This is a person running for President who doesn’t even know how many US Representatives there are. If we want to be real about building alternatives to the status quo, we must build a left that is serious, powerful, and persuasive. This is not that. x.com/lis_smith/stat…

Here's 5 of the best brain-melting VRChat worlds to explore! Featuring worlds & wisdom of top creators incl. jar, raii / らい, Thad Gyther, MyroP, mahu & more. (Yes the pic below is VRChat - Widget turned it into an early 2000s MMO!) nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/vr…

Tactical Breach Wizards is a ridiculously good game, a charming mix of XCOM gameplay meets urban fantasy with hilariously wry dialog and world-building in a sleek package of highly polished UX and quirky art. GET IT!👇

Important to point out that Donald Trump and J. D. Vance are leading an explicit white supremacist terrorist campaign right now.

Springfield residents supporting one of the local Haitian restaurants after Donald Trump and JD Vance spread racist rumours about their community! ❤️

Jews were accused in pre holocaust Europe of being a drain on public resources, of being a vector for disease, and having offensive dietary practices. The stuff you said about Haitian Americans is a lie and Americans are in danger now.

Here's the latest metaverse news & trends on my radar, including Roblox's curious Steam-like revenue offer & the huge growth of an avatar-based social network. Plus what we can learn from IBM's little-remembered experiment in metaverse interoperability. nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/sl…

I'm tired of having to prove to people that generative AI systems infringe by default, so here's a megathread of images I've prompted you can use in your discussions. Article by Gary Marcus and myself at the end. 1/🧵

Every big social media Internet meme ultimately gets immersively ingested by the Second Life community 👇🤣

Paris Marx Michael Becker Seriously thinking of launching a new blog that simply documents all the times top tech gurus proclaim "X is the future of Y", and then reblog the original post when X very obviously and hilariously turns out not to be the future of Y.

NEW: I recently shared the top 1-10 most active metaverse platforms I'm tracking, with Meta's Horizon Worlds at #10. I'm now am working with Virtual Worlds Museum to chart the top 11 - 20, with monthly active users between 10,000-200,000. Here's 10 *which* might qualify: 1/2

NEW: With PBR graphics fully launched in Second Life, we're seeing lots of pics & videos showing off fun avatar mirror effects. But this video by Bad Unicorn illustrates how PBR lighting can also add a subtle sense of realism and immersion. 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/pb…

Wow -- just got fascinating insights from an ex-Meta dev on what's went wrong with Horizon Worlds. "We've seen reports of Meta telling its staff to 'dogfood' Horizon Worlds, but to Dr. Diaz, the company's standard doesn't go far enough... " nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/me…

Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei the actual Natural

$700 million starting to seem like a bargain

Cool new update to Crack Den in Second Life: NPC Companions! "They now have both short-term & long-term memory, retaining details from their interactions... moving from stranger to close friend, based on how players interact with them over time." Read: nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/al…