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J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

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Christine Sætre-esque @[email protected] · 2025-06-29 · 14:13 UTC

J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

Christine Sætre-esque @[email protected] · 2025-06-29 · 14:13 UTC

J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

Christine Sætre-esque @[email protected] · 2025-06-29 · 14:13 UTC

J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

#jeaime #rolandbarthesquote #quotes #july #lists #metameta

Christine Sætre-esque @csaetre · 2025-06-29 · 14:13 UTC

J’aime, je n’aime pas. Roland Barthes, the French sociologist famously listed his likes and dislikes then discussed how pointless they are to anyone else.

He writes: “Here begins the intimidation of the body, which obliges others to endure me liberally, to remain silent and polite confronted by pleasures or rejections which they do not share.”

Some of mine.
I don’t like: crowds, emojis (but I gave in), finding dead mice in the library (even with garnish) …

I like: lemons, cappuccino, croissant on Saturdays, moss en masse, peonies, lupin, clouds on a sunny day, rain that bounces off the ground, hiking in new snow, air so crisp you can see your breath, notes typed on a manual typewriter, fact checking, habaneros, midnight, black pencil doodles, plain text editors, Snøhetta designs, Amanda Gorman, Mini Coopers, cats, Khatia Buniatishvili at a piano, and 김진산 (Jinsan Kim) on acoustic guitar.

Roland Barthes’:
“I don’t like: white Pomeranians …”

#july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime #metameta #lists

#metameta #lists #july #quotes #rolandbarthesquote #jeaime

Christoph Roggon @[email protected] · 2024-08-28 · 05:23 UTC

@BioSchweiz Gleich erstmal geboostet 😂 #metameta

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Christoph Roggon @[email protected] · 2024-08-28 · 05:23 UTC

@BioSchweiz Gleich erstmal geboostet 😂 #metameta

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Christoph Roggon @[email protected] · 2024-08-28 · 05:23 UTC

@BioSchweiz Gleich erstmal geboostet 😂 #metameta

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Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-27 · 09:37 UTC

@haagch

"Walled garden metaverse" sounds like an oxymoron. If it runs entirely on the servers of one company and has no public API or any way to interact with users from outside a proprietary ecosystem, then what's really "metaverse" about it?

Well, everyone and their dog believes that Zuckerberg's virtual worlds platform is officially named "The Metaverse". ("Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.") And both mainstream media and tech media spew out the same non-sense. The only exceptions are tech media specialising in virtual worlds.

Also, as I've already written, Second Life started to officially refer to itself as a "metaverse" in 2022 as a "Hey, we're still here, too, and we're still relevant" publicity stunt. And Second Life has always been a commercial walled garden.

Its API is only public insofar as it was reverse-engineered from the source code of the official viewer after the latter was made open-source in 2006. And that's only a viewer API, a client API, that's used to develop third-party viewers. "Compatibility" with other virtual worlds? Well, there's OpenSim which was then built against the other side of the same API and the already existing third-party Second Life viewers and launched in 2007. But while it uses largely the same API and the same formats and the same standards, and while it's decentralised and federated within itself, it can't connect to Second Life. Even the 2008 "Six Lindens manage to teleport from Second Life to OpenSim" publicity stunt was bogus and faked.

I think I might write an article about the latter.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #Secondlife #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #cwlongpost #secondlife #metaverse #longpost #metameta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-27 · 09:37 UTC

@haagch

"Walled garden metaverse" sounds like an oxymoron. If it runs entirely on the servers of one company and has no public API or any way to interact with users from outside a proprietary ecosystem, then what's really "metaverse" about it?

Well, everyone and their dog believes that Zuckerberg's virtual worlds platform is officially named "The Metaverse". ("Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.") And both mainstream media and tech media spew out the same non-sense. The only exceptions are tech media specialising in virtual worlds.

Also, as I've already written, Second Life started to officially refer to itself as a "metaverse" in 2022 as a "Hey, we're still here, too, and we're still relevant" publicity stunt. And Second Life has always been a commercial walled garden.

Its API is only public insofar as it was reverse-engineered from the source code of the official viewer after the latter was made open-source in 2006. And that's only a viewer API, a client API, that's used to develop third-party viewers. "Compatibility" with other virtual worlds? Well, there's OpenSim which was then built against the other side of the same API and the already existing third-party Second Life viewers and launched in 2007. But while it uses largely the same API and the same formats and the same standards, and while it's decentralised and federated within itself, it can't connect to Second Life. Even the 2008 "Six Lindens manage to teleport from Second Life to OpenSim" publicity stunt was bogus and faked.

