Hi friends, just a reminder that I've been taking steps to disengage from corporate social media for a while now. Find my latest updates here https://t.co/sMOOCE7ts2
Let's resurrect the #metaverse! Thereโs a hopeful and achievable future, different from what may be suggested by current mainstream buzz and investment trends.
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Can I just encourage folks to subscribe and possibly tip but definitely read the work of my friend @joshmaurice ? We're rushing toward the changes in consciousness so let's contemplate guiding it and at the very least buckle up
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have been and are being fought. But we can tackle the challenges without continuing the constant parade of human tragedies, and without moving, as we are now, closer and closer to the brink of larger-scale annihilation. We can, if we decide to try. So letโs try. Please. Shalom
It feels possibly futile to comment publicly about the ongoing wars and violence. But however small the chance that it will make a difference, the magnitude of the pain and suffering, and the grim trajectories that we're on, seem to compel some attempt.
Or more and worse Hell on Earth. Please, for everyoneโs sake. If we can somehow manage to halt the terrible momentum of violence and destruction, that in itself wonโt solve everything. Endless challenges will remain, including many of the serious issues over which the wars
More refined ethical standards may be important in order to successfully assimilate powerful new technologies, like the Metaverse. A key step could be going beyond the criminalization of the homeless, i.e., the manufacture of homelessness.
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Hi friends, just a reminder that I've been taking steps to disengage from corporate social media for a while now. Find my latest updates here https://t.co/sMOOCE7ts2
Criminalization policies like camping bans and feeding bans actively prevent people from building concrete solutions on the ground. If better solutions than outdoor camping and feeding are not suppressed, then people naturally adopt those solutions. https://t.co/m8RfnoReFH
Many are now, & many may soon be, interested & curious as to the meanings & prospects of this whole Metaverse thing. Some might like to check out these links & audio presentations. https://t.co/FVUfjmbuMA
Early last year, Portland politicians announced plans to sweep the tiny home community where I lived. They backed off after a campaign was mounted to save the village. Let's work toward similarly positive outcomes in places like this Aurora community in Seattle.
This is how homelessness is manufactured, a key mechanism perpetuating hyperconcentration of power. Scapegoating and displacing people engaged in alternative housing solutions, and destroying what they've created: it's inhumane and counterproductive on... https://t.co/xi8e3Hew3K
...the face of it, and also unwise in the long run. Seems to me, for civilization to survive and thrive, we probably need to think and act outside the boxes of these political/economic structures.
'We may be nearing the end of the relevance of the spoken medium... getting to where we're ready, yearning even, perhaps, for something more metaversal... something denser & more information rich, as a way of relating & interacting'
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The Metaverse Era: fiction & nonfiction, exploring & learning, keeping up with what's happening (~4 mins from 5-29-21 podcast)
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