is #UBI really "UBI is a terrible idea. The foundation of a punishment-based social credit system of technocracy" ?

Please tell. But ONLY after reading the whole thing as in the screenshot, thanks:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the

#Melbourne is just the last city to acknowledge that RENTED e-scooters were a a STUPID, unsustainable idea:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/travel/melbourne-electric-scooter-rental-ban-intl-hnk/index.html

will they move now to E-SCOOTERS DONE RIGHT, like this:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-scooters-and-of-the

or not? Fingers crossed

Can anybody please provide sources with specific examples of "American soldiers sabotaging equipment to oppose automation of #Vietnam war"??? Thx

Source: https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

The not-needed-at-all, but coolest nerdy thing I've seen this year:

"an 8-bit accordion primarily made of C64s, floppy disks, and gaffer tape"

http://www.linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

Can anybody please explain why Xinghai Square in Dalian, #China, looks like this in #Google Maps?

That is, the normal map with streets shifted wrt the satellite photos? Really curious!!!

"It started to feel like I was the robot" is EXACTLY what I wrote 7 years ago:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2017/10/robots-displacing-humans...-or-humans-becoming-robots/

So, first read here how it's happening now:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240612-the-people-making-ai-sound-more-human

and then subscribe to newsletters like mine, which are and will remain human:

https://mfioretti.substack.com

#AI, #parenting, peak #energy, REALLY smart homes and cities...

check the screenshots for thoughts and PROPOSALS about these and many more crucial topics seldom covered as I do in my newsletter... and then subscribe, of course! (thanks for sharing the invitation as much as you see fit)

https://mfioretti.substack.com

car maker says lots to show how advanced its #driverless car is:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61423917/rimac-autonomous-verne-robotaxi/

but I bet you anything that they count on convincing many with just the right half of THIS one, shrewdly planned picture:

"#AI will involve a collaboration between humans and machines"????

Hell no. 100% wrong. There will be humans who also use the variety of software called AI to do their things.

Keep the right perspective, people

(but AI for antibiotics is great, of course)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/ai-antibiotic-resistance

The pure non-existence of enough raw stuff to keep doing Business As Usual (BAU) is maybe the most ignored fact of our time.

But BAU is NOT a law of nature and, unlike BAU, solutions compatible with reality exist:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem

The first and most important "hardware" we need right now does not come from #nVidia and is not #AI. It's soil, and what grows on it:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-first-ai-that-should-get-money

As far drivers and consumers are concerned, a car is just a tool like a screwdriver, not one's dignity.

What if everybody who needs a car got even better solutions, or cars so good to "pretty much demolishes most other car companies" and last 25 years?

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars

The purpose of #education is NOT getting a job, or getting in #DEBT. Stop believing this myth. Here is why:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/innovation-scams-education-myths

to #linkedIn and EVERY OTHER PLATFORM that says "start writing with AI"

Hell, NO.

do the same, and share, pls.

Many experts argue that current #ArtificialIntelligences (#AI) is or will soon be really intelligent entities, so "different, but equal" to humans in the human-specific sense that rejecting them would be evil, helpless, or both.

Just ignore them. EVEN if they're right: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/taking-ai-too-seriously-is-not-intelligent

#UBI is NOT "a solution to the impact of #AI" as the Guardian says.

It's exactly the opposite: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the

Just saw this "I once stopped #dating a guy after learning they're ___. People have a right to have their values and ethics align with who they date and closely befriend."

Fill the blanks with whatever idea you hate, then tell: Is this right/wrong/good/bad for individuals & society?

#EU electric car tariffs sting #China's #EVs but won’t halt it? (*)

That's even more reasons to just ABOLISH tariffs and go for a winning combination of European regulation of Chinese car manufacturing: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars

(*) source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/13/cars/eu-ev-tariffs-china-effects-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html

Here is a new blog that will likely have lots of readers and contributors. It really should:

https://gettingajobispainful.substack.com/

First World crises are strong these days