Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 130

The drowned Internet in a drowned world

*A lot of the Internet is already underwater (because it’s in cables, silly), but the places where those cables meet the land, well, they’re at...

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Chinese live-streamed global “retail entertainment”

*Watch celebrities shop luxuries overseas, and then you can click on that. It’s a lot better than sending over your cousin with an empty suitcase....

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Spomeniks, or, strictly speaking, Spomenici

New York’s MoMA Shines a Light on Socialist Yugoslav Architecture http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/artic... Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibit... Toward a Concrete Utopia: Yugoslavian...

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What it’s like to use really cheap Indian smartphones

*Youtube works great! Facebook works sort of okay, etc. The Next Billion already own them and they’re pretty bad I Used A Phone Like Most...

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Cocktail-making robots

I’ve got a soft spot for these silly things

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SITUATIONS/Posthuman at Fotomuseum Winterthur

*Theorists are always going on about the posthuman turn nowadays, but it’s pretty rare to see ’em actually try to do something that’s not human....

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Google Loon and Wing as actual businesses

*It would be super interesting if Google utterly collapsed some day, while the exceedingly unlikely Loon and Wing were successful stand-alone businesses that were making...

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Too many design tools

*”A better design system for everyone,” except, you know, that’s not the ecosystem incentivizes. Even open-source software can’t manage that. *Still, users always complain like...

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Pioneer female political organizers of the Ku Klux Klan

*Not quite a hundred years ago. Out of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and into the Klan business (…) Brief profiles of three WKKK leaders...

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Showtime: Lia and Phonophani, “Deep Learning”

*Liking the soundtrack on that one by noted code-artist Lia.

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