@smwat

RIP discourse

 anywhere but here
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Joined February 2009
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this is a good a time as any to say: find me anywhere else on the internet but here
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@oneunderscore__16 Oct 2023
Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy." His firm recently pivoted from crypto/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.
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You know I hate to say it, but I told you so —Cassandra
karrah 💗@karrahh_31 Jul 2024
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Big Pony Club
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"We truly live in an age of wonders."
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it’s such an honor to be recognized by my peers tonight for finishing this tube of chapstick.
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Interfaces that allow us to negotiate #agency will be essential to create the conditions that will give us the freedom to experiment, play, and thrive alongside emerging technologies. Find out more in my keynote at #NextMse in Stockholm. vimeo.com/825086239
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negotiating #agency will be the most important function of emerging tech interfaces. 🎧 find out why in this episode of #FUTUREPROOF podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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i can’t with these wes anderson posers using anything but futura.
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what’s your boygenius chart? i’m a lucy sun and rising, pheobe moon.
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Sara M. Watson retweeted
The Verge
@verge6 Apr 2023
My bad VR trip trib.al/faXKmRA
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What do deep sea diving, BDSM, psychedelics, and repatriation have in common? Immersive experience aftercare protocols! Here's how they could inform responsible VR aftercare. theverge.com/23663451/vr-met…

When a VR headset leaves you curled up on the bathroom floor

The more immersive an interface, the more vital it is to design aftercare protocols for it.

theverge.com
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boygenius. that’s it, thats the tweet.
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watch out. theres no escape. the language models will morph and evolve to convey the same saccharine drivel to appease the polite gods of capitalism.
David Sasaki
@oso31 Mar 2023
Is there a way to filter words on LinkedIn? Specifically: humbled, honored, proud, privileged, excited, amazed, thrilled, and grateful?
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not sure what happened in the dark data markets this week but i'm suddenly flooded with a TON of marketing and brand emails from which i definitely long since unsubscribed
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More than 500 contributors shared their predictions in TODAY’S new Future of Human Agency report from @ImagineInternet & @PewResearch, including tech critic @smwat. Watson predicts a need for “new standards for establishing and maintaining trust.” READ: bit.ly/FutureOfHumanAgency
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Janna Q. Anderson@JannaQ24 Feb 2023
READ 500+ experts’ views on Human Agency 2035... @davidjkrieger @dweinberger @maggie8jackson @moniquejmorrow @drmaltman @smwat @LuiGiRod @sunday9pm @peterbart @andyopel @chris_labash @lazygate @mslavkovic in new report by @Imagineinternet + @PewResearch bit.ly/FutureOfHumanAgency
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“I’m curious about your curiosity.”
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revised: pre-ordering my friends' books *twice* is my love language
Sara M. Watson@smwat10 Oct 2022
pre-ordering my friends’ books is my love language
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Today is duodi 2 Pluviôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating moss.
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me lying on the bathroom floor in a cold sweat after an hour in VR
Tim Hwang
@timhwang13 Jan 2023
🚮 we talk a lot about early adopters, more interested nowadays in another leading-edge demographic: early discarders
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