Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 73

Musica Globalista: Crissy Criss X Malux X Erb N Dub – “Airlock” (War On Silence)

*Okay, I like neurofunk drum ‘n’ bass as well as the next guy (and probably lots better than most) but I really admire the language...

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Microsoft just wrote a malware defender for the Apple Macintosh

*I guess they’ve gotta do it, because “cloud” and “collaborative network media” etc etc, but that’s a weird development in tech history. It’s like a...

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I plan to show up (in Milan, April 10, for some design politics)

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Deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, or destroy

*Military life is tough when there’s an inter-service rivalry. Alas, I have to wear three hats while I attempt to sabotage computers To publish this...

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All the xenofeminism you can eat

For people who like that sort of thing, this is more or less the kinda stuff they would like

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Dead Media Beat: the early Internet

Massive link rot …the homepage he created has also become something else: a living museum to an earlier internet era. Fifteen years may not seem...

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Whoops, they accidentally handed the United Nations to the Chinese

*Sino-Globalism in the trenches. The tall weeds of diplomatic great-power struggle (…) For the past two years, European allies have warned the Trump administration that...

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Musica Globalista: Mana, “Solo”

*I’m quite the fan of Daniele Manin’s sample-delica techniques. iTunes informs me that I’ve played his collaborative record “Glasstress” 106 times. It’s composed of samples...

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He’s glad they don’t have a Silicon Valley in Europe

*And he’s got his reasons. It would have been heresy twenty year ago, but that was then, this is now (…) – Do you agree...

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After the cruel Civil War

It’s 1640, during the Thirty Years War. The French under Richelieu, and the Spanish under the Count-Duke Olivares, have jointly provoked a war inside the...

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