Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
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.
On May 4, The Washington Post won two Pulitzers. To stream the announcement live, the paper had to bring back two of the video operators it had laid off in February. Nobody left in the building could run the equipment. They walked past the new opinion studio on their way in.
The new opinion studio was built with $80,000 in video gear. Its flagship podcast has 515 YouTube subscribers after 186 videos and more than 20 episodes. Apple Podcasts users have given it 2.3 stars. The most positive review on record: "This is bad and the people making it should feel bad."
Dave Jorgenson, the journalist who built WaPo's TikTok presence, left last year. His personal YouTube channel now has 358,000 subscribers. The opinion podcast has 515. A former WaPo journalist working with a small team has built more than 600 times the audience of the flagship new show.
Bezos was warned by his own opinion editor that the rightward pivot would cost subscribers. His documented response, per the New York Times: "I don't care."
The piece's own summary is the only sentence needed: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He's funding the people who lose the subscribers."
"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. "
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El bisonte americano vuelve a asomarse en Sonora con la llegada de una nueva cría, convertida ya en símbolo de una larga batalla por la conservación de su especie
✒️@YisusGC
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Una ‘marea marrón’ de 40 millones de toneladas de sargazo: la @UNAM_MX vigila el Caribe con satélites y drones - Por @YisusGC (@el_pais).- El monitoreo del avance de las algas en las costas del sureste mexicano permite anticipar su impacto ecológico... https://t.co/0rsooRDADP
🔴 La Ciudad de México se hunde más rápido de lo que se pensaba, y por primera vez la NASA la observa desde el espacio con una claridad sin precedentes
🖋️ @YisusGC
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El 20 de abril, una fecha marcada: el tiroteo en Teotihuacán, el nacimiento de Hitler, la creación de la esvástica y la masacre de Columbine
Este día, en distintos años, ha registrado episodios de violencia y guerras
✍ @YisusGC
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🔴 La reforma penal busca frenar nuevas modalidades de amenaza y presión criminal, fortalecer castigos a quienes operan desde reclusorios o cargos públicos y ofrecer resguardo a comerciantes, microempresas y víctimas de violencia digital
🖋️ @YisusGC
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Se habla mucho de niños y móviles, pero lo de los vídeos cortos, plataformas y ancianos jubilados es un tema:
Aquí el ex editor del Wall Street Journal Steve Yoder y su esposa Karen explicando que su tiempo libre se desvanece en el scroll de videos en YouTube, Instagram y TikTok
Lo que explican: La adicción se intensifica en la jubilación porque no hay horarios ni responsabilidades que lo obliguen a despegarse del teléfono.
A pesar de haber prometido abandonar el hábito, pero reconocen que la voluntad no es suficiente.
En metro, autobús, la cola del médico y mil sitios más se puede ver. Hay un porcentaje altísimo de la ancianidad que vive dentro de una pantalla.
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BREAKING: GianPiero Lambiase will join McLaren once his existing contract at Red Bull Racing ends, no later than 2028
He will take on the role of Chief Racing Officer, reporting into Team Principal Andrea Stella
#F1
Kavak ha vendido autos con facturas
falsas y con reporte de robo. A los coches con problemas legales o técnicos internamente se les llama "autos cangrejo", según exempleados de la startup. Para que esto no salga a la luz, a algunos clientes les da "compensaciones" .🧵
@MarioMal
El @Uber_MEX es un fraude total. Pedí un Uber Black esperando un servicio premium, y me mandaron un coche igual de básico, de transmisión manual y reducido que un UberX. Es una estafa: te cobran más solo por la etiqueta, no por la calidad. Pagar más no garantiza absolutamente nada.