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.
Btw in your 20’s and 30’s you’ll start rediscovering the niche interests and hobbies you had as a kid. It’s very important you revisit them. Your younger self was actually on to something
No hay desnudos.
No hay bailes hipersexualizados.
No hay gestos obscenos.
No hay letras vacías.
No hay música mediocre.
No hay voz autotuneada.
Por eso no habrá otro igual a Michael Jackson.
Watched the STRANGER THINGS finale last night
SPOILERS: So beware.
There was something quietly beautiful, and a little bittersweet, about that scene with the four kids on the roof, promising they’d meet there every year. Watching it now, older and with a bit more life behind me, I felt the weight of those good intentions. You can almost see the future unfolding... they’ll meet a couple of times, maybe even a few, and then life will start to pull them in different directions. People grow up, fall in love, move away, disappear, or simply drift. That’s just how life works.
But tucked inside that sadness is a soft reminder: be here now. Be present.
Love the people who are in your life today.
Appreciate your friends, your family, the small moments that feel ordinary but aren’t.
Nothing stays the same forever, which is exactly why every day—and every person we care about—is worth holding close while we can.
My new year's observation.