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.
The western media tried so hard to push the narrative of the Ebola virus outbreak on Uganda, even after numerous attempts to set the record straight, but just like in the past, they thought we’d just swallow the pill and let allow their narrative .. but they didn’t know we have an Arsenal in @kasujja - His relentless push back via the media center encouraged other arms to join in .. I’ve never seen the Min of health nor the Min of foreign affairs X handles that active .. even the private sector joined in .. today the narrative is different.. they pushed with history we pushed back with facts and for that I want to say @UgandaMediaCent through your ED is Gumite 😎
We have witnessed the obscene accumulation of wealth - cars, mansions, designer clothes, lavish parties, and the brazen use of money to buy political power. financed through Parliament’s own budget, with the active complicity of many MPs.
Parliaments are meant to guard the public purse and to hold governments accountable. Ours has become a den of thieves, no longer a House of the People.
It is time to restructure Parliament, reduce its size and cost, tighten financial controls, and restore public trust.
#ATrustedParliament
@AgoraCFR@FOWODE_UGANDA@ccgea1
Now that the recent events in Uganda, including the police search of the speaker’s homes, have established, on the preponderance of evidence, that the anti-corruption protestors may have been right after all, we must discontinue all charges against these protestors, unconditionally release those in jail, and wipe the criminal records of those already convicted.
We will address the issue of acquiescent judicial officers in this matter at a later date. They will get their comeuppance, for sure. But if we are indeed serious, these young people should be applauded, not condemned, as they have been, as agents of foreigners, etc.
cc @ODPPUGANDA.
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GUESS WHO IS OPPOSING DANGOTE’s PROPOSAL TO BUILD A 1.2M BARRELS A DAY REFINERY IN EAST AFRICA (TANZANIA, KENYA AND D.R CONGO)
WORLD BANK and IMF. :
Their argument? it would give monopoly to one company over energy.
1) All the while, FRENCH refineries are in almost every oil producing countries in AFRICA.
2) No AFRICAN countries could get a loan to build a refinery larger than 400,000 barrels per day (one of the most profitable businesses ever). So the majority are small and struggle for profitability.
3) NIGERIA oil had to be exported to EUROPE, refined and in many cases sold back to NIGERIA and ECOWAS countries, under companies like SHELL and TOTAL.
4) It took until a billionaire financed the refinery in NIGERIA himself to change part of that production and supply pipeline. And today, after the Hormuz blockade, EU countries are now buying oil from DANGOTE.
AFRICA can now see who our ẹ̄nem!es are. They are not CHINA, RUSSIA or IRAN... But the UNITED STATES through its ne0col0n!alist's financial institutions called IMF & WORLD BANK. They are there to make sure that AFRICA never grow economically beyond the volume that couldn't be dictated by the WEST.
🇨🇳 China went from dominating chips to disrupting fashion.
A Chinese company just revealed fabric that stretches dramatically, holds its shape, and doesn't wrinkle, and it might change how everyday clothes are made.
This was part of my speech at the burial of my late father in September 2024. I had a message for Museveni and Annet Anita Among delivered in a mixture of languages. My father was called Tabandama and so is his son and was his father!
Interest yourselves in what Tabandama means!
Drake just proved why he’s built different 🔥
Dropping 3 albums ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOR at once isn’t a flex, it’s a statement. Most artists spend 2 years hyping one project. Drake walks in, floods the timeline with 3 full bodies of work, and still makes it sound cohesive, not rushed.
That’s insane output + insane quality control. You don’t just “drop 3 albums” unless you’ve got years of material sitting on the shelf and the confidence to let it all hit at once.
He’s not playing the streaming game. He’s breaking it.
While everyone else is doing rollout strategies and 6-month rollouts, Drake’s out here doing volume, versatility, and dominance all in one week.
3 albums. 3 vibes. 1 guy running the culture.
Drake really said “y’all want music? Here’s your whole summer” 🎧
Think what eats up the Kendrick Lamar fanbase is the same thing with the Lionel Messi fan base
Despite Kendrick "winning" the beef, racking multiple awards & doing "real rap". Just like Messi winning the World Cup, multiple Balon D'ors & being "naturally talented" whatever the fvck that means
And somehow Drake is more popular, outsells, dominates streams and the masses consider him a GOAT. Just like Cristiano Ronaldo, is more popular, people follow whatever League he plays & considered the GOAT
That's the thing about life, it's not fair, you can't force people to love you
@KakandeAlex Women and girls can be empowered without always filling their brains with the narrative that the "men" in their lives are the enemy.
That's why a lot of men are angry about that statement.
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away