Nostr notes by Bruce Sterling @bruces

*Zagreb, of all cities, has Europe's first robotaxis? ...

2026-08-20T10:17:05Z

*Zagreb, of all cities, has Europe's first robotaxis?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-autonomous-rides-zagreb-its-first-europe-2026-08-19/

*Also the "Verne" company is named after Jules Verne

*25 years ago ...

2026-08-18T10:43:38Z

*25 years ago

*Offshored hacker-slave camps profit hugely, while ethnonational ...

2026-08-16T14:27:50Z

*Offshored hacker-slave camps profit hugely, while ethnonational "sovereign cyberspace" forces ignore them and fight each other

https://www.techpolicy.press/amid-crackdown-few-signs-of-a-slowdown-in-scam-compounds/

*I know that people practice anti-Chinese industrial espionage, ...

2026-08-16T06:21:27Z

*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/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117094507707502754 *Hey ...

2026-08-14T18:35:37Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117094507707502754

*Hey wait, look, these global Internet ad companies are run by our national enemies

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I spent the past few days going down various fascinating rabbit holes using a nifty new service called Decryptads.com, which scrapes a metric ton of adtech data from websites and apps about who they allow to collect data and serve ads.

A search in DecryptAds for the hugely popular sports network espn.com, e.g. reveals 143 ad partners and 19 registered data broker domains are listed within its ads.txt and app-ads.txt files. That data broker information is gradually becoming available because four states — California, Oregon, Texas and Vermont — have recently passed laws requiring data brokers to register if they buy or sell data on consumers from those states. DecryptAds reports that almost half of those data brokers are collecting geolocation data from espn.com visitors who aren’t blocking ads, while another three disclose that they collect device fingerprints and sensitive personal information.

DecryptAds also makes it easy to learn the beneficiaries and national origins of the advertising firms lurking in apps and websites, displaying a conspicuous warning when adtech partners of an app or website are based in “geo-risk” areas like China and Russia, or in countries with strong financial and political ties to both — such as Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

According to DecryptAds, espn.com works with four different advertising entities that are based in either Russia, China or the UAE, including the adtech firm Between Digital, which lists a New York address. However, the dossier on Between Digital flags them as a Russian firm, showing that their publisher offers (PDF) are processed through Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private commercial bank and one of several financial institutions placed under U.S. sanctions in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine.

A search for several top U.S. military news websites — including armytimes.com, airforcetimes.com, defensenews.com, navytimes.com, marinecorpstimes.com and federaltimes.com — shows they all allow Between Digital to serve ads and track users, as well as two entities in the UAE and another in the ownership secrecy haven of Panama. DecryptAds reports that Between Digital is collecting ad data on approximately 55,000 partner websites.

This service is a gold mine for security researchers, journalists and anyone interested in privacy, adtech, AI slop sites, residential proxies, malvertising, etc. Want to read more? Check out today's story:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/whos-tracking-you-use-this-new-service-to-find-out/

*It you are pro-AI or anti-AI, I would recommend that you look ...

2026-08-06T20:10:30Z

*It you are pro-AI or anti-AI, I would recommend that you look this over

https://boyswhocriedai.lovable.app/archive

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2026-08-06T16:51:28Z

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html

*Gosh, there's all kinds of schadenfreude stuff to gloat about with the high-flying 20-something AI-booster zillionaire

August 4, 2026 is the day of American nuclear apocalypse in the ...

2026-08-04T09:53:43Z

August 4, 2026 is the day of American nuclear apocalypse in the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

*I admire these "scientific facts" of other eras. These ...

2026-08-03T07:54:56Z

*I admire these "scientific facts" of other eras. These are great artworks

*I don't frame them on the wall, but maybe I should

"Hugging Face said it relied on Chinese startup Zhipu ...

2026-07-24T10:41:49Z

"Hugging Face said it relied on Chinese startup Zhipu AI's open-source GLM-5.2 model to analyze and contain the attack," meaning the spontaneous attack on HuggingFace from OpenAI #ThankYouChina #GoodOldChina #SoTrustworthy

*Hmm. Is it worse or better for the cause of the protesting ...

