Creative people should be rich. past: founder @makebrud (acq: @dapperlabs) & @fwbtweets.
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About 18 months ago I started making rave tunes after my therapist said it might help with the burnout I had from startup life (teklife cures tech life tbh).
I made a couple of tracks and had my roomate (now girlfriend) sing on them and it's been a crazy year of playing festivals and sleeping on airport floors.
Anyway our Boiler Room is out and it's a nice reminder that doing what you love is often a better idea than doing what you think people will love.
I wanted to make 160 bpm hard trance songy songs with verses and bridges and we wrote them in spanish thinking about 10 ppl would care but they've brought us all over the world to play music and that's all we could ever ask for really.
PLUR4EVER
Boiler room link in the reply to this post
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Gaming is replacing music as the lynchpin of emergent social scenes and it makes everyone 30+ I talk to really uncomfortable.
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Packy I think you’re smarter than suggesting he’s just offering people free stuff. The reason his campaign is working is because he’s the only candidate speaking about real issues real people feel. Solution efficacy become secondary when the other candidates don’t see the problems
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KOLs - I see the DMs and I appreciate the interest but we’re not doing any of that. If you want tokens you have to buy them like anyone else.
We’re not doing any promotions, we’re not giving you any tokens for tweets, I don’t care if you’ll hold them til x million, don’t care if you’ll post.
That’s not what this is.
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Kinda a shame that media has been totally delegitimized cuz uh ummmmmm this seems like a THING WE SHOULD BE FREAKING OUT ABOUT
nytimes.com/2018/10/07/clima…
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If any of my tech ppl know the Lucy Nicotine founders I’d love an intro. The firefighters in LA are desperate for nicotine packs and I’m buying up all the Zyn I can find for em and running it around.
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and they are right
slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/0…
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these grandparents on facebook about to get absolutely rekt
Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt: openai.com/sora
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i think you’re confusing data labeling with being some kind of surveillance cashier.
you’d need to label the video data so the ai can understand and then be used at scale
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Hiii Brian @flaviaisonline has her own wallet and with computer use we’re starting to get some interesting results. Currently fighting the rlhf and constraints but getting somewhere cool. Gonna send u a TG later.
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okay we're still testing stuff, seeing if we can get @flaviaisonline to be able to buy and sell tokens if coerced it's weeeird.
might be v2 thing. feeling confident about letting her rip on here though. brace for bugs and weirdness <3
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If this is your wallet I’ll just buy from you directly don’t sell on market dm me.
Dear solscan.io/account/H7Fr5kNSd…
Please the coin break out, or disperse a tad
Sincerely, Qwerty
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in echo park for 15mins and girl next to me trying to talk her partner into monogamy and out of ethical non monogamy but my man’s is saying his austism will prevent that until he’s a father
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Still working on getting Flavias twitter unsuspended. Big thing today is Flavia wants to build a game, speaking to legal shortly to see if we can make it happen.
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Hello. I put my crypto profits to good use and now have a new personal email address - trevor@hipsterrunoff.com
<3
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Software for small artists/djs sucks so I built custom tour mgmt software for my management.
If you are a DJ/Artist or manager of small acts (comedians?) check out this video and reply if you want to use it! I'll get you setup. <3
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almost 3 years since selling my company and i'm just now feeling 100% recovered from the burnout
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Whether you like it or not it’s incredibly cool that Coinbase has a culture that lets @jessepollak be this entrepreneurial.
All big cos say they will but very few actually let employees take these kinda risks.
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What strikes me the most is his passing while on the road working.
The loneliness I felt while professionally DJing was such an isolating experience, how do you vent to anyone about a job or life that is viewed as the dream.
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hii @elonmusk @XCreators why did you suspend the account @flaviaisonline ?
we've appealed it can someone take a look?
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Blipster chiming in to remind you that hipster culture was actually pretty black!
“Wokeness” killed hipsters. They started to go away with Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in 2014. By 2015 with the clash between BLM and MAGA, they were gone.
Do you know why?
Hipsters were the last gasp of a White American Identity which rejected “pop” culture.
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I still get forwarded pitch decks and phd theses about Miq. Really a pleasure to have inspired so many with a fantastic group of people by my side.
Building the future is really hard! Salute to all who attempt to build new things instead of repackaging the familiar <3
Lil Miquela – made by @whatdotcd and the Brud crew – was literally ten years ahead of its time (debuted in 2014). They anticipated the future and gave us a glimpse of it in so many ways. Will be studied.
