Walked down the aisle wrapped in my husband’s family heritage finery with happy tears in our eyes + the tune of Dario Marianelli’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) chamber piece, a moment after we tied the knot. 🥹👰🏻♀️
How will we remember this decade?
Electronic music has never been more abundant. Yet, unusually, no new sound has fully broken through into a movement.
Across two essays, we examine the forces fragmenting the landscape and swaying taste: inflation, exhaustion, a broken internet and generational disconnect.
Where will the culture be by 2030?
Read There Is No Sound of the 2020s. Yet now: https://t.co/Dz8yZDOqi9
In France, if you're junior and you go into the office wearing brown shoes, they'll say "who do you think you are, Macron?!" because Macron did this when he was an intern at Rothschild, and French bankers do not forget sartorial faux pas.
@CFCFmusic More of a gentle clarity extraterrestrial-like silent sleep therapy muzak (non derogatory) for me. Brought deep & immense peace for my nights on school days
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.
I hope Indonesians here have:
1. Radicalised themselves enough to argue against the fallacy of NGO's and the folly of western aid.
2. Know the character of Prabowo as a CIA-puppet that's being pressured, just like Soeharto during the late 80's.
3. Are competent enough to-