I think I might write an article about the latter.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #Secondlife #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #cwlongpost #secondlife #metaverse #longpost #metameta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-27 · 09:37 UTC

@haagch

"Walled garden metaverse" sounds like an oxymoron. If it runs entirely on the servers of one company and has no public API or any way to interact with users from outside a proprietary ecosystem, then what's really "metaverse" about it?

Well, everyone and their dog believes that Zuckerberg's virtual worlds platform is officially named "The Metaverse". ("Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.") And both mainstream media and tech media spew out the same non-sense. The only exceptions are tech media specialising in virtual worlds.

Also, as I've already written, Second Life started to officially refer to itself as a "metaverse" in 2022 as a "Hey, we're still here, too, and we're still relevant" publicity stunt. And Second Life has always been a commercial walled garden.

Its API is only public insofar as it was reverse-engineered from the source code of the official viewer after the latter was made open-source in 2006. And that's only a viewer API, a client API, that's used to develop third-party viewers. "Compatibility" with other virtual worlds? Well, there's OpenSim which was then built against the other side of the same API and the already existing third-party Second Life viewers and launched in 2007. But while it uses largely the same API and the same formats and the same standards, and while it's decentralised and federated within itself, it can't connect to Second Life. Even the 2008 "Six Lindens manage to teleport from Second Life to OpenSim" publicity stunt was bogus and faked.

I think I might write an article about the latter.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #Secondlife #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #cwlongpost #secondlife #metaverse #longpost #metameta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-27 · 09:37 UTC

@haagch

"Walled garden metaverse" sounds like an oxymoron. If it runs entirely on the servers of one company and has no public API or any way to interact with users from outside a proprietary ecosystem, then what's really "metaverse" about it?

Well, everyone and their dog believes that Zuckerberg's virtual worlds platform is officially named "The Metaverse". ("Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.") And both mainstream media and tech media spew out the same non-sense. The only exceptions are tech media specialising in virtual worlds.

Also, as I've already written, Second Life started to officially refer to itself as a "metaverse" in 2022 as a "Hey, we're still here, too, and we're still relevant" publicity stunt. And Second Life has always been a commercial walled garden.

Its API is only public insofar as it was reverse-engineered from the source code of the official viewer after the latter was made open-source in 2006. And that's only a viewer API, a client API, that's used to develop third-party viewers. "Compatibility" with other virtual worlds? Well, there's OpenSim which was then built against the other side of the same API and the already existing third-party Second Life viewers and launched in 2007. But while it uses largely the same API and the same formats and the same standards, and while it's decentralised and federated within itself, it can't connect to Second Life. Even the 2008 "Six Lindens manage to teleport from Second Life to OpenSim" publicity stunt was bogus and faked.

I think I might write an article about the latter.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #Secondlife #Metaverse

#meta #long #cwlong #horizons #metameta #longpost

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-27 · 09:37 UTC

@haagch

"Walled garden metaverse" sounds like an oxymoron. If it runs entirely on the servers of one company and has no public API or any way to interact with users from outside a proprietary ecosystem, then what's really "metaverse" about it?

Well, everyone and their dog believes that Zuckerberg's virtual worlds platform is officially named "The Metaverse". ("Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.") And both mainstream media and tech media spew out the same non-sense. The only exceptions are tech media specialising in virtual worlds.

Also, as I've already written, Second Life started to officially refer to itself as a "metaverse" in 2022 as a "Hey, we're still here, too, and we're still relevant" publicity stunt. And Second Life has always been a commercial walled garden.

Its API is only public insofar as it was reverse-engineered from the source code of the official viewer after the latter was made open-source in 2006. And that's only a viewer API, a client API, that's used to develop third-party viewers. "Compatibility" with other virtual worlds? Well, there's OpenSim which was then built against the other side of the same API and the already existing third-party Second Life viewers and launched in 2007. But while it uses largely the same API and the same formats and the same standards, and while it's decentralised and federated within itself, it can't connect to Second Life. Even the 2008 "Six Lindens manage to teleport from Second Life to OpenSim" publicity stunt was bogus and faked.

