Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down | TechCrunch Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

£3.5bn to zilch? 🤯
Fingers crossed for VRChat at least...
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Why are the men all holding their noses? 😂

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

This is extraordinary. And presumably is just the start of a longing for the pre-internet era, that we were fortunate enough to experience

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can't it just write the books too? problem solved 🤓

▶️ Grand Theft Hamlet - Official Trailer Watch Trailer | 1:38

Missed this last year but there is nothing I don't love about Grand Theft Hamlet

Taking Shakespeare places he could never have imagined, but you can imagine him loving I think

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You're supposed to feel like throwing your hands in the air and jiggling them about in an entirely natural way 🖖🖖

You Me Bum Bum Train: ‘There have been weddings, children and lifelong friendships made through this show’ Tickets for the secretive interactive theatre company’s last show are almost impossible to score, though if you get one there’s a chance you might be changed for ever. But what exactly is it? The crea...

London-based and into immersive theatre / the extraordinary?

Go to You Me & the Bum Bum train. When I say 'go', I mean 'go volunteer' because actual tickets are like hen's teeth but volunteering is almost as good and so incredibly life affirming
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The chart of everything This chart shows every object that has ever existed, and raises a question: is the universe a black hole?

This incredible chart from the @economist.com shows how everything that has ever existed (that we are able to track & understand at least) lines up, and what this could mean for how reality works www.economist.com/interactive/...

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these risks. Because of this, people sometimes draw the conclusion...

Again, this is not a new essay from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on the potential pitfalls and wonders of AI, but is highly enlightening so worth resurfacing

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How @realDonaldTrump Changed Politics — and America With Twitter, the president turned a barrage of gadfly attacks into the voice of American power. His legacy as a tweeter will long outlast his account.

This is pretty interesting read on Twitter & Musk x Trump back in September 2021 following his removal from the platform.

Little did they (we) know…

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