Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 134

Apple keyboard design anorexia

*An interesting critique there. There’s a culture war here between hacker repairability and the digital jewelry business. Or, to frame it otherwise, it’s war between...

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Dead Media Beat: Mixtapes versus Playlists

They’re different, but, well, how (…) This article explores these current manifestations of the mixtape. It analyses Spotify’s curated playlists and identifies some of the...

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Tariffs and Makers

Remember all that cheap Chinese stuff that used to cost next to nothing? Oh well… (…) Should the US follow Brazil’s protectionist stance on trade,...

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They mined an Amsterdam river bed for long-lost objects

*A huge archaeological undertaking. There is something weird and sublime about all that carefully named and numbered Dutch trash. That’s a rather handsomely made website,...

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Back when there was an Internet and it had some Internet art on it

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kf3... Art on the Internet and the Digital Public Sphere, 1994 – 2003 • Author(s): Driscoll, Megan Philipa • Advisor(s): Kwon, Miwon (2018) This dissertation...

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Asgardia demands space demilitarization

Good morning Bruce, Asgardia, the first space nation, has released a comment in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of the creation of a “Space...

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Dead Media Beat: Digital Dust

*Hmmm. Digital decay, entropy, disintegration etc Digital Dust by Jay Owens I write a newsletter about dust called Disturbances. Dust might appear to be the...

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The new European privacy rules after one month

Regulation arrives, world does not end, etc Europe’s new privacy rules: 1 month in, 7 takeaways Here’s what’s already changed on the world wide web....

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Marco Tempest killing it on stage with tiny drones

*It’s all about the patter here, but magic is all about the patter.

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Viva la ciencia ficción

*Mexican science fiction people at Worldcon 2018.

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