The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the People’s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda.
The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
we can all agree ads on Grindr are a pest but getting a temu ad for a trash can right after leaving someone's profile? divine intervention and simultaneously funny as shit
Merz ist der Kanzler, den Deutschland verdient hat und der mit seinen Eigenschaften auch Deutschland
repräsentiert, wie kaum jemand anders: verzagt, mutlos, engstirnig, aber gleichzeitig überheblich,
weinerlich und mit dem Kopf Jahrzehnte in der Vergangenheit hängen geblieben....
Dieser Mann ist wirklich mit Abstand die größte Schande die dieses Land seit Gründung der BRD regiert hat. Mit jeder Faser meines Körpers verabscheue ich ihn
Something we dont shout out enough about the comic:
Even when it started getting published, Alice never stopped publishing everything online, for free. By doing that, they allowed queer people in unsafe households to follow the story without buying the physical books 🧡
HOME.
The Artemis II crew has arrived back on Earth, ending a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon. The trip took them farther into space than humans have ever gone before, and now they're safely home with us.
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