Obama got emotional in a recent interview recalling how he used to read letters from Americans all over the country.
And then I got emotional remembering how presidents used to be able to read.
27 years old.
Fully paid off Chipotle bowl (with queso)
It's not "parents money".
It's not luck.
It's persistence. It's grit. It's discipline.
I wake up every morning and grind to live this lifestyle.
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.
AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.
Boomers five years ago: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY IMAGE OR POSTS BEING USED BY MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR META, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, OR WHATSAPP TO SELL MY DATA. Like and share if you agree!”
Boomers today, for some reason: “hey I just uploaded all your baby pictures to ChatGPT and you and all your cousins look like penguins isn’t this cute I’m uploading all the grandkids next”
Overheard a couple quietly bickering in Target. The woman goes, “Jason, I don’t have time for your shenanigans right now,” and I glanced over to see that Jason was wearing a T-shirt that said “they hate to see a silly goose winning” 🪿
Ethan Hunt (hanging off the side of a helicopter): talk to me, Luther
Ving Rhames: Ethan, I’m on Hentai Paradise dot net… they got some cool ass shit here
Take whatever wife slapper Dana White has to say about men’s mental health, ignore it, then listen to what an actual man like Macho Man Randy Savage says regarding handling male emotions
When I asked Sally Field about her memories of working with Robin Williams on MRS. DOUBTFIRE, I never expected to learn that she’s a MASSIVE fan of ZELDA!