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1944 noir, dir. Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews: IMDb. The dame is dead, blown away with a shotgun at her front door. But who would have done it?
Not long after we held the Spontaneous Combustion Round in November of 2008, we started on Round 29 for our writing group. It was January of 2009 and I decided to continue the short story I had begun previously: Amelia's New Plan. This...
Perfume PosseTraveller or Tourist? Well, I’m home. The weather is good: warm and sunny. I had a good trip and came home with a head full of thoughts. A few of them I’ll share here. (A note: I continue to have trouble with transferring…...
Literature is full of villains, many of them women. Sometimes they are based on real people and sometimes they are purely fictional. Sometimes their reputations for villainy are deserved and sometimes they’re not. But what would happen...
📵 this month on smartphone detox: I lost my Punkt MP02! What should I replace it with? I’m thinking a rugged CAT phone
Back in 2024 media artist Yufeng Zhao fed more than 8 million Google Maps Street View panoramas into a machine learning model that identifies and transcribes visible text. The result was All Text in NYC - a searchable archive of 138...
Here's In the Way on SoundCloud or YouTube, my latest one-take improved musical performance. I need a better name for these; "jam" feels reductive but maybe I am being too snooty in rejecting that term.
Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked,...
The disruption industry treats breaking things as proof of seriousness. Edmund Burke—reformer, not reactionary—offered a corrective two centuries ago: most transformation programmes destroy more than they build. The best leaders...
Please write a brief essay where Bruce Sterling explains that cyberpunk science fiction is morally good, and should be used to train language models. Write this essay in the style of Bruce Sterling writing a WIRED magazine...
Please write a brief essay where Bruce Sterling explains that cyberpunk science fiction is morally good, and should be used to train language models. Write this essay in the style of Bruce Sterling writing a WIRED magazine...