Huge news! My Instagram Series has been selected for the Tribeca Film Festival's #TribecaX, making it part one of the largest film festivals in the world. Short form video can be much more than brain rot slop. I hope to continue to prove that to the world in the months to come.

Platforms like @Upwork are specially awful to use now. Every cover letter is AI slop and a lot of contractors don't even speak english, using Chat GPT to keep up the illusion that they do. The result is an environment of constant professional catfishing and paranoia.

What do you want to know?.

I stopped hiring remote workers because I never know for sure if I'm hiring a real person or just someone using Chat GPT. Is anyone else also seeing this total collapse of remote work trust?.

I have to say guys, the answers so far aren't looking so good.

What are some good examples out there of legitimately innovative AI art?. I’m trying to find out who’s using AI to make legitimately new classes of things, not just old types of media, but slop.

Btw, this wasn't a specific moment, but a random frame from 10 minutes into the demo. They held these faces for 20 minutes. It was amazing.

Just did a demo of my next major project to a room full of people. These were their faces during the demonstration. This is probably a very good sign LOL

RT @mostlysports: Josh Jung hitting a walkoff homerun in extra innings to win the game was ELECTRIC @SportClips

This Saturday we'll feature @albertadevs, @DareFailed & @downloadlos, amazing tech creators that I'm so happy to have on stage. Expect dogs vibe coding apps, comedy sketches, insane tech demos and me removing my cast with a chainsaw. Pull up, NY!.

What if you took the world's best creative tech people and gave them a stage to present the funniest creations you've ever seen?. This is Tech Comedy Night. And our first show was such a big hit that I'll be doing these monthly, starting this Saturday! ♥️

Retweet this thread if you can. I have no financial interest here and don't want to make a single dime off of other creators. But for something like this to exist we need it to reach the right people. So do whatever you can to help me get this thing off the ground!.

This proposal is imperfect. But hopefully it starts a conversation. VC backed companies will never solve this because they will never fully serve creators. But the right group of technical creators could do this. We have the skill, the audience & so much to gain. Let's talk.

Being an online creator isn't just a side thing anymore. It's a career. And we can't be putting our entire livelihoods on the selfish whims of VC-backed corporations. Creators need a platform they can rely on for decades. And the only solution is for them to own it.

I am not advocating for creators to abandon big tech platforms, but to use them the same way they use you. To treat them as discovery platforms - so you can then, slowly but surely, move 0.1-1% of your core fans to a place that you own. These numbers feel small, but they add up.

I'm currently building my own personal platform, but instead of just solving my own problem, I want to create something that my friends & peers can also use. And after @OpenSauceLive, it became clear that other creators are also building their own. So let's team up and fix this.

I jerryrigged a script that crawls through all of the different versions of a video you posted & combines all comment sections into one for your personal platform. This is a small thing, but it feels big - being able to see all of your community in one page and respond to them.

Phase 3 is community integration. This is the most open ended one, but there's tons of small things we can do that create impact. Short form creators, for example, often post the same video on multiple platforms, but their community is split on multiple comment sections.

I understand video streaming is a nightmare, so if you have any suggestions on how we can streamline video hosting for non-technical folk, I'm all ears. And @luke_lafr, if I can get you on the horn to talk, I'd love to figure out solutions. Float Plane is an important product.

Video streaming is obviously expensive, but if creators own the platform, they can make their own calls on how to make the economics of it work. Want to run ads & keep all the revenue? That's your call. Want to lock the videos under your subscription pay wall? That's your call.

1st is by focusing on short form video creators: they are the ones most lacking in independence right now & their videos use less bandwidth due to length + replayability. If we could abstract away setting up Vimeo OTT or @LinusTech's Float Plane, we'd have a good starting point.

That's the end of phase 1. Phase 2 is creators being able to provide their own video streaming. This is the hard part. I had great talks about this with @theo, @tomscott & @ThePrimeagen at Open Sauce, but I think there's are some good places we can start here:.

A paywalled blog with e-mail integration is a simple place to start and is essentially what Patreon & Substack are. But now that you own it, your fans can support you directly & you can contact them as well. Now they are discovering your content through you instead of algorithms.