@JV3MJD that predates Trump.

I've often have the feeling, since well before he went into politics, that many US republican christians are republicans first, and then christians only in the tiny spaces still empty in their heads

Here is why I say so (see last paragraph, then the whole essay) : https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/08/on-work-money-and-purpose-part-3/

Question by M. Bauwens (*):

Q: "What kind of money do we need for the next value revolution ?"

ME (before even actually reading the essay): "Whatever, as long as it makes Universal Basic Income feasible"

(*) https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-money-do-we-need-for

PS: If I can help working on these topics, just call! :-)

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!!!

@mims done. Chek my profile now

VERY important: note how this "ideal ideological worldview" is EXACTLY what #socialmedia create, and it could exist so forcefully without them.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/article/change-merchants

@mims I'm too timid for that. But maybe will do it, some day

Never, EVER buy HP printers:

"Woman warns against HP printers after canceling subscription. It won’t let her print anything"

https://www.dailydot.com/news/hp-instant-ink-subscription-problem/

#Parents, take note:

"what feels really otherworldly in series like #StrangerThings, and therefore constitutes their REAL appeal. It's not the superpowers that make giant superlizards explode. It's seeing kids as young as 11 free to spend whole days unsupervised, because their parents won't call 911 the first time they don't text back within 30 minutes."

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

At some point "...we won’t understand what #AI models are doing. What should we do? Pull the plug? Literally unplug the computer?"

F**k yes

https://www.noemamag.com/hollywoods-take-on-ai/

see https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/taking-ai-too-seriously-is-not-intelligent

"There is no way to aspire to a better future without aspiring to functional cities.. [therefore] many of our cities will need such a refounding as well", writes @SamoBurja:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/31/the-city-makes-the-civilization/

I agree. Here's my proposal to do just that:

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

"Are you a #Microsoft investor? Be afraid. Be very afraid. By 2010 Windows will be as dead as CP/M, and every Windows-based software vendor will be either supporting #Linux or out of business."

said in 1999: https://muq.org/~cynbe/rants/lastdino.htm

Mom send teenagers to unsupervised, NO #smartphone #camping, they are happy:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/smartphone-free-camp-trip

but I REALLY have to ask: what Mrs Aitkenhead did was basically to "reinvent" #scouting (cfr the Brownsea camp of 1907). Why is this not mentioned at all? Seriously.

"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

Proof n. 9999999.... that consumer #AI is like consumer #IoT, i.e. almost always snake oil:

"Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “#artificialintelligence” when describing their offerings"

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/

#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

#Renewables cannot be made by renewables" and ocean nodules cannot be mined as they produce oxygen, says Honest Sorcerer:
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/deep-sea-delusions

For much more on the same basic problem, read my recent summary of 3 videos full of data: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem