mintycrisp
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
I would like to say this is inspiring, because if this dude could become head of NASA then anyone could including me. But holy hell that is low key terrifying.
- 'The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” '
So it seems less of a plan for further space exploration and more in line with a territorial grab. If it's land they want to 'own' then I've got good news for them, I am selling prime Luna real estate at a discount(low hundred millions) they can buy and even get a fancy notarized paper certificate too!
It's a very troubling time in America right now, especially as someone with very little means scraping by, so I was hoping for more info in this article about what the everyday person can do to help fight against this authoritarian power grab other than annoying my state's rep (who is a huge supporter of this) or protesting publicly (in a state that overwhelmingly voted for this). Of which will hopefully be in the next article as stated at the end... 'The next post will explore what specific steps you can take to bring this con to a con-clusion and save American democracy.'
And if this article speaks to you, then I recommend checking out the latest(5/18/25) 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' episode which has it's main story about this administration's attack on freedom of the press in the United States.
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I think the best way to fight monoliths and huge money pits is with your company's ideals such as share everything, privacy at all costs, don't be evil tech, focused on the best user experience/optimization/features, building an open source metaverse, etc...
As well as letting your users have a say in someway or another into what the end product is. Allowing them to be invested in how it turns out, the way it is used and whom it benefits the most. I believe this is the best way to get sticky users who are not just looking at the bottom dollar and those users become your biggest advocates helping you grow more and more.
So did I cleverly use all these freely built components to make the greatest XR experience ever? Nah, I decided to re-invent the wheel and do everything myself :). I do enjoy the challenge and freedom to build my own ultimate tool though and I know it's not likely others will use it, but I did release it under GPL3 anyways. It has a wiki (slightly outdated atm :)), starter script and some examples too.
It's pretty fun as both a learning/practice experience and actually be able to use it for various builds. Makes it even easier to prototype XR ideas which I love. I am currently wrapping v0.3 which has added tons of improvements, although it's not exactly ready for release, if anyone feels like checking it out I added some links as ref...
* AUXL (A-Frame UX Library) v0.3 repo --> https://github.com/Minty-Crisp/AUXL
* AUXL Grid Collision/No Clip v0.3 Demo -> https://auxlibrary.com/
* AUXL Physics & Powers v0.3 Demo -> https://minty-crisp.github.io/AUXL/physics.html
* Minty's XRcade (mini game arcade built with AUXL) -> https://mintyxr.com
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