abadideaDec 7

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

Show threadabadideaDec 7
someone on discord was unaware that there even *was* a released version of the facebook metaverse that you *could* try, which about sums that up 😂
Show threadJohn TimaeusDec 7

@0xabad1dea

Until you mentioned it, I'd forgotten about it. I suppose somewhere in the back of my brain I knew Metaverse was still a product. But I figured it was largely abandonware.

Show threadLudwig VielfrassDec 8
@johntimaeus @0xabad1dea Which is a shame because look at this compelling content they created for it!
Show thread13reak Dec 8

@lerxst @johntimaeus @0xabad1dea

Oh man, the graphics are worse than games from 20 years ago.

Ready Player One called and wants its idea back.

Show threadJonathan Hartley
@13reak Mastodon pedant reporting for duty! Ready Player One hyper-commercialized the idea from Snow Crash (92?) which could never have existed without Neuromancer (84?). If you like one, you may like the others. The last, in particular is a rare instance of quality writing in science fiction, a literary style that stands up to re-reading decades later.
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