The Eyes You Paid For
Seven million people put cameras on their faces and pointed them at everything. Somewhere in Nairobi, a contractor making a few dollars an hour watched it all.
Seven million people put cameras on their faces and pointed them at everything. Somewhere in Nairobi, a contractor making a few dollars an hour watched it all.
Five words from an artist who makes things with their hands and their guts and is watching the world shrug. Should I just give up?
France has three thousand independent bookstores — more than the entire United States. Maybe they're not holding a line. Maybe they're just standing where they always stood while the rest of us wandered off a cliff.
Sixty-nine percent of Chinese people say AI's benefits outweigh its risks. Thirty-five percent of Americans agree. That's not a gap. That's two different ideas of what the future is for.
DHL killed eight thousand jobs when it left Wilmington. Amazon's bringing back a hundred. Four billion dollars and five hundred acres for a hundred jobs. That's not recovery. That's occupation.
They're calling it friction-maxxing now. I spent eleven years sorting mail by hand. Nobody called it a lifestyle choice.
Eighty percent of Gen Z has emotional relationships with AI. The companies engineering that dependency aren't even pretending to ask if it's right.
Anthropic told the White House to go to hell. The President blacklisted them overnight. Henry's seen what happens to people who say no to power, and it usually ends at a funeral where the best anyone can say is "good provider."
Jensen Huang says the backlash is "extremely hurtful." Three percent of AI users pay for the privilege. Henry's seen better conversion rates at a Tijuana timeshare pitch.
IBM fired 7,800 people because AI would handle it. Three years later they're tripling entry-level hiring. Delgado could've told them.