The Metaverse is coming. Or, another attempt at Bread and Circuses for the Masses.

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If you think you're spending too much time online, Facebook et al is about to offer (maybe) compelling reasons to spend more. Fortunately, there are still 24 hours in a day, people still need to eat and sleep, and Mr. Zuckerberg and company won't be able to squeeze another dollar out of anyone since incomes are also limited.

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Facebook Stock Rises Ahead of $10 Billion 'Metaverse' Launch

The social-media giant will share plans to bring the metaverse to life as it seeks to build a digital universe of creators, goods and commerce.
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edwest2 said:
If you think you're spending too much time online, Facebook et al is about to offer (maybe) compelling reasons to spend more. Fortunately, there are still 24 hours in a day, people still need to eat and sleep, and Mr. Zuckerberg and company won't be able to squeeze another dollar out of anyone since incomes are also limited.

www.thestreet.com

Facebook Stock Rises Ahead of $10 Billion 'Metaverse' Launch

The social-media giant will share plans to bring the metaverse to life as it seeks to build a digital universe of creators, goods and commerce.
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Maybe they could apply a X2 to time, so you got 48 hours in 24 hours. That way we would all live to be 160.......

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Somehow, I don't think they can do that. I suspect the best they can do is offer a discount on a VR set, not that I would want one.
 
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Instagram is Destroying Your Mental Health

Research shows it’s the most depressing of all social media apps
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Instagram is supposed to be friendly. So why is it making people so miserable?

For a growing number of users and mental health experts, the positivity of Instagram is precisely the problem, with its relentless emphasis on promoting ‘perfect’ lifestyles. Should everyone just stop scrolling?
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Best part - a brilliant way of summarizing the entire thing in a few, devastating words.

If Facebook demonstrates that everyone is boring and Twitter proves that everyone is awful, Instagram makes you worry that everyone is perfect – except you.
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For the record, Twitter is the stupidest idea known to man. Ever.
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Closely followed by Instagram full of naked people booodies, and Fessebouc (Ramsbottom).

Welcome to 2021, when people earn a living through advertising traded against pictures of their naked body (Emily Ratajkowski, is that thou ?)

We are really - but REALLY - living in strange days.
 
Snapchatte: snapussy

Fessebouc: Ramsbottom

Still looking for a lame pun related to Instagram...
 
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Facebook changes its name to Meta

Rebrand reflects company’s push to combine social media, video calls, gaming, entertainment and home working into an immersive VR world
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Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand

The social media giant says the new name will better encompass what it does.
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Meta: Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers

The social media giant joins a number of companies that have fallen foul of translation blunders.
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The Matrix: Resurrections Twitter Account Had A Hilarious Response To Facebook's Name Change - Looper

The official Twitter account for "The Matrix: Resurrections" has something to say about Facebook's new name.
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Show of hands. Who wants to live in an alternate reality while wearing VR glasses?
 
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Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand - Slashdot

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg announced it's changing Facebook's name to Meta. While he said Facebook's existing brands wouldn't be changing, we have learned that's not entirely true. "In a lengthy Facebook post, CTO-in-waiting Andrew Bosworth detailed about 15 minutes later following the...
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John Carmack Issues Some Words of Warning For Meta and Its Metaverse Plans - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack has been bullish on the idea of "the metaverse" for a long time, as he'll be among the first to point out. But the id Software co-founder spent a good chunk of his wide-ranging Connect keynote Thursday...
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Virtual reality seems to be like Fusion Power. Sounds great in theory until you try to make it work on a commercial scale.
The ghastly headgear required along with the brain's tendency to feel sick in an environment that does not match our senses should continue to keep me safe from Meta.
 
Zuckerberg is renaming Facebook on the basis that people will forget that it's a conspiracy-spreading, racism-spewing disaster and are paying less attention. Alas, he's at least partly right.
 
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TikTok. Another form of uselessness that should never be used.
 
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martinbayer said:
edwest2 said:
Oh, and Facebok is now Meta. Meta? Quick, what kind of image does that conjure up for you? Nothing? Same here.
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Now, the good news is that you don't really have to engage at all with that particular web site...
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The good news is that no one should have to deal with any so-called "social" media sites. This depraved idea that people can enjoy dealing with others through electronic only communication needs to disappear. Aside from a few cases, such as when people are separated by distance, or are in a few other particular circumstances, there is no NEED for this sort of thing and it needs to be rejected entirely.

