Ineffable Mote

Taking the paragraph as a whole, it seems like a redeeming quality from here. This sounds like a good shake-up is here too, presuming it's something so far unannounced [bold emphasis not mine, for sake of clarity]

20% = 1 in 5, and as far as assertions go that's beyond spurious, as are related claims being made. Even were it including edge-casers, grid wide that'd still probably be less than 5 in 100.

I'm not sure if he's being sarcastic or not, but I'll just add here that locking people up should be less about punishment and/or vengeance, more about separating people turned dangerously unhealthy threats from society. Part of me wants to point out in this thread that LL needs to change their corporate culture in some ways, but so much has been normalized in RL cultures that I don't think it'd do SL much(if any) good at this point. It's all kind of Lose-Lose, sans kind of. And SL being such an old platform, saner long term strategies to deal with adult content(employees/alts and userbase alike) seem a bit pointless as well.

It's less that it's loaded, and more that it's been maldefined, and that much is intentional, consciously or otherwise. That Kipling was coming from a place of better faith shined through in his works and observations, but it sure doesn't here, it's something else (SL as whole, I'd say. I could point out that as bodies of water, ponds tend to fare better than seas in this virtual world)

SL seems to be having connection issues (though all's back to normal now)

They can use it to write great literature, and have it twisted around into being something else. I say that being aware of Kipling's upbringings(parents/guardians behavior both..not to open this can of worms here, but I'll leave an informational link below just to point the can out). Resilience used as a coping mechanism seems no less apt for him, along with his poem If specifically (to keep this on topic, + many use SL for this too as has already been pointed out), and not sure how much of it Kipling himself ever faced up to in his own life (he was a perceptive guy, but I haven't read enough of his works). https://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.429327.7cf88f5c13 (I'll add that psychologists aren't entirely useless)

It's just a series of canned lines pulled from a notecard by a running script. Despoiled wisdom, basically, passing itself off for something it ain't. Like so much else here. Not that AI is somehow any better or different.

Placebo effects are a thing, but delusions all much more so. Resiliencies included.

Not to disagree with you or OP, but just on the other hand...looking for democracy and such in a corporate marketing campaign seems a bit of false expectations, at least once one takes a few steps back to look. It's kind of built into the nature of Belli, however else it's presented. I think LL used to do this stuff a lot better, and a bit more openly and inclusively, with more substance and less vanity, but I'll dare say those days are long gone (for a number of reasons, and it's not just LL but overall trends)

I think use of the term a***p*** has always been an obfuscation or muddling, to avoid calling content and related networkings being spoken of more precisely and exactly what it is. Somewhere along the way the motivation for it went from understandably not wanting to be associated with or drawing attention to it, to something else entirely, be it avoidance or sanitization. [editing to add here: on the other hand using more precision and less vaguery in the TOS/CS still only leads to proliferation of more edgecasings and loopholes to be exploited, it's all lose-lose when dealing with these exploitative types of people] And it was SL5B that LL barred child avis from that birthday celebration entirely, didn't they? Wasn't the best move to make and can't see LL trying anything like that again, but it's interesting to see how much official attitudes and concerns have changed since then over past 15 years.

Self importance makes a lot of peoples worlds go 'round. It ain't just for frat bros. Everybody has their investments, too, of course.

With Firestorm Area Search by adjusting default Filters, one can view the HUDs they're wearing listed as attachments, just not other avis. So that data has to be picked up from somewhere. I'd guess it's not that difficult to modify and recompile a viewer. I'm not a coder or "expert" on this, though, more going by observation here.

I'll just add that reported isn't the same as recorded either, a lot gets downplayed or dismissed out of hand, biases and propensities being what they are. I'll further add that times have changed. Not sure how this is relevant to the topic at hand, but someone can quietly figure it out.

The PR piece statement as a whole was written to obfuscate, not to address anything. The future is business as usual, until it isn't.

It won't. Second Life culture is too far gone for that now, for too long it's been normalized. Not just normalized, but marketed to, all the way from the top. The networking won't go anywhere. A healthier userbase and staff both needs to be brought in to help offset it, but it wouldn't be profitable in todays environs. LL has been circling wagons and treating all of this as a public image problem to be managed(all along, even before the published "blog accusations"), and not much more. editing to add: SL as a platform doesn't offer much between this and shopping, it's not like in previous times where there was a bit more balance. It's a lot of glamour and vanity and not a good mix, even under more ideal circumstances.

The grim reaper.

GG Allin - because I think he'd fit right in, for a short time at least. In the olden days of Second Life I thought a tribute show would be fun, full damage on, but he could just do a show himself as a virtual prophet and send a few lucky people home. I'd go with Ada Lovelace over Babbage, some voice readings along with whatever else she wanted to speak on. Not that Brian Eno needs resurrecting, he's still going strong, but bringing him on board to help shape whatever AI tools are coming I could potentially see being a pretty fruitful collab, moreso than Motown. Just throwing that in, while I'm here. (I mean, maybe it's the platform that needs a bit of resurrecting)

I don't think it was a bug. But that they could/would die introduced something generative, at least something resembling life in 3d, to the grid. Not certain that was so explicitly the creator's intent, it was a long time ago, but it was interesting and experimental either way. I never had the impression that he was simply in it to make bank - with breedables more generally, I think that came later with the horses. That's where it all went infernal (IMO, of course). I remember auctioning a few of my "better" eggs, they would get bids up to 20k L$ which I genuinely thought was pretty nuts at the time.

The market side of it all quickly got oversaturated, for sure. The business side of breedables quickly veered more into addictive gameplay, which opened the door for gacha machines in SL and we know how that sort of ended.

The average real world telephone, car, and even television now is collecting and broadcasting quite a bit of data too. Besides door cams, street cameras, etc. People love their outrages, but they also tend to be rather selective when exercising them. They're also prone to snake oil for "protection" systems, which only exacerbates the ingrained histrionics. Not that people shouldn't care, but at the end of the day maybe it's not entirely the bots themselves that are the problem.

They were pretty innovative for their day, by Second Life standards at least. In the way communities and marketplaces sprouted up around them too, it was somewhat of a precursor, for both better and worse. As far as region performance with those went, I think adjustments were made and LL made them a bit more stable and smoother, as much as they could. They always needed these kind of promptings. Linden Lab came out with their Patterns multiplayer physics game as well, and it's now been nearly a decade since they pulled the plug on that. On occasion there's more to these things than just manufacturing product and hooks. Old times.

Ensleigh sold. Micros are still are available but will be abandoned in a couple days, am open to offers on them in meantime. The Sabra one is a nice kind of tucked in roadside, not the best for advertising but someone could get creative with the parcel.

Unless they have real world family/significant other/friend/or some such that decides to log in at some point, which isn't all that uncommon. Their e-mail may still be monitored by someone too. Odds may not be in OP's favor, but I'd suggest maybe giving it a bit more time. A lot of people leave SL accounts and specify what's to be done with them in wills, which can take a long while to go through. I wouldn't expect SL support to be able to do anything, hands are kind of tied and all for various reasons, but doesn't hurt to contact them either.

I also have 3 microparcels left for sale 96m - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sabra/182/62/85 16m - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cilix/1/221/32 and 48m - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oculea/138/251/51

Not suitable for the typical box stores and such, but has its appeal and uses for some. L$ 12,500 or make best offer. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ensleigh/110/28/51