Colin Hoag

Recovering student. I protect and conserve, hunt and gather, build and repair, dream and act. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

[Frank Graves @VoiceOfFranky]

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

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.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We are in capitalism’s final stage, where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It now consumes public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.

[krista @kristabellerina]

The older I get, the more appealing back roads become so I can avoid other drivers.

[Colin Hoag @C_Hoag]

@TimHortons @NoBeehaviour Your ice cap machine is always broken. Fix your shit.

[Neet @neet_sol]

9-5 work is so performative. writing novels on Linkedin about how you’re “honoured” to work there. playing dress up to sit inside a cubicle all day. bringing your laptop that’s already at home 45 minutes away to the office

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

being surprised when young people don’t like capitalism is like being surprised when someone hates Monopoly after you only let them join for the last 10% of the game

[St. Wilding Gyres @wilding_gyres]

This is the most artfully constructed and well-planned humiliation I have ever seen.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you call off sick, you are not leaving your coworkers short staffed. Your boss did that. They refused to hire enough employees, refused to plan for sick days, and refused to account for basic human needs in their calculations. That is not your fault. You deserve sick days.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Idea: An anonymous “vote to end meeting” button on Teams where if 50% of people press it, the meeting ends immediately.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Feeling safe from the hantavirus due to my longstanding policy of never interacting with anyone who would go on a cruise.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

Corporate Confession: I get a rush of joy every time a meeting gets canceled. It’s my version of winning the lottery.

[💫𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸💫🪐 @Demo4fhs]

Remote work didn’t make people lazy… it made them realize commuting, small talk, and office politics were the real time thieves

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

whenever I buy food now it’s $17 and I’m like “okay that’s fine.” but privately it is not fine.

[Elizabeth @beefington420]

An underrated quality I desire in my salad is for it to be extremely forkable. Takes a fork like no problem

[Andy Smarick @smarick]

In 10 years, we'll realize young adults can't read, write, or think as well as they should. We'll wonder how we allowed students to offload huge chunks of their learning to AI. Today we're just watching it happen. This is the most obvious unforced error of our time.

[Neet @neet_sol]

The reason 9-5 offices are so cold is because you’re surrounded by the ghosts of people’s dead hopes and dreams

[Paranoid Humanoid @DRodbone]

It's almost like there's a connection between the two things. 🤷

[Colin Hoag @C_Hoag]

If Carney comes out today bragging about lowering the federal deficit while people still can’t afford groceries, he’s missing the point. I care more about whether Canadians can eat than whether Ottawa’s spreadsheet looks prettier.