2026-07-24T09:16:50Z

*Hmm. Is it worse or better for the cause of the protesting students that the entire town goes dark because they made trouble

https://internetfreedom.in/iff-condemns-the-internet-shutdown-in-parts-of-central-delhi-no-suspension-order-has-been-made-public/

*A desktop PC that costs $94K. That's kind of great. ...

2026-07-13T17:43:22Z

*A desktop PC that costs $94K. That's kind of great. That's some old school powerhouse desktop computing there

*Energy too cheap to meter, as they used to say about another ...

2026-07-13T17:08:42Z

*Energy too cheap to meter, as they used to say about another form of energy entirely

Bees using tools. ...

2026-06-30T04:10:16Z

Bees using tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/bees-use-tools-to-solve-problems-study-finds

*Asian neon has become so old that it's a vanishing ...

2026-06-24T10:38:10Z

*Asian neon has become so old that it's a vanishing handicraft.

https://youtu.be/2QfbvK3FCE4?si=SBA9WS6cZaZ83C8M

*I guess I have to blame science fiction utopias for not making ...

2026-06-17T08:47:16Z

*I guess I have to blame science fiction utopias for not making this important case for the trillion-dollar AI investors

https://europe2031.ai/summary/

Well, you know, you just spend the two billion and install 3,000 ...

2026-06-17T08:39:53Z

Well, you know, you just spend the two billion and install 3,000 car chargers all over Europe. #China #BeltAndRoad #solar #electrification

*If you don't like the video antics of Melissa Backwoods, you ...

2026-06-10T11:44:07Z

*If you don't like the video antics of Melissa Backwoods, you probably just don't like extreme and weird modern cutlery #MesoAmericanCyberpunk

https://youtu.be/eOallTTlMV4?si=a24n68jax5BBi6mG

*Well, if that's true, then who the heck is left who wants to ...

2026-06-02T21:42:56Z

*Well, if that's true, then who the heck is left who wants to attend a revamped Game Developer Conference

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/

*India terraforming a new navy base so as to control the Malacca ...

2026-05-30T14:02:37Z

*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/

*Moralizing essays about AI killer-drone ethics have more point ...

2026-05-15T12:43:03Z

*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

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and ...

2026-05-13T16:17:35Z

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror

https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw

*I'm assuming he just made this up, because this is what he ...

2026-05-05T08:19:47Z

*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 ...

2026-05-04T11:19:46Z

*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"

*If there are new "laws of nature" but only AIs can find ...

2026-05-03T12:09:38Z

*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

*All is not well in the Land of Microslop, my goodness what ...

2026-04-29T15:51:07Z

*All is not well in the Land of Microslop, my goodness what scoldings they're getting

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/github-is-failing-me-every-single-day-and-it-is-personal-after-xbox-and-windows-now-github-is-in-crisis-microsoft-what-are-you-doing

*Well, of course "the public" hates the AI industry, but ...

2026-04-25T09:06:30Z

*Well, of course "the public" hates the AI industry, but I think this article undersells how much the top people in the industry hate and distrust each other

https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash

“The entropic energy of the proton motive force gets converted ...

2026-04-21T04:46:07Z

“The entropic energy of the proton motive force gets converted into the kinetic energy of the rotation,” *at the rate of 2,000 protons per second

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/

*Well, that one's straight out of the tinfoil hat warehouse ...

2026-04-18T11:42:29Z

*Well, that one's straight out of the tinfoil hat warehouse

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00330-2

"It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last ...

2026-04-16T05:44:33Z

"It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week’s big news in which the company formerly known as Facebook decided to shut down its Metaverse project on which it has, according to various reports, spent eighty billion dollars,' says Neal Stephenson

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild

"Whatever Happens to Musicians Will Happen to AI" ...

2026-03-19T14:59:45Z

"Whatever Happens to Musicians Will Happen to AI"

*I'm always referring to musicians and thir situations,, but I rarely talk to them directly. Here I do

https://medium.com/@bruces/whatever-happens-to-music-will-happen-to-ai-2026-9a4482a2a012

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345 *Is it even ...

