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Iso Ruokejärvi. Helvetinjärvi National Park, Finland.

@Scobleizer @IrenaCronin @digg Fwiw I continue to find you a source of inspiration.

Belief. I didn’t have it this week. Told my partner @IrenaCronin that I am struggling to figure out what I should do. My agents that build alignednews.com/ai were misbehaving. @digg was kicking their ass. Had thoughts of giving up. Things weren’t working. I was burned out, didn’t feel like had any vision. A guy told me I was an idiot. I thought he might be right. Other founders have told me about their days going through self doubt. Airbnb’s founders told me their business didn’t work for 1,000 days. Things got so bad they had to eat the cereal they bought for a marketing gag. I was blessed to interview them years ago: youtu.be/4e8c3S4DjHg?si… But I was walking through one of San Francisco’s startup coworking facilities when we saw a group that looked like they were getting a tour. It turned out to be a group of entrepreneurs visiting from India. The guy running the group saw me and said “it can’t be.” Said “are you Scoble?” He then told the group that I had a huge impact on his life and had been reading me for 20 years. Asked the group if anyone else read me. A bunch of hands went to and several said they were entrepreneurs in part because of me. I cried on the way home. I was just watching American Idol, which I didn’t have time to watch live. And am crying again. Thinking of that praise and requests to take selfies together. I now get why so many have told me over the years that I wouldn’t get the struggle until I tried to build my own company. And I am humbled that a couple who were kids decades ago in India read me and dreamed of starting a company. Belief is such an important part of starting a company. Woz’s bosses told him that no one would buy a personal computer. He told me that story a few times. That they turned down his requests five separate times. I wish everyone could get their belief recharged that way. It is why I try to have a nice word for everyone. When I fail it causes me major turmoil. And my wife gives me heck “don’t be yelling at anyone” after I get in an argument in spaces. Build a better future. It isn’t easy. You have to fight those voices in your head and many others telling you it isn’t possible.

Wow, the astrocartography rumor really is true. Someone has registered a trademark for the word in France and has a pending application for the entire EU. They are now sending out cease and desist letters to multiple astrologers and teachers claiming ownership of it. That is super gross.

Checks out.

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.

Neptune + Saturn in Aries:

PSA

I’m pretty sure that if you have a problem with other people not drinking, then you have a problem with drinking

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

Por detrás de toda essa graça e talento de Schonbrun (1a bailarina do Royal Ballet Sueco) ha 18a dedicados a treinos de 8h/dia, muita disciplina e dor. Fazer parecer fácil é a coisa mais difícil do mundo. Linda 👏🏻👏🏻

This conversation with @RickRubin is special. Here's a 2 minute preview that I’ve watched 15 times. The episode will be out tomorrow:

Today we wish Bob Dylan a happy 85th birthday. Listen to this excerpt from Dylan's Nobel Prize lecture where he reflects on the literary influences that shaped his songwriting. Classic works like 'Moby-Dick', 'All Quiet on the Western Front', and 'The Odyssey' informed his understanding of storytelling and human nature. Hear the full lecture: bit.ly/4kI1Qm5

A morte da verdade - Michiko Kakutani

“It’s urgent to wait” (New moon in Taurus vibes.)

✨new moon message ✨

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

How do we train AI to understand what will restore and maintain a regenerative planet? We must find data that reflects the realities of nature, ask permission from those who steward and research it, prepare the data, and make it available to AI toolmakers. Then we repeat the process. That’s what we are doing at the Growing Earth Codes Data Commons (ECDC). Visit our website to learn more 👆👆 📸 Suar Indigenous woman, by Tim Rose #EarthCodes #Data #NatureIntelligence #AI #PlanetaryHealth

God forbid i smoke weed in public while the elites eat children.

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