Sherlock "I'll do my best to forget that the Earth turns around the Sun" Holmes would have liked this:

"any information that you can't use is junk info"

https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-intellectual-obesity-crisis

Nice summary by @tedgioia of the "10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing"

Could have been much shorter though. Replace (at least) the first 5 with "#capitalism" and it's the same.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/10-reasons-why-technological-progress

The last 2 bullets of this list make a LOT of sense. The first is a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE mistake, with #music or any other kind of digital document. See why here

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

screenshot from https://mikerourke.dev/blog/cleaning-my-digital-slate/

Turns out at least ONE report said the right thing out loud:

Americans could decrease their needs of strategic raw materials up to 90% by simply stopping to be the Americans they are today.

PS: same for every other 1st world country, of course

PPS: not that there alternatives, see https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem

Just stop, stop, STOP now to use #Google as search engine:

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/

Seriously. Start using newsletters and RSS to discover interesting stuff:

https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/rss

Those in the screenshot are exactly what should be the "Type E" buildings I argue should be taken down asap to have good cities in 2070

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

Quote source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/florida-hit-by-worst-real-estate-crisis-in-decades/ar-AA1oXlcH

Speaking of #AI #ArtificialIntelligence vs human intelligence or ignorance...

I find the fact that the journalist felt the need to include the answers to the puzzles that defeat chatbots a bit depressing.

Do you?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/ai-llms

Me, 5yrs ago: "Software polarizes everything. Even #sex

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/08/software-polarizes-everything.-even-sex/

2024, after years of #dating apps:

"The trend for #celibacy – a “Great Abstaining” – has come “amid any number of moral panics about sex, mainly related to young people … that is, confusingly, entering the discourse just on the heels of peak #polyamory"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/17/dating-apps-decline-bumble-tinder

Hi, I'm your #AI assistant.

I can help you to write about any topic

ME: sure, summarize this:

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO

"It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years." (*)

What a wonderful confirmation from *1998* of my last post about WHY & HOW we are in a "Digital Dark Age"

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

(*) Source: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html.en

Q: "Should #schools ban #smartphones":

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/should-schools-ban-phones

ME: yes, but it will do VERY little good until ALL #PARENTS start banning personal smartphones for their kids ~ < 14 yrs old:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/smartphones-are-the-source-of-a-huge

and above all:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

you are all getting #UBI and #ArtificialIntelligence / #AI ...

BACKWARDS. Almost literally.

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

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

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

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