Wagner James Au

New World Notes is moving to my Patreon! The original Typepad-based blog shuts down October 1, but I'll keep covering the Metaverse ecosystem news/culture, related topics & OG metaverse Second Life there. Join free below, please consider subscribing for special benefits:👇 patreon.com/u4843285

2026 Midterm Forecast update from PressAudit: Chances of Democrats winning the Senate now up to 66%. Chances of Democrats winning both the House and Senate has also grown, from 63% at the start of this week to 64% now. Explore the latest changes here: pressaudit.org/midterms-2026

This week's New World Newsfeed features skeptical thoughts on Epic's AI "delay", a massively multiplayer solitaire game, and of course, a rideable pumpkin chopper in Second Life. 🤣👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

I'm helping develop/launch this new 2026 Midterms Tracker. 👇Explore, send me feedback, and please consider sharing! It blends recent polls from top firms with Polymarket & Kalshi odds, includes key battleground races, plus weekly trends & news in our heatmap. pressaudit.org/midterms-2026

PressAudit is thrilled to unveil our very own 2026 Midterms Tracker! 👇Explore and please consider sharing! We blend recent polls from leading firms with Polymarket & Kalshi odds, focus on key battleground races, highlight weekly trends & midterm news in our heatmap. pressaudit.org/midterms-2026

I'm somewhat biased but I think this is pretty mind-blowing. 👇 This is why AI data centers have become such a bipartisan flashpoint!

We're thrilled to share our data center map with @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for her story! "PressAudit, which evaluates & aggregates the news, has created a map of the data center buildout, showing where hyper scalers are breaking ground and where communities are protesting." (Next post)

Having first watched and commented on mute, I just received word the post should have read: What if Tom Cruise, but beetle-ly?

Interested in prediction markets, but hate the real money gambling aspects? In PressAudit's Call It quiz game, guess the outcome of a live news question — yes or no — then see how your pick stands against the market's odds. Play here: pressaudit.org/callit

What if Indiana Jones but beetle-ly?

With @awkwardsilencegames.itch.io's upcoming indie game O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT getting buzz, here's my interview with him about his last game, Things We Lost in the Flood, which I call a massively multiplayer LONELINESS simulator. 👇(With a new update!) www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Happy Tuesday and hello new followers! Here's a quick glance of what we do at PressAudit and what we offer reporters and avid news consumers 👇

My latest profile of a new-ish Second Life brand is free to read! This time featuring Mythic, cultivated by a whole team of SLers. Two went full-time into SL after some real world job woes. Read it here 👇 , including a SLurl to their new mainstore opening today! www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Happy Thursday! Here's our latest scan of Artificial Intelligence-related stories, including links to the best free articles! 👇 pressaudit.org/f/categories...

Super important, heavily referenced, jaw droppingly weird thread. We're not fully understanding this because it's so bizarre, it seems to be from a Pynchon novel. But yes, the global economy may implode because an apocalyptic sex cult wants to build an AI god to avoid being tortured for eternity.

I’m increasingly of the mind that whatever productivity gains I’m getting from using AI are being eaten up by dealing with other people’s AI slop. Then there’s the increasing lack of trust that people actually understand the work because they either didn’t read or write the material.

NEW: Thrilled to help launch Press Audit, a non-profit site that uses open source LLMs to break through our media filters, categorizng 1000s of articles daily by party lean, public interest & much more. Please check it out below and share your feedback -- good/bad/other! 👇 pressaudit.org/home

Thrilled to feature this guest post by MattDaly, the very kind of story that New World Notes was created to tell. Matt writes about how playing @househouse.com's Big Walk with his autistic son helped the boy better bond with his family. 👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to Sam Altman saying the stupidest bullshit imaginable.

