I finished my "Farewell" painting. The meaning is all explained in the new edition of my Paintings Catalog. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/ru...
My "Wetware" novel is coming true. Blob learns to play PONG! But what if eHarmony matches you with one... www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Strong et al. demonstrate the application of ionic electro-active polymer hydrogels to computational tasks through use of a multi-electrode array integrated with a simulated Pong environment, taking a...
Happy times in SQINKLAND In the bulk it's like I'm seven miles deep, with jelly log drifters and pukeful tube worms and sharp-toothed gobblers and billowing electric snot-rags—shifting and sliding and inside out—and lit by an entirely virtual light that nonetheless is doing the job.
From Janette Suherli: Today’s authors used the powerful JWST to explore the heart of the Crab Nebula in infrared light, uncovering new details about its structure, composition, and the supernova explosion that created it. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/08/14/c...
Today’s authors used the powerful JWST to explore the heart of the Crab Nebula in infrared light, uncovering new details about its structure, composition, and the supernova explosion that cre…
From SQINKS. Sleazy sqink Rhomby burns a brain like a hit of crack. Slimes around it, probing in, milking the energies and the scents, nudging the brain into an ecstatic final seizure, “Ah,” goes Rhomby, expelling the flaccid sack that been a great writer’s mind. “What a rush.”
Long new photoblog post "England with Barb." Mostly London. Check it out. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2024/07...
Excellent sound on podcast of my mighty anti-gun story "Big Germs," as read at SF in SF on June 23. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2024/07...
Terrific article by Chairman Bruce Sterling on the new AI LLM languages. "Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect" in Medium. with snarfs of hi tek.: "textual outputs that tend to abide within a negative curvature of a logarithmic probability of tokens" bruces.medium.com/preliminary-...
Mashup. Rudy Rucker in 1980 Is Advised on SOFTWARE Novel by Cobb Anderson of 2020. Main image by Bruce Sterling using Microsoft Copilot Designer. Face from "All the Visions" painting by Rudy, February 2014.
Okay, here's the text of the story I'm gonna read at SF in SF tomorrow, 6 pm, Sunday. "Big Germs." Surreal, funny, tragic, anti-gun. Trimmed it down to half an hour. Come, enjoy, and buy one of my prints. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2024/06...