*Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys, because Big Beef is a crazily complicated industry https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5719511

*India terraforming a new navy base so as to control the Malacca Strait. #china #southchinasea #iran #straitofhormuz #deglobalize https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2026/05/08/india-to-build-strategic-outpost-near-key-shipping-lane-in-indo-pacific/

*Giant Chinese electric robot tractor *I'm guessing this somehow helps the millet-harvest https://www.global-agriculture.com/mechanization-technology/china-unveils-its-first-fully-autonomous-electric-tractor-the-honghu-t70/

*I have no problem believing that Chonqing is a "cyberpunk city," but what are these inflluencer women trying to achieve with all this handwaving English on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/live/c0VpCNnSbHo?si=ERATBrtGFe6Xe3wP

*Chess girl has to lie on Youtube to make money, and it's not that much money, either https://youtu.be/7mTzOKz6m7o?si=GYQXUToRnHWyifW2

*It's seems a little presumptuous for an Apple operating system to just unilaterally classify ChatGPT as malware and dump it straight into the trash

*How to find some music you might like, without an algorithm to show it to you, he says *I'm so old that I know this guy's dad https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-to-dig-for-music-without-spotify/

*Who else wants to pirate Chinese chips and loudly pretend to have built them *Seems like a trend with legs, really […]

*Exciting sportsball news. No fans in the stands or hotels https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q34pxv79eo

*Indo-Chinese solar power struggle https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-blocks-chinas-wto-panel-bid-over-solar-support-measures-dispute-set-for-next-stage/articleshow/131264712.cms

*Suzanne Ciani, famous pioneering 80-year-old electronic musician. Boy, does she ever sound Californian https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ex-798-suzanne-ciani

*Scott is arguing his case like in a court-of-law here, but he actually was a lawyer and magistrate, that was his lifetime day-job *He also wrote nonfiction histories, like his bio of Napoleon. Not one of his better books. It sold a lot though. It was hard to beat for topical

RE: https://mastodon.art/@junklight/116617604080389063 "Am I writing fiction about historical events in their strict and harrowing accuracy or am I a patriotic bullshit artist who writes world-famous hit novels," not exactly a new creative problem for the worthy Sir Walter

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@sqwabb/116613516725291813 *I don't think that Claude is the big problem with this speculation about the origin of invention. There are metaphysical problems about names for "inventions" and how clusters of functions and materials are identified and singled out as being […]

*Sir Walter Scott, the anonymous author of "Waverly," namedropping "Geoffrey Crayon," the pseudonym of Washington Irving, and speculating that "Waverly" and "Crayon" may have even met *Irving was the disciple of Scott, and Irving did meet Scott in real life […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

*Trying to get Claude AI to outguess the histories of technical inventions *I don't believe all this stuff, but this is quite an interesting exercise and might be helpful for design fiction https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-long-do-we-wait-for-new-inventions

*Wow, those Chinese cyber-surveillance demo graphics really look fabulous these days. https://netaskari.substack.com/p/sharp-eyes-how-to-track-a-foreigner

*Zuckerberg sure has a lot of loyal friends at Facebook. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/

RE: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116599632495859132 *That's some digital art criticism

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/116599505483181112 *What is the oldest existent work of music that you would consider as weird as this Prodigy video *Which I would cordially agree is pretty old and strange, but not all that strange by The Prodigy's generous standards

*It's fun when music is 50 years old and still sounds intensely eccentic and peculiar. It's like guzzling 50-year-old whiskey and getting completely looped https://youtu.be/ZPDrlYDs7mI?si=9bT78c5KDPU_xzoy

*Although I'm not in business and I lack "competitors," this seems like something any consumer or shopper probably ought to have "Claude, how evil are these guys"

*I blame apocalyptic science fiction dystopias where somebody threw in an upbeat slop-metal soundtrack https://youtu.be/slXBwgxuIfM?si=fvG0cDKCdb5gt51f

*What would it take to make these severely nutty French-Canadian math-rock guys bigger than the biggest pop stars in the world https://youtu.be/gBYrwJC_-gk?si=_qK7jfy4zrBcQ3qg

