Marco Fioretti

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:

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Too few jobs and too many people? Naah Those may well be the two biggest misunderstanding of our age.

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:

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#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:

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‘Smart’ Gadgets, Dumb Ideas: Why Consumer IoT Went Off the Rails - FOSS Force From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why “smart” tech is off the rails.

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

We Asked LibreOffice and Collabora: Why Aren’t They in Schools Instead of Word and Google Docs? - FOSS Force We ask LibreOffice and Collabora why their software isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.

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:

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‘Smart’ Gadgets, Dumb Ideas: Why Consumer IoT Went Off the Rails - FOSS Force From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why “smart” tech is off the rails.

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 ?

ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.

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:

ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.

Digital sovereignty begins with the simple things that are everywhere.

And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right

Percona's New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left - FOSS Force In an exclusive conversation, newly minted Percona CEO Peter Farkas explains why the company’s open source-first approach still works -- and how he plans to build on it across global teams and new database...

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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:

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ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.

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:

ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.

Q: what is the 1st thing @ZohranKMamdani should do on the digital front now that he's #newyork major?

A: Exploit the release of ODF1.4 to make really open digital documents mandatory in the city administration, of course:

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the real reason why Microsoft could establish and maintain an almost total monopoly on desktop computers for decades is NOT software licenses.

It's people ignoring OpenDocument. Now they have even less excuses to do it:

Even @zoltan_istvan gets #AI and #UBI backwards.

In a half funny, all sad way:

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"#Meta is planning to raise $25bn from a bond sale to help it pay for soaring #AI costs..."

I so hope they don't get that money... A reality check is sorely overdue there.

Please please please don't buy those bond. Please

Human extermination “by #AI” can only come in ONE way:

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Best piece of dry humour I've seen this year:

"could"

No petroleum and minerals? No problem The real problem is not scarcity of oil and minerals. It's ignoring it

The real problem is not scarcity of oil and minerals. It's ignoring it

Honestly, THE problem with children online is PARENTS Namely, parents that will continue to ignore the only real solution.

Honestly, THE problem with children online with #smartphones is #PARENTS who will continue to ignore the only real solution, which also saves money, simply because it would make them look backwards and uncool:

What haters of #15minutescities get REALLY wrong:

Nobody needs to put you in a "15 minutes prison"

Get real, already, and demand decent cities:

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[to win] @AOC @BernieSanders & @ZohranKMamdani should have a "vision where the enormous wealth generated from #AI helps solve the struggles of working-class families"?

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Me: here, help yourself:

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Grokipedia has just been released. A large language model generates entries, and the result is presented as a more "neutral" alternative to Wikipedia. But neutrality is not the central issue. What… | Walter Quattrociocchi | 16 comments Grokipedia has just been released. A large language model generates entries, and the result is presented as a more "neutral" alternative to Wikipedia. But neutrality is not the central issue. What matters is the structure that enables, shapes and legitimizes what we call knowledge. Two intertwined transformations are taking place. The first is infrastructural. Social media environments are evolving into ideologically coherent systems. They no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them. These are what we define as echo platforms: ecosystems that reinforce belief rather than promote exposure, and that select not only content but worldviews. The second is epistemic. Language models are increasingly embedded into evaluative processes: moderation, ranking, recommendation, classification. They produce outputs that appear aligned with human judgment, but the underlying process is statistical, not normative. Coherence replaces verification. Fluency mimics understanding. This is the condition we term epistemia: the illusion of knowledge that emerges when plausibility substitutes reasoning. We explored both dimensions in two recent papers: "The Simulation of Judgment in LLMs" (PNAS, 2025) https://lnkd.in/d8YVan-C "Ideological Fragmentation of the Social Media Ecosystem" (PNAS Nexus, 2025) https://lnkd.in/dFd__uga What is at stake is not just the quality of information, but the very criteria by which it is produced, assessed and believed. This is not a technological shift. It is a cognitive one. | 16 comments on LinkedIn

just found a GREAT confirmation:

"#Socialmedia... no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them."
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of what I thought about #AI vs voting:

"#democracy may end.. bc [social media & AI] make much harder to CHANGE any idea one already had"

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can you find commentary on #dating, #nuclearpower, #innovation, #UBI, #parenting, 15 minutes cities and more... all in the same place?

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Famous climate scientist proves me right about online publishing Don't shoot yourself in the foot. Publish smartly

The dumbest thing anyone can do (including "expert communicators") is to publish anything first, or only, on ANY social media:

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Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade

RSS, Not Algorithms: How Open Source Tech Can Reclaim Reliable News - FOSS Force When news disappears from search results and social media favors polarization, RSS keeps you in touch with news sources you trust.

Let’s face it: as things stand now, VERY little will change about disinformation, socio-political polarization, and democracy in general unless more people go Back To The Future Of News, that is... RSS, of course:

information that really wants to be free needs #RSS, and RSS users. That’s all that matters.

Please free everybody you can from the cage of time-wasting fake “information” by giving them an #opensource RSS reader:

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DO a favour to your mental health, NOW. Start getting news the right way, already. And tell everybody else to do the same.

"He chose #Paypal because he was convinced that they would take care of problems..."

Can anybody help this guy? It could happen to every online store...

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