The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to Sam Altman saying the stupidest bullshit imaginable.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

Now free to read: I talk with the founder of WhyAlien, a new site that use alien bots drifting across the grid of Second Life to find active & popular sims / events throughout the virtual world. But will the community embrace it? Read about it here: www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Press Audit, a non-partisan news observability site for reporters, researchers & readers who want to better understand the whole scope of news & what we’re all missing due to our media filters! Here's what we do and how we operate: 👇 pressaudit.org/how-it-works

This looks incredible. I hope one day a Linux version is released so I an play with t.

From Game File, @slhamlet.bsky.social, a pioneering reporter in Linden Lab's virtual world Second Life 20 years ago, is joining the company He says: "Second Life was too early during its hype wave in 2005-2010, but it now feels right for a new wave of interest" www.gamefile.news/i/213915977/...

New: legendary third party viewer dev Kirsten previews her complete revamp of Second Life that runs on Vulkan, leading to much faster framerate, high-end graphics, even Steam Deck compatibility. Free to read for all New World Notes Patreon members: www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Rather than keep grousing about how utterly mid the Grand Theft Auto VI preview is, please watch this early mission scene from Cyberpunk 2077 and tell me how *anything* in it comes close to this level of immersiveness, story richness, and voice acting. Dare you! youtu.be/tOu5VVglNpw?...

I am told the Eve Dolly Parton thingie did not actually happen, seems like!

A great loss for us all. A light in our darkness, a talent like none other. Rest in song and mirth, Dolly. The heavens have a new star among them.

New SL marketplace survey about the new automated monthly review process, which delists MP items from merchants who haven't logged in for a year. How much will this improve the overall Marketplace shopping experience -- some, a lot, or not at all? 👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books

Pretty big: A real life skin care company just partnered with Second Life avatar-based K-Pop group. "They are super interested in exploring where the digital space fits into the the future of beauty," Xquad's Ryan tells me. Read on my New World Notes' Patreon! 👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Pretty big: A real life skin care company just partnered with Second Life avatar-based K-Pop group. "They are super interested in exploring where the digital space fits into the the future of beauty," Xquad's Ryan tells me. Read on my New World Notes' Patreon! 👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

"Civil War" < "Slaveholder's Rebellion": "Conventions shifted only decades after the war, when white Southerners and their reps in Congress collaborated to rewrite the history... '“Civil War' became a compromise solution, mollifying Confederate nostalgics." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Great and hilarious obliteration of LLM hype and flimflam by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social that surely needs to be widely shared before a clutch of hype dweebs trying to birth God from a next letter predictor crash the global economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAI...

Great and hilarious obliteration of LLM hype and flimflam by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social that surely needs to be widely shared before a clutch of hype dweebs trying to birth God from a next letter predictor crash the global economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAI...

I’m fucking dying

Patreon supporter shout-out to @jason.themetamovie.com of @themetamovie.com, creating a new live role-playing adventure in @resonite.com. 15 players. 10 live actors. One Mission. Secrets of Gara. Coming 2027! Watch the teaser below, follow on YouTube for updates! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNF...

Excited for today's early access launch of @seedgame.bsky.social, in development for nearly 10 years & easily one of the most ambitious MMOs ever launched. Single-shard, fully persistent, sorta multiplayer Civilization meets The Sims, I talk with the lead dev here: www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Excited for today's early access launch of @seedgame.bsky.social, in development for nearly 10 years & easily one of the most ambitious MMOs ever launched. Single-shard, fully persistent, sorta multiplayer Civilization meets The Sims, I talk with the lead dev here: www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Note the date

LOL I love this. "Backrooms" is so huge it inspired a creepy shopping hunt in @secondlife.bsky.social: www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...

Not that I'm complaining, but holy shit. And I feel like there's still at least 50 more hours of nerdery left to go.

Do Sexbots Dream of Electric Negs?

Who remembers Greenies?! Here's some classic video and a tribute to the 2007 sim, the most viral @secondlife.bsky.social region of all time. 👇 www.patreon.com/u4843285/pos...