Caz

Caz

@timberwind.bsky.social

they/them | 1998 | seattle by way of earth-moon L5 | space settlement, planetary science, AI systems | married collected hard-SF art @timberwindart.bsky.social header: "Green Mars", Peter Elson (1993)

2K followers721 following3.2K posts

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

Finished Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire"! Between this, Heavy Weather, and Taklamakan, I've found that I quite like Sterling's prose and vividly sketched nineties imaginings of future tech. Kind of wonder whether this particular queasy future was Gibson's inspiration for the Jackpot in The Peripheral?

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

Also very funny to read something where the world at the end of the twenty-first century is ruled by the eternal immortal hand of the zillennials, with sketched accounts of the future-past 2020s having like an eternal eighties-style cultural permanence as a result.

Caz reposted

Codetaur
@vibe-coded.com

globe showing windborne weathermesh6 outputs from sept 1-9, about 2GB of VRAM to load it all. layers are precip, 10m wind, and mean sea level pressure

Caz reposted

Luis Villa
@lu.is

Lots of devil in the details of course but this seems like a very reasonable way to drive demand for clean power, putting the cost on entities that can certainly bear it.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Interesting: Massachusetts has ordered all new data centers above 25MW to procure clean power.

mass.govmass.gov
Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

> looking for new indie horror game > ask forum if it's twin peaks or sonic.exe > they don't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is twin peaks and what is sonic.exe > they laugh and say it's an innovative deltarune inspired take on the pokemon canon > play game > it's sonic.exe

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

I think the thing that makes me grumpy about this is that the cosmology of game-shattering bugs in the gen1 Pokémon games really *is* very interesting, but every piece of media that attempts to leverage this runs headlong into ‘and then hyperrealistic eyes started growing out of my game boy’

Caz reposted

dame
@dame.is

the difference between slop and not slop is usually just care

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

Finished Sheri S. Tepper’s “Grass” (1989) today. Fun stuff! Kind of can see it as an anti-Dune, or at least in conversation with it. Does a very good job of braiding many strands of intrigue and mystery together - with a nicely satisfying denouement to it all.

Caz reposted

Scoiattolo
@scarnecchia.net

This post is predictably getting dunked on by some of the most antisocial people you'll ever meet but if you started yelling "neck yourself slop eater" to folks at a restaurant, you'd be, at minimum asked to leave, and rightfully so.

Bluesky Safety@safety.bsky.app

Dogpiling or harassing users is unacceptable. We have taken recent action against accounts for this behavior, and we will be increasing our efforts, consistent with our Community Guidelines.

bsky.socialCommunity Guidelines - Bluesky
Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

“Oh so you think it’s glonzo slopulism to oppose Chernobyl, huh?” - guy in the eighties who refers to all nuclear reactors as ‘meltdown cancer machines’

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

Funny that it was long thought that the sky was teeming with brown dwarfs - like, more common than stars, maybe closer to us than Alpha Cen - and then in the early 2010s the data from WISE came in and showed that they're just...not that common. You see the shadow cast by this in a lot of 90s-00s SF!

Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social

Contact binary brown dwarfs would make very fun skies for any circumbinary planets... like a dim Beta Lyrae with the fast-forward button held down, turning round like the minute hand of a clock. I wonder if there's any full-on Rocheworld style shallow overcontact binaries out there...