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You weren’t born to be perfect, You were born to be you. ✱ ✱ ✱

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

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.

[SpiralFlip @SpiralFlip]

I would not wish having to reinstall all your plug-ins on my worst enemy

[Z @BrianZisook]

There’s no single formula, but these are my best practices for 5-year artist growth:

1. Get better at your craft

2. Build a catalog (release songs!)

3. Develop your sound, brand, & overall aesthetic

4. Find your audience

5. Own that audience (first party data)

[♟ @MexikoDro4]

Nigga stop lettin bullshit hold you back

[Melz @flyboiidotcom]

it’s a war on people with the light still in their eyes

stay vigilant

[Hustlanani @hustlanani]

You really cannot get caught up in how you’re perceived

[Z @BrianZisook]

Teasers and snippets work best when there’s an audience already in place to retain. These are fans who are hungry for something, anything from you. For unknown artists, you can’t retain what you don’t already have. Release the full song and market what’s available.

[rosewither / !CIBO! @rosew1ther]

this is what i really mean when i say like just have fun with your mix at the end of the day because the avg listener is doing bullshit like this lol

[Heinox @heinox64428]

Daily reminder that racists hate you because you're Black, not because of "muh behavior." They'll hate you no matter what. Internalize this, and never tapdance.

[Ben Mwaba, PEIZ @mwaba_ben]

One thing about adulthood that way too many people learn way too late (and have no choice but to learn the hard way): you have to be deliberate/proactive about everything. For the first time in your life, you can't be passive participant in anything.

[ghostman 💻 @BULLETSYMPHONY]

feels like the internet is on its last legs for regular users. they don’t want you posting anonymously, they don’t want you searching, they don’t want you jerking off. the ideal user of the new internet is the “grok is this true?” guys

[Dr. Corn Goblin, DVM #FreePalestine #AbolishICE @DadintheLand]

@tufpraise

[black @6LACK]

to every artist/person out there, your life & career will hardly ever just be vertical, and the purpose of art goes beyond charts, sales, analytics, algorithms. this shit has its natural & unnatural ups & downs, but the best thing you can do is create things that are honest, so that you never look back & have regrets. everyday you’re breathing you get an opportunity to reintroduce yourself & put something meaningful out into the world. do the work. have fun doing it. everything else is a bonus.

[Kwame Offei @realKwameOffei]

A slave's attempt to flee slavery was once considered a mental illness.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Whether you like it or not, if you’re an artist trying to make money off your music, you're a brand. Every brand needs an aesthetic that communicates the world they’re building. Can’t have one without the other.

[highFashion @rahman_jago_]

Don’t forget to overthink the best case scenario too.

[N. @Nlacombe_]

you’re 22. you scroll 3 hours a day. it feels harmless

at 28 you can’t read an article without checking your phone twice per paragraph

at 32 you don’t understand why nothing you start ever finishes, you’re still dreaming of this project you wanted to start. still no time

at 40 you’ve never finished a book in a decade.

it all passed

[Cystic @CysticOfficial]

everyone still thinks Dr Dre is going to find their dusty demo online and “see the potential” to sign them on the spot lol

buddy, labels are not handing out million dollar deals no more and they def not developing artists from scratch now.

YOU the label now, them days is gone.

[cyrus 🦋 @spottedscourge]

yall please take care of your health bc i'm studying to be in the medical field and i am the only student in my class who doesn't use chatgpt 😭