Ross Fike

Currently “bearing it” and by “it” I mean The Curse.

[Oleksandr 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.

[Ross Fike @_beanpot_]

Gonna give this bottle a quality education! @lthomasnews @BCampbell @MainCardMinute

[Lukas (computer) (In SF) 🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Biggest "the kids are fucked" moment I've had recently was buying a car

Walked into the dealership, told them what I wanted and said I'd pay up-front. Expected them to be thrilled

Instead they were horrified. Spent the next 20 minutes trying to get me to finance it at some absurd rate

Got me curious so after I left I read about car sale profit models. Apparently most US dealerships make more financing now than from the cars themselves

I was such a boomer I assumed they'd want CASH

In reality they want your ETERNAL SLAVERY at 19% APR

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

I'm a 58-year-old retired roofer from Zanesville, OH who has no relationship with his children and has been banned from 4 separate Chili's locations for berating staff, and I have deep concerns about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, a place I have never been.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Norwegian tourist, 21, refused entry to U.S. and deported after ICE finds JD Vance meme on phone — Daily Mail

[Ross Fike @_beanpot_]

I don’t call her honey because she is sweet. I call her honey because she reminds me of the Huns. She was meant for the steppes. She is boundless. She is innumerable. She was built for conquest.

[Ross Fike @_beanpot_]

I know a guy just like this. Creature focused.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

It is fucking wild how quickly the party of free speech immediately started persecuting people for thoughtcrime

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

The target he’s bragging about eliminating was a 2 year old boy

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Bill Burr refuses the media bait:

"You journalists need to get your balls back"

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

Two years ago I was an unknown union mechanic in Nebraska. Then I ran for US Senate. We shocked everyone and got 47%.

Multi-billionaire Pete Ricketts is Nebraska's other Senator. He's up next year. We could replace a billionaire with a mechanic.

Thread 🧵

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this?

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch

https://t.co/gPGrShE2dk

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian here:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

I cannot tell you how much it infuriates me to see this unelected billionaire knowingly smear arguably our most important social program -- Social Security keeps two-thirds of our elderly out of poverty, able to eat, pay their bills, etc -- to an audience of millions. Unchecked.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Elon Musk, the richest man alive, worth $359.4 billion, wants you to work until you drop dead. Social Security was signed into law 90 years ago. It has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American on time for 86 years & lifts over 20 million people out of poverty a year.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

i bought the bulk organic orange juice at costco two weeks ago for $12.99 for a gallon.

today that same bulk organic orange juice is $8.99 for a gallon. i got rugged on orange juice.

i got RUGGED on fucking ORANGE JUICE