Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@Dex Heck, I was around the scene then and had completely memory holed There. Especially with IMVU and Lively trying much of the same model a few years later.

I also agree with the video, ignoring that these are playgrounds of identity is a fatal flaw for any virtual world project. Heck, even EVE Online has more of a sense of identity and place than There did or Meta Horizons does now.

@Karadur_Zero Thank you!

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@chr "But we can just wrap cmake in the IDE build process, right?"
"... but we can just wrap it... right?"

My condolences.

@CamashRed
Me one hour into a sculpt: all of my polygons cry out in pain against the sins I have wrought upon them

Me five hours into a sculpt: huh, this is actually pretty good

The thing is with him, no dunk, no hot take, no appeal to reason is ever going to work. Not for as long as he's using the misery of others to fuel his own narcissistic supply.

Separate that fucker from power, though, and the results will be immediate. Can see this in microcosm once he realized firing a disabled worker would cost $100 mill.

At the small, that's meant drawing down my accounts on birdsite. At the large: tax the rich.

The thing is, I never faulted Eli for existing that way. The kid was hurting, his friends clearly put him up to it, and he was bullying to fill a hole in his life where care should have been. I hope he found a way out of it and ended up okay.

I've since had other bullies, and the story is usually the same: they hurt people because they're hurting badly themselves. And the only corrective they respond to is the power to fight back.

So too with Elon.

In which Popehat points out Elon is really just a very rich high school bully: https://post.news/@/popehat/2Mhvz30rv7RfDGhgCRKNsThYLb5

So fun story. I was bullied all the way through middle and early high school by a kid named Eli. One day, he finally got the courage to jump me after school, and I fought back. Hard.

The bullying immediately ceased. Permanently. Saw him again one time: the day he transferred out of my math class.

I think about that a lot.

@blue Happy bday! 🎈

The fictional timeline they projected forward from 2004 didn't really come to pass.

But the technologies: AWS, algorithmic social media timelines, and AI learning models, did. And it's still weird to hear all of that predicted one or two decades early.