My USMNT starting 11 if our athletes played soccer since birth
4-3-3
ST: Mike Vick
RW: Odell Beckham Jr.
LW: Tyreek Hill
CM: Allen Iverson
CM: Antonio Brown
CDM: Mookie Betts
LB: Russell Westbrook
CB: Calvin Johnson
CB: Jalen Ramsey
RB: Anthony Edwards
GK: LeBron James
***using actual soccer players not allowed here
The Blueprint 3 is Jay Z adjusting to a post Graduation world of hip hop. It wasn’t just him though.
From like 2007-2011, all major labels were pushing their rap artists to go towards that crossover style.
You can see it in Tha Carter III, Thank Me Later, Lasers, Recovery… etc
> seja o Niko Bellic
> nasce na Iugoslávia, pai bêbado e abusivo
> casa sem luz até os 12 anos
> guerra dos Bálcãs explode
> Niko tem 13 anos
> irmão morre no conflito
> Niko se alista mesmo assim
> pelotão de 15 homens é emboscado
> 12 morrem na hora
> alguém vendeu a posição do grupo
> Niko passa anos querendo saber quem foi
> guerra acaba
> país destruído, sem emprego, sem futuro
> cai no crime, vai preso, trabalha pro tráfico
> barco afunda no Adriático, o chefe russo quer sua cabeça
> primo Roman manda e-mail da América
> "tenho mansão, carros, mulheres, vem pra cá"
> Niko embarca num cargueiro como marinheiro
> passa meses no mar
> chega em Liberty City com apenas uma mochila
> e uma lista com dois nomes
GTA IV tem o melhor protagonista da história da franquia e não é discussão
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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.