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Coffeeholic, binge reader, shower singer, curator of nonsense. I love musicals, puppets and good stories. I'm serious, sometimes...

[Alex Prompter @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.

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

I sat next to a junior partner at a true biglaw firm at an awards dinner a few weeks ago.

It was a great reminder for me.

She had literally just made partner.

She was accepting a “Dealmaker of the Year” award on behalf of the senior partner she works for.

He wasn’t even there.

He was nominated for a several billion dollar deal that, according to her, she did all the work on.

It’s was 8:30 at night and her son was home with the nanny with a fever.

Her husband was traveling for work.

She told me she really wants to have a second child.

But she just doesn’t see how it would work.

At one point, I said, “You can have it all.”

She sighed and said, “I know… you can’t have it all.”

I laughed and said, “No, you misheard me.”

“I said you CAN have it all.”

A collision of two very different world views.

Then she said something I can’t stop thinking about:

“I was working on this big deal [blah blah blah] and I didn’t even have a summer last year.”

By the way, all of this is 110% true. I’m not fudging a single detail.

On the ride home, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It felt like it was a message from God reminding me to be grateful for what I have.

Ignore the people self-soothing.

Ignore the people who were never really in biglaw giving you misinformation.

When I talk about biglaw, this is the biglaw I’m talking about.

(Btw, she was *amazing* and I wish her the very best. I hope one day my phone rings and it’s her looking for a new job!)

And I don’t begrudge hard work. We work really, really hard.

But there has to be limits!

And it’s why, as a startup law firm, we recruit talent way disproportionately great to what we should.

The lie of biglaw is that the sacrifice is temporary.

It tells you:

Grind now.

Miss the summers now.

Delay the kids now.

Let someone else get the award now.

Eventually, you’ll earn your freedom.

But for a lot of people, the reward for surviving biglaw is just more biglaw.

Be very careful climbing a ladder that only rewards you with more ladder.

The moral of the story:

Success is not success if it requires you to outsource the life you actually wanted.

[Male @teknohada]

@Sector_6_ @expedition33 Pleaaase!

[Luis Enrique Pereda @luis_e_pereda]

“Los jueces no somos electos popularmente —ni debemos serlo porque la imparcialidad y la objetividad de nuestra función se contrapone a la búsqueda de la aprobación de las mayorías— (…)”.

Arturo Zaldívar
18/sep/2018
https://t.co/zAxu4f0LUK

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

My jaw dropped more and more as the video went on 😭 😭

[Male @teknohada]

@morrisgil ¿Cómo estuvo Maybe Happy Ending?

[Male @teknohada]

Hola @BBVA_Mex. ¿Cómo puedo pagar un formulario postal con ustedes? Su practicaja no recibe pagos de impuestos con líneas de captura que empiecen en 0300 y en ventanilla no me lo quieren recibir...

[Male @teknohada]

Mis 2 pet peeves de #wickedmovie:
1. Los efectos de la capa tipo Spawn de Elphaba se ve chafísimas en cine
2. El último riff de Defying Gravity... 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Fuera de eso, soy fan

[Male @teknohada]

@HSBC_MX una pregunta: para tu promo de hoy del buen fin, ¿tengo que gastar los 12,500 a meses en un sólo comercio o puede ser en varios y se acumulan las compras para llegar a este monto?

[Male @teknohada]

@ballartaexiste No te conocía, pero ya me caíste bien.

[Male @teknohada]

@cowboygarters @josh_avraham @kaseyklimes Depends on the country...

[Male @teknohada]

@yurionice_PR

[Gloria Piña @GloriaPE_]

Tú eres corrupto, tú eres más corrupto, tú fuiste corrupto antes

#DebateINE

[Male @teknohada]

Pobre #DeniseMaerker, intentando arrear a los candidatos para contestar preguntas que aportan nada y menos a la discusión del futuro de una país...

[Male @teknohada]

Este "debate" no da más que pena. Changos aventándose popó en televisión nacional. Por lo menos el sexenio pasado había quien sí se tomaba en serio esto de administrar un país...

[Male @teknohada]

Lunes de pararse y volver a empezar. A prender el celular, la computadora y el cerebro, pues. Hubo pausa, pero ya nos toca el segundo round, 2024.

[Male @teknohada]

Pues suena a cliché y así, pero este año no le pido a la vida que me dé, sino que no me quite.

[Male @teknohada]

Hay días en que el mundo es más injusto de lo normal y gente buena que no merece lo que pasa a su alrededor. Y la impotencia está horrible... 😞

[Male @teknohada]

@CoaguloCerebral ¿Es el 1? ¿Sí vale la pena? Empecé por el 2... 😅

[Male @teknohada]

As long as they let me keep the story mode on, I'm game for whatever.

(I'm a sucker for the story/lore, but my eye-hand coordination is severely lacking 😅)

[☆オードリーAudrey☆ @aitaikimochi]

The Final Fantasy series is whatever the it wants to be, whether it be an action game, turn-based, or even first person shooter 😆

“Kitase says, he’d be open to a Final Fantasy game in the style of Call of Duty, as preposterous as it may sound. He also acknowledges that new ideas are likely to come from the younger members of the staff. ‘My imagination really has its limits,’ he says, ‘so it’s really great to have a new generation of creators on board.’”

Final Fantasy XVI is going to reinvent the series, I just know it 🥹