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(Bruce) Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law:
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.

The AI hoax works. The people who created that hoax will earn the money from those people who believed in the hoax. Meanwhile, we burned the planet.
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Bruce Sterling @bruces (@bruces@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image *AI cap-ex boom. Pretty much the only economic thing happening

The JWST/MIRI view of the planetary nebula NGC 6302 I.: a UV irradiated torus and a hot bubble triggering PAH formation
Mikako Matsuura, Kevin Volk, Patrick Kavanagh, Bruce Balick, Roger Wesson, Albert A. Zijlstra, Harriet L. Dinerstein, Els Peeters, N. C. Sterling, Jan Cami, M. J. Barlow, Joel Kastner, Jeremy R. Walsh, L. B. F. M. Waters, Naomi Hirano, Isabel Aleman, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Charmi Bhatt, Joris Blommaert, Nicholas Clark, Olivia Jones, Kay Justtanont, F. Kemper, Kathlee…

The JWST/MIRI view of the planetary nebula NGC 6302 I.: a UV irradiated torus and a hot bubble triggering PAH formation
NGC 6302 is a spectacular bipolar planetary nebula (PN) whose spectrum exhibits fast outflows and highly ionized emission lines, indicating the presence of a very hot central star (~220,000 K). Its infrared spectrum reveals a mixed oxygen and carbon dust chemistry, displaying both silicate and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features. Using the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Medium Resolution Spectrometer, a mosaic map was obtained over the core of NGC 6302, covering the waveleng…