“*The prescient campaign with the perverse effect of accelerating slaughterbots *I blame science fiction dystopias https:// medium.com/predict/slaughterbo ts-in-ukraine-df491b895b42”
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Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
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culture · American author, speaker and futurist (born 1954) · novelist · writer · blogger · journalist · futurist · literary critic · science fiction writer · literary scholar · orator · designer · also Bruce Sterling, Michael Bruce Sterling, Michael Sterling, Sterling
Born 14 April 1954 · Q312995
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"Yeah, they're autonomous killer robots in the Gray Zone and they're practicing some simple computer-games with the bones and skulls of the meat-wave victims" *I kinda hate this unintentional old-school sci-fi prescience; of course I see megatons of it, but it gets on my nerves
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“"Yeah, they're autonomous killer robots in the Gray Zone and they're practicing some simple computer-games with the bones and skulls of the meat-wave victims" *I kinda hate this unintentional old-school sci-fi prescience; of course I see megatons of it, but it gets on my nerves”
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“*This feat probably counts as "Ukrainian hybrid warfare," if a techno-DJ/trucker and his wife the tattoo-artist/romance-novelist would classify as "hybrid warriors"”
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“*There seems to be no known map of Russian and Ukrainian hybrid-warfare activity *across the entire world,* although everybody who matters already knows that they're going after it hammer and tongs *Ukraine in Africa. This is just the really-obvious stuff”
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“*If you're Russian and believe that Ukraine is Russia, then everything Ukraine does is "Russian hybrid warfare activity" in some special military-operation undeclared war *Blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, for instance”
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“*I wonder if blowing up Prigozhin's jet counts as "Russian hybrid-warfare activity" *Technically, it should, right? There must be a *lot* of Russian hybrid-warfare activity inside Russia, high windows, obscure poisons, arson etc *What about "Black Spark" guys who are Russian and attack Russia”
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“*What's of historical significance here *Mostly that the President is a television personality and his regime routinely lies to the American population”
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“*Imagine yourself alone on a desert island with five Nihilist Russian *women,* who aren't so testosterone-fueled that they actively knife you or hang themselves *You might well survive, and even make a Pitcairn Island go of it, like some amoral polyamorous nihilist Russian beach-utopia”
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“*It's even worse. *Imagine yourself on a desert island with five no-kidding Russian nihilists, or five battlefied-veterans from the Wagner Group "Hey, those tough soldiers would surely survive, and they would help me!" *Nope. Not a bit of it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...”
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“*Nice aphorism, Annalee *Liking the oxymoron here. The enantiodromia. The cognitive dissonance of the self-refutation. #rhetorical #writerly”
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“*They're the historically significant figures in the conflict. Seriously. And they're not gonna have any statues, or streets named after them "Yeah, Prigozhin, he recruited all those gulag convicts, and then our own Russian army shelled them, and we had to blow him up" "Here's his statue"”
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“*There are two Russian heroes in this war. There's Strelkov-Girkin, the nutty adventurer-jailbird who inveigled you into all this, and there's Prigozhin, that too-honest ex-convict that you had to blow up in his jet”
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“*Offshored hacker-slave camps profit hugely, while ethnonational "sovereign cyberspace" forces ignore them and fight each other https://www. techpolicy.press/amid-crackdow n-few-signs-of-a-slowdown-in-scam-compounds/”
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“*I know that people practice anti-Chinese industrial espionage, but it's unusual to boast in English about it https:// euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/13 /mich-2000/”
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“RE: https:// fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/11710338 5818217763 *Oh good for him, for heaven's sake”
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“*It's not much of a story (although it's factual), but that is a great pop-science headline https://www. independent.co.uk/news/science /gold-big-bang-theory-large-hadron-collider-b3033578.html”
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“RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1 17094507707502754 *Hey wait, look, these global Internet ad companies are run by our national enemies”
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“*It's interesting that "we" do not even bother to mention who "we" are *Are "we" a chatbot, perhaps”
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“"How come I never heard about this musician while he was still alive," that's one of the good things about recorded music, actually https:// mixmag.net/feature/10-essentia l-best-william-orbit-tracks-productions-madonna-all-saints-bassomatic-prince-u2-blur”
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The Guardian: From Heartstopper to Sterling Point: how teen TV is thriving again with love, sex and nostalgia
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2016· 1 entry
CNBC Africa: Bruce Sterling
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2005· 1 entry
Became "visionary in residence" at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California
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2004· 1 entry
“The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole”
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2003· 1 entry
Was appointed professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching summer intensive courses on media and design
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Arthur C. Clarke Award for Distraction (2000).
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Taklamakan (1999).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Short Story for Maneki Neko (1999).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Novelette for Taklamakan (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Bicycle Repairman (1997).
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1992· 1 entry
Published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Islands in the Net (1989).
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1978· 1 entry
Was the Dungeon Master for a Dungeons & Dragons game whose players included Warren Spector, who cited Sterling's game as a major inspiration for the game design of Deus Ex
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1976· 1 entry
Graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-04-14.
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