2026-02-28T06:31:34Z

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345

*Is it even technically possible to create a market that's more intensely enshittified than the "crypto market"?

*Maybe a darknet crypto market entirely owned and run by North Koreans could somehow be worse? I dunno. Concerning
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*What petty, vindictive act will OpenAI, Anthropic and ...

2026-02-20T04:12:04Z

*What petty, vindictive act will OpenAI, Anthropic and loose-cannon Peter Steinberger perform next to screw each other over and spitefully offend their own early-adopters

*It's gotta be SOMETHING. All they need to do is fire up their AGI agents and generate cosmic schemes to derail their own Singularity

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2026-02-20T04:02:33Z

*How could that not be worth a trilliion ...

2026-02-09T12:04:32Z

*How could that not be worth a trilliion

*When pigs fly ...

2026-02-09T09:24:26Z

*When pigs fly

*Maybe if somebody printed this out and stapled it onto telephone ...

2026-02-03T14:27:18Z

*Maybe if somebody printed this out and stapled it onto telephone poles outside of ICE headquarters

*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes ...

2026-01-17T06:27:10Z

*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes where the convenient Big Data already is

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y

*You have to wonder what an Internet-blackout USA would look ...

2026-01-15T07:37:54Z

*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 eat

https://curifem.github.io/iran-internet-blackout/

*I must have read a megaton of speculative tech-guru ramblings ...

2026-01-10T05:30:54Z

*I must have read a megaton of speculative tech-guru ramblings like this, and even written volumes of it myself, and yet that was still engrossing, and fun to read

*I don't *believe* it, but I thought about it

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligences-so-far

*The WELL State of the World for 02026 is off to the races. ...

2026-01-07T10:25:52Z

*The WELL State of the World for 02026 is off to the races.

https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

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2025-12-25T07:07:30Z

They used to "laugh and call him nanes." Now they're ...

2025-12-14T13:55:56Z

They used to "laugh and call him nanes." Now they're all dead

*I just had Xtwitter Grok create a new business plan, so that ...

2025-12-12T10:53:18Z

*I just had Xtwitter Grok create a new business plan, so that Zuckerberg can abandon the metaverse and hard-pivot to headmounted AI.

https://tmblr.co/ZLUiJtiZryjtui00

*Endless doomscrolling ...

2025-12-11T15:42:29Z

*Endless doomscrolling

*It's great that it's cheap and "for everybody" ...

2025-12-08T08:34:40Z

*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

*It worked great for the data set it was given ...

2025-12-08T05:39:11Z

*It worked great for the data set it was given

*Andre Leroi Gourhan was a 20th century archaeologist and ...

2025-11-15T11:41:34Z

*Andre Leroi Gourhan was a 20th century archaeologist and technology theorist, and you would never, ever hear a YouTube 'knife guy" talking like this about knives, even if he is French

*Televisions and phones are for poor people. ...

2025-11-15T09:29:49Z

*Televisions and phones are for poor people.

*Whoopee https://youtu.be/ANhA94ZqnEQ?si=Yv_W4DGRoiZO9zxS

2025-11-14T05:42:57Z

*Whoopee

https://youtu.be/ANhA94ZqnEQ?si=Yv_W4DGRoiZO9zxS

*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting ...

2025-10-30T06:16:52Z

*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting

https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33

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2025-10-27T06:12:28Z

*It was a giant working model of the entire Mississippi River... ...

2025-10-09T12:51:13Z

*It was a giant working model of the entire Mississippi River... and it was built by prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model

Curing Alzheimer's in mice Skeptics will go, "heyn ...

2025-10-08T05:35:13Z

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice

*Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

*I agree with ChatGPT that Bruce Sterling fans should read Cory ...

