Life skills workshops (#nutrition, #cooking, financial literacy) to help students transition to independent living

Sure, much of this stuff belongs to #parenting, NOT schools

But why aren't such courses mandatory in EVERY university?

#onthisday, 2009 to 2023:

defending web links
stupid attacks to #Syria
#permaculture fails
screens are bad
breaking up #facebook
Dugin's theories
drowning in #plastic
RSS IS STILL GREAT
Peak Car
Social Mobility Illusion

all this and more at https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-4/

"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

#artificialIntelligence #AI #creativity

Four years ago, I was

"depressed, not because I do not have full time work anymore, but exactly because I still (must) have it."

How many of you feel the same for the same reasons, today?

See "Let’s talk adults and purpose now" in https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/05/italylockdown-is-over.-lack-of-meaning-continues/

#bullshitJobs

Of aging, pensions, "experience" lost, and "innovation"

a hugely important, urgent theme:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/09/a-spectre-is-haunting-italy-the-spectre-of-quota-100/

Said in 2017:

"All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’ for big oil and big autos, says study that’s shocking the industries"

https://financialpost.com/transportation/fossil-fuel-vehicles-will-vanish-in-8-years-in-twin-death-spiral-for-big-oil-and-big-autos-says-study-that-shocking-the-industry

#ElectricVehicles

Today's #onthisday almanac, because #serendipity and memory matter A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2005 to 2023 (*):

https://buff.ly/3AP2PPx

Instantly Falsify reality with #AI!

proof n. 999999999999....

that #google sucks, #duckduckgo is much better:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/google-sucks-snow-white-is-woke-in

from my daily almanac (*)

"we know #pensions were underwater before the #covid19 crash. The situation is worse now" (in 2021...)

https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/09/pandemics-pension-funds-and-cheap-money/

(*) https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-2/

just read online, so, SO true:

"If human intelligence caught up with artificial intelligence, I'd have more clients."

also one more reason to have #UBI, and not because "AI is coming", see https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the

@ReneeVoiceBrand @feloneouscat exactly.

@feloneouscat @ReneeVoiceBrand yes, that's the part that really depresses and infuriates me.

See my previous... hey, what are messages called here on #CoSo??? Not tweets, I assume?

@ReneeVoiceBrand I have no idea, but lots of people have all their relatives in a city different than the one they work in, so it's normal not to hear from each other for 3/4 days. Sad, but very normal.

It's the coworkers, janitor, security people etc... IN the building not noticing it that's inhumane

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

interesting things that happened on this day, from 2008 to 2023 (*), from #iraq to #brexit

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-2024-09-02/

I'm never gonna answer a job offer from Wells Fargo as long as I'm alive.

which is exactly the point here.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/arizona-wells-fargo-worker-death

13 years ago, #onthisday, I published what may be one of the first comprehensive #opendata reports in Italy, if not internationally. I dare say most of the conclusions are still relevant:

Open Data, Open Society:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2011/09/part-2-of-the-open-data-open-society-report-is-now-available-online/