It's famously easy to dunk on the Metaverse, and Ryan George does a great job of it in this video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ru2Ddp9f_I

But he also makes an insightful point, worth repeating. Many technologies that are now part of everyday work and play began as digital toys, ruthlessly mocked by people who were adults when they came out.

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"I don't think we'll be able to kill any contestants. We haven't reached that level of dystopia yet, but we're working in it!"

Producer Guy, #PitchMeeting for Beast Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43eB84P_U3s.

"And now here is a bland ad read about a company that has paid me $100,000 to do so."

Podcasting Comedian, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hASr5vdMYkA

I've been taking a careful look at some video downloaded from the web to see of it's real, or algorithmically generated. It occurs to me that this isn't necessarily an either/or.

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I'm in two minds about public media outlets like RNZ publishing the video they produce on YouRube;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4OXwfZE1SaCQ4jRAuaoXQ

It makes sense for publicly-funded media to publish anywhere that members of the public might be, especially where we don't have to pay. In fact, any media funded 100% with public money ought to be under a CreativeCommons BY-SA license, or even placed in the public domain. So *anyone* can publish it, anywhere they like.

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#TIL about #Materialious;

"... a privacy respecting frontend for YouTube built ontop of Invidious."

https://materialio.us/