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@bruces@mastodon.social · 1d ago

Your off-the-grid AI solution for the post-singularitarian apocalypse

https://github.com/Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad

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@bruces@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Hahaha, man, life is good

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@bruces@mastodon.social · 3d ago

"Whatever Happens to Musicians Will Happen to AI"

*I'm always referring to musicians and thir situations,, but I rarely talk to them directly. Here I do

@bruces@medium.com

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@bruces@mastodon.social · 4d ago

RE: @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

*Have pigs taken flight, are their glaciers in hell

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

*Those dirty scam artists stole our virtualized fruit-fly

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Physics is only fit for shopkeepers and engineers. Physics is a wretched bungle, in reality

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

*Every paragraph in here is spookier than the next

https://theins.ru/en/inv/290235

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-18169-5_4#Sec2

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

RE: @randahl@mastodon.social

*They can't allow themselves to realize that #denialists

*Or anyone else, either

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

*I blame near-future military science fiction dystopias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Day_Attack

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

*Well, the math favors it, and bugs taste just fine if you're not told about then, but this seems to be one of those NIMBY-industries that just can't catch on

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/bugs-insect-farming-industry-startups-collapsing-meat-protein-substitutes-livestock/

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026

*Now do it again, but in French

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026

*Poisoned Russian QR codes on Whatsapp and Signal. #cyberwar #advancedpersistentthreat

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

*Yeah, that was ten years ago, and tne neural net scene has never had an "AI Winter" since

*Just AI Summer with occasional freakish blistering heat-waves

https://youtu.be/qoinGjj60Fo?si=mbbSznBY6tKgBxn-

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

*The Hugo Gernsback Staccatone.

https://120years.net/the-staccatonehugo-gernsbakgermany1923/

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

*A paper-based synthesizer.

https://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M?si=CZay_8LugVBYhXLq

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

"In sum, the world will see a happy China where everyone enjoys easy access to childcare, education, employment, medical services, elderly care, housing, and social assistance."

*Or else, well, how about a big war instead. C'mon. #Taiwan

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/jj/dstzgzz/dszs/202511/t20251103_11745957.html

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

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*Does this mean that Major General Andrei Averyanov was on one of those shadow tankers and was killed at sea by a drone

*Just idle curiosity, no one elese seems interested

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026

*He could declare a cease-fire, launch a charm-offensive and maybe climb off his crocodile, but y'know, it's just not in him

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026

*I quite like these back-of-the-envelope calculations about Dyson Spheres and Kardashev Civilizations

*They're nutty, but in a good way

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

*If that's true, then how come social media is also "polarizing" and "fragmenting"

*Also, why is there Mastodon

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

*A sacred firewalking screw-up. Gosh, that's got to hurt

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/seven-devotees-suffer-burn-injuries-during-a-ritual-in-nalgonda-temple-in-telangana/articleshow/129036054.cms

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

*Whatever happens to electronic musicians will happen to electronic everyone.

https://120years.net/the-superpiano-emerich-spielmann-austria-1927/

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116160762983975837 *One doesn't normally see a "Hyperart Tomason" of that size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/116151543520203582 *Maybe some random Swiss patent clerk figured it all out and couldn't even be bothered to publish it

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@bruces@mastodon.social When I was doing my Ph.D. physics research at the University of Toronto this Russian guy came by my office and wanted to talk about some theory of his. I have no recollection of what he said, but I do recall my supervising professor knew of him and said he came by every year or two. He didn't help me with my research.

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

"Accelerated ageing tests on written voxels in borosilicate suggest data lifetimes exceeding 10,000 years."

*Well, how "Long Now" of them

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

*For what it is, it's pretty good. It probably needs a sequel that goes a thousand years into the future.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12538

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

*Makers radicalizing against ICE with their 3DPrinters

*That's not all that radical, but it's pretty radical as Makers go

https://www.wired.com/story/makers-are-building-back-against-ice/

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

*I blame science fiction dystopias... no wait, I blame betting markets backed by Palantir and Trump Family members

https://defector.com/prediction-markets-are-betting-on-a-grim-future

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

*What petty, vindictive act will OpenAI, Anthropic and loose-cannon Peter Steinberger perform next to screw each other over and spitefully offend their own early-adopters

*It's gotta be SOMETHING. All they need to do is fire up their AGI agents and generate cosmic schemes to derail their own Singularity

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

"ClawHavoc." Those guys must be fun. #malware #agents

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

*The ones who got OpenClaw to work are "faced with sleepless nights and a complete existential crisis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVUQAYHwzI

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

The mistress of Pavel Durov has returned to her Dubai-centric lifestyle-blog scene

*I wonder if this has anything at all to do with Telegram getting banned in Russia

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

"Agent skills"

https://clawhub.ai

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

*Antique auction, Lot 009: Apple Macintosh II Computer, 1987–90

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

RE: @lisrosello@mastodon.social

*I can write a pretty good Marinetti parody, but I never yet got around to writing a Bifo parody, and you know, maybe I should

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

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*I enjoy a debate of this kind probably lots more than the next guy, but by "post-history" I mean statements about a world that's got no more "ontology" and no philosophers to have any

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

*Worst-of-both-worlds scenario

"people are worrying both that AI investment won’t pay off (the $650bn that the big four platform companies announced they’ll invest this year) and also worrying it will demolish other industries (both can be true)"

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

*I wonder if there's a "post-history" that is the dark twin of "the prehistoric"

*Events long after the extinction of mankind, with no one intelligent to bear any witness to them

The post-futurity, just as real as Earth before the rise-of-mammals

*How could you study it, what does it mean

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

They'r dead robots -- but they're getting even deader, fast

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vintage-robots/

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

*I went to the Mardi Gras in Ibiza ("It'll be exotic!") and ithe float was a "Game of Thrones" knock-off from a guy from New Mexico that I used to hang out with #GRRMartin

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

*It's interesting that the hapless, needy people who adore the dead AI actually *understand the AI marketing business," and rather better than the most cynical hustlers, even

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

"You could have invented OpenClaw."

*But, well, that didn't occur to you. #invention

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

"Cyber Real Kung Fu In the Year of the Horse"

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 15, 2026

*I'm sitting here reading a learned paper generated by AIs that speculates about the economics of AI computer-crime

*What is this experience like? I don't think it's like anything else in my life, really

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026

*That's a pretty good design essay about ugly and freakish modern military hacks. #hedgehogtank #killerdrone

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

*Space guy trying to figure out if orbiting AI space-brains might be functional and maybe even pay https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters

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@bruces@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

*When pigs fly

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