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Humanoid #Robots in EVERY HOME are nothing new. They come from 2 needs that industries and organizations alone could never satisfy One is the pathological urge to never have other real humans around. The other… mfioretti.substack.com/p/humanoid-r...

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One year ago I wrote that one of the two things I'll never condone to #elonMusk was hiding the night sky: fossforce.com/2025/0... Now, these idiots are worse: www.space.com/space-...#elonMusk For Musk, hiding the night sky is a side effect he couldn't care less. For them, it is THE explicit purpose.

VERY Wrong. The title of any post like that should be “The public strongly MISUNDERSTANDS what a minimum age should be about”, and it is NOT #socialmedia See why here: mfioretti.substack.c...#socialmedia

Age limits on #socialmedia are: DANGEROUS (proxies to #censorship) UNENFORCEABLE (what's a "social media"?) OBSOLETE (#AI is much worse) and above all... USELESSLY COMPLICATED & EXPENSIVE Limits must be put BEFORE, and ONLY #parents can and must do it: mfioretti.substack.c...#socialmedia#censorship)#AI#parentsove me wrong

“Art is the most underleveraged asset on the planet,” he said. Right. Ruin art too. Why not?

This post about the dangers of #AI "companions" aurmartin.fr/posts/t... gets 2 CRUCIAL adverbs WRONG: potentially, and inadvertently. the push to long term isolation is there BY DESIGN. I wrote why and what to do about it just yesterday: mfioretti.substack.c...#AI

Today’s US are a place that lost itself so much into infantilization, assorted extremisms, self-adsorbing identity issues, virtue signalling of both colors to lose both any interest in their own people AND any perception of their weight in the world, or responsibility for it

"Government’s number one job on all things #AI should now be to protect society from AI fragility not to keep heightening that fragility." Words to live by. Not just in #Canada:

this "Yankee Go Home" piece from @Persuasion: www.persuasion.community/p/the-slow-d... is 1000% true, and I am one of many living examples. Or more exactly, I WAS. Now, America is making me long for a world where I can just IGNORE what it does: mfioretti.substack.com/p/my-farewel...

"The question, then, is not whether human beings are capable of cruelty—we apparently are—but whether we can build systems that make cruel behavior in law enforcement rarer, riskier, and less acceptable. The answer is, we can." reselbob.substack.com/p/law-enforc...

#parents are happy about countries setting age limits for being on social media. They shouldn't. Here I explain why, while #socialmedia ARE certainly bad for kids… bans are dangerous, kids have bigger enemies online and the solution, luckily, is real simple: mfioretti.substack.com/p/dear-paren...

LoRaWAN adoption is accelerating in smart buildings and facility management “We are building the fourth pillar of the wireless communication industry,” Alper YEGIN, CEO of the LoRa Alliance, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4134...

My farewell to #america , because... "The same #US which I’ve liked a lot for decades is doing all it can to make me wish for a world where I can FINALLY ignore, if not their actual existence, at least everything they trouble themselves with at home" mfioretti.substack.com/p/my-farewel...

WHY does no expert of #cyberbullying and the other #childhood #mentalhealth issues caused by #socialmedia never mention the simpler, cheaper and most effective solution? #Parents, are you really that scared to adopt it? mfioretti.substack.c...

Me, the Oracle. #mastodon says so, so it must be true. Kidding of course. But thanks #fediverse for your interest in my writing, and for sharing it as much as you can: mfioretti.substack.com/archive

Here's some help to keep your quest for a better future alive: a list of 12 things that may seem part of the very fabric of reality today,, but I feel will disappear, or become unrecognizable to people of 2025... soon. Possibly very, very soon mfioretti.substack.c...

Just published on FOSS Force: From Brussels to Bengaluru: Amanda Brock on AI Openness and Digital Sovereignty

Investors, I beg you: divest from #AI NOW Make the damned bubble pop now, please. The sooner the better (especially if you are a #pensions fund...). mfioretti.substack.com/p/please-mak...

"Tension around #AI is getting to people. Smart people like Marco Fioretti are impatient for the crash. They want to see the whole AI stock complex fail" Dana Blankenhorn, on “cauterization” of OpenAI: danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/cauterizin... (my post: mfioretti.substack.com/p/please-mak...)

Those who hate #universalBasicIncome should be its first advocates instead Seriously. It's tragic how many people with a sincere, serious hard work ethic don't get that UBI would be their best ally. Please help all hard workers to see the light:

Just noticed that U. Haque and I are saying basically the same thing about #AI "AI is bad because it is just peak #capitalism" see mfioretti.substack.com/p/i-thought-... and www.theissue.io/why-americas...

"I gave my family a second chance with a clone of our beloved dog" with the “science of keeping love alive.” No, you just tried to normalize the concept that life and love are just other products to sell www.persuasion.community/p/attack-of-...

“We are committed to #robotics and advanced manufacturing because they are central to bringing critical production back to the United States.” Production. NOT #jobs Of course: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

you don’t have to find and see other humans online only in the one, brain-rot way the big web companies want. Make Search Great Again, it's easier than it seems: mfioretti.substack.com/p/make-searc...

"EU hire ~60K ppl. Just retraining them would take 10+ years" Retraining... to change office suites, which stopped being "new technologies" 20yrs ago??? Ppl demanding retraining to go MS Office -> LibreOffice (or the opposite) in 2025 should be ashamed of themselves.

I thought I'd despise this #AI strategy. Then I discovered I really like it. Tell your politicians to implement it: mfioretti.substack.com/p/i-thought-...

Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization. www.networkworld.com/article/4099... @networkworld.bsky.social

The 10 biggest errors of our time add yours, of course. mfioretti.substack.c...

More evidence that, as I recently said (1) universal access to #AI chatbots should end: "chatbot encouraged the 23-year-old to [stay alone]" eventually leading him to suicide: techcrunch.com/2025/... (1) mfioretti.substack.c...

This Californian gubernatorial candidate is either mad, or a conscious joke:

"Unrestricted access to #AI should be EARNED, not given away like candies or alcohol to Native Americans. Earned by merit and hard real #work, of course, not #money." mfioretti.substack.c...

Sell all your #AI stocks NOW, and above all: force your #PENSION fund to do the same:

here is another "unavoidable" tech rollout that, just like #AI, should NOT happen: 6G telecom networks WHY go for another repetition of #5G "disenfranchisement" and lack of "REAL revenue gains for operators"? WHY? www.idtechex.com/ema...#AI,#5G

The #AI bubble WILL pop soon. That's obvious, but... The sooner, the better, so PLEASE accelerate it. Divest from all #AI (and #IoT) investments NOW mfioretti.substack.c...

Really happy that a co-founder of #nextcloud finds my proposal for a personal, permanent cloud to free everybody from #social media "a sound principle". Pls join the discussion on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pos... or at the original post: mfioretti.substack.c...

Sick of #socialmedia? Listen to Sherlock Holmes then. That is, since all the other ways have failed, let's try to push THIS saner way to be online: mfioretti.substack.com/p/sick-of-so...

50 yrs ago, #overpopulation WAS a problem. Today, in most places, the OPPOSITE is true, and this how to fix it: 1) it's not #women, it's men AND women 2) respect choice AND.... 3) instead of giving pennies to have ONE baby, do THIS: mfioretti.substack.c...#overpopulation#women,#fertility #family #parenting

it's half funny, half appalling how much Americans make everything about voting ridiculously hard, see

#AI is a #religion. Seriously. Medieval heretics were much smarter, much more sincere and much less greedy too. But AI **is** a really lousy, really childish medieval religion, and it's really easy to see it: mfioretti.substack.c...#AI#religion.

The consumer internet of things is just the third wave of unrecyclable trash dumped on poorer countries, after regular electronics and secondhand clothing. #IoT #fastfashion

Why on Earth are schools still using the WRONG office automation software? WHY on Earth are they using #Microsoft Office?

from #dating to #bullshitJobs, #inequality and #Architecture... read me to find the right questions for which you should find your right answers: mfioretti.substack.c... mfioretti.com/endors...

Easy question: Why did Consumer #IoT Went Off the Rails? Hard question: why oh why are you still using it? Why, why are you still lured by falsely #smarthomes ?

One of the most important steps toward digital freedom is also the easiest: demand to produce and receive office file ONLY in the right format... which is NOT #Microsoft Office:

Digital sovereignty begins with the simple things that are everywhere. And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right

Just published on FOSS Force: Percona’s New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left fossforce.com/2025/10/perc...

If some offices in #Austria's government are "running into incompatible document format problems" they should only blame #Microsoft for not being compatible with ODF: fossforce.com/2025/1...

every time people (especially #freesoftware advocates!)... use #opensource software to produce or accept files in proprietary formats they HURT themselves and legitimize #Microsoft’s dominance, all for no reason. Especially because the real solution just got even better: