Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 72

Dead Media Beat: the book of books

*That’s an interesting tale, that the son of Columbus was a fanatical book archivist. Much is gone, yet much remains (…) Because Colón collected everything...

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Estonian E-Residency boss quits job, goes into the sauna racket

I could with a good sauna, probably more than an e-residency, even (…) Estonians themselves are often bemused by the amount of positive attention that...

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Pondering Chinese Artificial Intelligence while actually speaking Chinese

*Hmm. That seems useful. Jeff’s been there, done that for a year so far (…) 2. Western observers consistently overinflate Chinese AI capabilities. While some...

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Arizona State University pondering climate-centric science fiction

*They’re actually thinking about what it is and what it might do, which is refreshing. Guilt, hope and so on

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Theo Jansen Strandbeests meet Tested dotcom

*Okay, it’s three years old and it goes on endlessly, but I like kinetic art. *Here’s a Burning Man guy making a “Playa Crawler” Strandbeest...

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The ethical luxury feature and add-on

*I hadn’t thought of “ethics” as a luxury feature and add-on until this press-release told me that it wasn’t, but Europe abounds in civilized habits...

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The Stereochron Island manifesto

*It’s a fictional manifesto, but all the stuff on this artist’s website looks great. Cathy Haynes, keen on the art of temporal awareness PUBLIC PROJECT:...

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Exploring Neural Networks with Activation Atlases

*Okay even by “deep dream” standards that thing is pretty weird. It’s like doing live brain-scans of a neural net. https://distill.pub/2019/activation-a... “By using feature inversion...

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Without Computer: Anthropocene and Postdigital Imaginaries

Sacre bleu Organisateurs du séminaire de recherche Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel Grégory Chatonsky Artistes !Mediengruppe Bitnik Amanda Beech Anil Bawa-Cavia Antoine Catala Constant Dullaart – Euronet Ed...

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Design Fiction: Interakcije, “Life After Tourism”

In the post-disaster Adriatic

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