At the height of the elite, rich and powerful, they don't hide anything actually cool. There's no full-dive VR, no magic powers, no extinct fruits or pet dinosaurs... just WEIRD, NON-CONSENSUAL, VIOLENT SEX, TORTURE AND CANNIBALISM. Fuck, we really are a bunch of stupid apes on a flying rock...

What is Nancy Pelosi known for *other* than questionably alleged Congressional insider-trading? like, is she known for any good/bad policies?

Woke getting in the way of their sexual assault parties really says it all

Day 2. #28daysofscratch

So, there's 3 types of rest; physical, mental, and nervous system. Pre social media, it was easier to overlap these forms of rest w/o a rectangle of sadness in your pocket. But now that we're living in a constant noise of always-on media... Maybe AR HUDs aren't the move after all...

Creatives, what do you find more impressive? A) Cool shit that's well outside your skill set B) Cool shit that's within your skillset but you never had thought of doing

ICE is trying to blend in!! Be careful out there

Just got my XReal 1s display glasses and played with em over the weekend. Some thoughts off top: 1. These are straight up monitors for your face. They are NOT usable as a HUD as you can't resize them to be that small 2. Therefore, these are not AR glasses WHATSOEVER, despite what marketing says 🧵...

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

As much as I love VR, these days putting on a headset feels like i'm burying my head in the sand while important real shit is marching towards us

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

"Being right too early is indistinguishable from being wrong"

Realized I haven't done the hokey-pokey in over 20 years... I guess as one gets older, one forgets what it's all about.

We laugh about how ICE can't do their jobs because of lack of training, staff, etc but... what if that's on purpose? How do you do all the paperwork and deportations in a timely matter? But now you got a huge incarcerated population that can... do labor for free.. till they can finally get deported

sigh... one day, when my kid is old enough to handle their own breakfast and quietly entertain themselves on a saturday morning, i will once again find this kinda peace...

In 1997, the first episode of the cyberpunk noir animated show Spicy City aired, and it depicted social VR, VR hook ups, avatar presentation, no lifers, social escapism, professional cyberstalkers... it's incredible how much it got right youtu.be/Mx_0pB9-3Ww

My running theory is that Sesame Street is a specialized zone to peacefully contain the monsters, and all the adults are professional handlers that cosplay as business operators. But since they're harmless, kids visit as exposure therapy to keep the monsters docile. Murray is PR for the program

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Are there any countries or communities that are *dodging* brain rot? Would be amazing to think that in 20 years from now, low Internet access countries just leap frog over today's "first world countries" just because they weren't terminally online

My 16-year-old niece revealed to the family that she prefers calling over texting because it feels less like being online. And so the pendulum swings around...

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

If ethical, sustainable, efficient generative AI existed, are we using it or nah? Well, at that point I'd be more inclined to use it for things like style transfer, compositing and filling in backgrounds, but that's still the limit. Because craft with zero human touch is uncanny, souless & meritless

Daytona USA VR Version 1.1.0 is available now! (patch notes & additional info in replies) vrchat.com/home/world/w...

It's ALWAYS the least talented creatives that are the first to adopt gen AI 😭😭😭 poor fellas tryna make up for being wack as fuck by shitting in drinking water and making use of indentured servants to train their slop churning ai models

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." - Kierkegaard

You could say the same thing about the politics situation we're in

VIBE CODE STRAIGHT TO HELL

"ThErE's OpPoRtUnItY wItHiN tHe ChAoS" bro stfu and grieve over lives about to be lost due to our ship sinking instead of tryna hustle life jackets ffs

maybe part of why i always pitch a street art look is cause it gives me an excuse to hop into #vr during work hours to play with kingspray 🎨

v proud of this one. used kingspray graffiti for the spray paint. corpo grunge babyyyyy

Mark my words, slop will be an intentional retro aesthetic in 2040

AI could never youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ?...

Charged for wiping your own phone? This is dark. This is past overreach and invasion of privacy. This is a requirement to end privacy

VR180 content creators discussing how to share their works on social be like...

SAID IN A DOUBLE BREASTED LONG COAT

EITHER DIE AS THE TECH EVANGELIST OR LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BECOME THE CYBERPUNK LUDDITE AT THE HOLIDAY FAMILY PARTY TELLING THE KIDS TO DELETE ALL THEIR APPS

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

"If your life is too frictionless, you're just sliding down the slick toilet bowl funnel of a meaningless life towards the grave... thanks for watching." and what a fucking landing

I absolutely love the idea that by intentionally adding friction to your social media consumption, you reintroduce reflection and moments to ask if continuing to scroll is worth it. youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

MARK KELLY LEFT EARTH (literally). This better than any loaded lux round omfg youtu.be/qjrEy4EYOI4

so... if the current design trend is to highlight human craft by leaning into what AI's not good at (meaningful maximalism, hand drawn, heavy layering) then, once the pendulum swings to counter culture, what then? hardcore minimalism w/ heavy contrast? white boxes of cereal that just read CHEERIOS?

What if I made a PS2 game and just hired actual stunt performers to do FMV cutscenes www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR35... (this was apparently how they "storyboarded" the cutscenes, but just, stop there! it was already cool!)

anybody remember rocketboom? dive in to some 2010's era internet nostalgia... www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Or...

@drneilstone.bsky.social #medsky

"So the people who can afford the subscriptions are less manipulated than those who get the free versions, and the free version is an influence-peddling operation... I think that's led to a crazy degenerate form of civilization, it's not sustainable." JARON LANIER with the big picture as always

There's an uncanny similarity between AI booster bros & vr180 creators in that there's a LOT of old goofy nerds that are dying to make something "cool" but don't realize their lack of taste show not only how washed & unimaginative they are, but also infect the tech's reputation with ICK

Turn off, tune out, drop in 🖐️🌱

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck