Big piece on how to live without a smartphone, dropping in the next few days.
Exact steps and workarounds.
Just a reminder, from a few weeks ago:
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/the-masses-will-soon-believe-in-ufos
The masses will soon believe in UFOs
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/the-masses-will-soon-believe-in-ufos
The Apple #VisionPro is not an accessory. It’s a full-blown replacement for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Watches and AirPods.
Vision Pro is the be-all-end-all of consumer technology.
Speaking of which, let me ask you this:
What has consumer technology done for us that is so great? Have their products made us healthier, happier, or wealthier than our grand-parents?
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/apples-vision-for-humanity-a-5-year
The Vision Pro announcement carries a lot of predictive power.
How will the world look like when Vision Pro replaces iPhones and MacBooks within 5 years?
What can we do to avoid that dystopian world?
Big piece dropping in the next few days. Subscribe to get it.
Apple already has best-selling AR hardware. It's included in all their recent iPhones and iPads.
What do you think those LIDARs were for? I mean, come on, they even have a dedicated AR page on their website.
Hollywood has a pet peeve; a thorn on their side; something that’s been bothering them for decades.
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/hollywood-wants-you-to-be-an-atheist
Wealth is measure by our capacity to meet our own needs.
If a transaction robs you of that ability, you need to add the cost of that loss to the seemingly low monetary cost.
Example:
Food delivery is deceptively cheap. Of course, it carries a health cost but it also exacts a penalty on our ability to feed ourselves.
Because the habit of relying on others to conveniently spoon feed us is akin to muscle atrophy.
AI is *not* a decentralizing force.
AI guts the middle class -- employers and workers alike.
The only cohort that benefits is a handful of AI companies at the very top.
AI benefits the 1%, at the expense of everyone else. Again.
Nobody can stop AI now. Except farmers.
My latest piece:
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/nobody-can-stop-ai-now-except-farmers
Thoughts on Molly.im?
Only caveat I can think of is the reduced anon set, i.e. there are fewer people using official Signal than the Molly fork.
Businesses start degenerating at the exact moment they hire their first HR person.
Once a country is fully developed, information workers are not needed anymore. You can then deploy ChatGPT and have the newly-anointed “useless class” beg for UBI and CBDC.
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/nobody-can-stop-ai-now-except-farmers
Virtue signaling is what happens when the money trail is obscured.
Don't tell me how virtuous you are. Show me where your funding is coming from.
In the West, it is "cow farts" from beef cattle.
In the East, it is "PM2.5" from burning rice fields.
All those narratives have the same goal: Demonize farming. Starve millions.