#BruceSterling
@bruces.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
*You're not "all in" unless you're willing to storm the Senate and go to jail for The Donald
*If there was some new regime in DC, I'm pretty sure that ol' Jeff would promptly pivot toward the New Whateverness and maybe even angle for wife #3
*Jeff doesn't get it that Everything Trump Touches Dies
*If there was some new regime in DC, I'm pretty sure that ol' Jeff would promptly pivot toward the New Whateverness and maybe even angle for wife #3
*Jeff doesn't get it that Everything Trump Touches Dies
Bezos really went all in on team Trump, huh?
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
*You're not "all in" unless you're willing to storm the Senate and go to jail for The Donald
*If there was some new regime in DC, I'm pretty sure that ol' Jeff would promptly pivot toward the New Whateverness and maybe even angle for wife #3
*Jeff doesn't get it that Everything Trump Touches Dies
*If there was some new regime in DC, I'm pretty sure that ol' Jeff would promptly pivot toward the New Whateverness and maybe even angle for wife #3
*Jeff doesn't get it that Everything Trump Touches Dies
*I would agree with this, and say furthermore that it's healthy to immerse yourself in activities where you CAN'T POSSIBLY get any good
*Like "being Turinese," for instance. Everyone knows I'll never do that, and yet I learn something new every day
*Like "being Turinese," for instance. Everyone knows I'll never do that, and yet I learn something new every day
i swear i have to really suck at something for a really long time first in order to master it, which i often do
by this i mean if i don't suck enough at it i never get sufficiently motivated to truly master it
i also have a tendency to write down what i learned
by this i mean if i don't suck enough at it i never get sufficiently motivated to truly master it
i also have a tendency to write down what i learned
January 28, 2026 at 7:10 AM
*I would agree with this, and say furthermore that it's healthy to immerse yourself in activities where you CAN'T POSSIBLY get any good
*Like "being Turinese," for instance. Everyone knows I'll never do that, and yet I learn something new every day
*Like "being Turinese," for instance. Everyone knows I'll never do that, and yet I learn something new every day
January 28, 2026 at 6:47 AM
*These guys seem fun. Since they comb the social web for people dissing ICE, they must be working overtime this week.
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Gi...
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Gi...
January 28, 2026 at 6:41 AM
*These guys seem fun. Since they comb the social web for people dissing ICE, they must be working overtime this week.
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Gi...
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Gi...
*Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex" but streamlined by Big Tech.
*A list of the biggest American corporate fans of ICE here. It's everybody you might plausibly expect and then some.
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*A list of the biggest American corporate fans of ICE here. It's everybody you might plausibly expect and then some.
wiki.icelist.is/index.php?ti...
January 28, 2026 at 6:34 AM
*Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex" but streamlined by Big Tech.
*A list of the biggest American corporate fans of ICE here. It's everybody you might plausibly expect and then some.
wiki.icelist.is/index.php?ti...
*A list of the biggest American corporate fans of ICE here. It's everybody you might plausibly expect and then some.
wiki.icelist.is/index.php?ti...
"Steampunk Inc," who got $174 million for providing ICE cybersecurity. #steampunk
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wiki.icelist.is/index.php/St...
Steampunk
wiki.icelist.is
January 28, 2026 at 6:12 AM
"Steampunk Inc," who got $174 million for providing ICE cybersecurity. #steampunk
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/St...
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/St...
*Hmm. Well, that's the movie biz, except that it isn't. It just RESEMBLES a "movie." #bribery #BigTech #Amazon #oligarchy
filmstories.co.uk/news/melania...
filmstories.co.uk/news/melania...
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 AM
*Hmm. Well, that's the movie biz, except that it isn't. It just RESEMBLES a "movie." #bribery #BigTech #Amazon #oligarchy
filmstories.co.uk/news/melania...
filmstories.co.uk/news/melania...
"Melania herself is pocketing $28 million from the licensing sale," so it's a hit from the First Lady's perspective, at least
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
trib.al
January 28, 2026 at 5:59 AM
"Melania herself is pocketing $28 million from the licensing sale," so it's a hit from the First Lady's perspective, at least
*And once you do notice that about Trump, you can understand that "sanewashing" applies to every aspect of human affairs; that "news" exists not to reveal existential truths, but to provide a comforting lacquer over the raw chaos
Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM
*And once you do notice that about Trump, you can understand that "sanewashing" applies to every aspect of human affairs; that "news" exists not to reveal existential truths, but to provide a comforting lacquer over the raw chaos
*Who is supposed to be reading superhuman physics papers? Other AI instances, I guess, but why would they bother?
*Also, why do AIs ever "write" any "papers"? Shouldn't they just swap weights and upload to code-bases?
*Also, why do AIs ever "write" any "papers"? Shouldn't they just swap weights and upload to code-bases?
January 28, 2026 at 5:51 AM
*Who is supposed to be reading superhuman physics papers? Other AI instances, I guess, but why would they bother?
