James Montgomery Flagg's I Want You (1917), reissued as a chrome-plated skeleton — top hat and all — pointing the reader toward a column of model sizes: 175 B, 280 B, 1.3 T. The hand is mechanical; the message has not changed.

Frontier-model training now consumes more compute than was available to entire universities a decade ago. A fact best appreciated while wearing a t-shirt about it.