This is how I learned that Meta has been continuing its bizarre, $70 billion "metaverse" spending *years* after I assumed they'd given up. It's possible that this is, in dollars spent, the biggest waste of money in history.

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metave...
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

The New York Times
Say what I may about government software procurement failures, I've never seen a project blow more than a couple of billion dollars. $70 billion is absolutely next-level.
@waldo.net Zuck seems to be having a hard time understanding that normal people don't want to live in virtual reality - especially not when it looks like a computer game from 2002. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