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

#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/

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!!!

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

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/

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