But keep this in mind. You wake up one day in possession of billions of dollars and are surrounded by people who have plenty of suggestions about what to do with it. You are presented with new concepts and all that is needed is some of your money. Once you are assured that you will receive a significant return on your investment, you launch Meta, or whatever. You may have no particular talent or skill yourself but no matter. You can hire those that do. That's what's happening here.

Avoid it. Don't participate. Spend more time with actual, real people. If you can't visit, at least call them.
 
edwest2 said:
The good news is that no one should have to deal with any so-called "social" media sites. This depraved idea that people can enjoy dealing with others through electronic only communication needs to disappear. Aside from a few cases, such as when people are separated by distance, or are in a few other particular circumstances, there is no NEED for this sort of thing and it needs to be rejected entirely.
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Hm, I suspect they said the same about telephones in XIX century... :)
 
Dilandu said:
edwest2 said:
The good news is that no one should have to deal with any so-called "social" media sites. This depraved idea that people can enjoy dealing with others through electronic only communication needs to disappear. Aside from a few cases, such as when people are separated by distance, or are in a few other particular circumstances, there is no NEED for this sort of thing and it needs to be rejected entirely.
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Hm, I suspect they said the same about telephones in XIX century... :)
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TV, radio, newspapers, books. Doubtless also cave wall paintings.

This here very forum is a form of social media site. It's just a better one than West Taiwanese agitprop like TikTok, or socially regressive insanity-fodder like Twitter.
 
edwest2 said:
The good news is that no one should have to deal with any so-called "social" media sites. This depraved idea that people can enjoy dealing with others through electronic only communication needs to disappear. Aside from a few cases, such as when people are separated by distance, or are in a few other particular circumstances, there is no NEED for this sort of thing and it needs to be rejected entirely.
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Disagree, the real problem is multimedia. Persistent side channel attack is no good.

RETURN TO LONGFORM TEXT, the proven communication method that build civilization.
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Until the 3d supports proper abstractions for thinking, 'virtual reality' is a means of extremely poor noise to signal ratio. It is a book before invention of writing, not very useful.
 
Multimedia? What's that? What we actually have is a bunch of TOTALLY PUBLIC sites that feature vapid nonsense and photos of body parts. They should be CONDEMNED like an old building that is used by drug dealers and prostitutes. Not to put too sharp a point on it. OH, and if you EVER - EVER post anything that does not conform to the POLITICAL DICTATORSHIP -- your posts will be published, you will be forced out of your job, if possible, and Branded For Life as a bad-wrong person.

Personally, I'd rather get an official U.S. Government tracking chip under my skin.

So, here are the Classified, Private activities I do:

Go to the grocery store,

The gas station,

To my trash cans,

To some used bookstores,

To some old neighborhoods to admire the architecture,

And to work.

That's it.

Go ahead. Track me.
 
The function of dictatorships is to keep in power an elite that has achieved it by illicit means, it is an expensive and ineffective system of government that requires enormous physical means to contain the hatred of the people and cannot be maintained indefinitely because the economy ends up failing.

It is better what western elites do, they remain in power indefinitely generation after generation making people believe that they are free to choose their political representatives and live on their taxes in a totally legitimate way.

The problem is that both people and the work they do is less and less necessary and no longer need them in the factories or in the army, the maintenance of the welfare state is increasingly expensive, the old have too high pensions and do not die fast enough to balance the balance sheets.

Changes are coming and we can not expect anything good from them, they will end with the money and with the freedom that gives to use it. If there is something worse than dealing with an official unmotivated by his work is to deal with a machine programmed to say NO, it will be like talking to a wall.
 
Justo Miranda said:
The function of dictatorships is to keep in power an elite that has achieved it by illicit means, it is an expensive and ineffective system of government that requires enormous physical means to contain the hatred of the people and cannot be maintained indefinitely because the economy ends up failing.

It is better what western elites do, they remain in power indefinitely generation after generation making people believe that they are free to choose their political representatives and live on their taxes in a totally legitimate way.

The problem is that both people and the work they do is less and less necessary and no longer need them in the factories or in the army, the maintenance of the welfare state is increasingly expensive, the old have too high pensions and do not die fast enough to balance the balance sheets.

