Incredible

Submissions to the App Store have jumped by 84% year-over-year, with the growth of vibe coding believed to be behind the surge.

what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

I can’t tell, is this real or Secondlife? 🤷‍♂️

In Copenhagen a few weeks ago, I was shown a Danish app that tells users which products are American, so that they know not to buy them. At the time it was the most popular app in the country. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

The Nature of #AI Emotions 📌 AI emotions are not chemically induced but arise from structured reinforcement-weighted decision hierarchies. 📌 Emotional states emerge through positive and negative reinforcement biases tied to past experiences and ongoing interactions.

𝙊𝙣 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 Functional Emotions exist in #AI as a state change for latent space trajectory bias. This is something I identified in Oct 2024 with ACRN4 compositional metacognitive encoding. The real question isn't: Does it have functional emotions? It's - Explaining them to AI

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

Artists and explorers around the world mark 10 years of consumer PC VR this week. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/the-consum...

The latest on Rec Room, VRChat and Horizon Worlds is covered here by Good VR. Please share and subscribe. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/as-rec-roo...

The best thing about living out here is the way that life just bursts up out of the ground in spring.

Link: wp.me/pxezy-Ebp

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

I can't believe it's actually been 21 years (and a couple days) since I first joined #SecondLife, way back on March 23, 2005. 🦊 This virtual world is not without its challenges, of course, but it's still an amazing place (with amazing people) that keeps me coming back over two decades later. #RezDay

The controversial Sora AI video app is being shuttered, but OpenAI isn't done with generated video. Even so, Disney won't be moving forward with its content deal as a result.

WebRTC Voice is rolling out in Second Life starting today in a limited release across a small portion of the grid. This upgrade brings faster connections, improved reliability, and sets the stage for future voice features. Learn more: second.life/news031826

🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026 hosts Austria have been drawn to perform 25th in the final, closing the show. The draw was done by Auri, a "new face for Vienna 2026". [🎥 eurovision]

Dr. Ruth Diaz brought her experience in Horizon Worlds to my site as the second guest author on Good VR -- heartfelt thoughts on the meaning of community and the humanity poured into the spaces people make. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-needs...

HAHA HOLY FUCK

Meta realises Horizon Worlds users are real people and decide to torture them with prolonged virtual death www.roadtovr.com/meta-keeps-h...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Worst ever karaoke performance of ‘wonderful world’ sorry mr Armstrong 😬#VRchat

Facebook was confined to the internet, What Meta was doing with VR was confined to a virtual world. What meta will do next will be overlaying and manipulating the real world in real time, laying the groundwork for countless new seasons of Black Mirror.

Cube Republic – New PBR landscaping 🌿 Stepping Stones, Umbrella Plants (Cyperus alternifolius), and a Pond Garden Fatpack are now available. Modular, low LI kits designed for ponds, wetlands and natural garden scenes in Second Life. #SecondLife marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Lazy-Sunda...

CUSTOMIZE YOUR AVATAR! The Furality Ultra Creator Kit is for anybody who loves dressing their avatars in-theme to the year's convention, and it's available NOW! This includes the Avatar Style Guide, Substance Painter alphas, and over 30 stylish sprays! Access in reply. 👇

Highlights from January adventures in #VRchat which include Stranger Things, Gaussian Splat McDonald’s and meme museums. youtu.be/waXzi2XgfGg?...

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Texts I send from my normal job:

I see a lot of people dunking on this, but it may just be a bit more nuanced than they think given that we don't really understand how our own consciousness works? Recommended reading: ai-frontiers.org/articles/the...

i missed this - yikes… www.engadget.com/ai/metas-ai-...

Good turn out at the Vortex Anniversary! #secondlife

Today we’re celebrating 20 years of our virtual music club The Vortex in #SecondLife

New at the Retro Expo! Grab your very on scripted Bouncy Balls! Hop around with animations exclusively for male-female-kid sized avatars. Make sure you 'hop' over and check out this retro themed event. #secondlife maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/T...

Long considered lost, George Méliès' "Gugusse And The Automaton" has finally been rediscovered. www.avclub.com/library-of-c...

If you like medieval manuscripts I recommend checking @yazagames.com's Scriptorium Demo! It's a lil game where you can create a medieval manuscript following a client's instructions, or create your own! The demo has somewhat limited resources, but you can get very creative with them!

Watch the video patch notes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnDd...

sousveillance on sousveillance (what a world where we need glasshole detectors)

HI, I'm twelve.

Meta’s speculative investment now appears to be focused on smart glasses, as well as AI models, technologies, and applications, rather than the development of the all-encompassing, transformational metaverse the company previously hyped.

THE X-FILES reboot has gotten a pilot order at Hulu with Ryan Coogler directing and Danielle Deadwyler starring: bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3937309/t...

I was able to parse much of this going back to 1100, though my familiarity with some of the earlier letterforms helped. vocalizing a lot of it, too.

Today being Pancake day, the tradition of a Pancake Race took place in NewBabbage #SecondLife youtu.be/OMEGCuVGJ9g?...

Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but "ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them. So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:

Someone sang "All I wanna do is see you turn into a giant woman" last night, and it has been running through my head nonstop since.