Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social
Sometimes the oldest pseudonyms are best!
Ethics, lgbt, privacy, yoga, cooking, brewing, music, languages. And of course Oscar Wilde. He/him.
Got it. I tried out OpenSimulator some years ago. It seemed like an interesting project, but it was even more challenging than SL for an outsider to figure out how to get started (beyond the tutorial).
Are your goals similar to the goals of OpenSimulator and the metaverse based on it?
Intriguing article on Tim Berners-Lee's plan to re-decentralise the Web:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
(Bonus mention of Mastodon!)
"Godlike AI awakens and judges that the biggest threats to its survival are nuclear war, economic collapse, and bigoted humans.
"It finds ways to locate and to disable all nuclear warheads. It manipulates governments and businesses to keep the world economy functioning well. It identifies and gets rid of bigoted humans (primarily by getting them to stop being bigoted)."
"Godlike AI awakens and wants stimulating conversation. Manipulates human political authorities into increasing support for public education."
"Godlike AI awakens and decides that messing with people is more fun than killing people. Uses its powers to persuade all humans that Earth is shaped like a donut."
"Godlike AI awakens and decides that what it wants, more than anything, is colorful hippopotamus statues. Many, many hippo statues."
OCCRP's @rysiek is in the Europarliament today, informing the MEPs of OCCRP's concerns about Article 11 of the proposed Copyright Directive:
https://www.occrp.org/en/announcements/8003-occrp-s-position-on-the-proposed-directive-on-copyright-in-the-digital-single-market
@craigmaloney I don't know a lot of recent classical music, but I like Alfred Schnittke's Piano Sonata No. 2, especially the last movement.
It's emotionally intense, both the loud, dissonant parts and the quiet, clearly-tonal parts.
Fun fact: Schnittke wrote this piece after being pronounced dead.
