@slhamlet
Author, "Making a Metaverse That Matters" (Wiley). Covering & creating metaverse culture since 2003. Bylines: WSJ, Atlantic, FastCo. Join my Patreon blog for early/exclusive virtual amazingness! https://patreon.com/user?u=4843285 Los Angeles/Kailua
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
Oh right!
Perfect example of LLMs getting things wrong because they have no mental image of the writer's thematic outlook.
A human reader would know "flying cars are cool" isn't a big theme in Gibson's work, and more like something random people tweet about when they complain about the future.
That Gibson line at the end is so wacky, he's not a flying cars kind of sci-fi guy. Maybe I forgot/missed it, but do any of his major novels even have flying cars?
Good 🧵
When you cast real life refugees from fascism to sing in defiance of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E...
Whoa! Follow so I can DM you about it?!
Even more important story now that OpenAI is fully oartnered up with Trump's Pentagon:
AI academics were able to prove LLMs can be used to de-anonymize pseudonymous user accounts on Reddit and Hacker News.👇🏼
Bluesky accounts also likely vulnerable to this IMO.
www.patreon.com/posts/151669...
Even more important story now that OpenAI is fully oartnered up with Trump's Pentagon:
AI academics were able to prove LLMs can be used to de-anonymize pseudonymous user accounts on Reddit and Hacker News.👇🏼
Bluesky accounts also likely vulnerable to this IMO.
www.patreon.com/posts/151669...
Hiya! I'm writing a story about Fantasy Faire, can you plz follow so we can DM?
Company in court room for surreptitiously exploiting members of its user base found to be surreptitiously exploiting members of its court room.
Company in court room for surreptitiously exploiting members of its user base found to be surreptitiously exploiting members of its court room.
That's what SHE said!
NEW: I talk with a lead dev of @on-together.bsky.social, a new virtual world with a passionate player base who gather online to... chill together while working / doing stuff offline. 👇
wjamesau.substack.com/p/want-to-go...
If you don't know American figure skating Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu's backstory, this is a pretty good 2 minute summary.
It's wild how many people in Hollywood don't understand that LLMs only generates the average of already-existing content in its database corresponding to a given prompt. I.E. quite literally mediocre output that palpably resembles shot elements we've already seen in 1000s of movies.
For Valentine's Day weekend, here's a classic story of two shy 3D artists who first met in Second Life, which I first wrote during my years as Linden Lab's embedded journalist -- with an amazing epilogue that happens in Grand Theft Auto V, of all places.
www.patreon.com/posts/fallin...
A good follow-up about "fighting culture" being so paramount among white ethnic groups is, why was the all-Asian/Pacific Islander 442nd Infantry Regiment the most decorated US combat group of WW2?
And then also, why did Hegseth try pulling the 442's gov't website?
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
NEW: I talk with a lead dev of @on-together.bsky.social, a new-ish concept of virtual worlds, where your avatar is also meant to represent what you are doing at that moment in the real world. 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/want-t...
Turns out the "Something Big is Happening" guy said something big is happening in September 2024 except it wasn't, then said something big is happening in October 2025 except it definitely wasn't.👇
But this time the "Something Big is Happening" guy is right that something big is happening.
Right?
Cyberpunk 2077 has some relatively robust romance options orientation-wise. Surprisingly impressive amount of Reddit content is male/female players sharing "dating" pics with their V (lead character) and BF / GF of choice.
Turns out the "Something Big is Happening" guy said something big is happening in September 2024 except it wasn't, then said something big is happening in October 2025 except it definitely wasn't.👇
But this time the "Something Big is Happening" guy is right that something big is happening.
Right?
Amazing tribute to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, recreated in @secondlife.bsky.social by an Argentinian SLer just hours after his performance, who then shot a fun music video in it.
Read/watch: 👇
patreon.com/posts/150430...
Amazing tribute to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, recreated in @secondlife.bsky.social by an Argentinian SLer just hours after his performance, who then shot a fun music video in it.
Read/watch: 👇
patreon.com/posts/150430...
Now free to read on my New World Notes Patreon blog:
Veteran 3D artist @lex4art.bsky.social shares his highly seasoned advice on how to sell content on the leading 3D asset stores: Epic Games' FAB and Unity’s Asset Store. 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/149877...
Now free to read: The @secondlife.bsky.social mobile app has seen explosive growth in downloads, while SL ads have been seen over 30 million times. That's thanks in large part to Linden Lab's new secret weapon.
Meet the Lindens' secret weapon. 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/149355...
Yeah, ROBLOX is not yet profitable. They do bring in a lot of revenue but spend a ton on R&D and security, plus Apple/Google eats up a big chunk of their IAP cut.
Ironically Second Life has been profitable since 2006.
Just a couple hundred million more MAU and they'll be giving ROBLOX a real run for their money!
Now free to read: The @secondlife.bsky.social mobile app has seen explosive growth in downloads, while SL ads have been seen over 30 million times. That's thanks in large part to Linden Lab's new secret weapon.
Meet the Lindens' secret weapon. 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/149355...
$7 million gross for "Melania" assuming $12 per average US ticket price is not much, when considered against MAGA's large core fan base.
About 80 million Americans (23%) self-identify as MAGA according to YouGov. But not even 1 million of them bothered to buy a ticket despite Dear Leader's behest?
