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 artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:
https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ
Thomas Massie just delivered an urgent call to action:
“Americans are under attack by a German company.”
Bayer-Monsanto.
“People this week should be calling their congressmen … and saying, take the glyphosate immunity out of the Farm Bill.”
“It’s poison.”
“This administration has sided with the German company trying to get immunity from the harm that their products may cause.”
“Chellie Pingree and I … are trying to get them to strip the immunity for glyphosate that they’ve put into the Farm Bill.”
“Bayer’s product has become unprofitable because of the harm that state juries have decided has been caused to people.”
“And there’s something broader though than just glyphosate here.”
“This would set a precedent for every pesticide, every herbicide, every insecticide.”
“It would set a precedent that the EPA doesn’t exist to protect people and the environment.”
“It exists to give get-out-of-court-free cards to corporations.”
@MassieforKY@RepThomasMassie@RealLindellTV
A Gaza doctor breaks down after realizing the patient he had treated for five years died on the operating table—after he was forced to perform an amputation without anesthesia due to Israel blocking medical supplies during the genocide. 💔
Once I read this thing where a woman said that she will not read any books on productivity, time management, habits or how to live the best life if they're written by men because they were able to manage that time or build those life changing habits because they HAD A WIFE. Instead, this person said they would only read female-authored books on that subject--moms or wives that did the laundry, worked, and still got stuff done. I think about that a lot.
If you don't like women with stretch marks, think about how many stretch marks you gave your mother when she carried you in her womb for 9 months, and how none of them were worth it bc you’re a piece of shit.
Recently watched a focus group of moderate Millennial dads asked about trans athletes; their responses were predictable (fairness, safety, Lia Thomas, etc). When asked if it was their daughter who was trans and banned from playing, however, they flipped like a dime to our side
Now compare that to China in 2023:
A woman in Hunan ran around the street swinging two kitchen knives, endangering anyone nearby.
Chinese police spent minutes blocking, distancing, shielding, trying to stop her without lethal force, and finally subdued her without killing her.
Same “danger,”two completely different doctrines:
– China: Contain, de-escalate, protect civilians, preserve life.
– USA: Shoot first, justify later, blame the victim, call it “freedom.”
So when Americans call China a police state, we calmly reply:
If this is “freedom,” we’re fine without it.