Bruce Denby

@brucedenby.bsky.social

Scientist. Author. Umlaut conjurer. Paris, France Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004L2HZWE Recent articles: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12447

The mincemeat in the sweets The fig seeds that decay Between my teeth & make them crumble Won't put me off my pie Because I'll switch to apple crumble Before we say goodbye Dessert and I will be In love eternally That's the way The way it's meant to be apologies to HK Syndikat

Today we have AI's capable of creating songs that sound like a million others. In the old days we had to rely on guys like Shel Sylverstein and Marvin Hamlisch to give us that.

The journey from Alpha Centauri to Galaxy Center contained trillions of wormholes, meaning in practice that every fifteen minutes or so the starship had to be completely disassembled into pieces no larger than an atom and then re-assembled at the far end of the minuscule passage.

On this day ten years ago, the following was posted by yours truly: The king ordered all his subjects to stop obeying him immediately. Those who failed to do so would be put to death.