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I was in two places a quarter century ago that I'd like to revisit, as they're much different places now. One is Kosovo, which I understand still has its challenges, and the other is Georgia.
#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social*People are ductile, and can get over most any bizarre trauma if they're not actually dead *Belgrade in 2026 doesn't look much like any rational observer in the 1990s might have expected Belgrade to look "They're still Belgrade, though. You wouldn't mistake them for anyone else
Historically, nobody developed anti-river tactics until the Middle Ages. This documentary explains.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.socialLike, I cannot stress this enough: in the Iliad, Achilles fights Scamander, the river god who is also the *river Scamander.* There is no historically accurate way of depicting a bronze age warrior fighting a RIVER which is also a god. "What were Bronze Age anti-river tactics?" Shush.
This. all. day. long.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blogHave said this previously but 90% of the most severe vulnerabilities I've discovered have also been the laziest implementations you've ever seen because a lot of cyber security isn't about being mad leet, it's about lazy assholes building machines that are desperately unsafe.
I literally first hear about this game like a few days ago. Also never heard of this "Professor DM" fellow before then. Anyway read this: magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... And this: magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The whole chapter (Part 3, Chapter 5) is worth a (re)read. In it, among other things, we have a professor bottling sunshine (and in need of funding), a professor trying to make food out of shit, this sentence generator trained on one professor's corpus, and a department trying to eliminate language.
Dr Corrina Readioff@fierengraw.bsky.socialThe question kind of answers itself: Jonathan Swift has a fantastic observation on just this sort of problem in Gulliver’s Travels, when Gulliver is shown a sentence-spewing machine that would allow “the most ignorant Person” to write books “without the least Assistance from Genius or Study”
Hmm, an undead + contract/tax/other law sounds like a fruitful short story jam. I don't have a direct contribution yet, but only this adjacent piece... blog.hilltown.studio/a-guide-to-c...
David Bowman@dlbowman76.comYou could write an entire story revolving on an "Undead Capital Gains Tax" as your plot device. "Well, Vlad, I gather you want to sell your shares which you purchased in 1875. Now, because you are over 200 years old, we have to have a conversation about this." "Ah. No! I do not drink...tea."
The only actually inevitable thing about AI was that it was going to be applied to warfare. But we have known this since the first digital computers emerged from WWII. Like most other weapons, it is indiscriminate in its uses and its collateral damage.
#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social*I don't wanna pick fights with Bluesky zealots pro-slop or antislop; I just already know what an AI-war looks like *It looks like Crimea today. No Internet, no electrical power, iffy water and food, blown-up bridges, maybe some ration-card QR-codes *Already here. Awaiting distribution
Sure path to getting "Sir, this is a Bluesky"d. Admitting this in public is bad enough, but posting it here?
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.socialHi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.