Posts - page 8

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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The Sims Social, Circa 2011

Everybody played Facebook games. Yes you did. Don’t try and deny it. We were all there, logging into Mafia Wars and clicking over and over until we beat up some random player for cash. We all had pets in Pet Society, we all had a little dude in YoVille, and...
published September 28, 2025
#gaming #social-media
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Bluesky Isn't Decentralized, But Your PDS Is

For months, or the better part of a year, I’ve been writing about Bluesky. Writing about how they’re screwing this up, screwing that up. How they took funding from some crypto company nobody’s ever heard of, which, at first, made it look like they were simply moving to become Nostr...
published September 27, 2025
#social-media #bluesky
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DID, PDS, DNS: Oh My

So, I’ve been continually fudging around with the PDS I launched on a little six dollar server, and it’s been pretty smooth? But, there have been some hitches. Some little pebbles in the road that would stop a pallet jack on a dime. Federation seems to be working, I can...
published September 23, 2025
#tech #social-media #bluesky
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Reminder: Windows 10 Ends on October 14th

In the past year here, I’ve casually mentioned how much Windows has moved away from being consumer-friendly, and more inched closer and closer to being probably the most hostile operating system to users ever created. Microsoft has gone from launching spyware as a service (Recall), to killing Windows 10, which...
published September 21, 2025
#tech #windows #microsoft
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[REVOSA]: Midnight Stellar Belted Skirt (New)

After 4,000 years of cold-storage, stasis, silence, [REVOSA] returns with something new. I feel like it’s been actually, literally 4,000 years, just because I’ve done so many other things in the time it’s taken me to sit down and go, “Okay, so about continuing my work at my store in...
published September 16, 2025
#second-life #revosa
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Second Life: Continuing [REVOSA], But Smarter

A couple weeks ago, I posted about taking my store down, and doing so almost specifically because of Linden Lab’s lack of motivation, or urgency in purging slop out of their marketplace. You know, so people can’t make money off of stolen artwork. Needless to say, I thought about it,...
published September 15, 2025
#second-life #scripting
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inZoi: Slop, or Not?

It’s like “hot or not” but with games, and generative AI. Welcome to, Slop, or Not? With … inZoi! A game I’ve previously criticized for being stuffed with random AI tools that could have easily just been, you know, custom texture upload tools, and blender file upload tools. But, I’m...
published September 11, 2025
#gaming #inzoi
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What is an Apple, if Not a Phone

So, it’s September, and you know what that means. It’s Apple Event time. Usually, or, at least in the past five years, I would’ve been hyped about this sort of thing. I would’ve been rushing to see if AT&T would let me upgrade to the latest iPhone, and while vapor...
published September 9, 2025
#tech #apple
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What is a Chicken, if Not a Man

Usually, I would relegate posts about site updates and changes to my /logs filetype, but this is a bit larger than, “changed around a few CSS modules, added a new page.” For a lot of the year, I’ve had the website mostly running the same way, but I’ve taken into...
published September 9, 2025
#webdev #updates #thoughts
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Eyeshadow 2600 FM is Back

A little something I’ve started working on, quite a bit in the early stages of track construction. But, I felt it was hard and wicked as shit enough to share even if there’s almost nothing to it. Not even sure what I’m going to call it yet! Your browser does...
published September 8, 2025
#music #fl-studio