>"The “real estate of the future” is plagued by buggy software, empty servers, and huge opportunities for abuse."

Another knockout piece from the Real Life contributors. “In conflating consumption with politics, the passion of fandom has been stoked into a reservoir of entitlement and, at its extremes, incipient violence.”

>"The founders of the photo-looping app Phhhoto say Facebook strung them along with the promise of a partnership that never _...Read More_

"Meta acquires Within, the developer behind Supernatural, a Beat Saber-style workout app, as per reports the app has been one of the real success stories in virtual reality fitness, with movement-based high-impact cardio exercises."

"Mark Zuckerberg’s turn toward the “metaverse” claims to put an extra digital layer on top of the real world. But Facebook’s new Meta brand isn’t augmenting your reality — it just wants to suck more money out of it."

It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.

"While billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos took their space-crafts for a spin into outer space, another billionaire focused on the challenge of competing in an entirely different universe."

>"So what is “the metaverse”? It sounds like the kind of thing billionaires talk about to earn headlines, like Tesla chief Elon Musk _...Read More_

>"Kyle Chayka writes about Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for Facebook to help build and to profit from the metaverse, or the type of virtual _...Read More_

white hat hacker used flashbots to rescue half of the victim’s crypto holdings in a race against time."

l "In this perfectly believable yet totally made-up story, French author Laurent Binet looks at how the world would look if Columbus had met steelier opposition in the Americas."

>"Star Atlas has entered the next level of manifesting the future with the Blond:ish and Jason Silva meta-poster debut. This is the first of fourteen NFT meta-posters in the ReBirth: Genesis of a…"