Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 44

ALMAT – Algorithms that Matter: Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice**

**ALMAT – Algorithms that Matter** **Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice** 6–7 July 2020, Graz Austria https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html Please feel free to distribute this call...

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“La prima frontiera”, antologia di Strano Weird

*I happen to have a new story in this new fantascienza anthology. Of course my story is in Italian. Also the characters are Italian and...

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Shapeshifter

*Even if that speculative design may be impossible to build, it’s pretty.

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Meanwhile, in Chinese 5G and Artificial Intelligence

*That’s quite a pitch. ChinAI #69: The 5G PPT Read Round the (Chinese-speaking) World An exclusive full translation of the 100-slide deck that went viral...

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The World’s crookedest free trade zones

*Hey! Free trade is good, though! Ghanaian-Iranian, what could go wrong… Think of them as a thousand points of light (…) Governments around the world...

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Here comes Margrethe Vestager

*If I was an American tech mogul I’d be tempted to hide under her skirts at this point. At least she’s a bureaucrat instead of...

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Dead Media Beat: Mapquest

*Verizon kind of likes to get rid of stuff for a pittance, such as Tumblr selling for the price of a house in the Bay...

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The American cannabis industry

What heavy industry looks like when all the entrepreneurs are stoned

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Meanwhile, in the ever-expanding “Entities List”

Face recognition companies, among others in the new US ban. https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspe... Pursuant to § 744.11(b) of the EAR, the ERC determined that the Xinjiang Uighur...

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The people who imagine that AI won’t kill everybody

*This isn’t exactly a coherent argument, but it’s kind of a nice list of the usual AI pundits. *I bet it would put that cat...

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