Whoever believes that bits and files are more fragile than paper, books, vinyl and similar is 10000% WRONG.

Period. Time to end this myth:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ever-wondered-why-we-are-in-a-digital

@estherschindler this fits in PERFECTLY with this thingy I just published:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ever-wondered-why-we-are-in-a-digital

Just replace "computers" with #smartphones, and "Pentium" with #iPhone, and it's still 100% valid advice.

From **1998** (heck, Google didn't even exist yet):

https://www.salon.com/1998/08/01/books_8/

#Disney gives up idiotic lawsuit.

Yay!

But never forget they did have the arrogance to try this stunt:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224277/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-waiving-arbitration

@corlin right now, I am against job guarantees for THESE reasons:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/07/against-guaranteed-services-and-jobs/

AND because what most of us should do for a ton of reasons is to just stop working altogether:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/05/the-best-argument-for-universal-basic-income-the-laws-of-physics/

But I want to know more, and will read your links, THANKS.

Funniest and (probably for all the wrong reasons) most insightful thing I've read about #chatGPT since its arrival:

Masses backing some wild theory online one day, and then pivoting all of a sudden to another, INCOMPATIBLE theory, are going to give chatGPT a backlash

This is worth some serious field tests, measurements and then a real paper. Anybody up to it?

is #UBI really "UBI is a terrible idea. The foundation of a punishment-based social credit system of technocracy" ?

Please tell. But ONLY after reading the whole thing as in the screenshot, thanks:

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

@Coctaanatis my same point. I'm very surprised to read that, seems really absurd.

#Melbourne is just the last city to acknowledge that RENTED e-scooters were a a STUPID, unsustainable idea:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/travel/melbourne-electric-scooter-rental-ban-intl-hnk/index.html

will they move now to E-SCOOTERS DONE RIGHT, like this:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-scooters-and-of-the

or not? Fingers crossed

Can anybody please provide sources with specific examples of "American soldiers sabotaging equipment to oppose automation of #Vietnam war"??? Thx

Source: https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

@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