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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."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

Donald Trump Jr. is who yall thought Hunter Biden was

[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.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[Veronica Turbay @VeronicaTurbay]

I miss when our govt was boring AF.

Some people be like: “wHy aRe yOu sO pOlitICaL”

Biiiiiiiiiittttttcccchhhhh! DO YOU HAVE EARS AND EYEBALLS!!!!??!

We are in the middle of a history book that future generations will find hard to believe.

We are all under-reacting. 🫢

[S M @Fadethefades]

@Wisco_diva Or if I wave you in when you are trying to change lanes. I hope there have been lots of stubbed toes for those folks that didnt wave

[Emmy 💖👑 @Wisco_diva]

I know just the man for the job

[Cleo Leone @CleoneMpls]

‼️ *DANGEROUS CLIENT ALERT MINNEAPOLIS* ‼️

disgusting trash human paid me with fake bills yesterday and ran out the door. He’s also pretending to be providers for fake references and scamming! I have his photo DM for more info and always count your cash 🚨🚨

[S M @Fadethefades]

@EsmeeLaurent Should I be keeping my fingers crossed for you to make your flight or for you to spend the night here and hopefully feel rested and refreahed tomorrow?

Instructions are unclear 😂

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

Hey, so, fuck this for real.

[S M @Fadethefades]

@thenatalia_c Not yet, but thanks for helping check my vision.

[S M @Fadethefades]

@emmagraffny

[S M @Fadethefades]

@date_aubrey 1 vote!

[S M @Fadethefades]

@SophieRoseXoo If you find yourself with any free time the riverwalk is amazing, especially in this weather!

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.

[S M @Fadethefades]

@VeronicaTurbay Haha well that sounds way more fun than just watching a movie!

[S M @Fadethefades]

@VeronicaTurbay What did you choose?

[S M @Fadethefades]

@TheMaineWonk This has been around for years. It used to be $6 though