I’m not getting around to write the good blogs, so for now here’s a link dump on things I think would work well in a metaverse context.
Continue reading “Highlighting good posts to show what I mean when I say “metaverse””What determines how much you are willing to pay for something?
Musings on my Carver.
I already bought the Carver, I’m waiting for it to be delivered. I bought it with my own money so this is not a paid review or earned commission or anything like that. If anything, it’s justifying the purchase after the fact, because it is a whole lot of money for a tiny slip of a thing.
Earth sciences and the metaverse
I don’t know why it took me as long as it did to figure out that it’s not really the geospatial layer per se I am interested in, but the multitudes of earth science layers on top of that. Doh. Geospatial is, to my mind, attempting to use technology to see what various aspects of the world looks like, but it’s a bit static. It looks at what is. I want to see what moves, and how they play together, what changes. My current thinking is maybe this is called earth sciences? This means I must revisit everything! Which is fine, I was so stuck that this will be inspiring. 🙂
Continue reading “Earth sciences and the metaverse”Worldbuilding the real world: build good ruins – Part 1
Make good ruins – https://dougald.substack.com/p/held-in-the-weave
The times are urgent, let us slow down – Bayo Akomolafe.
In this conversation he says “we have to find ways of listening to the world”. I agree, but find myself both intrigued and annoyed by the twee hippie hubris – “every moment is sacred”. One reason I’ve never been to, say, Africa Burn (or Burning Man, but I’m not in the US).
I don’t want this so-called modern hell-scape where we are caught in tiny gilded cages. But I don’t want the traditional, the indigenous, the primitive either. I want a transcendent middle, I want to find a middle ground that honours the scientific method, that has the tech uber-tools and toys, while catching the wonder of connecting with the earth. My current shorthand for this is tending seedlings to a kick-ass soundtrack.
Continue reading “Worldbuilding the real world: build good ruins – Part 1”Meta-communities
I’m toying with names for this “brand” I’m creating, and maybe something around a curious little beast, or pequinha fera curiosa (PFC) in Portuguese. Fera to link with feral, but also to alliterate with FOSS. The newspaper idea I still have in the back of my head has Curvy Cavy as working title, and our virtual world project is called peduncle, with a snail-type mascot, also a curious little beast. I, too, am a curious little beast.
Continue reading “Meta-communities”The End of FLOSS as we know it?!
Just as I really get into FOSS, I’m told it’s over.
Continue reading “The End of FLOSS as we know it?!”Building a Community
I am moving to the Azores soon. I have recently moved to Portugal, I need new friends, and to be frank, the number of friends even in my previous home country has become critically low. I want to build new initiatives, possibly to also financially sustain me, but the main objective I have is to make new friends. (Post is still work-in-progress)
Continue reading “Building a Community”Focus guild #9*: Digital unions / Democracy / Citizenship / Activism / Governance / Decision-making …
* I don’t know what to call this. Focus group, thematic bridging group, guild, subject matter expert group. For now, whatever. This is a place to collect the things, initiatives, groups, foundations, of this sortof grouping that could help the metaverse become a good thing. And I don’t know what to call this particular subcategory either. Ultimately, I hope that these groupings are useful enough to live on a wikipedia page or something, and if it exists already, hopefully I find out about it 🙂
The current list of groupings are:
- Accessibility
- Entertainment
- Education/Training
- Communications
- Commerce
- Health and Wellness
- Natural Resources, Geospatial
- Transport
- Digital unions / Democracy / Citizenship / Activism (this post)
World-building the real world part 2b: The … other … why: Changing the default civilisation.
I am so tired of being powerless. Of having my agency crumpled up and thrown back in my face. Of having this futile fight against badly run countries and corporates.
I feel that the whole notion of “a country” with physical borders is outdated. Why get screwed over just because of where or what colour you were born? We have the internet. Surely we can do better. So if we don’t need countries, and we don’t want corporates, what other sort of grouping would work? Can we go live in the metaverse?
Continue reading “World-building the real world part 2b: The … other … why: Changing the default civilisation.”World-building the real world part 2: Setting the context.
Before I get into how I want to build this real world that already exists, I need to set context. You know when you start something new, like an install or when you order something, you can pick the options or just go with the default? I need to set the default settings here. We’re going to talk about the default person (this post, part 2a), the default country/way of civilisation (part 2b), and the default view of getting around (part 2c).
Continue reading “World-building the real world part 2: Setting the context.”