Sudanis are surviving genocide, famine, displacement & 45 degree heat at the same time. Then the electricity cuts for hours. People are struggling to find food & water or even a way to cool down. I genuinely can’t think of another place facing this many overlapping crises at once
I interviewed Palestinian researcher Hala Hanina last year who introduced me to the term reprocide. Israel’s sexual torture is intended to destroy reproductive capacity and the ability for intimacy. Its deliberate nature makes it diabolical
Israel just bombed a building that Palestinian journalist Bisan owda was in
She’s okay and reporting on it. She said it’s the closest she’s ever been to a bombing.
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.