"We are learning how to draw our imaginations. The ABC"

#drawingForBeginners #calligramania #basicFits #punchmetacalligram #meta #metaMeta #metaSquare #metaCube #PunchMetaCalligram #calligram #Multicontroverse #overthetop #minimalist #markdownup #publicDomain #creativeCommons

- 👊 - #punchline

"Some thoughts are infinite sources of wonder. We are juste designing the packaging"

#ideasBottleneck #philoPackaging #monoManiacs #allAreCaps #punchmetacalligram #meta #metaMeta #metaSquare #metaCube #PunchMetaCalligram #calligram #Multicontroverse #overthetop #minimalist #markdownup #publicDomain #creativeCommons

- 👊 - #punchline

"A WOPOJOU remains to be imagined ... when will we build this jewel of a Workshop of Potential Journalism ?"

-👊- #punchline

#oulipo #centmillemillairdsdefaits #oujoupo #perecIsNotDead #WOPOJOU @pasteetavocat #meta #metaMeta #metaSquare #minimalist #publicDomain #creativeCommons #punchmeta

J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

I just saw infosec.exchange is limiting Threads due to their increased horseshit. They mentioned that there are around 4k follows between them and threads. What I want to know is...how? I know zero people on Threads. Zero, zilch, nada. Even of the hundreds I followed non-mutually on Twitter, there are maybe a dozen with threads accounts.

Apparently models, artists, and socialists aren't their target demo.

iirc, Tech.LGBT has them outright blocked. Which I am A-OK with.

#Threads #MetaMeta

So since my #GooglePixel is on the Fritz, I'm using my old #Motorola G7 Power.

I don't remember these apps aside from #Facebook Messenger. Are they Motorola apps, or necessary for FbM?

I'm axing them otherwise.

#Android #MetaMeta #MetaTheCorp #SystemApp

• "The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
  
• Cryptobros' attempted get-rich-quick schemes that imply that "the Metaverse" inevitably requires a blockchain, a cryptocurrency (usually either Dogecoin or Etherium or something running on Etherium's blockchain) and expensive NFTs for everything including land. Not seldomly buggy as hell because in-world experience doesn't earn the world owners any money.
  
• More or less failed attempts by other huge gigacorporations to launch their own monolithic walled garden metaverses for as many use-cases as imaginable. Failed because they came too late.
  
• The industrial metaverse which is still only a vague idea and probably another buzzword like "the cloud" and "the blockchain".
  
• Second Life which has slapped the term "metaverse" onto itself in 2022, trying to stay relevant in spite of stagnating user numbers and showing the world it's still around. This actually had even less of an effect than the comparisons between Horizons' simplistic avatars and Second Life's near-photo-realistic avatars and its 20th birthday PR campaign last year.
  
• Roblox, VRchat, Minecraft etc. They don't even need to refer to themselves as "metaverses" because they're so popular with kids that not much more publicity is necessary.
  
• OpenSimulator which is as decentralised as Decentraland implies to be but isn't. It has been using the term "metaverse" regularly since 2007, the year it was launched. But as it doesn't make a fuss about it, nobody outside its own community knows.
  
• ThirdRoom which was one of the first FLOSS virtual worlds to work in a standard Web browser rather than requiring a specialised client. Its future is unclear because all three devs are on an indefinite hiatus.
  
• Vircadia, a HighFidelity fork, and Overte, a Vircadia fork, both trying to build the decentralised next-generation open-source metaverses with some interesting ideas, but neither having a significant community, and both being every bit as obscure and unknown as OpenSim.
  
• The proposed decentralised, standardised, open metaverse for everyone. Which might not even come because the virtual worlds hype of 2020 is over for obvious reasons, and whoever else would be interested in it is probably busy in other virtual worlds already.