Libra Digital

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

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.

[MC HAMMER e/acc @MCHammer]

Thank you for the beautiful fun times !!!
RIP Rob Base 🔥🕺🏾 1,2,3 Get Loose 🚀

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[STAYGROUNDEAD TV @staygroundeadtv]

Erik Brunetti of FUCT speaks on the current state of the streetwear industry

[Son Raw @SonRaw]

Bob Power's mixes reconciled the sparseness of rap's drum machine era to the grit of newer sample-based production while elevating the material with a respect and care that most didn't bother with. True legend.

[Libra Digital @tenacious_deee]

@Nore_MCC

[The Art of Sampling @Art_of_Sampling]

Imagine being in the studio and hearing this new beat by RZA…

Look at the focus of Inspectah Deck. GZA’s vibing, trying to come up something.

But Inspectah Deck is mesmerized, already LOCKED IN… He has no idea yet what he’s about to create; that’s he’s about to be a part of hip hop history!
But you can see it in his face what he *feels listening to this beat…

And just like that “C.R.E.A.M.”, one of Wu-Tang Clan’s most iconic songs, one of hip hop/rap music’s
most important classics, was born…

[Akram 3000⭐⭐ @A_tothe_K]

Je lis bcp de bêtises concernant Chad Hugo depuis hier. Il est indéniable que le génie de The Neptunes c'est lui

Je vous repartage une de mes vidéos préférées all Time où il explique à sa façon la conception du beat de Grindin des Clipse

Légendaire

[Libra Digital @tenacious_deee]

@robpursey Post the track list side

[Crate 808 @Crate808]

DJ Premier and Alchemist tearing it down in London, bringing out Common for New York State of Mind 🔥

[THE GODMUTHA ✦ @THEG0DMUTHA]

Ghostface left earth on this verse 😮‍💨

[Mike 🪂⛷️ @Mickey5232000]

Schoolboy Q and The Alchemist 🌌

[VERZUZ TV @verzuzonline]

We had the honor to celebrate this hero one night only on VERZUZ. The VERZUZ family would like to send our condolences to the entire family and friends of the Iconic D’Angelo 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[Powered by the Culture @poweredbculture]

Angie Stone and D’Angelo co-wrote ‘Send It On,’ inspired by their newborn son, Michael. Rest in peace to both.

[Nile Rodgers @nilerodgers]

My friend Gary Harris brought this musician named D'Angelo over to my NYC apt. He was trying to figure out what to do with the music he'd brought with him. I listened to every cut...not just out of respect but because it was smoking. At the end of the encounter he asked me, "What should I do with it?"

I remember this as if it were yesterday. I said, "Put it out. It's perfect!" Being the #artist he is, I guess he had to explore some ways to make it better.

About a year later I heard one of those songs on the radio. It was #genius and it was exactly what he had played for me. I know...I still have the original cassette. ~Nile Rodgers❤️🙏🏾✊🏾

[The Hip Hop Museum @thhmuseum]

On this day in 1992, Nas dropped his first official single “Halftime,” the song that introduced the world to Nasty Nas and set the stage for Illmatic.

With razor-sharp rhymes over Large Professor’s production, Nas made his arrival clear: a 19-year-old from Queensbridge ready

[THE ALCHEMIST FAN @Alchemist_Fan]

You can hear the concentration in the room.

Havoc & Alchemist building what became “Taj Mahal.”

The kind of focus you can’t fake.

[First Class 🏁 @1DJFirstClass]

12 Years Ago Today, Nipsey Hussle Released His Eighth Solo Mixtape ‘Crenshaw’ Hosted By DJ Drama 🏁🕊️

[O.T.G @ParisEighty]

Street Talkin' · Slick Rick, Outkast · 1999