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

"Nowadays, #email is more important than phone numbers, yet there is no regulation in sight on moving addresses as one can move phone numbers between telephone providers."

TRUE & important. Refuse#gmail, listen to Migadu: https://www.migadu.com/blog/gmail/

also for all THESE reasons: https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/email

"new tasks [must be] created where labor has an advantage over #automation"

Problem is, WHY? Why would rational human beings want that, instead of what Dante Alighieri explained seven centuries ago?

Continues here: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ok-lets-speak-of-automation

America: I feel I'm boldly going where no country has gone before

Italy: hold my Berlusconization

Not the SAME situation or worldwide impact, of course. But sorry, couldn't resist

If you DO check their URLs, the articles in this part of CNN's home page are listed newest to oldest, which is OK.

But just looking at the titles order, it does seem that life coaching by millionaires, or armpit hair, matter more than wars or politics

Which maybe is just what many people feel...