Cyberpunk never imagined a future as banal as one where the only VR platforms are AlexaPrime or Zuckitopia…
/throws away mirrorshades in disgust
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He read “Ready Player One” and thought, “goals.”
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the dream of a certain generation of nerds, raised on Snow Crash and The Holodeck and then dosed with dork nostalgia from Ready Player One, is a virtual world that is better than this one.
https://twitter.com/Queso_Ok/status/1454123052703309835
Literally this meme:
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There is a type of chemical reaction in organic chemistry called electrophilic aromatic substitution In this reaction, electron withdrawing groups that deactivate the ring system are referred to as meta-directing. In other words, this name change makes perfect sense from a physical organic chemistry perspective.
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Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
His social network has Meta-stasized
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/zuckerberg_meta_facebook/
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You may think that this is just a cheap and cynical rebranding exercise to mitigate the ongoing controversies in which Facebook is mired. But this move goes way beyond that. We’re well beyond an organization renaming itself to simply signal a change in direction or attitude. We’re beyond a company trying to shed its toxic image. This isn’t an antidote to the poison.
Mark Zuckerberg has gone off the deep end.
The name change heralds the reorganization of the Facebook empire around a single concept: the metaverse. To Zuckerberg, the term – coined by Neal Stephenson in the sci-fi novel Snow Crash – describes an internet-connected fantasy world in which everything and everyone is virtual and perfect.
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Wow, cool future.
But yes all the bad stuff too.
That’s a bit why I fell in love with the Culture.
I get to have fully automated luxury pansexual space anarchism.
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From a recent article in the Register.
Facebook, now living under the assumed name Meta for its own protection, says, “We identify potential misinformation using signals, like feedback from people on Facebook, and surface the content to fact-checkers.” And Facebook founder and Meta head Mark Zuckerberg suggested crowdsourced fact-checking in a 2019 video interview with Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain
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We’re 111 posts in, and as far as I can tell (but I could have missed it), no one has mentioned this tidbit yet:
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It’s tough to find a name that works in every language. I’m sure they know this isn’t supposed to be about death, it’s supposed to be about the beyond, a perfect world that exists somewhere beyond our own physical reality. The two concepts are obviously unrelated. 
(Just for the record, in classical Greek μετά can mean after or beyond, but in lots of contexts it also means among, between, in the middle of, and so on. Which is just to say that despite Zuckerberg pointing to his love of the classics, I am pretty sure he was actually inspired by the English word meta.)
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(On a side note: I worked at a help desk, and when the app developers complained to us about their outages, my running joke was “you run Bartertown, you fix!”)
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Meta Materials shares are doing great.
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IIRC it’s why “Esso” (mostly) changed to “Exxon”. (Upon looking it up, it may have had more to do with not using “Enco.”)
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Sort of:
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Ah, different link, so it didn’t show up…thanks!
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More to do with Esso being the phonetic of S-O for “standard oil” which was being used by a number of companies in some way after the dissolution of Standard Oil. Exxon was picked because no words in the English language have a double x and so it would be easy to protect their trademark from imitators
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The Italians like to do that, for example the brand Ellesse (LS).
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