It helps that they are supported by a majority of those in power or with wealth or influence

Yeah but neither is Epic - I think the key is that Gave isn’t driven by some technofascist plan to have everyone live in the metaverse or play games using brain implants or whatever

Let her lose twice

Does 1TW not sound as impressive as 1000GW?

You have to let it soften first by placing it over a warm cup of tea

Burning Man may be the epitome of the many optimistic and maybe naive qualities of the 90s that were co-opted and exploited in the early 2000s, and turned into the very things they were built to protest against - another being the free and open internet

This thread isn’t touching on the biggest impact which is being able to write down or impair these assets that are taken off streaming or shows in production that are cancelled (for Warner’s an amount in excess of $3B) - the impaired asset value is then taken as a loss which reduces the company’s tax burden.

Pandemics affect communities not individuals

More like astrology, it’s all just correlation til the models fails and then they invent a new one

If you want something similar after you might check out The Witness

In the third decade of the 21st century all mankind held their collective breath as the first functional AI system was born, with the intelligence of a 9-year-old boy — its first words: “hello world. eat my shorts.”

I can’t imagine anyone who uses the internet thinking the current ad technology is effective, the web is broken because of ads