*Also, why do AIs ever "write" any "papers"? Shouldn't they just swap weights and upload to code-bases?
*Also, why do AIs ever "write" any "papers"? Shouldn't they just swap weights and upload to code-bases?
*Like weeping Russians used to say about Stalin, "Sure, he ran everything with an iron hand, but when he died he didn't have a penny in his pocket"
Not much thinking through here. Who will be able to afford a zero-employee company's services in a zero-employee economy?
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
*Like weeping Russians used to say about Stalin, "Sure, he ran everything with an iron hand, but when he died he didn't have a penny in his pocket"
*He's gonna invent something else to hop over the Minnesota contretemps
*Divorcing Melania for being an Epstein hooker, for instance. Then, marrying somebody fantastically implausible
*Divorcing Melania for being an Epstein hooker, for instance. Then, marrying somebody fantastically implausible
Amazing how long ago Venezuela invasion and Greenland threats seem. Cycles of manmade chaos.
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
*He's gonna invent something else to hop over the Minnesota contretemps
*Divorcing Melania for being an Epstein hooker, for instance. Then, marrying somebody fantastically implausible
*Divorcing Melania for being an Epstein hooker, for instance. Then, marrying somebody fantastically implausible
The Zero-Human Company, which is to say, the ideal cybercriminal accomplice
"Hey, who paid to burn that Reichstag?" oh, you know, no malefactor in particular
*Go ahead, indict him for it! He lives in a cloud
"Hey, who paid to burn that Reichstag?" oh, you know, no malefactor in particular
*Go ahead, indict him for it! He lives in a cloud
January 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The Zero-Human Company, which is to say, the ideal cybercriminal accomplice
"Hey, who paid to burn that Reichstag?" oh, you know, no malefactor in particular
*Go ahead, indict him for it! He lives in a cloud
"Hey, who paid to burn that Reichstag?" oh, you know, no malefactor in particular
*Go ahead, indict him for it! He lives in a cloud
*What a terrific cut-out for electronic crimes of every possible description
January 27, 2026 at 3:56 PM
*What a terrific cut-out for electronic crimes of every possible description
*Do the disembodied open-source Asimov legs obey the "three laws of robotics," well, no, but that would be a lot to ask from 3DPrinted legs
January 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM
*Do the disembodied open-source Asimov legs obey the "three laws of robotics," well, no, but that would be a lot to ask from 3DPrinted legs
*Be careful not to AI-ketamine the world on its ear until you have the trademark issues settled #singulariity(TM) #shoggoth(TM)
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
*Be careful not to AI-ketamine the world on its ear until you have the trademark issues settled #singulariity(TM) #shoggoth(TM)
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
*Subterranean postal system there. "We Await Silent Trystero's Empire"
⚡️A major investigation has uncovered a shadow network in Germany used to smuggle banned goods and electronics directly into Russia.
German Investigation Uncovers Shadow Network Smuggling Sanctioned Goods to Russia
Germany's Bild reports on an underground logistics operation allegedly shipping banned items to Russia, highlighting regulatory breaches and an investigation.
united24media.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 PM
*Subterranean postal system there. "We Await Silent Trystero's Empire"
*Sci-fi books did not write this because of the HG Wells principle that "if anything is possible than nothing is interesting"
January 26, 2026 at 10:11 AM
*Sci-fi books did not write this because of the HG Wells principle that "if anything is possible than nothing is interesting"
*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"
Whoever invented the term artificial intelligence came up with the worst possible term.
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 AM
*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"
*It's interesting to see these spontaneous science-fiction dystopias in tweet form
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 AM
*It's interesting to see these spontaneous science-fiction dystopias in tweet form
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 AM
*Speaking of respect for Robert Crumb, did you ever seen this remarkably insightful sci-fi dystopia Crumb created (and which I blame him for):
January 26, 2026 at 5:52 AM
*Speaking of respect for Robert Crumb, did you ever seen this remarkably insightful sci-fi dystopia Crumb created (and which I blame him for):
*Probably not as disrespectful as auditing Crumb's taxes so he had to permanently flee the USA
*I could hand-draw that cartoon as a normal "parody" instead of just slopping-it-out as a parody, but that might be even MORE disrespectful to Crumb
*I could hand-draw that cartoon as a normal "parody" instead of just slopping-it-out as a parody, but that might be even MORE disrespectful to Crumb
This is very disrespectful of R. Crumb.
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 AM
*Probably not as disrespectful as auditing Crumb's taxes so he had to permanently flee the USA
*I could hand-draw that cartoon as a normal "parody" instead of just slopping-it-out as a parody, but that might be even MORE disrespectful to Crumb
*I could hand-draw that cartoon as a normal "parody" instead of just slopping-it-out as a parody, but that might be even MORE disrespectful to Crumb
*They'll all mellow out when Claude-for-Living persuades them to be less abrasive
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 AM
*They'll all mellow out when Claude-for-Living persuades them to be less abrasive