so let me get this straight…
the us invested nearly half a trillion dollars into ai in 2025 and all we got was 17 billion gallons of water drained, hundreds of thousands of jobs deleted, and zero positive impact on society.
but yeah let’s keep going
“I remember touching one of the sows in those crates. She was red and big with fourteen piglets tussling off to the side. She flinched. I could feel a strange sense of horror deep inside me, but I pushed it down. I rested my hand on her back and, for one brief moment, she
This is wild.
143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.
Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.
Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.
Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.
The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.
She swam 1, 600 km carrying her calf's body so it wouldn't sink.
In 2018, Tahlequah, an orca known as J35, did something that left everyone speechless. Her calf died shortly after
birth, and for 17 days she caried its body throughout the Pacific. More than 1, 600kilometers. She had to dive again and again to retrieve it every time it sank, without eating or resting properly.
Scientists later confirmed it. This was not just animal instinct. It was real grief. And her entire pod did something extraordinary.They slowed their swimming pace to stay with her and shared food so she could keep going.
In the end, she let her calf go. Two years later, in 2020, she became a mother again.This time the baby was born healthy and they named it Phoenix. Today both of them are still swimming together in the Pacific.
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