Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 111

Joint statement by Presidents Tusk and Juncker and High Representative Mogherini on Russian cyber attacks

*It’s a press release. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/pr... In April the offices of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague were targeted by...

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Warren Ellis discussing the comics form

*This is half of a recent Ellis speech, but it’s them media-criticism half. Including a lot of digital media criticism. I could talk about all...

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FoxTEN

*It’s basically a press-release, but I’m enjoying the extensive military jargon when it comes to the use of ruggedized laptop computers. https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature... The U.S. Army’s...

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Drawings and paintings by Victor Hugo

*Considering that this is a French poet, novelist, playwright just messing around in amateur fashion way back in the 1850s, those artworks are really out-there....

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Baxter goes broke

*Actually it’s the pioneering robot’s parent company, “Rethink Robotics,” that ran out of money and has to close. A tough break that I didn’t expect,...

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Brexit musicians figuring out they’re about to go broke

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Stranimondi convention in Milano

*Well, I just couldn’t make it this year. Seven time zones away. Too bad, it’s always great fun. Meanwhile, in the fantascienza scene

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Design of SUPERball v2, a Compliant Tensegrity Robot

*That’s the biggest tensegrity robot I’ve ever seen.

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Plastic Model Piracy

*Oh, the shame. The humanity…

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry with Walt Whitman

*When and if Brooklyn is under water from climate change, this is the kind of document that is going to cause sharp solastalgia. It’s the...

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