Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 13

The sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo

*Deserves to be a perennial hit for fans of the legal process. The Sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo. We, the undersigned, by the Grace...

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The coronavirus long-term scenario

*What if its repressed here and there, and booms here and there, but just doesnt go away? What if it just stays? *This is quite...

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Puncke

*I had often heard that the slang term punk began its life four hundred long years ago as a synonym for prostitute. But according to...

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RE/Search: Genesis P-Orridge, 1950-2020

*Lets all be pals! From: V. Vale Genesis P-Orridge may have dropped their body (Sat, March 14, 2020, NYC) but their WORDS LIVE ON. Theres...

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Great Cairo, majestic city, home of plague

Giovanni Botero (1588): The Sultans after that forsaking Alexandria drew themselves to Cairo which, even for this very cause became (within a little time to...

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Musica Globalista: Yellow Magic Orchestra, “Perspective”

*Some quite nice quarantine theme music from BGM, a YMO record from the early 1980s.

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Arduino versus Covid-19

*Theyre trying to assemble all the hobbyists on the same page, which is rather like herding cats, but seems laudable. If youre one of them,...

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Berlin: Art capital of the world

*Well, if they werent before (and they were), they pretty much will be after the dust settles https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ger... Germany Has Rolled Out a Staggering €50...

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Web Semantics: recursive meme jokes

*That episode is pretty strange. Will that happen again, I wonder? It has odd implications. Memes within memes within memes

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Adafruit now shipping medical gear in New York City and elsewhere

*What times these are. These guys were the open-source hardware mavens of the planet, and now theyre shipping masks. https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/03/22/... MARCH 22, 2020 AT 6:23...

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