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Entrepreneur/Visual Artist/Designer - Founder of TIMEBANDITS, Co-Founder/CEO of Shoplinkz

Los Angeles
Joined December 2010
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Today we relaunched Shoplinkz, the Original OS for Online Shopping. Years in the making, built by a small team I'm proud of. Here's our press release on AP News: apnews.com/press-release/ein…
Shoplinkz relaunched today. Every store you love, in one personal Mall Map. Read the release on AP News: apnews.com/press-release/ein…
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Pretty soon all of the streaming services will merge and it will be a new platform called “cable” but at 10x the price. 🤣
JUST IN: HBO Max and Paramount+ are merging into a single streaming service.
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I’ve been on a new kick to watch pilots of classic tv shows recently & Miami Vice was at the top of the list. A 2 part gangster saga. Props to Michael Mann! 🙌 youtu.be/biRolWtDN-k?is=Oyy5…
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Ok, I was so damn disappointed with the ending Cape Fear, that I worked with my LLM stack & quickly whipped up this design. Yeah, I’ll be ordering T-Shirts of this shortly. Not even joking playa! FREE MAX CADY
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August 12, 2026… Can you explain the celestial events that are all happening simultaneously on August 12? From Claude Opus 5… Three separate shows stacked into one day (August 12, 2026), and two of them are actually causally linked. Before dawn: six-planet alignment. Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune spread across the sky - not a tight line, but a broad arc along the ecliptic. Mars and Saturn are easiest with the naked eye; Jupiter and Mercury sit very low in dawn twilight; Uranus and Neptune need binoculars. Late in the day: total solar eclipse. The path crosses Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain, with maximum at 17:45:53 UTC and up to 2 minutes 18 seconds of totality. This is mainland Europe’s first total eclipse since 1999. In Spain it happens with the Sun low on the horizon, so you get a rare golden-hour eclipse. Rest of us in the US get a partial bite at best. Certified ISO 12312-2 glasses for any partial phase, no exceptions. After dark: Perseid peak. Predicted maximum is 14:53 UTC on August 13, so midnight to dawn is the real window. Expect 30-50 meteors an hour from a rural site, more under truly dark skies. Here’s the neat part: the eclipse and the great Perseids are the same phenomenon wearing two hats. A total eclipse requires a new moon, and a new moon means no moonlight washing out faint meteors. Best Perseids since 2024 and the best until 2028, for exactly the reason the eclipse is happening at all. Northern Spain is the sweet spot if you want both - totality around 8:30 pm, sunset shortly after, fully dark sky by late evening.
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Next week gonna be ApocaLIT! 🔥
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“micro-losing leads to macro-winning!” Well said @garyvee
For everyone at #NSCC in Chicago — the @VeeFriendsCards booth is where you wanna be, come say what's up You wanna f*cking win in life? Fall in love with losing...don't fear the loss my friends, micro-losing leads to macro-winning!
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True BTC maxis shouldn't stop at currency. To be logically consistent with your first principles, your lifestyle must include: •Only 1 website allowed •Only 1 LLM allowed •Only 1 brand of toothpaste allowed No variety. Absolute maximalism
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Replying to @SpaceXSI
@xai @grok @nikitabier Founder to founder, I know what scaling looks like, bugs, sync issues, the chaos of building fast. So I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm a Grok Business customer and about 5 months of my work, 100+ chat threads, dropped off my account. I've reached out to support a few times over the past month but haven't been able to connect with anyone yet. Would someone on your team be able to look on the backend and see if those threads can be restored? Would mean a lot. Happy to share my account details with whoever can help. Thanks in advance.
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Dear SNL, your guest promo commercials for your upcoming shows have been inside jokes that have not landed for over 2 decades.
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Changing your mind in the face of new, valid information is a hallmark of intelligence.
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It sure would be nice to see, hear & feel some optimism and positivity online in 2026. Where is it? Does it even exist? It is tragic that humanity allowed politics to take over every form of content on Earth. Just take a step back with me for a second and let’s look at what politics has infiltrated: All Education, Healthcare, Film, TV, All Podcasts, Sports, Families, All Media, AI & LLMs, Finance, All Social Media, Life Decisions, Art, Tech, Recreation, Food & Restaurants, All Retail & Consumer Goods, Transportation & Storage, Energy, Law, Tourism, Advertising, and so much more. We can do better as a society. Something has to be done about this. There aren’t any viable off ramps to healthier forms of content. They simply do not exist. I’m going to do something about it. People need help. Check this out… 50 forms of content and human activity politics has infiltrated: 1.K-12 education 2.Universities and higher education 3.Textbooks and curriculum design 4.School boards and parent-teacher culture 5.Healthcare systems 6.Public health messaging 7.Pharmaceutical marketing and trust narratives 8.Mental health discourse 9.Film 10.Television 11.Streaming platforms 12.Documentaries 13.News media 14.Opinion media and commentary shows 15.Talk radio 16.Podcasts 17.Comedy and late-night entertainment 18.Music and music industry branding 19.Lyrics and artist public personas 20.Art galleries and museum curation 21.Books and publishing 22.Children’s books and youth content 23.Video games 24.Gaming journalism and streamer culture 25.Sports leagues 26.Athlete branding and endorsements 27.Esports 28.Social media platforms 29.Algorithmic feeds and content moderation 30.Influencer culture 31.AI and LLM systems 32.Search engines and information ranking 33.Tech platforms and app ecosystems 34.Advertising and brand campaigns 35.Corporate PR and crisis communications 36.Workplace culture and HR policy 37.Hiring, DEI, and corporate training content 38.Finance and investing narratives 39.Banking and payment systems 40.Crypto culture and digital asset regulation discourse 41.Law and legal interpretation in public debate 42.Family life and parenting decisions 43.Dating culture and relationship expectations 44.Religion and church discourse 45.Food, restaurants, and supply-chain ethics 46.Retail and consumer goods branding 47.Beauty, wellness, and body-image messaging 48.Tourism and travel narratives 49.Transportation, infrastructure, and urban planning 50.Energy, environment, and climate communication
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Going on X or looking at any kind of content anywhere right now…
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Working on a new AI Series of Action Figures. Making a pivot from physical packaged toys & going digital to explore different topics. This first series is called CRYPTO WARS…
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