"#Oregon voters will likely decide in November whether to establish a historic #UBI universal basic income program that would give every state resident roughly $750 annually from increased corporate taxes"

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/06/proposed-ballot-measure-proposal-to-raise-corporate-taxes-give-every-oregonian-750-a-year-likely-to-make-november-ballot.html

personal curiosity, nothing more: I'd like to see how much of #Russia natural resources (oil, gas, metals, rare earths etc...) are on each side of the Urals, e.g (making numbers up) oil = 30% west/70% east etc). Anybody knows/can point me to such reports? TIA!

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

@Xenofact For completeness...

by me, same point: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

#EU threatens #China #EVs with tariffs of up to 38%:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11ze1k9r0o

me, I say #EU tariffs should be ZERO %, but EU should set all standards for said Chinese EVs. Much better deal for both:

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

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

@MidnightRider until the moment we really get a chatbot each, that calls them to DDO the service

First they replaced those who would listen to you with #AI chatbots, bc you did not deserve human listeners.

Now they replace YOU with an #AI clown of you, bc YOU don't deserve to look human when complaining:

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15300914

We all deserve personal AI chatbots that call all these centers 24/7

#artificialintelligence by #google Gemini

Check the screenshot, then read the full chat here: https://gemini.google.com/share/e1357114e9ee

fifth panel, not shown but essential:

Everybody else does the same, so Fred feels behind even more, because his AI assistant cannot answer

"What's the purpose of the whole rat race, again?"

#artificialIntelligence this is not

to be listed in the official #Android store by #Google, all apps must have a #privacy policy.

This "Unlike Google" one, which lists all the privacy violation by GOOGLE itself, is the best:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

"Nvidia alone is holding up the universe."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/05/great-american-boom-running-out-steam-mountains-debt/

The REAL reason to slow down a race to "God-like AI" isn't that it'd kill us:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/you-are-all-getting-this-stop-ai

It is that we cannot afford to waste all that energy and money, when there is so much stuff to do first (even with AI!), like this:

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

or these:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/how-to-tell-good-ai-from-bad-or-pointless

@GlytchMeister

but we will surely know now. The gods cast their blessing on me: 🙂

(yes, he reposted the same request I made on X)

My life just reached its peak. Everything from now on can only be worse

"The Secret To Beating Political Disinformation Is Knowing When Not To Fact-Check"

Or, as Queen Elizabeth would have said, "Never complain, Never Explain" (well, almost never)

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/06/01/the-secret-to-beating-political-disinformation-is-knowing-when-not-to-fact-check

If the title is correct, this "god-father of #AI" is just another guy who got things backwards:

#UBI hasn't become necessary NOW, after some tech bro said "ops, I've invented this thing that will destroy jobs, please make UBI to fix my mess".

It's exactly the opposite: UBI has been half necessary, half unavoidable, for decades now, so #AI should prove it's the tool that can make it happen:

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