If you had 1,000 people competing in a free market to create new companies and products, would they produce more overall value if you also forced them to sleep only 4 hours a night? Think about that.

is there anyone in the #secondlife developer community interested in bringing back legacy search in the SL viewer? Issue is here: github.com/secondlife/v...

Someone suggested this idea to me - a simpler way get non-overlapping tool windows - and I re-added it to feedback... does anyone know who the original idea came from? feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...

Who else is pondering this? What will you do with your newly-discovered free time? philiprosedale.substack.com/p/ultraviole...

Navigating through the skyboxes...

Another piece of good #secondlife news: We fixed the long-standing problem with being unable to log back in after a crash, and our latest data shows that it is helping about 6 to 8 thousand people each day. Have you noticed improvement to relogging after a crash?

Latest #secondlife viewer now autocompletes nearby names... like a modern app should! Thanks supapuff for the original feature request.

New Firestorm viewer is out! www.firestormviewer.org/firestorm-7-...

Where?

How about this one? Where am I?

Next one... where?

Like geoguesser, but name the SL region:

Dress to Impress, but in #secondlife? Anyone seen or working on anything like that?

Second Life friends: Want to help me with an experiment? Use a stopwatch to time how many seconds go by between pressing the "Log In" button, and seeing your avatar in the world. Give me that number, as well as how many items you have in your inventory. Mine: 21, 15124

Join us for a special Second Life Town Hall event discussing AI & the future of our virtual community on Friday, April 18th at 12:30pm PT. Learn more: second.life/news041425

Prepping for the AI town hall this friday - can anyone share some marketplace links to content that is using AI? Are we talking about using AI to generate images for the marketplace, or AI used to generate the content itself?

Couple weeks behind, but wanted to share these pictures from Veronika and Juliana's wedding at Cerulean Township last month. Amazing setting, moving ceremony, and beautiful brides. #secondlife

Here is my response to your question.

If you were joining #secondlife all over again today, what is the destination that would have best explained SL and gotten you started?

Give me some prompts that would be hard questions new residents of #secondlife would ask in their first few days in-world. I'll reply with an answer from a chatbot we are testing for better/faster help.

In these difficult times, we must start building tools to create stronger local communities: philiprosedale.substack.com/p/beyond-dun...

Incredible piece of SL art to visit. I'm a sucker for murmuration.... sleagrants.com/blog/2025/02...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Blogged: Simurg's spring romance in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-Cja - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife

Thoughts? Seems like a simple way to let people fly over parcels… feedback.secondlife.com/scripting-fe...

To keep your #secondlife account safe, consider turning on multi-factor authentication (info below), and also do not click links that you get in-world chat offering discounts or other things that might be 'phishing' attacks. community.secondlife.com/knowledgebas...

SL Friends: Group limits have been increased. Thanks for waiting. One of the first things I heard when I came back to the job. #secondlife

I got an incredible car ride tour yesterday through Morgantown followed by a flight in a Piper Arrow. Amazing mainland life... I want a home there now! And I was shown a humbling list of bugs we need to fix to make this better. Thank you Rizzy Khaos! #secondlife

"Your World, Your Imagination" What does that mean to you?

Democracy and inequality and fundamentally incompatible. This is the challenge that will define our future - how to maintain free markets and democracy without allowing inequality to grow to a point where the rich take over as kings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZnu...

Technology entrepreneurs: Who among you are working on something intended to leave the world a better place? What is it you are doing? What help do you need?

Playing with DeepSeek's coding skills: I give you "Heat Death" - a game where you need to stop all molecules moving, as quickly as you can. Fun! No coding changes needed from me - one shot. editor.p5js.org/PhilipRoseda...

Akado... Moti Moody stands on a rocking boat in rain... wonderful.

Posting this proposal from another thread: Should DM's from non-friends be OFF by default? Seems like it might really help with griefing and phishing. feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...

SL people: what do you think of splats? Seems to me like a very powerful direction for modeling.

Who would you suggest who makes amazing SL videos and might be a good fit for making release notes videos for SL... sorta like Strasz does for VRChat?

Second Life friends: Do you participate in combat games in SL?

SL residents: Can you post some examples (with names and links redacted) of spam messages people are sending to groups or handing out at stores? We are working on this. Thanks.

The first phase of the internet - the trustless, anonymous era - is burning itself to the ground, right now.

The soul of online identity will be your membership in recursively nested groups.

SL Residents: Do you prefer pie menus?

Blogged: A Beloved Poetic Moon in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-C2u - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife

SL folks: Why are people ejecting new residents from their shops/parcels? What do we need to change to make that unnecessary?

The original design of TCP/IP presumed that participants knew and trusted each other, able to easily remove bad actors from the network by not sending traffic to them. The internet in 1982 was a single book, with names and email addresses of all the participants. blog.ted.com/what-the-int...

What if instead of “there is no spoon”, the holy kid had said “there is no you”?

Calibrating my social media usage… if you are a Second Life resident, can you like or reply to this post?

Sailing on the Blake Sea on Darkover Tone's boat - thank you! So much fun and got to explore region crossing glitches a bit.