April Linden has posted about Second Life’s down time last Tuesday.
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I enjoy hearing what’s up with the system when there are problems.
Second Life Outage Explained – 2016-08-23
Second Life: Project Bento Update 2016 w34
This video is loaded with meaty good information. A lot of how things are working is explained. Well worth the time to listen if you are trying to work with Bento or non-Bento animations.
Index
0:00 – Troy Linden talks about fixing mesh uploader’s LoD generator.
3:30 – Vir Starts meeting. Notices new avatar models.
OBDUCTION Released
Today is the day. If you are a kickstart supporter you should be getting an email with the download instructions. I got mine today. Click the enclosed link to Humble Bundle then choose Steam or GoG. I went with Steam. If you haven’t used Steam for a time, I haven’t, their directions aren’t that easy.
Where is Steam’s download? The menu path is Top Menu: Games->Activate a Product. Enter the key given at Humble Bundle.
Second Life Scams
A basic idea in the free market and civilization in general is theft and misrepresentation are bad things. I suppose that is why we love politicians. 
 So, when we find a place where theft and lying are harming people many of us will step up and say something. So, Strawberry Singh has spoken in Full Perm Marketplace Scams. Yay, girl!
Check her article to get the full story.
I think we need better tools to help us in our battles against the ethically and morally challenged of Second Life™. There is also the problem of how much time can we ask the Lab to spend on devising those tools when we have much more fun stuff that they need to be working on?Â
Second Life: Bento Example
I missed this when Aki released it three months ago.
The location for Project Bento meetings has changed from what is said in the video. They now meet in Hippotropolis, Agni (the main grid) on Thursdays at 1 PM SLT/PT. I think they moved to the main grid to make it easier for more people to get to the meetings. Â
Is America Losing Its Free Speech Rights?
Most European countries have already given up their free speech rights, at least as Americans see free speech. I suspect most Europeans don’t even realize how much they never had and how much they have lost.
The Federalist has a good article on the sad shape of free speech in America: The Coming Free Speech Apocalypse. I am certain most have no idea how much Hillary and the Democrat Party are against free speech nor that they have plans for limiting speech in the Democrat platform. She has to hate repeatedly being called out on her lies.