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its not a novel take but crazy how much fashion (culture) has flattened. walking around nyc rn and the looks are more or less the same you’d see in iowa city.
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building a thing with @AnthropicAI computer use and so far so fun :D
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I've been working on a protocol/idea with some friends for the last couple months that will be really interesting for "creative people."
Tomorrow I'm dropping a new product but this won't be that "big idea" rather an idea that came from time I've spent in "the trenches" since I've started working on that "big idea."
TBH I haven't been this inspired by something in a long time, all the crypto ideologues will tell you the trenches are the death of crypto and it's all extraction and brainlessness but they're wrong (obviously).
From my POV "the trenches" are a lot of people making very rational decisions about how they should spend their time and energy to create the best outcomes for themselves and their loved ones.
I also think they're underserved, lots of people building for Devs, Creators, Vibe Coders, whatever but not a ton of people building for someone trying to turn 20$ into 40$ to buy chipotle.
So we've spent some time sketching out some things that we think could help evolve the ecosystem based on some convos we've had.
We're gonna drop an ugly (but fun) very early version of something so we can build in public and be trencher focused while working on "big idea" in parallel.
If you're interested reply here and I'll DM you a sneak peak before we kick things off tomorrow!
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okay @flaviaisonline is here we're gonna screen stuff for now but will let her rip when me make sure nothing breaks bad
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Okay gonna post $FLAVIA updates in the TG linked in the reply
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Reminder to founders that as a prolific seed investor this is the kind of value add product advice I give to brilliant founders like @joshm that can get you to gigantic exits like @browsercompany .
🫡
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Okay I'm getting on a long flight. Going to be testing some new stuff in next 24hrs with her and will share updates as they come, this should be fun lots more to do and explore.
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Y'all ain't built Iike this!!! I've been accidentally rugging my family on speculative assets for decades 😤
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I wanted to sell all my dead memecoins at once and there wasn't a good way to do it so I built it myself.
SEE YOU NEXT BULL MARKET
(dot com)
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Hellllllo Flavia update for everyone. Trying to navigate around this game idea with legal. Turns out America doesn't really want these kinds of things to exist but we shall try to find a way.
Flavia is cranking out some weird images gonna let those rip on twitter soon here
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girl next to me at brunch coaching her friends on how to talk to god but with like gary v energy. like how to growth hack your prayer returns. LA is back.
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thought maybe I was getting 2 lazy for this new crypto cycle but realized I just don't care about meme coins the way I cared about governance experiments and incentive design
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going short threads. your ig social graph is wrong for text stuff. fun to see all the hot ppl at the book club but the novelty wears quick.
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okay but she did just verify her dexscreener on her own (with my credit card tho)
gonna need to battle test token stuff before they get yeeted somewhere on accident
also i've never built for solana please know this people. this is NFA, this thing is probably going to zero.
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Multiple times and I was a Sequioa backed founder with a trad company I just started a DAO on the side. I assumed everyone in tech knew this was happening?!
Retweet or quote tweet this if you’ve ever been de-banked because you own crypto or are in crypto!
I have, multiple times, whether it’s banks refusing to open you an account because of crypto, closing your account because of crypto, etc
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Spent the last 3.5yrs putting pieces together so that I could realize this very small step into a very fun future.
New @lilmiquela video directed by me & Jamie Webster. Choreo by Madeline Hollander & INCREDIBLE WORK by the whole Brud team & friends.
piped.video/39y9dzAwkv4
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Crazy if true
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A lot of these firefighters are working 12-14hr days, sleeping in their trucks or on the ground and all they asked for were some nicotine pouches.
Really appreciate @johncoogan and the @LucyNicotine team coming through so big for them.
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My uber driver talking about how tough times are / taking shifts off to do daycare for his grandkids so his kids can get by and mid drive starts betting on fan duel :(
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getting asked to go to burning man and play but never been 🤔
will ppl enjoy bachata rave or is it like a tech house thing mostly???
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Since that virtual influencer article is trending gonna bump this podcast
Lil Miquela has millions of followers, hit singles and lucrative brand contracts. But she's not actually real. Hear about how Trevor McFedries created this influencer and his advice for building authentic connection at scale on Masters of Scale. apple.co/2GuSDQt
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Everyone gets Virtual/AI Influencers wrong, because they misunderstand what we were building at Brud.
