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Rudy Rucker

@rudytheelder.bsky.social

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Rudy Rucker is a transreal cyberpunk writer with a checkered past. See Ware Tetralogy, Complete Stories & new evil president novel Juicy Ghosts. He posts on X, Bluesky & Mastodon. Paintings at https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 29m

If only it were so easy

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 16h

By the way, my first publication was a book on 4D, spacetime, and higher mind...about 50 years ago. Still in print! And you can read it for free as a web page. www.rudyrucker.com/geometryrela...

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 17h

Pynchon "Against the Day" fee.s endless in Zeno way, I'm always half done. Weirdly close to my thoughts, transreal, spooky, mirroring me, Gottingen, logic, infinity, Fourth Dimension, P. D. Ouspensky, Germans. No titled sections, we have to talk page numbers. In Gottingen now, p. 602, heaven.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 2d

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” the fight against American fascism is a family affair.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 2d

Of my various interest groups over the years mathematicians are the most peculiar. More than acid heads, punks, computer hackers, artists, mystics, and SF writers. There's even a name for what we use. Instead of "logic" we have "mathematical logic". Which I got my PhD in. What---ME mad?

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 2d

"Rockstar" ride at St. Mary's Fair. The vehicle is a huge rotating guitar. Great demotic art.

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 2d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Great. Vineland-style small NoCal town. Leo lovable zhlub....running across roofs he misses a jump, falls 30 feet, gets up, instantly tazed...and it's funny. Loathsome Colonel Lockjaw played by...Sean Penn? They kill him 3 times! Like Prez Treadle in my JUICY GHOSTS.

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 3d

Moment of joy. None of my glasses is lost.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 4d

Unique works for your consideration. "My Shadow" and "The Fall of the Rebel Angels." Explained in my catalog. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 6d

Marc Laidlaw's new album is out. "Dank Carinval." That's DANK, okay, not DARK. Great stuff. "David's Not Himself Tonignight." music.youtube.com/watch?v=kla5...

David's Not Himself Tonight

YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw - Topic

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 7d

Took the afternoon off from Kickstarter. Did a little work on a new painting that is named after a painting by Bruegel, "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 7d

Conversely, "Fregoli delusion: The belief that a familiar person is repeatedly appearing in different disguises to persecute or trick the individual." Haven't we met?

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking of emulations, "The mental illness where a person believes their friends or family have been replaced by identical impostors is called Capgras syndrome."

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t quite see why anyone views being emulated as a bad thing. For my purposes (changing the world), the more Rudys the better! And, at least for now, I can out-Rudy the best of them. Especially with a novel like SQINKS, where I really let things fly.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 8d

On the new AI. We emulate other people all the time, just by using our built-in wetware. Useful for scamming them ... or for befriending them. Think of Danny Rubin’s *Groundhog Day*. Bill Murray relives and relives a certain day with Andie MacDowell until the match is perfect ... and they make love.

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 9d

Fighter jets circling over the bay area today. Practicing for a show? I used to feel proud and protected when I saw these planes. Now I feel anxious and vulnerable. The government isn't on my side.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 9d

Happy memory. According to Max Brod, when Franz Kafka would read his stories aloud to his friends, he'd laugh so hard that he'd fall out of his chair. Especially "The Metamorphosis." www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2011/10...

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 13d

PIcture of Marc Laidlaw and me in Haena, 2016, working on our SIXTH surfin' SF story, "@atlantis." Anothehr of our epic, but curiously neglected works.
www.rudyrucker.com/completestor...

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 13d

A two-fer.
Song that Marc Laildlaw and I were crazy about in 1987. Spot 1019 "Surf Machine."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyLn...
Which inspired our first Zep and Del surfin' SF story, "Probability Pipeline." www.rudyrucker.com/completestor...

Surf Machine, Spot 1019

YouTube video by Matt Quinlivan

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 13d

Today's message, George Clinton "Atomic Dog." Ain't your average Huckleberry hound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAaV...

Atomic Dog

YouTube video by George Clinton - Topic

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 14d

Everything is everything

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 14d

Georgia's kitchen In Wisconsin. A few days off up here. Looking at the world instead of at screens. Oh, but wait...these are screens.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 15d

My son-in-law DJ Valentine rocks a funky house jam on WSUM in Madison, WI last night.
spinitron.com/WSUM/pl/2126...

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 15d

I'm in Wisconsin

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 20d

The SQINKS campaign is almost over. Back me at the Ebook level + the Ten More Ebooks add-on for $21 in all. And get TWELVE Rudy Rucker ebooks! A year's worth of enlightenment! Pop surrealism on the installment plan! The end is nigh.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rud...

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