lars b amble

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"likely sitting or standing or walking"

san francisco

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SpaceHey URL:

https://spacehey.com/larsbamble

lars b amble's Interests

General

larsbamble.com

Music

larsbamble.com/musicmixes

Movies

all things star wars • all things tron • all things blade runner • the princess bride • sex and death 101 • THX 1138

Television

jimmy dore • chris hedges • jaron lanier • the grayzone • game sack • techmoan • technology connections

Books

ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now • listen, liberal • hate, inc • the silver chair

Heroes

no heroes, only human beings ☮️

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About me:

hello! i'm lars. i was part of the group of folks working at myspace.com circa 2005-2006 prior to and during the newscorp buyout, and i worked in early social media beta-testing, prototyping, and design in the early 00s prior to that. my myspace profile was myspace.com/turbo. since then i've done a bunch of other stuff in various industries. and now i'm here, apparently! you can also find me on vero at vero.co/larsbamble.

these days i'm a father, a multi-disciplined creative professional / consultant, a DJ, CTO of an independent / left journalism non-profit, and a staunch advocate for populist leftist politics as well as an advocate against the algorithm-manipulated and datamined hell that (anti)social media has become.

i live in san francisco, and my personal website is larsbamble.com.

Who I'd like to meet:

anyone! say hi if you like ✌️

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‎RY

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thanks for the add! super cool you were part of the MySpace crew! ✌️

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thanks for the request! i’m glad for how many people we inspired, and i’m sad for the state of what (anti)social media has become since. glad platforms like vero and soacehey are still carrying the torch for building better social platforms!

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Wubzilla

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You have a cool profile!

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cheers 🙏

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Hera

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thx for the add :)

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thanks for the request! haven’t checked in on this thing in a bit - always nice to see people who have fond memories of myspace!

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absolutely loved myspace and it formed a lot of my pop culture taste -- even now!! stoked to meet ya!

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Perty The Virtual Musician

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💕 💞

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Tess

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Ciao Lars,
thank You ...

Wish You All the Best!!
Take care!

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cheers and likewise 🙏

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Valis

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Thanks for working on a platform that was so lovely and fantastic!
Happy to meet a Jaron Lanier fan, too. :)

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cheers! thanks for connecting and your kind words. 🙏

i've been in alignment with jaron lanier and steve wozniak on a lot of things pertaining to social media and the tech industry for a very long time. i've just never had the platform they do to talk about it to a broad audience. i'm glad they're reaching people.

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Perty The Virtual Musician

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💖 ✨

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Didrick

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Thanks for the add! How cool to learn that you were part of the team working on the OG MySpace, I'm sure it must bring back a lot of memories being on Spacehey. Hope your weekend is off to a good start! :)

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thanks for the comment! and yes, indeed! it's nice to see the love for myspace reincarnated in such a cool new site. (:

hope all is well where you are as well!

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Jani☆Noir

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Hello, thanks for the add.
Have an amazing day. xoxo

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cheers and likewise! ✌️

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Greg "X" Willis

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Thanks for accepting. I visited your Vero profile. What do you like about Vero besides the lack of algorithms and a bit more privacy?

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thanks for connecting!

i initially moved to vero when ello sort of went to shit and lost its branding direction, along with a few other ex-ello folk i knew.

i like the fact that vero has the same ethos backbone (no algorithms, no datamining, etc) that ello had when it started, but with a much better sense of UX design that doesn't get worse with every update. it's also been good for building a reasonable amount of organic reach and is a nice secondary photography portfolio of sorts to link to from my professional website as well. it's been good for actually meeting a few people in person as well. basically most everything i'd want from an online sharing platform.

i do wish they'd expand it to give the vero website the same amount of usability as the app, since app-only platforms aren't my favorite way to share things, but it has enough good going for it otherwise that i've stuck around on it longer than most of its peers, and it seems to continue to see slow but steady growth.

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That was one invested reply. I love it. I sent you a message.

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Hannah

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Thanks for accepting! The original Myspace was the best!!

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thanks for the request! also i completely agree.✌️

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ASTRAL TWINS

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♫♪ Thanks Lars! Nice to see you here as well! Hope you enjoy our Music Tracks & Vids on our Duo Page too! 🌷✿(◠‿◠)✿🌷 If you do, maybe you could also Add Us To Your Favorites! Thank You

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cheers! will give your stuff a listen soon (:

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♫♪ Thank you! Enjoy your week ☮(ˆ◡ˆ)☮

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OKUS DOLPHIN

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♬ ♫ ♪ Thanx! And welcome Here Lars! Hope you like some of my Music Tracks & Vids on my Page ⚡(◕‿◕)⚡ If so, Perhaps you can Add Me To Your Favorites! Thank You

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cheers. haven't figured out how favorites work on this thing yet, but i'll figure it out at some point i'm sure. (:

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♬ ♫ ♪ Hehe.. Well Lars. In your Contact Box next 'Add friend' is 'Add to Favorites'! To see the ones you have added there is a Tab at the top of your page that says: 'Favorites'! If you click that, you see those you have added to your favorites. So you can find those pages any time! Good Luck to you (◕‿◕)

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Thyme

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Thanks for the add. So cool that you were part of the original Myspace staff.

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cheers and likewise! i basically completely bailed on the social media industry once facebook took over because i saw everything going in a rapidly unethical direction. i'm glad to have discovered this site - hope it sticks around! FWIW you can find me on vero as well, which is another app-based social sharing platform worth checking out that has zero algorithms or datamining. ✌️

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Awesome, dude, thanks.

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ISOA GAMBEL

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(◠‿◠) Hello, Thanks for the add. Hope you enjoy my music. I am a trilingual artist. English, Spanish and French. (◠‿◠)

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cheers! will give it a listen. thanks for the add yourself. (:

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Thanks. I was a Myspace artist in 2012. In this video you can see the top singles with my songs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MYjWwGwNLg

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