I think I might write an article about the latter.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #Secondlife #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #cwlongpost #secondlife #metaverse #longpost #metameta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-26 · 23:19 UTC

CW: An incomplete but quite representative list of metaverses; CW: long (over 2,500 characters), mild swearing, Meta/Facebook project mentioned

"The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
Cryptobros' attempted get-rich-quick schemes that imply that "the Metaverse" inevitably requires a blockchain, a cryptocurrency (usually either Dogecoin or Etherium or something running on Etherium's blockchain) and expensive NFTs for everything including land. Not seldomly buggy as hell because in-world experience doesn't earn the world owners any money.
More or less failed attempts by other huge gigacorporations to launch their own monolithic walled garden metaverses for as many use-cases as imaginable. Failed because they came too late.
The industrial metaverse which is still only a vague idea and probably another buzzword like "the cloud" and "the blockchain".
Second Life which has slapped the term "metaverse" onto itself in 2022, trying to stay relevant in spite of stagnating user numbers and showing the world it's still around. This actually had even less of an effect than the comparisons between Horizons' simplistic avatars and Second Life's near-photo-realistic avatars and its 20th birthday PR campaign last year.
Roblox, VRchat, Minecraft etc. They don't even need to refer to themselves as "metaverses" because they're so popular with kids that not much more publicity is necessary.
OpenSimulator which is as decentralised as Decentraland implies to be but isn't. It has been using the term "metaverse" regularly since 2007, the year it was launched. But as it doesn't make a fuss about it, nobody outside its own community knows.
ThirdRoom which was one of the first FLOSS virtual worlds to work in a standard Web browser rather than requiring a specialised client. Its future is unclear because all three devs are on an indefinite hiatus.
Vircadia, a HighFidelity fork, and Overte, a Vircadia fork, both trying to build the decentralised next-generation open-source metaverses with some interesting ideas, but neither having a significant community, and both being every bit as obscure and unknown as OpenSim.
The proposed decentralised, standardised, open metaverse for everyone. Which might not even come because the virtual worlds hype of 2020 is over for obvious reasons, and whoever else would be interested in it is probably busy in other virtual worlds already.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #SecondLife #OpenSimulator #Decentraland #Roblox #VRchat #ThirdRoom #Vircadia #Overte #TheMetaverse #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #opensimulator #decentraland #themetaverse #cwlongpost #secondlife

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2024-01-26 · 23:19 UTC

CW: An incomplete but quite representative list of metaverses; CW: long (over 2,500 characters), mild swearing, Meta/Facebook project mentioned

"The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
Cryptobros' attempted get-rich-quick schemes that imply that "the Metaverse" inevitably requires a blockchain, a cryptocurrency (usually either Dogecoin or Etherium or something running on Etherium's blockchain) and expensive NFTs for everything including land. Not seldomly buggy as hell because in-world experience doesn't earn the world owners any money.
More or less failed attempts by other huge gigacorporations to launch their own monolithic walled garden metaverses for as many use-cases as imaginable. Failed because they came too late.
The industrial metaverse which is still only a vague idea and probably another buzzword like "the cloud" and "the blockchain".
Second Life which has slapped the term "metaverse" onto itself in 2022, trying to stay relevant in spite of stagnating user numbers and showing the world it's still around. This actually had even less of an effect than the comparisons between Horizons' simplistic avatars and Second Life's near-photo-realistic avatars and its 20th birthday PR campaign last year.
Roblox, VRchat, Minecraft etc. They don't even need to refer to themselves as "metaverses" because they're so popular with kids that not much more publicity is necessary.
OpenSimulator which is as decentralised as Decentraland implies to be but isn't. It has been using the term "metaverse" regularly since 2007, the year it was launched. But as it doesn't make a fuss about it, nobody outside its own community knows.
ThirdRoom which was one of the first FLOSS virtual worlds to work in a standard Web browser rather than requiring a specialised client. Its future is unclear because all three devs are on an indefinite hiatus.
Vircadia, a HighFidelity fork, and Overte, a Vircadia fork, both trying to build the decentralised next-generation open-source metaverses with some interesting ideas, but neither having a significant community, and both being every bit as obscure and unknown as OpenSim.
The proposed decentralised, standardised, open metaverse for everyone. Which might not even come because the virtual worlds hype of 2020 is over for obvious reasons, and whoever else would be interested in it is probably busy in other virtual worlds already.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #SecondLife #OpenSimulator #Decentraland #Roblox #VRchat #ThirdRoom #Vircadia #Overte #TheMetaverse #Metaverse

#virtualworlds #opensimulator #decentraland #themetaverse #cwlongpost #secondlife