Trump is waiting because he knows what a short memory the public has. If he "wins" this war now, by the time the midterm elections come around it will be yesterday's news. Remember Bush Sr.'s 90% approval rating after he so decisively concluded 1991's Desert Storm? Clinton still skunked him with "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
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.
Jeff Bezos Responds to Seattle Officials After Leaving For Miami Over Wealth Tax Seattleโs political elite may have just received the most devastating financial reality check in modern city history after Jeff Bezos quietly confirmed that Washingtonโs aggressive new tax structure played a major role in his decision to flee to Florida, a move that reportedly saved the Amazon founder close to $1 billion while leaving Seattle staring at a collapsing revenue model built around billionaires who can leave faster than lawmakers can pass another tax bill. What makes the situation even more humiliating for city leaders is that Bezos did not scream, threaten, or launch some dramatic billionaire rebellion against Mayor Katie Wilson after she publicly laughed, waved โbye,โ and dismissed concerns about wealthy residents leaving the city. Instead, he simply ran the numbers, changed his address to Miami, sold billions in Amazon stock, and calmly pointed out that the tax revenue Washington expected from him no longer exists because he no longer lives there. โApparently, telling the richest man connected to your city that heโs irrelevant works slightly worse when he takes half your projected tax model with him.โ As Starbucks founder Howard Schultz escapes to a $44 million Florida penthouse, Amazon shifts workers out of Seattle, downtown vacancy rates explode, and lawmakers double down on even higher millionaire taxes despite a near 50% drop in capital gains revenue within a single year, critics are now warning that Seattle may have become the most terrifying live experiment in America showing what happens when ideological politics collides headfirst with economic math and the people funding the system quietly walk away.
โSeattleโs $1B mistake revealed ๐โ
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Hereโs Dr Zelenko teaching us how to treat Hantavirus back in 2022. This will be the most enlightening 2 minutes and 47 seconds of your life. Please listen carefully.
โ๏ธ Today in Utqiagvik (the northernmost city in the United States), the sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM and wonโt set again for 84 straight days or until August 2nd! Here's a look at a timelapse showing the sunset and sunrise this morning. #akwx
US ships move into the Strait under humanitarian escort authority. They get attacked. They respond in self-defense against the boats and missile sites that fired on them. And while they're responding, they also destroy IRGC revenue-generating infrastructure. Every engagement widens the target set under the same legal cover. The regime's export capacity is being dismantled one "self-defense response" at a time.
Most of us grew up seeing simplified diagrams of the Hubble Space Telescope and assumed the James Webb Space Telescope follows a similar path around Earth. In reality, it operates in a very different region of space. It is not orbiting our planet in the traditional sense but instead travels around a point about 1.5 million kilometers away known as the SunโEarth L2 point, keeping pace with Earth as both move around the Sun.
This location is often described as a gravitational balance point, but it is not truly stable or neutral. JWST does not sit still there; it follows a controlled orbit around L2 and requires periodic adjustments to stay on course. The result is a delicate, engineered dance between gravity and motion, where the telescope remains aligned with Earth while staying far from its heat and light, allowing it to observe the universe with extraordinary clarity.
50 years ago I read a book of George Bernard Shaw's reviews and essays on music and composers. I thought it was brilliant and I wished I could write and think half as well.
What a difference half a century makes.