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What must be blocked for children less than 15 years old is NOT "social media"
It is #smartphones, because that's the only way to avoid risks for children that would remain even if social media didn't exist at all.
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-list-of-countries-that-get-social
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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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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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don’t give a f**k about any pain the #AI may feel someday.
Those are really weak, almost funny arguments.
Worry about who imposes AI today to downgrade HUMANS to software instead:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/i-couldnt-care-less-if-ai-suffers
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Thanks @LolaOkolosie @theguardianfeed @guardianopinion for even more proof, with this piece:
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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The default way to parents comes from loneliness and being alone in an increasing unequal world. It's #parenting by adults groomed to WANT to be alone and to only consider solutions for loneliness and safety that come with a price tag, the higher the better.
Solutions here:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/good-parenting-is-hard-because-its
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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."
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
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
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
"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
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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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Q: "Can small #nuclear reactors solve #EU's energy woes?"
A: Of course... if they are designed and produced in the RIGHT way, that is openly:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/a-nuclear-power-offer-that-you-cannot
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
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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#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:
THAT IS, break digital monopolies in the right place, which is open FILE FORMATS, before and regardless of #opensource / #freesoftware
YAY!
I do my best to popularize digital stuff that MATTERS. See how and how to support me at https://mfioretti.com and https://mfioretti.substack.com I also write on commission, about a variety of digital topics. To hire me, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net
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