Posts by bruces@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ayt5it6hauzX7cRWnw by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-28T14:20:11Z
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Kids! Grow mushrooms in your basement, etc
(DIR) Post #Ayt5r8nx7CDO7jbmfA by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-23T06:07:06Z
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*Well, there it is, our very own Echo-Chamber Information-Bubble *Einstein says it's rock solid and you can never get out, but I have to wonder
(DIR) Post #Ayt68AVi1h4wKxC7pw by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T12:23:58Z
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*Asked for ten grand to mess around in the workshop, and they're offered a third of a million. How can this end wellhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acmerlaser/worlds-1st-120w-diode-laserand4w-ir-water-cooled-laser-and-cnc
(DIR) Post #Ayt7NyaoChUhxigJWa by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-20T11:10:05Z
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(DIR) Post #Ayt7Q2fs01b9CU2ABU by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-20T05:46:20Z
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*Uh-oh. #generated #3D #styletransfer #NanoBanana #fake #historicalpastiche https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72177720329148544/
(DIR) Post #Ayu8Wl586JLdmFZjDE by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-19T19:20:44Z
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*Seen in retrospect, that project now is even weirder than it was in 2009, and in 2009 it was plenty weirdhttps://significantobjects.com/2009/07/31/metal-boot/
(DIR) Post #Ayu91YLRVRgvFetDAu by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-19T07:36:40Z
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Acutis has been referred to as the "patron saint of the Internet", "God's Influencer" and the "first millennial saint".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Acutis
(DIR) Post #AyuAQubfySljUO8ePI by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-19T05:11:31Z
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*I wonder if "solving problems that are really hard" gains very much, compared to the much more serious issue of solving problems with solutions thar are really obvioushttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-achieves-gold-level-performance-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/
(DIR) Post #AyuAUG2mjARuqPPits by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-09-18T05:37:27Z
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*It's really strange that all this installed Martian hardware gets to stare at a comet from beyond the solar systemhttps://eyes.nasa.gov/staging/apps/solar-system/#/c_2025_n1/events/mars_flyby
(DIR) Post #Az1zhenETeyh8U0OnY by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-10-08T20:46:47Z
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*The South Koreans haven't shut down their goverment, but a lithium-battery fire in a data center just incinerated a lot of ithttps://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/south-korea-state-data-centre-fire-daejeon-b2834847.html
(DIR) Post #B0nzDba7OXQ9lFtuAS by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-01T12:58:14Z
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Before and After DigitalBefore and After SpaceBefore and After AtomicBefore and After CarbonBefore and After ElectricityBefore and After MedicineBefore and After LiteracyBefore and After Moneyhttps://youtu.be/2XLiAX3NjBY?si=JvJniWzQ59wUiuyd
(DIR) Post #B0q1bOdjkeSonWz9tI by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T12:32:45Z
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*I watch this guy's videos. Of all the makers in the Maker scene, he's the one who is most like some blue-collar "Popular Mechanics" character from the 1920s*And in a good way. I "like and subscribe"https://youtu.be/x38YBOfdq-w?si=_8tEv3qryrZiZYwA
(DIR) Post #B11ss2iJxQui1mVlp2 by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T05:39:11Z
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*It worked great for the data set it was given
(DIR) Post #B128DtqJ7TyyCJ7x6e by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T08:34:40Z
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*It's great that it's cheap and "for everybody" when that is one of the least everybody-like images that the culture of 1912 could imagine
(DIR) Post #B1F6VKkodv4rjPDtce by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-14T13:55:56Z
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They used to "laugh and call him nanes." Now they're all dead
(DIR) Post #B1S4fQYcVyCyEyRDF2 by bruces@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T14:56:35Z
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They're not "waiting to return to the surface," they're waiting for the planet to be blasted into pebbles to that they can reach another star-system #panspermia #intraterrestrials #aeonophiles https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
(DIR) Post #B242kANnwLAkfxIvJ2 by bruces@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T08:55:15Z
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*I wrote a long design essay about my adventures with the world's oldest and weirdest multitool.https://medium.com/@bruces/ancient-everyday-weirdness-591955f40a2d
(DIR) Post #B2IsFe1TbZeJSF4CJc by bruces@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T07:37:54Z
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*You have to wonder what an Internet-blackout USA would look like. There's some big civil disorder, "they" shut down the routers, and then what*How do people even eathttps://curifem.github.io/iran-internet-blackout/
(DIR) Post #B2NY5aljoyljArQyGm by bruces@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T06:27:10Z
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*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes where the convenient Big Data already ishttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y
(DIR) Post #B3HJv1QhHJHtDqVgMS by bruces@mastodon.social
2026-02-13T09:04:35Z
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*Vaclav Havel, once again the most popular writer in my Medium account, as is his wonthttps://medium.com/@bruces