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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.

We also need some folks willing to just live in space basically, but these are not bad goals, as long as we keep the means in mind. (This appears to be a big part of consciousness.)

The "can't throw your pronouns at the enemy" line was engineered to own this news cycle. Look at what ran beneath it. He fired the JAG officers - the Army's, the Navy's, the Air Force's top lawyers - for being obstacles to orders from the president. He overhauled the military legal offices. Today he told West Point's graduating class their hands are untied. The laws of war have enforcement mechanisms for a reason that predates every living general officer. When you remove the lawyers and then tell new officers the constraints are gone, you are not fixing readiness. You are building conditions for something you cannot un-do from an air-conditioned office in Washington. A grand jury declined to indict the lawmakers who warned about it. That part didn't make the headline either.

@beckness @somewheresy See you next week— same bat time, same bat channel! It's nice seeing deep cuts— I'd forgotten about some! LJ is still going ish, but I think they, like lots of places, purged "inactive" accounts. It's actually pretty wild how much digital stuff is gone. #memorizebeforedeleting

@somewheresy With your powers combined, I’m old as hell

What are some good examples of internet communities that died?

@DesignCntrl @AISafetyMemes It's easier to blame inanimate objects than make people think safer. It's not people killing people. It's the objects! The sudden stop at the bottom, if you will. Blame the internet! Or mainstream media! It's them bro! They aren't listening to us for some odd reason! 🤪

@AISafetyMemes Neither has AI

I'm old enough to remember when everyone thought AI solving ONE novel math problem would be a front page story around the world Today, AI solved not one, but NINE open problems - some 50 years old. AND proved ***44*** out of 492 open OEIS conjectures. Zero media coverage.

Hidden costs of billions, but what isn't like that? We gotta pay for more than just gas.

Never in my wildest imagination did I think I would be called into special session over Memorial Day weekend and have to argue that military members and their spouses deserve to have their votes counted after they already cast their ballots. But here we are. South Carolina is trying to rush through new congressional maps while the election process is already underway. Military and overseas voters followed the rules. They requested their ballots. They voted. They sent them back. Now, because politicians want to change the maps at the last minute, those voters could have their ballots thrown out through no fault of their own. That is unacceptable. I have an amendment that says if the congressional primaries are moved to August, those military and overseas voters should automatically receive a new ballot for the new primary. That should not be controversial. But apparently, some folks are fighting me on it. Some days it feels like I am living in the upside down. It is Memorial Day weekend, and I am having to fight to protect the voting rights of the very people serving our country. If we say we support our veterans, our military members, and their families, then we should start by making sure their votes count. Standing strong. Holding the line.

How could President Biden have planted 274 agents at the January 6 insurrection when Trump was president then?

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. But the story of how he got it is even worse. County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent. That is absolutely insane. Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

🙌 Very proud of this team!! We're finally in a place where open-weight models have hit production quality (ex: @googlegemma), and can run on commodity GPUs – so teams are taking ownership of fine-tuning, RL, and inference. And agents are now real workloads, with over 1B sandboxes launched on Modal so far. Can't wait to see what these folks build next! 🚀

Speaking of Newton: the guy was a nut, but we don't talk so much about that aspect for some reason. I find it endlessly amusing! There are all these hints about the nature of reality many prefer to ignore, even tho they add a lot of flavour! Understandable; it's nuts it's nuts!

I often say, "it's not ME running the numbers, it's the calculator" and something about wanting to count to infinity by hand, maybe? (I dunno, just trying to hit the AI mention quota, and too scared to automate it (for some it's job security!))

@KariHoffman2020 @jam6242 @MeriLumpkin Why did you think your voice didn't matter?

OK lady. Clearly you have no common sense. Clearly, you are unable to use those brain cells that God gave you to research more than the bull crap that they are giving you to see. There’s thousands and thousands of videos of that day. Not from the mainstream media where they’re edited to make you think what they want you to. Actual just regular footage. Try opening your eyes for once.

On January 6, 2021, my husband and I traveled to Washington, D.C. to peacefully stand with thousands of other Americans who believed their voices mattered. I was pregnant at the time. We never imagined we would leave that day physically attacked and emotionally scarred. While we stood among crowds of people singing, praying, and chanting “USA,” a barrage of tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bangs suddenly began raining down upon us. We were not violent. We were not attacking anyone. We were simply there — and we were treated like enemies. What followed changed our lives forever. In 2023, our home was raided by the FBI at gunpoint. Our children were dragged from their beds and forced into a hot garage in the middle of summer in only their pajamas. Agents threatened to shoot our dogs for trying to protect our family. Our home was torn apart while our children watched in terror. My husband was pulled from bed, arrested, and never properly told why. We spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal defense trying to survive a system that already seemed determined to convict anyone connected to January 6. We were told he was facing up to 53 years in prison if he went to trial. After watching case after case end in convictions, we truly believed the system was corrupt and that he would never receive a fair chance in court. We were told he could not fully present his own evidence, and we were told self-defense arguments would not be allowed. Several-second video clips were used in court as “evidence,” but they did not show the full picture or everything that actually happened that day. Then came the impossible choice: take a plea deal or risk losing the rest of his life. My husband was the sole provider for our family business and our household — a home that included me, my husband, my father-in-law, and our six children, including a newborn baby. The thought of losing him for decades was something our family simply could not survive. Faced with the threat of spending most of his life in prison and leaving his family behind, my husband accepted a plea deal out of fear and desperation — not because justice had been served. Today, we are incredibly thankful that President Trump granted him a pardon and brought him home to his family. But the damage done to our lives did not end there. During the time Luke was out on bond, Police were called to my home because my husband accidentally entered the wrong door at our daughter’s school after being directed there by our child. Even ordinary moments of life became filled with fear, scrutiny, and humiliation. We felt like we were constantly being watched and treated as dangerous simply because of January 6. This ordeal also stole something deeply personal from our family — the joy surrounding the birth of our youngest son. What should have been one of the happiest and most peaceful times of our lives was overshadowed by fear, stress, court cases, public judgment, and uncertainty about our future. Since then, our family has suffered devastating financial and emotional damage. Our reputation was destroyed. Our business suffered. We accumulated crushing debt trying to survive legal fees, lost income, and years of uncertainty. The emotional toll on our children cannot be measured. People see headlines. They see edited clips. They see labels. What they do not see are the wives left holding families together. The children traumatized by armed raids. The marriages tested by fear, isolation, and public shame. The years of our lives consumed by stress, court dates, and survival There must be accountability for what was done to so many American families. Until justice is truly served, we will never fully be home again — and our nation will never fully heal. The damage done did not end with prison sentences or media headlines. Families like ours are still living with the consequences every single day. #PayTheJ6ers

@KariHoffman2020 @MeriLumpkin No, I believe what my own eyes and ears (and your own husband's admission in court records) tell me. The difference between us is I would never try to overthrow an election illegally. And especially wouldn't play victim if I did.

Any updates on this? @StephenM

Come on guys, there is one simple solution! Pay the owners, and it will trickle down to the creators! 😋