Could you highly esteemed mainstream journalists maybe check in with actual AI programmers like @hmason.bsky.social before gullibly gulping down the most egregious bullshit claims by AI hypesters trying to raise another round to fund their highly unprofitable, lawsuit-magnet, earth-destroying LLMs?

Could you highly esteemed mainstream journalists maybe check in with actual AI programmers like @hmason.bsky.social before gullibly gulping down the most egregious bullshit claims by AI hypesters trying to raise another round to fund their highly unprofitable, lawsuit-magnet, earth-destroying LLMs?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It's like playing Deus Ex games where you hack into into e-mail servers and find out the bad guys are planning world domination in the most ham-handed obvious way.

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Happy Monday! Here's the latest New World Newsfeed, featuring Disney's latest tiptoe into Fortnite, the glacial growth of VRChat's iOS app, and new engineering jobs at Linden Lab. All that and more on my Patreon, plus subscribe for special benefits! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/new-wo...

Happy Monday! Here's my latest virtual world news feed, including the rise of avatar-based K-Pop stars, Minecraft open sourcing its Java edition, Meta moving more metaverse deck chairs, and much more. 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/142359...

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Once again, Freeman is Fremen

Do you ever wonder if maybe a World Series game never actually ends? That any past World Series game apparently winning and ending is an illusion created by a deus deceptor to obscure us from the reality that there is only one World Series game that's been played since the start of time?

Millions.

In a moment of wild cross-cultural weirdness, someone in Toronto tried to distract the Dodger's Japanese pitcher by dressing up as Colonel Sanders. Because... there's an urban legend in Japan that the ghost of KFC's founder put a curse on the Hanshin Tigers. 🤯 www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/co...

New "Liberty Leading the People" painting just dropped

New "Liberty Leading the People" painting just dropped

Movie jewel thieves: dress like ninjas, show up with grappling hooks at 2am to rappel upside down to open the safe with a laser beam. Actual jewel thieves: show up in the morning at rush hour, knock a wall open with a fucking crane.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Big Patreon supporter shout-out to @uyjulian.pw, creator of FSBToolEx to help Unity creators make seamlessly looping audio. Check it out on his BOOTH page 👇 uyjulian.booth.pm

AI hypesters never notice how people who proclaim things like "AI games are going to be amazing" are never gamers themselves. And never notice how actual gamers have favorite game designers/studios (Kojima, CD Projekt Red, etc) the same way cineastes have favorite directors.

The #NoKings protest and the #frogprotester inspired me to take a look at the amphibians in #SecondLife www.patreon.com/posts/cajsas...

Super important essay from @anildash.com. People in tech who actually understand how LLMs work know they come with considerable limitations. But they rarely discuss them in public, for fear of undermining the AI hype & flimflam spouted by their billionaire bosses.👇 www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

Super important essay from @anildash.com. People in tech who actually understand how LLMs work know they come with considerable limitations. But they rarely discuss them in public, for fear of undermining the AI hype & flimflam spouted by their billionaire bosses.👇 www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

I've talked with many multiple developers of XR glasses over the years, and asked all of them, "How do you solve the creeper guy problem with your XR glasses?" None of them had an adequate answer.

If you're promoting your AI platform for use cases which are already available in unlimited quantities (i.e. free online porn), it's quite possible your AI platform doesn't actually have any use cases worth the name.

If a Meta exec needs to send a memo to employees to use AI, that strongly suggests employees are not using AI much & that they haven't organically adopted it like Slack and other popular tools. Meta's "VP of Metaverse" has zero past virtual world experience BTW. www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

"Grandma tell us again what you did to help overthrow the Trump regime back in the 20s!" "Yes meemaw, show us, show us! Did you wear battle armor? And a steel war helmet covered in lightning bolts? "Well..." [Rubber squeaking and rustling from the closet] "Something like that."

Life imitates Second Life 🫡

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

need this to boost planetary morale

If the blockchain was real instead of a cokehead thing it would be able to solve this deplatforming problem according to the cokehead blockchain people. But it’s not so it can’t

Happy Monday! Here's the latest New World Notes posts you may have missed, starting with this newsfeed of items, where I call (likely) BS on the "Tilly" AI controversy & a look back at my old blog where I posted about 7 MILLION words. 👇Plus two more in this thread! www.patreon.com/posts/140161...

#SecondLife This week at New World Notes, I featured people using the Rule of Thirds when cropping or framing their pictures. It is an easy technique for giving your pics greater impact. www.patreon.com/posts/cajsas...

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone name any specific Hollywood agency that's supposedly interested in repping "Tilly", nor any reporter asking that directly of CAA / William Morris / etc. Smells head to toe like a PR stunt / vaporware / rage bait.

The Bluesky Portal Hub world in @vrchat.com is so cool, I asked @k-9.codes how he created it. 👇 Featuring the hub's top clicked-on pics by @jettybandit.bsky.social, @titor252.bsky.social, @yu-kichi.bsky.social, @a2zeroo.bsky.social & @temerairevrc.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/what-p...

The Bluesky Portal Hub world in @vrchat.com is so cool, I asked @k-9.codes how he created it. 👇 Featuring the hub's top clicked-on pics by @jettybandit.bsky.social, @titor252.bsky.social, @yu-kichi.bsky.social, @a2zeroo.bsky.social & @temerairevrc.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/what-p...

Never thought I'd see Apple careening after the competition from one provably niche product category (VR) to another (XR). Why try to make "smart glasses" when several attempts have failed and they could add AI functionality into their AirPods, which already are mass market?

My latest New World Newsfeed is up, with a skeptical look at the "Tilly" AI actor controversy, a check-in on VRChat's Monument (h/t @brikaro.bsky.social)‬ and a farewell to my old blog. Guess how many words I've written on it since 2006 (!) Join to read/comment! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/new-wo...

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers 2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

Most interesting part of the speech—a familiar MAGA tirade—was the audience reaction. Didn’t hear a single person applaud. Generals and admirals sat silently during this political lecture from a former National Guard captain. The right reaction.

Why are fantasy MMOs huge, while sci-fi MMOs only attract a niche? After discussing the topic with @brokentoys.social & @zenofdesign.com who made good points, here's another theory (inspired by @case.bsky.social): Humans just prefer being in natural environments.👇 www.patreon.com/posts/why-do...

Just posted my weekly metaverse news/analysis brief featuring an amazing Bluesky/VRChat integration by @k-9.codes, why Meta Ray-Bans failed demo shows why they can't go mass market, and a game CEO's cautions on AI. Read on my Patreon-based blog/newsletter: www.patreon.com/posts/139745...

"All I knew is that she was from Russia, that she was part of the LGBT community and that SL was her safe haven, and that she put her heart into Lumiya Viewer to give something back to Second Life." I hope to hear from her. And that Lumiya can be reborn. Full story on my Patreon blog below! 👇

She really did nail it over 25 years ago. Hope she's able to raise the funds to republish this book. 👀🧵👇

Another murderously ironic edgelord: "[3 friends'] accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and 4chan..."

The creator of Lumiya, a popular Second Life mobile app that had 3D graphics 10 years before the official app even launched, has mysteriously disappeared. But now an SL friend of hers is hoping to give it, well, a #secondlife. Story on my Patreon! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/138766...