"Some commentators are snarking that Microsoft really really wants to make 2025 the year of Linux on the Desktop, and it's kind of hard to refute them right now."

Indeed: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

"even if you don't use Recall, if you send an email or instant message to someone else who does then it will be OCRd and indexed via Recall: and preserved for posterity.

Now imagine the shit-show when this goes corporate."

#microsoft #privacy #idiocy

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

People don't trust #science for a reason (see screenshot).

But there would be nothing bad, even if we really weren't smart enough to do more science, or science really had nothing new and useful to offer anymore:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/science-usefulness-has-ended-so-what

PSA for American Citizens, wherever they are:

You are still in time to use these suggestion to make #USA2024 elections work:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-usa2024-and-9-suggestions

(also valid for EVERY other elections, worldwide, of course)

#democracy

Are #science and technology really ending? Maybe, but I don't care, and neither should you:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/science-usefulness-has-ended-so-what

Why does a flash micro-rant mentioning hot actresses and madness get 20 times more impressions than announces of essays that took hours to write?

Prioritizing ephemeral memes and rants over serious content and sharing is what made #Facebook a cesspool, but LinkedIn? Seriously?

It's not "why small electric cars could be about to break the grip of SUVs" as @jjpjolly puts it:

https://buff.ly/3KuadSa

It is "Small EVs by #EU + #China MUST and WILL break that grip", see https://buff.ly/4aGckgc

"Is #China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?", asks J. Cassidy:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/is-china-electric-vehicle-industry-a-threat-to-the-us

My answer, short version: YES

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

If "Small Modular Reactors: Still Too Expensive, Too Slow, and Too Risky" (1)

those are all more reason to do them in THIS way, the Liberty way:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/a-nuclear-power-offer-that-you-cannot

(1) https://newatlas.com/energy/modular-nuclear-reactors/

#nuclearpower

#Parents, take note:

"People whose children do not yet have #smartphones or #socialmedia accounts should keep it that way for as long as possible", says @Catherine_Price (*)

Toldya:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

AND https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-really-matter-whether-social

(*) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/02/banning-smartphones-school-reclaim-your-brain

Is MPEG-4 Part 14 format an Open standard or not? #Wikipedia editions contradict each other.

"For some reason, classical music doesn't appeal to young people, and young people stay away from places where there is classical music"

A sad/bad attitude, exploited in Finland and elsewhere for a good purpose:

https://yle.fi/a/74-20091888

The #nuclearpower offers that you cannot refuse are those about "less", but REAL and open #innovation, for a change:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/a-nuclear-power-offer-that-you-cannot

Do #socialmedia harm kids? It doesn't even matter:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-really-matter-whether-social

and the REAL problem is #smartphones, and only #Parents must and can solve it:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

To get the cities of 2070 right, we have to start NOW!

How? Managed retreat, and LOTs of other things, each less impossible of all its alternatives

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-city-reboot-for-2070-that-we-122

Please suggest YOUR choices for the 5000 words that EVERY European should know! (and ask everybody to do the same)

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

#EU #Europe