*Maybe we should be grateful that a YouTuber who collects combat knives and calls himself "Joe Doomsday" has such a modest number of followers. *We've never been in such genuine danger from massive disaster, but the prepper-fad seems to be losing its cachet […]

*I wonder who was in a mood to loudly boast about the normally discreet and/or covert activities of India's Special Forces https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/how-nighttime-raids-heliborne-assaults-jungle-ops-made-indias-special-forces-legendary/articleshow/131114226.cms

*Moralizing essays about AI killer-drone ethics have more point to them when you and yours are getting blown up https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/war-by-subscription-how-the-gamification-of-combat-became-the-dream-factorys-newest-product-ec7297aedc96

*Is a minor Dyson-sphere of thousands of laser-linked AI satellites kind of overkill for generating 3D house videos *Maybe not. Probably lolcats would be an even bigger business https://youtu.be/u9m6tCZa2-k?si=Lmab4eN-LDBWuZpk

*Apple was throwing away those chips because they were iPhone garbage, but now the cheap laptop is a big hit https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/07/macbook-neo-shortages-force-new-a18-pro-run-doubled-production-to-keep-up

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw

*There must be somebody somewhere who faithfully buys and listens to each and every one of these recordings #worldmusic #bizarre https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/music

*How many "bugs" can some finite chunk of code possibly have? Will it ever run out of bugs? Can models just invent new forms of bugs to patch indefinitely?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@roadskater/116532384894638040 *Who is it that you imagine is tooting all this bizarre Mastodon fodder, using the Bruce Sterling name *And if he's that good at it, why would you believe me if I claim that it's "me"

*Some factory threw out a ton of useless cardboard kid-game crap, only it was supposed to become rare and collectible https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/

*Elite cybercrime forums overwhelmed by slop. This is fantastic https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/

*Girlie cyberdecks *This is really an odd article, given that it' seems to be mostly about cute purses https://www.wired.com/story/cyberdecks-tiktok-ube-boobey-diy-computer-gadget/

*Well, that was fun to read. I wonder how much of that will actually happen Everything Trump touches dies, including even the greenhouse effect, and wow, that's a big one to kill https://medium.com/@doctorow/demand-destruction-vs-fuel-superceding-infrastructure-f7521936320f

*I'm assuming he just made this up, because this is what he himself imagines he is doing whenever he's killing time in social-media. #fearless #TruthWarrior #oligarch #techbro

*You ever read that sober, analytical OSS operator-manual about smashing up and sabotaging every possible device and process in Nazi-occupied Europe *Nobody ever calls those characters "Luddites"

*The long-haired digirati are losing their composure here. There are those who are wannabe-Luddites, and others who have the moral necessity for Luddism thrust upon them https://youtu.be/1Z4k_vDovbY?si=_C5bfJhe2n4QTM4e

*Why is there only one clickable attack in the entire USA https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1z8gA8JdncNKT4uSkbmnVvB9yrbyBDNg&hl=en_US&ll=38.55481308876197%2C-75.15514769669618&z=4

*If there are new "laws of nature" but only AIs can find them and describe them, are those even "laws" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260422044635.htm

*So, uhm, any NVIDIA or Google or Amazon AI hardware in there? Apparently not

*A Palantir-manifesto anti-manifesto. https://www.nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto

*That's really a lot of informed backchatter about Apple trends by Apple pros who know what they're talking about https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/apple-in-the-enterprise-the-complete-2026-commentary/

"You already hate yourself for doing this at all, and now they're strapping a GoPro to your head" #meta #ai #evil https://youtu.be/7tnwGolP9xE?si=K4sYXPoiGr9tIs8H

*Nice book to print out and hide in a clay jar in a cave near the Dead Sea https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/mode/2up

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*Meanwhile, in outer space https://youtube.com/shorts/y0dMKWK-GCw?si=15Th2VvqTboZMYfK

*These 'hypercanes" sound fun. A planet with routine, normalized hypercane weather that lasted for an eon or two, what would that be like #superstorms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane