna need some locally-traditional, but cheap-and-industrial, Brave Potatoes youtu.be/rzyidFQsmjo?...

The Best Patatas Bravas in Barcelonayoutu.be In this episode of Munchies, we meet Toni, the second-generation manager of Bar El Tomas de Sarria, known for serving up one of the best patatas bravas in Ba...

*Here comes trouble. #LargeLanguageModels #cybersecurity

*Maybe all monuments should be biodegradable so that they disappear naturally without anybody having to make a fuss about removing them journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ku...

Nr. 1 (2024): Kunsttexte | kunsttexte.de - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de

*Science fiction as a paper-based medium. See, kids, you can cut this right out of the Sunday newspaper comics page. Then you can color it, and you can paste it on cardboard, and it becomes a doll that you can play with.

*Newfangled AI cybersecurity jargon. "These are still early days," as the highly-motivated malefactors like to say

I'm kind of liking "What If Twitter Were Linux" *Of course, I'm a veteran of a pre-Web era when the entire Internet was Linux

Fractured post-Twitter social media landscape continues to be a pain. Your choices are What if Twitter were Instagram, What if Twitter were Linux, What if Twitter were Just Shitpoasters, and What if Twitter were Twitter set on fire and then put out with pig slurry. None particularly satisfactory.

*AI doesn't make the world more economically productive, it just gives more of the money to people who own AIs economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... *But even if that's true, why would that slow 'em down any? Full speed ahead

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*Hallucinations: not a bug, but a feature arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04175

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*I don't compose memes, but I do circulate memes, and they're the most "popular" things that I post by orders of magnitude

*I don't personally CREATE the memes, come on! Memes are memetic, it's like personally writing a Mother Goose rhyme

I didn't realize this one was yours

*But what if I waited a year and repeated the experiment, with the same memes? Do you think the same thing would happen? Is there any actual characteristic constancy there? *Maybe it's like tossing glass bottles off a building, some explode, some just bounce

*They're both popular memes on both services, but Tumblr loves #1 and only likes #2, while on Mastodon it's precisely the opposite: they really dig the talky one and consider the meme-hack to be juvenile.

*And this is Meme Number Two.

*As a social experiment, I separately released two different memes, on the Mastodon service and on Tumblr, on the same day. *This is Meme Number One.

*There's a whole lot going on in Houston that people aren't supposed to know.

The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

*If you're a humanities graduate but you need some technothriller red-team cyberjargon, look no further, this is the article for you www.theregister.com/2024/07/12/c...

CISA broke into US federal agency, wasn't spotted for monthswww.theregister.com Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails

*I wonder why I have four times as many Mastodon followers as Bluesky followers, even though Bluesky is four times bigger than Mastodon *Maybe there's no particular reason whatsoever, it's as random as a riot or a traffic jam

*Meanwhile, on XTwitter *"No tree grows to the sky," but Elmo is trying to grow a tree straight to Mars here

*Hahaha. And then the Game Developers proceeded to release and re-release the very same games again and again and again and again and again

*Wow, the Romance Writers of America somehow managed to quarrel themselves to death *They could have found a happy ending with their One-and-Only, but no

*Huh. Those are not small pieces of SpaceX space junk www.adastraspace.com/p/spacex-dra...

*It's interesting that people present digital images of clothing nowadays instead of "dressing fashionably" *In every "arcane style of yore" you had a crew of full-time servants who dressed you, tailored your clothes, and washed them

Get a load of this style app for today's gent aspiring to look like "arcane styles of yore. "Light Academia emphasises on emphasises joy, optimism, and friendship" thevou.com 🙈

*Yeah. Neckties are so archaic now that it's become a bohemian gesture to wear one *Personally, I own lots, though, and in genteel, old-school Turin I wear them routinely www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Knotty Death of the Necktiewww.newyorker.com The pandemic may have brought an end to a flourishing history.