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.
The reason why you still see goods made in the Soviet Union or other socialist states like Yugoslavia in circulation is that they were made to last and not to increase some capitalist's profits through planned obsolescence.
@hexprax Right-wingers love to be like "oh you think patriarchy is bad for women? Actually patriarchy is even worse for men... No we don't want to change anything about that."
Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
🚨 OUT TODAY: Public figures, elected officials, artists & orgs—incl. 22 NYC Council Members, Mark Ruffalo, Kal Penn, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, & others—have signed a Call to Conscience demanding an end to Trump’s assault on Cuba.
Sign on now: https://t.co/4rnlkebqn4
First Statement by Venezuelan Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino López:
The Bolivarian National Armed Forces inform the world that in the early hours of today, January 3, 2026, the Venezuelan people have been the target of the most criminal military aggression by the U.S. government.
Missiles and explosives were launched from U.S. helicopters and aircraft. Civilian areas were hit. We are currently tallying the casualties.
Wow, DOGE uncovered evidence of a single African immigrant who received over $38 BILLION from the United States Government over the last ten years. I can't wait to find out who it was
Huge announcement! After 7 years of building a home for the people, we are taking a bold next step to secure our future: we bought a building in NYC. Now we need your help to raise $2mil to make it a permanent home for the movement. Read more & donate: https://t.co/wKW7ZRGnwP
At least 10,000 in St. Louis, Missouri have taken the streets in the pouring rain for No Kings Day to send a clear message to Trump and his billionaire administration — the people united will never be defeated!
jeffrey goldberg refusing to dump all the text messages in the houthi signal chat is exactly why the natsec advisor had his personal phone number. it is precisely the problem w/ fake "journalists" at legacy publishers. they're stenographers for the state dept.
Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵
you're not getting put into a camp. there are groups who are in real danger of getting put into camps and they're sleeping on benches and under awnings, and you're not gonna say much of anything when they're carried away.