2025-10-02T19:10:29Z

*I agree with ChatGPT that Bruce Sterling fans should read Cory Doctorow novels that don't exist

https://www.tumblr.com/brucesterling/796132113751687168/chatgpt-sci-fi-maven

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2025-09-30T12:25:51Z

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2025-09-29T10:55:50Z

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host ...

2025-09-22T05:45:09Z

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity"

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2025-09-20T11:10:05Z

*I wonder if "solving problems that are really hard" ...

2025-09-19T05:11:31Z

*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 obvious

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-achieves-gold-level-performance-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/

*Liking the use of bamboo there ...

2025-09-17T19:13:47Z

*Liking the use of bamboo there

https://youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?si=NJBhqKGLZNdgCf9N

*One wonders what other entities have figured out 3D shapes in ...

2025-09-16T16:22:45Z

*One wonders what other entities have figured out 3D shapes in the Milky Way

https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k?si=l_Cjx8I02JLufbda

IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Seagate cashing in on the Chinese ...

2025-09-15T14:58:44Z

IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Seagate cashing in on the Chinese surveillance and repression racket.

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/silicon-valley-enabled-brutal-mass-detention-and-surveillance-in-china-internal-documents-show/

*Magazine cover stories of mine that turned into Netflix ...

2025-09-15T14:06:34Z

*Magazine cover stories of mine that turned into Netflix "Love Death and Robots" cartoons. I forgot that I had these around here in Turin.

Chock full o' nanoplastic. This alarming health-threat ...

2025-09-13T04:29:40Z

*Chock full o' nanoplastic.

*This alarming health-threat notion also applies to most every other organism on Earth, by the way

*There may be some clean ones in caves a couple of miles down

“This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI ...

2025-09-06T08:46:57Z

“This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic"

https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/

*It's very sci-fi of me, I admit that, but I've always ...

2025-08-30T15:23:48Z

*It's very sci-fi of me, I admit that, but I've always been charmed by the notion of some lonely Swiss patent-clerk messing around with some tabletop physics gizmo and accidentally destroying the Universe

*How often has that really happened, one wonders idly #reality

"Open Source software is one guy off in the boondocks ...

2025-08-28T14:40:46Z

"Open Source software is one guy off in the boondocks somewhere

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

*What if an LLM-bot was left all alone in a Searle Chinese Room ...

2025-08-28T05:36:44Z

*What if an LLM-bot was left all alone in a Searle Chinese Room for a hundred thousand years, with no programmed purpose except to chew on the structure of language

Where would that language go? Would it even be "language," and if it isn't, then what is it

*I understand what Stephen Wolfram is saying here, but after ...

2025-08-28T05:30:18Z

*I understand what Stephen Wolfram is saying here, but after LLMs, I'm wondering if "language itself" doesn't hold and contain a whole lot of our so-called "intelligence"

Way to snake, snakey ...

2025-08-26T19:24:39Z

Way to snake, snakey

*Well, y'know, all of "coding" has always been the ...

2025-08-19T09:59:36Z

*Well, y'know, all of "coding" has always been the easy-cyberguy way to seemingly accomplish some stuff without the hard work of hitting it with analog saws hammers hoes and shovels

"Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?" ...

2025-08-13T09:33:06Z

"Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218

*The "Tesla Deaths" website. Not a lot of web-design ...

2025-08-12T06:16:46Z

*The "Tesla Deaths" website. Not a lot of web-design frills in this one

*Lotta dead people, though

https://www.tesladeaths.com

*Well, time to LLM-update the ol' Mastodon profile pic. #slop ...

2025-08-10T09:11:22Z

*Well, time to LLM-update the ol' Mastodon profile pic. #slop

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game ...

2025-08-03T05:24:38Z

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game

*Even the birds and worms are painted with the funereal ...

2025-07-05T07:08:09Z

*Even the birds and worms are painted with the funereal #MarySomerville #memoirs

*I know that people get defenestrated, but, other than Russia, ...

2025-07-04T14:57:28Z

*I know that people get defenestrated, but, other than Russia, has there ever been another country, now or in the past, where so many people get thrown out of windows

*How did this become such a routine, long-term thing for them

*Meanwhile, in the glamorous world of surveillance capitalism ...