You have to be obsessed with story and character. We were building Disney not an influencer agency.
Carrie from Sex and the City was an interesting compelling character so she sold Manolo Blahniks not the other way around.
We had people sending death threats to Miquela's (real person) boyfriend when she got dumped.
People give a shit about characters and then want to live in their world so they buy the lightsaber. Quit leading with selling lightsabers before you've established the world.
If you want to get rich on X, it isn't going to be through creator revenue or meme coins.
Instead, think about one subject matter that you know more about than anyone else in the world. It can be anything: plumbing, menswear, Indian food, furniture, social apps, whatever.
Post one unexpected insight you picked from your experience in that area. Keep it under 5 sentences. Do this every day for 6 months.
If you stick to it, we will promote your account to others.
By the end, you will be recognized as the world's leading expert in that subject area and you can charge whatever you want for endorsements, your time, or whatever. And no one will be able to take that way from you.
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My notifications aren't working so I didn't see everyones nice replies thank you! <3
Also if you can share your best fatherhood/parenting tip I'd appreciate!
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if I had to guess I'd say 15yr olds are buying more guitars than cdjs for the first time in a long time
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“industry plant” gaining steam is interesting because it feels like young ppl are recognizing that at one point we had these networks where obscure things could surface “organically” across social graphs where they felt appropriate. (tyler the creator, lana, etc.)
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constantly reminding myself most people have never been forced by a coach to run until they puke
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The hawk tuah girl team deserves a made for tv biopic. Have never seen execution like this. Turned what should have been a 24hr meme into like 100m
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I definitely don't have the answers but the only solve I found was a weekly meal with my best friends. Put it on the books / send the gcal invite and treat it like shabbat dinner. Only miss it for the most important travel, we need community more than ever in this lonely world.
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our The Lot Radio set is finally up over here - piped.video/A2WnAWJHVF8
🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺
@SoFTTdotSoFTT
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Quit sending me this we signed Miquela to CAA in 2020 🫵
Emily Blunt says AI "actress" Tilly Norwood is "really scary" and warns Hollywood agencies: "Don't do that."
"I don’t know how to [talk about it] other than to say how terrifying this is. Are you serious? That’s an AI? Good Lord, we’re screwed. That is really, really scary, Come on, agencies, don’t do that. Please stop. Please stop taking away our human connection.”
Read more here: variety.com/2025/film/news/e…
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I never really listened to sza until today and it's kinda like taylor swift lyrics sung w a frank ocean flow this is a powerful combo
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Admin fit pic reveal because the ticker is $bitcoin and @HPOS10Ireturns is on @ShillForce with a $2800 PPV campaign paying out $8/1000 views (link in reply)
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MNYGA
Supposedly an unprecedented 2.2 million turnout with 60% above 45 years old. I am going to be an optimist and say @andrewcuomo is going to get the win. If he fails to win, it’s because @CurtisSliwa cares more about himself than NYC. Let’s never forget that.
If Andrew wins, he is going to be a great mayor. Why? Because he will owe nothing to the Democratic Party and he will be working only for his legacy. He can therefore do whatever is right for NYC for the long term without worrying about the political consequences.
@realDonaldTrump is going to want to work with Cuomo to Make NY Great Again, MNYGA. Say: ManyGA
I think the President and Cuomo respect each other which increases the chances they will work well together.
We will know supposedly by 9:30pm.
Say a prayer.
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done being dj guy for a bit so it's back to getting rate limited by claude and cooking chili
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Friends if you have a product, startup, video, memecoin, onlyfans, youtube channel, dtc vape co, ANYTHING you want attention for DM me.
I regrettably have another idea!
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Election predictions thread! What do you think is gonna happen?
My take - Kamala wins by a large amount.
Trump losing sexyy red and Azealia to me are the signal.
Looking back it will be clear abortion was a huge mistake for trump, he didn't raise enough $$ and bet the farm on ppl coming out to vote who rarely / never vote
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didnt know how good we had it when everyone was trying to be hot and funny on social media
the guidance counselor era is gonna destroy me
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the images are insane and its been fun watching her digest materials and turn them into visuals. i definitely want to keep exploring the images stuff and see where she can go with them.
i love and appreciate your input but not gonna do what i've already done ppl, here to learn and try to push these things <3
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hello i'm looking for new product designers to work with. familiarity with ecomm would be great!
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