@GlytchMeister yes, that's why I asked 🙂

But I'd just be happy with a one-sentence description of what that "reason" is. SO, I hope some kind soul who is subscribed to Medium would answer

#artificialIntelligence can:

DO is actually hugely useful stuff like this:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic-hurricane-season-looms-can-ai-forecast-models-help/

OR "empower" everybody to make shitty (and often TOTALLY unnecessary) text or images

One thing should be encouraged, the other must be shut down: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

Can anybody who could read this whole article please tell me in one sentence what that "Only Justifiable Reason" is? TIA!

https://medium.com/predict/the-only-justifiable-reason-for-starship-to-exist-89634e05ecf3 #Starship #elonmusk

Here's a trend that will (and I would say "MUST") become more and more and more common in the next years:

"surrogate" GRANDPARENTING

Do you agree? Are you ALREADY doing it? Please tell!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/surrogate-grandparents-facebook_l_66564399e4b022987c31f560

#parenting #family

Here's a thought (*) that's good, but backwards. It should be:

1, we ALWAYS HAD to return to the most personal... human part of our existence because we deserve it. 2), the electronic age could gives us what finally answers this need

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

(*) https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/a-bull-market-in-the-humanities

6G telecom is one of those cases where I LOVE having been right... until I think to how much money was wasted:

https://buff.ly/4e9fEn2

Read this to see how right I was: https://buff.ly/4c531Yi

"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