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  #Germany just did exactly what I've been preaching for TWENTY years now: Just Say No to OpenXML: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 How file formats can favor (or hamper) innovation, active citizenship and really free markets: https://mfioretti.com/how-file-formats-can-be-used-favor-or-hamper-innovation-active-citizenship-and-really-free-markets/ THAT IS, break digital monopolies in the right place, which is open FILE FORMATS, before and regardless of #opensource / #f...

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  Do #socialmedia DESERVE big punishment? YES Would these thing happen so much, so serious, if #parents did the right, simplest thing in the links below? NO. Never forget it https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/on-wrong-things-to-tell-parents-about https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children Also, worry more about #AI now: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/dear-parents-social-media-are-yesterdays

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  #Corporations, #socialmedia, #ai and humanoid #Robots are ALL the SAME thing. Please listen to who perfectly described SIXTY YEARS AGO what happens when people worship them: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-real-effect-of-social-media-ai

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  1987: Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly 2026: replace Unix with #AI , because the REAL dogma is "Thou SHALL use (our!) AI even when it'd be DUMB, and then worship it" For something about #AI #religion that MAKES sense, read me instead: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-religion-a-really-lousy-really

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  Best summary I've read this week: "if the U.S. judged itself the way it judges everyone else, it’d be planning an invasion of… itself."

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  Thanks @LolaOkolosie @theguardianfeed @guardianopinion for even more proof, with this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/school-smartphone-ban-teachers-pupils-addiction-devices That the ONLY #smartphone strategy that will work for protecting #children is the one I proposed three years ago: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

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  Some months ago, @aeonmag argued that we should be prepared to avoid inflicting pain to #AI Here's why their arguments don't make sense, plus a warning about AI faithwashing: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/i-couldnt-care-less-if-ai-suffers

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  The list of countries that get #socialmedia wrong keeps growing... But #ageverification is STUPID and #parents must not accept it anymore: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-list-of-countries-that-get-social

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  "Mario always has something important to say. In this case, that Asimov was right about the debates of our time" around #ai #Robots #socialmedia and #capitalism Gee, thanks (from Marco, not Mario) Here's the "something important" https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-real-effect-of-social-media-ai