This is what I want from my best player.
Fuck shooting percentages.
Fuck all the analytics.
Give me the ball and let me decide the game.
You got some superstars who only take good shots (KD) and some who pass the buck to their role player opponents (you know who).
KOBE. LEBRON. WEMBY.
Victor Wembanyama joins Kobe Bryant in 2001 and LeBron James in 2007 as the only players this century to lead their team in scoring entering the Finals at 22 or younger 🤯
As Chris Rock said "If you've got 30 million and she takes 15, big deal. You ain't starving. If you make 20 thousand and she wants 10, you might have to kill her."
JD Vance just ended his presidential exploratory election committee. Now, his mentor, Peter Thiel, has fled the U.S., for right wing Argentina. But not before declaring that he might have overstated AI’s impact on society, particularly on employment.
Something bad is happening.
Kobe.
Steph.
Brunson.
Jalen Brunson joins Kobe Bryant (2001) and Steph Curry (2017) as the only players to put up 26+ PPG and 6+ APG during an 11-game win streak in a single postseason run 🔥
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.