Like I want y’all to recognize THIS is why your favorite local businesses close. Their business can be just as good as it’s been for years but it just takes a landlord to say I’m doubling your rent for no reason and that’s that. Everything is wrong with capitalism
Every year I try to think of something insightful or empowering to post on the anniversary of the worst night of my life and so many others, but I don’t think anything I could say would send the message better than this photo I took last night at 2am, exactly ten years later.
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.
They’re taking away healthcare. AI is stealing jobs. Corporations are allowed to poison food and water again. They’re slashing education. They’re starting endless wars in multiple countries. He’s using our money to build a ballroom. He’s manipulating the market. They’re dividing the country even more with a gerrymandering war. He is taking bribes in broad daylight. And they still haven’t released the full Epstein files. This is objectively the worst and most corrupt administration in history.
I just want to point out....
The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.
this is probably going to cost them a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction but it cements their legacy as one of the all-time greats as far as I am concerned
George W. Bush: “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf… And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
unemployment sucks til it’s the first 70 degree day in NYC & i’m prancing around in the sun, seeing the most beautiful subway stops imaginable, sipping on a strawberry matcha, exploring different parts of the city, and reminiscing about Challengers. then it’s not so bad