Changes are coming and we can not expect anything good from them, they will end with the money and with the freedom that gives to use it. If there is something worse than dealing with an official unmotivated by his work is to deal with a machine programmed to say NO, it will be like talking to a wall.
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So, the king and his court, along with the hereditary nobles, and the landowners. Nothing new here. There will always be peasants. The wealthy are getting wealthier. Again, nothing new.

They, meaning the wealthy, need the peasants. Without work, how will they be able to buy anything from Amazon?

They will always need armies to guard borders and property. And spies. The king needs to know when the people are plotting against him.
 
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So, the king and his court, along with the hereditary nobles, and the landowners. Nothing new here. There will always be peasants. The wealthy are getting wealthier. Again, nothing new.

They, meaning the wealthy, need the peasants. Without work, how will they be able to buy anything from Amazon?

They will always need armies to guard borders and property. And spies. The king needs to know when the people are plotting against him.
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Factories, agriculture, property security and armies are increasingly automated and require fewer personnel. It only remains to replace them with robots with artificial intelligence and we will no longer be necessary for anything.
 
Justo Miranda said:
edwest2 said:
So, the king and his court, along with the hereditary nobles, and the landowners. Nothing new here. There will always be peasants. The wealthy are getting wealthier. Again, nothing new.

They, meaning the wealthy, need the peasants. Without work, how will they be able to buy anything from Amazon?

They will always need armies to guard borders and property. And spies. The king needs to know when the people are plotting against him.
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Factories, agriculture, property security and armies are increasingly automated and require fewer personnel. It only remains to replace them with robots with artificial intelligence and we will no longer be necessary for anything.
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Artificial intelligence is fiction. All of that equipment requires monitoring, and other human beings will figure out ways to bypass or destroy it. Again - AMAZON, and others, want your money. Billionaires want your money.
 
edwest2 said:
Justo Miranda said:
edwest2 said:
So, the king and his court, along with the hereditary nobles, and the landowners. Nothing new here. There will always be peasants. The wealthy are getting wealthier. Again, nothing new.

They, meaning the wealthy, need the peasants. Without work, how will they be able to buy anything from Amazon?

They will always need armies to guard borders and property. And spies. The king needs to know when the people are plotting against him.
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Factories, agriculture, property security and armies are increasingly automated and require fewer personnel. It only remains to replace them with robots with artificial intelligence and we will no longer be necessary for anything.
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Artificial intelligence is fiction. All of that equipment requires monitoring, and other human beings will figure out ways to bypass or destroy it. Again - AMAZON, and others, want your money. Billionaires want your money.
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Monitoring does not require too much personnel and in my opinion money is increasingly irrelevant in the game of power, they can print theirs whenever they want and do not give it value.
 
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Microsoft's Own Metaverse Is Coming, and It Will Have PowerPoint - Slashdot

If you're worried the metaverse will be all fun and games, fear not: Microsoft is taking its own stab at the idea, and it will have PowerPoint and Excel. From a report: The company is adapting its signature software products to create a more corporate version of the metaverse -- a concept...
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Boeing Wants To Build Its Next Airplane in the 'Metaverse' - Slashdot

In Boeing's factory of the future, immersive 3-D engineering designs will be twinned with robots that speak to each other, while mechanics around the world will be linked by $3,500 HoloLens headsets made by Microsoft. From a report: It is a snapshot of an ambitious new Boeing strategy to unify...
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Boeing Wants To Build Its Next Airplane in the 'Metaverse' - Slashdot

In Boeing's factory of the future, immersive 3-D engineering designs will be twinned with robots that speak to each other, while mechanics around the world will be linked by $3,500 HoloLens headsets made by Microsoft. From a report: It is a snapshot of an ambitious new Boeing strategy to unify...
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There is an old Russian anekdote about it...

The group of professors from aeronautical university were invited on a testing of brand-new air liner. When they seated, the pilot announced that they must be proud to be a first passengers of a plane, designed and build by their students. Professors looked at each other, turned pale, and immediately rushed to the exit - all, except one very old professor, who remained calm and relaxed.
"Run away, you old fool!", shouted one of his colleagues: "Didn't you listen what pilot said?!"
"Oh please!", puffed the old professor: "I know my students well. If they truly build this plane, it would not even be able to roll out of hangar!"

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Maybe they'll find the loose nuts and bolts left laying around the airframe more easily with a 3D headset?
 
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