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[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Alex 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.

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

I hate when my boss gives me tasks like please go get some hoes man lol

[turbomander @turbomander]

imagine a fish smoking a cigarette. looks natural, no? ah, but alas, they cannot do so underwater. such is the way of life. a cruel mistress, she is

[Buck @Buck36043Buck]

I would never kill any birds let alone Two with A Stone

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

France made this wastefulness illegal cause it’s cruel and only causes more waste issues. Any food market or restaurant over 400 square meters has to donate all their good unsold food to charities and are fined if they do anything like this. That law should be applied everywhere

[turd @goonageddon]

my broke buddy got twins on the way and he hit a $400 parlay the other night and ordered a parrot online

[cee @1ovesickkk]

no fucking way the only way out is through

[** @bigguccicraigy]

spirit deadass shutdown while we was in midair we had to jump out the plane like fortnite

[serena @tranquil_orb]

drinking tea with honey always feels a little unreal. when you think about it, i’m sipping something that used to be sunlight and flowers

[bean smoothie™ @beansm00thie]

plan A is to lock in, plan B is to blow my shit smoove off

[masha @masha_slp]

When you realize that routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself and your dreams they become much easier to follow

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Priorities

[pinkie pie @pinkiepie71]

how do people do this for 70 years

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

this tumblr post being one of the greatest contributions to modern philosophy

[n @onlywithn]

everything is about love. and when it isn’t, it’s about the absence of it

[hunter @3gpmh]

forgive me karl marx for i have bought

[mo :3 @fruitpibble]

computa help me

[Nightbloom @Nightbloomc]

"We were destined to meet."