Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 37

Jean-Claude Juncker, European news journalist

*What an odd thing. He’s a pretty good writer, I’m surprised to see. POLITICO EUROPE By JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER Send tips here (I cannot guarantee that...

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Musica Globalista: Grimes interview

*You’re a tech billionaires girlfriend for a while, man, your media image goes haywire. She sounds pretty ticked-off (…) It’s a difficult realisation for anyone...

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H G Wells, military futurist, experiences the tank he predicted

V. TANKS 1 It is the British who have produced the “land ironclad” since I returned from France, and used it apparently with very good...

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H G Wells, war journalist

*One hundred and three years ago. THE WESTERN WAR (SEPTEMBER, 1916) I. RUINS If I had to present some particular scene as typical of the...

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H G Wells characters discussing scientific romance

*In a late novel of his, titled “Star Begotten,” which is dedicated to, of all people, Winston Churchill. *It’s rather rare for characters in science...

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The Murdered Chinaman issue

*This is H G Wells contemplating issues of media globalization some ninety years ago, and it’s interesting how many situations nowadays involve obscuring, concealing, or...

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How to run Uyghur camps

*Especially when they don’t officially exist. Classified government documents leaked?! Gosh, how is that even possible A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents...

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H G Wells visits Petrograd in collapse

*Wells visits the Commies for a couple of weeks. Nobody ever wants to hear about this, because they figure that Soviets lie to visitors all...

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V. Vale speaking to a camera and a crowd

*On the blog here, we’ve been posting this guy’s newsletters since forever. *He exists outside text, because most authors do. Not all of them, but...

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Insect consciousness

*Without trying to get all pan-psychic about it, bees have kind of a lot of symptoms of mindful awareness, such as dancing at night and...

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