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The New Present

from The Wall Street Journal Is the Metaverse Really the Next Big Thing? Its advocates say more immersive interfaces will increase our sense of presence. I think they have their definitions wrong. By Steven Johnson Mark Zuckerberg would like you to be a little more present. That’s the message that the Facebook founder hammers home in […]

Robbie Shakespeare Gone

from Jamaica Observer Robbie Shakespeare has died POPULAR bass guitarist Robbie Shakespeare of ‘Riddim Twins’ Sly and Robbie is dead. He passed away earlier Wednesday. According to sources, Shakespeare was ailing for sometime. “Robbie’s loss will be severely felt by the industry at home and abroad. My condolences to those he leaves behind,” said Olivia […]

I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t know how to unlock your front door.

from Bloomberg How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All by Isabella Steger The outage at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes. The […]

Unreality

from Real Clear Markets The Metaverse Will Change the Way We Live, Think and Work By Roger James Hamilton At GeniusU we talk a lot about the metaverse and how it will usher in – like the first iteration of the internet – a new era and change the way the way we learn, interact, collaborate, […]

Anything Brooks

from NPR Mel Brooks says his only regret as a comedian is the jokes he didn’t tell by Terry Gross As a child in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Mel Brooks assumed he would grow up to work in Manhattan’s garment district. That’s what most of the kids in his working-class Jewish neighborhood did. But everything changed when […]

D

from The New York Times Denzel Washington, Man on Fire The actor never leans in — he’s all in. And in his latest, “Macbeth,” conjured by Joel Coen, he is as sharp and deadly as a dagger. By Maureen Dowd When Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand began rehearsing to play the Macbeths, he asked her […]

Depressed Shrooms

from The Daily Beast via Yahoo! News Are Psychedelics the Next Big Treatment for Depression? by Hannah Thomasy In 2019, the FDA made a groundbreaking decision to approve a form of ketamine as a clinical treatment for patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression, a condition which is estimated to affect nearly three million Americans. The drug, called Spravato, […]

12 Tones Of Christmas

You wanna run your f†cking mouth no problem, you came to the right guy….

I see the future and it will be

from The New York Post Futurists predict how we’ll one day eat, vacation and work By Michael Kaplan Forget about Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and all the talk about a metaverse. The real future will be a world that is convenient and scary and fantastical — at least according to futurologists. As this year ends, here’s a glimpse […]