Bruce Sterling @bruces / is on Nostr

Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
https://medium.com/@bruces

Last Notes

2024-08-10 15:49:20

"Investors such as Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dropped $230 million on Humane."
"Humane has sold 10,000 Ai Pins. Roughly 3,000 have been returned so far. These all go straight to e-waste. Daily return figures are higher than sales."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/08/humane-ai-pin-returns-are-now-outpacing-sales/

2024-07-31 11:32:33

*A calculator that hallucinates. #AI
https://calcgpt.io

2024-07-27 10:20:46

*Interesting hack there. #barcodescanner #Crowdstruck
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/crowdstrike_remediation_with_barcode_scanner/

2024-07-25 06:24:55

*Wow, GitHub sock-puppets
https://www.wired.com/story/github-malware-spreading-network-stargazer-goblin/

2024-07-23 19:31:04

There's always a tweet
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/836/992/207/305/213/original/f4b3cec13bdb572a.jpg

2024-07-21 10:07:12

"China, which has striven toward self-sufficiency in IT, saw little impact to key services such as airlines and banks, although foreign businesses and luxury hotels in the country were affected. Russia and Iran—both restricted by international sanctions from using the services of American high-tech companies—reported no disruptions." #Crowdstrike #nationalcyberspace
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident

2024-07-20 11:27:36

*I should buy this, but could I bear to listen to it more than once
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/sound-storing-machines-the-first-78rpm-records-from-japan-1903-1912

2024-07-19 07:39:25

Microsoft's Azure status page recommends "Customers with disaster recovery procedures set up can consider trying to take steps to failover their services to other regions, and may consider using programmatic options for this if they experience issues."
*Did ChatGPT compose that? It sounds kinda Delvish

2024-07-16 08:36:59

="Plastic can be any shape and color, so let's make everything out of plastic!" and most all of that 1960s plastic is still around today,, it's just in tiny flakey microbits that people drink and inhale

2024-07-16 08:35:22

*If you're designing-for-LLM, what's the "grain of the material"? It's very ductile and capable, and you can slther it on most anything, but it reminds me of the fierce 1960s vogue for "plastic"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/794/774/857/815/866/original/ca14ad8374dda22f.jpg

2024-07-16 08:18:35

*This is a grotesque LLM "failure," but it's not because ChatGPT isn't "amart enough," it's because it's hard to train an LLM for the complex geometries of human fingers manipulatng strings. #catscradle
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/794/700/030/907/395/original/eab4591706985973.jpg

2024-07-14 16:30:03

*Why is this a "big mystery?" Just line these malefactors up and grill them. One of them is sure to crack. #localbubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/785/318/159/199/349/original/b89efc7eb007d7e7.jpg

2024-07-12 17:54:47

*A wonderful thing, the immediacy of social media
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/774/328/137/462/726/original/a70920baebee4038.jpg

2024-07-11 16:52:06

*So, did you guys, uhm, build a shoggoth, and did you give it nuclear weapons #AI #riskassessment
https://www.anthropic.com/news/a-new-initiative-for-developing-third-party-model-evaluations

2024-05-29 12:42:57

"With any luck it’ll be like the NFT implosion and they all suddenly drop AI and act like none of this ever happened."
*Interesting remark. Is this like the opposite of a Singularity, somehow

2024-05-19 16:03:52

*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/

2024-04-03 18:04:54

*Iranian street art. Why is she wearing pants and where is her burqa
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/208/136/793/825/729/original/6915ef1719d03b36.jpg

2024-03-24 08:08:26

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/149/404/303/679/690/original/7415fa9d3d34f048.jpg