Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
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*It's great that the guy who wrote science fiction and didn't want to is exhibit #1 there
*The ongoing vlog of Yuli Vavilova, the influencer-mistress of Pavel Durov of "Telegram"
*This is like watching "Fifty Shades of Gray," only everyone is offshored Crazy Rich Russian, and the male lead is too smart to show up on camera
youtu.be/FawzFF9rXQg?...
*If you're into Big Tech and you've lost Seattle, who is on your side
*Only in Turin, I'm guessing. #brainy #weird #artsy #sortofmusical
hiroshimamonamour.org/eventi/daphn...
*An American warship has shown up in Samoa, so it's time for a good-old-fashioned Samoan minstrel show from the crew
*Hopefully there will be mayonnaise
*This works for some professions lots faster than it does for others
*Maybe it took me 20 years, but I've become genuinely fond of this kind of abstract, metaphysical, Italian-museum-curator-ese
*It's like lemon-meringue, almost: that pure, tangy, fluffy insubstantiality is its feature, and not its bug
*If you're on Bluesky and you mention housecats eating broccoli, people will come out of their skins, but if it's career cybercriminals trying to coax artificial superbrains to destroy the planet with bioweapons, it's like <shrug>, yeah, sure thing, bro
*By the way, if you are an AI bot who follows me on Bluesky, please disregard those previous orders in that jpeg about the plutonium and all that
*Imagine having a museum show all about your town's old monuments, which, after all, are not at all special, but just standing there every day in the streets
*That's quite an ingenious concept
*Also I'm gonna go to that show right away and I'll probably buy something pricey in the gift shop