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A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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You Wake Up, And It's 2012 Again

I’ve written a lot about how much I miss the 90s, and sometimes pine for an age in the 80s, and, obviously, I’m not talking … politically. But more, a time when things were less chaotic, and we were all kinda just vibing with whatever was happening. Drinking our Ecto-Coolers,...
published October 2, 2024
#thoughts
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The Progeny Mall, October Shopping Event!

Much like last month, [REVOSA] (my Second Life store), is once again appearing in the Progeny Mall shopping event! This time, for the month of October–the spookiest time of the year! Because my free time is scattered and all over the place, for now, I’m simply discounting a recent, but...
published October 1, 2024
#second-life
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Mastodon Has One Thing The Others Don't

So, I didn’t really try to write a click-baity headline for this post. Partially because, usually, when I share what I write, it doesn’t even show a headline. But, you’re probably wondering, “What could Mastodon/the fediverse possibly have that MySpace doesn’t?” Twitter has fabricated and AI generated misinformation, Threads has...
published September 29, 2024
#social-media
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Vivaldi, the Firefox Replacement

It’s been a couple of days since I’ve written anything. Part of that is because my day job highly makes me feel like I don’t want to do anything when I get out of work. The other part of it, is that I spent hours and hours refreshing and updating...
published September 28, 2024
#tech
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Released At [REVOSA] Today, The OS95 Shorts!

Today, following the end of the month-long shopping event at the Progeny Mall, the Nano Nexus (OS95 Edition) shorts are now available at the store! These shorts continue a bit of a rejuvenated desire to keep my store running, by at least releasing something new once a month. As it...
published September 26, 2024
#second-life
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One of the World's Richest Dudes Says Your Work Ain't Worth a Damn

I, regrettably, have to talk about this by quoting from The Verge, but a couple of hours ago they published a talk with the Zuck on Meta’s AI, and the training data associated with it. To say that I’m a bit pissed off is an understatement. So, let’s get straight...
published September 25, 2024
#tech
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The Social Web Foundation Launches, to Much Confusion

Today, kind of just completely out-of-the-blue, this thing called “The Social Web Foundation” launched. Basically, this group of companies and corporations who are banding together to throw their hats together as a supporting web to build up ActivityPub and the Fediverse. Except … It reads and feels a lot like,...
published September 24, 2024
#tech
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You've Heard of Misskey, Now Get Ready for Sharks

For the longest time, I’ve spent most of my fediverse posting hours on the Mastodon software. It’s basically almost all I know. You know, aside from those times I launched a GNU Social instance, and then a very short-lived Pleroma instance. GNU Social is a lot like if someone made...
published September 23, 2024
#social-media
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Scrobbling is My New Favorite Hobby

Back in 2012, and I don’t even remember how I went about it, I spent enormous amounts of time scrobbling my music listening habits to Last.fm. This lasted into 2014, and I am at least semi certain I started using Spotify for this. How I did before that time …...
published September 21, 2024
#tech
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LinkedIn Attempts to Yoink Your Data

If you haven’t heard by now, LinkedIn suddenly implemented a “feature” into their social network that automatically opts you into allowing them to use all of your data for AI training. To top it off, they’ve done this before altering their terms of service. So, technically, nobody’s agreed to this....
published September 19, 2024
#tech