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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

I was a Second Life enthusiast and I still believe something metaverse-ish might prove powerful. But Zuckerberg’s vision was dead wrong.

The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing.

I’m now seeing this every time I go to my Facebook profile.

What next? Use AI to watch TV for me? To read science fiction? To pet the dog and cats? To drink coffee? To do any of the other things in life that I do only because I enjoy doing them?

Tucker Carlson’s and Candace Owen’s’ antisemitism was in the news lately, and I posted about that because I took it personally because I’m Jewish. Republican Islamophobia is in the news now and though I am not Muslim I say fuck thst.

I support Muslim, Black, Asian, Latino and LGBTQ rights in part because it is right, in part because I have friends in every one of those groups and also because hate becomes anti-Semitidn eventually.

The white supremacists may pretend to be friends to the Jews for a while, but anti-Semitism sleeps lightly.

I withdraw my previous comment about God sending Trump and his cabinet of Ku Klux Klowns to destroy America. That kind of talk is despairing, and despair is not an outlook we can afford.

These buffoons are incompetent and doing serious damage. They must be removed from office and prosecuted to the maximum penalty allowable by law.

In the middle of a war, the Secretary of Defense, whose previous experience was as a weekend anchor on Fox News, bans press corps photographers because they make him look gross. And the director of the FBI, who formerly raised funds for people who attempted the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, is bringing in UFC fighters to train agents.

I’m not a religious man but I am coming to the conclusion that God sent Donald Trump to bring the United States to its knees and make us humble. Or maybe God is just plain done with us and wants us gone.