Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 168

Arch, Stanislaw Lem-like parodies going on

*Okay, these very learned texts are kind of strange. They’re fantastic, but not stories, narratives, design fictions, or even parodies, satires or hoaxes. There must...

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UNIX: conquered the world by samizdat

*A priesthood of coders who learned by breaking the law, confidentially passing the secret knowledge hand to hand. Forget I told you this. Oh, and...

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Web Semantics: Poets who are literary versus poets who are viral

*Man, poets sure are quarrelsome. *It’s a little odd that nobody talks about means of production here, it’s all education, class and audience, basically. If...

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V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter #174

Welcome to V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter #174, February 2018 Part 1 TO RECEIVE LAST-MINUTE LOCAL S.F. BAY AREA NEWS OF RE/SEARCH-recommended EVENTS, click here. SPONSORSHIP...

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Stephen Wolfram contemplating deep-time galactic beacons

*This is genuinely interesting. The good old “First Contact” problem in science fiction, after all these decades there’s still grounds for innovative thought. *The idea...

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Honey, I’m home

Internet of Things landscape 2018

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The Android botnet racket

*Twenty million. Rather a handsome sum. But it’s even more expensive to get rid of it (…) Here’s how it works: an attacker-controlled server runs...

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Musica Globalista: Geeta Dayal describing Mark E. Smith of The Fall

*I really have to wonder if Smith’s eccentric work is somehow gonna get classicized. He’s the kind of guy who might be utterly unknown 50...

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It’s tech-lash season, part ten

*George Soros attacks Google and Facebook at Davos. Okey-dokey. https://qz.com/1189960/george-soros-g... https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-co... https://www.georgesoros.com/2018/01/2... (…) The IT monopolies I want to spend the bulk of my remaining...

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PEN America’s DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

*Well, I read ’em, and maybe you can too, for a little while, anyway. President Trump brings his attacks on the free press to the...

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