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

#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

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

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

#artificialIntelligence can:

DO is actually hugely useful stuff like this:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic-hurricane-season-looms-can-ai-forecast-models-help/

OR "empower" everybody to make shitty (and often TOTALLY unnecessary) text or images

One thing should be encouraged, the other must be shut down: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

Can anybody who could read this whole article please tell me in one sentence what that "Only Justifiable Reason" is? TIA!

https://medium.com/predict/the-only-justifiable-reason-for-starship-to-exist-89634e05ecf3 #Starship #elonmusk

Here's a trend that will (and I would say "MUST") become more and more and more common in the next years:

"surrogate" GRANDPARENTING

Do you agree? Are you ALREADY doing it? Please tell!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/surrogate-grandparents-facebook_l_66564399e4b022987c31f560

#parenting #family

Here's a thought (*) that's good, but backwards. It should be:

1, we ALWAYS HAD to return to the most personal... human part of our existence because we deserve it. 2), the electronic age could gives us what finally answers this need

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

(*) https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/a-bull-market-in-the-humanities