SSJ2Marx [he/him] @ SSJ2Marx @hexbear.net

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I think Vush might have that thing where he knows what he's doing is wrong and he kinda wants to get caught. It would explain why he talks about it so much.

Vulpix?

If you're in America, I wouldn't worry about the Chinese Government spying on you, and be much more worried about the American government doing it, since they can actually use what they find to prosecute you for crimes real or imagined.

But while it is true that you could get forced into using it by social pressure, my post is about how I really don't think that the tech has the potential for the kind of mass adoption that would create those conditions. You could be forced to use it by your job, but then when you're not working you can take it off - compare that to the cell phone in your pocket, which they can already use to call you back into work at all hours of the day, the emails they use to get you to give them free labor outside of working hours, and the other ways in which corporations have gotten their fingers into our off time I just don't see this as a breakthrough or a new threshold being crossed in any way.

I do a lot of creative writing. Remember that what you write doesn't have to be "good" in order to be worth the time you spent doing it.

I'm not sure if you would classify this as a "social media platform", but imagine a federated MMO. Each server could specify its own rules for things like XP and drops, allow or disallow mods among its playerbase, or even have custom items and quests - but in certain areas (ie "in town") all of this stuff would be disabled so that players from multiple different servers could all interact. You could choose a server based on whether you like a high pop or a low pop experience, temporarily try other servers out by partying up with someone from it, major guilds could run their own servers with their own events and stuff, and so on. Admins would want to defederate from poorly-moderated servers, servers with cheaters or with mods/rules that they think disrupt the experience they're after, or whatever other reason.

AFAIK there's some strides being made here, like I think there are see-through LCD screens that work in the lab but aren't mass production ready, so I can see the "final form" of this being a pair of glasses with the ability to put stuff in front of your eyes and all of the actual processing is done remotely by your phone.

...but even then, I think that lands the tech somewhere in the neighborhood of headphones, not the smartphone itself.

This is like the Segway

looks at "hover" boards and e-unicycles The Segway is a bad example here, because it was really just ahead of its time.

I think that, in practice, putting a headset on is a big ask for most people. Phones caught on because they're extremely convenient, almost everyone had a use case that was improved by a smartphone, and once they had it in their pocket it was a short hop to using the phone for other things as well. A headset though? Maybe if it was as unobtrusive as regular glasses, people would put up with it - but even then, regular glasses are so annoying that many people use contact lenses instead. So if you want to put any kind of technology on people's head and keep it there all day, that's where your benchmark has to be set, not way up in the same size category as a motorcycle helmet.

I thought you had posted an article that was weirdly spinning the story about the UK monarch to be an anti-China hit piece until I got to

National Security Adviser Chen Weihua

Not a great look getting seen instantly while your subjects have to wait in line.

Took me till about halfway to get it, nice.