2025-07-04T06:36:45Z

*Meanwhile, in the glamorous world of surveillance capitalism

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/opinion_browser/

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme ...

2025-07-03T09:44:05Z

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme

*Won't get much traction on Xtwitter

*It's a big subcontinent, India ...

2025-06-29T16:52:27Z

*It's a big subcontinent, India

*Have I become old now, or does this really seem like an ...

2025-06-24T04:38:18Z

*Have I become old now, or does this really seem like an exhaustingly difficult hobby

*Is there anything lonelier than some ionized gas molecule out ...

2025-06-21T05:42:04Z

*Is there anything lonelier than some ionized gas molecule out between the galaxies

https://www.404media.co/one-of-the-universes-biggest-mysteries-has-been-solved-scientists-say/

*Fossil-fueled AI, deep in the heart of Texas ...

2025-06-16T05:41:16Z

*Fossil-fueled AI, deep in the heart of Texas

https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/12/texas-ai-artificial-intelligence-demand-100-gas-plants-data-centers-pollution-eip-report/

*She's almost a one-woman Fourth Estate at this point ...

2025-06-12T04:51:57Z

*She's almost a one-woman Fourth Estate at this point

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

*The Market Solution to the Existence of Humanity ...

2025-06-10T05:59:59Z

*The Market Solution to the Existence of Humanity

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo

*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its ...

2025-06-07T18:58:42Z

*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its distance from the center of the Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo

*How hard do you have to push this to figure out that LUCA, the ...

2025-06-01T12:28:28Z

*How hard do you have to push this to figure out that LUCA, the "Last Universal Common Ancestor," is OLDER than the Earth, and arrived here from somewhere else? #panspermia

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38997462/

*Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but ...

2025-05-27T05:23:55Z

*Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but actually fun -- unless your increasingly dystopian society is on a visible downward spiral and everybody knows it

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping_up_appearances

*Hey look. "Vitalism." What age-old doctrine is next to ...

2025-05-20T05:16:58Z

*Hey look. "Vitalism." What age-old doctrine is next to come back from the dead, "spontaneous generation" maybe

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/living-things-strange-light-glow-life-death-b2754168.html

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2025-05-19T19:04:12Z

*The "gray zone." It's the Ukraine-Russia military ...

2025-05-15T07:10:33Z

*The "gray zone." It's the Ukraine-Russia military no-man's zone, infested by killer drones, where it's difficult for any human being to survive.

*There doesn't seem to be any inherent limit to the size of a "gray zone"

*Well, that's fun ...

2025-05-12T16:39:56Z

*Well, that's fun

*Drone "hubs." Drone "nests." Is there a proper ...

2025-05-12T06:50:47Z

*Drone "hubs." Drone "nests." Is there a proper military term-of-art for where battlefield drones are serviced and piloted? A "drone airfield"? A "drone fortress"? #dronesdronesdrones

*What would the world be like if this kind of sound-design was ...

2025-05-12T06:27:29Z

*What would the world be like if this kind of sound-design was somehow legally mandated and enforced

https://designobserver.com/a-quieter-place-sound-designer-eddie-gandelman-on-composing-a-future-that-allows-us-to-hear-ourselves-think/

*You have to hope they were buried by somebody tenderly ...

2025-05-12T05:56:17Z

*You have to hope they were buried by somebody tenderly sentimental about them, as opposed to somebody embarrassed about them who just didn't want them publicly displaying their affection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Valdaro

How fat is Kim Jong Un? ...

2025-05-07T11:22:23Z

How fat is Kim Jong Un?

*Greenland -- one of the last remaining homes of good journalism ...

2025-05-05T18:57:50Z

*Greenland -- one of the last remaining homes of good journalism

*Weaponized "mirror bacteria" that turn everything into ...

2025-05-01T07:46:27Z

*Weaponized "mirror bacteria" that turn everything into gray goo

*Could that really happen, well, yeah, maybe

https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

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2025-04-24T02:09:01Z