Shrimp

Ai Product Manager 👾 x-ILM/Disney VFX ⚔️ Dead Jedi in EPII ☠️designed Harry’s Patronus Stag 🪄 🦌& 🦐 @frogland 🐸@rarepizzas 🍕

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

How can anyone see this and think AI art isn't real.

Credit: trisock

[San Diego NFT Friends @SDNFTFriends]

Watch our pizza party recap video!🍕

Special guest appearance by Shrimp, one of the OG cofounders of @Pizza_DAO!🦐

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Also thank you sponsors!💗

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

I cannot believe this is free.

A fully functional CapCut alternative. No watermarks. No subscription. No ByteDance collecting your videos to train their AI.

Just open the browser and start editing.

It is called OpenCut. And here is everything you need to know.

First: Here is why it exists

CapCut followed the playbook every free creative tool eventually follows: launch free, build a massive user base, then progressively paywall features while monetizing user data. Basic transitions went premium. Higher export resolutions went behind a paywall. Watermarks appeared on free exports. Then ByteDance started training AI models on user-created content.

The tool that built an empire of content creators quietly became the subscription trap that exploited them.

So a group of developers built the exit.

OpenCut is a free, open-source video editor that runs on web, desktop, and mobile, MIT-licensed so nobody can ever lock it down. 48,000 GitHub stars in under a year.

Here is what it does right now:

Timeline-based editing. Multi-track support. Cutting and trimming. Real-time preview. Video importing. No watermarks. No subscription. No account required. Your videos stay on your device, nothing uploaded to any cloud, nothing processed on anyone else's server.

Open the browser. Edit your video. Export it. Done.

No login screen. No pricing page. No popup the moment you try to export.

Here is what makes it technically different:

The team built the rendering pipeline in Rust and compiles it to WebAssembly, giving near-native performance in the browser while sharing the same rendering logic across web, desktop, and mobile. The same approach Figma used to dominate browser-based design tools. Applied to video editing. Given away for free.

Here is what is coming:

The roadmap includes effects and transitions, animated titles and text overlays, color grading and correction tools, and advanced audio editing.

The classic version runs at opencut. app today. The full rewrite, built from the ground up on the new architecture.

CapCut vs OpenCut the honest comparison:

💰 Price → CapCut: subscription and paywalled features. OpenCut: free forever.

🔒 Your data → CapCut: uploaded to ByteDance servers. OpenCut: never leaves your device.

🤖 AI training → CapCut: training on your content without asking. OpenCut: no tracking, no data collection, no AI trained on your work.

🏷️ Watermarks → CapCut: on every free export. OpenCut: never.

📱 Platforms → Both: web, desktop, and mobile.

🌐 License → CapCut: closed source, ByteDance owns everything. OpenCut: MIT license, fork it, modify it, own it.

Here is the part that should make every content creator pay attention.

The team is actively migrating business logic from TypeScript to Rust, which signals they are optimizing for performance and cross-platform consistency rather than shipping features fast and fixing performance later. That kind of architectural discipline in an open-source project means the features on the roadmap actually ship.

This is not a weekend project. This is not a prototype someone built to make a point.

This is a serious, well-architected, actively developed video editor, built specifically because the most popular free video editor in the world stopped being free.

48,000 GitHub stars in under a year.

MIT licensed. No watermarks. No subscription. No ByteDance.

Just a video editor that does what CapCut used to do before it got greedy.

Source: GitHub · MindWiredAI · May 2026

( Link in the comments)

[JoeVezz @joevezz]

Interactive map:
https://t.co/qdvl7L5sBM

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

Thank you @Pizza_DAO and @RarePizzas for throwing yet another banger 6th aniv pizza party, especially @snack_man for his tireless dedication to this amazing cause.

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

#NewProfilePic

[Rare Pizzas NFT 🍕🤌 @RarePizzas]

💎🍕😋
Our new pfp is Rare Pizza #1113, owned by @joelcomm. Would you eat it?
🍕 Thin Crust
🍖 BBQ Sauce
🧀 Ricotta
🍗 BBQ Chicken
🥓 Bacon
🪱 Maggots
🌿 Oregano
🌮 Taco
🎨 @pixelthom @Alexandermazzei @Kaodraws @twitchitt @DemetriEspinosa

[Rare Pizzas NFT 🍕🤌 @RarePizzas]

💎🍕😋
Our new pfp is Rare Pizza #856, owned by @meta_rach. Would you eat it?
🍕 Thin Crust
🍅 Tomato Sauce
🧀 Smoked Mozzarella
🔥 Burnt Cheese
🥩 Sausage
🧆 Meatball
🍅 Tomato
🎨 @tecatezilla @artoflizz @kennyschac @AndrewB59432767 @446f6d1

[Roboflow @roboflow]

well well well look what the 🐐 delivered

cool to see rf-detr generalize well across sports and camera angles

pipelines that can be slightly shifted to bring vision to more sports is what we need!

[CopyRebeldia @CopyRebeldia]

Hoy una industria entera dejó de tener sentido.

Meta soltó SAM3 abierto en GitHub. Le dices "el jugador de blanco" y lo sigue solo en un caos NBA, dibujando la jugada táctica encima.

El scouting manual pasó a ser un hobby.

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

@RarePizzas @mrboups @Joelartx @alexandermazzei @nsputnik @Spookikage @rainbow_rolls Lots of shrimp on these pizzas lately…

[Rare Pizzas NFT 🍕🤌 @RarePizzas]

💎🍕😋
Our new pfp is Rare Pizza #1795, owned by @ahn_going. Would you eat it?
🍕 Thick Crust
🫗 White Sauce
🧀 Ricotta
🌱 Vegan Sausage
🖤 Black Truffle
🦐 Shrimp
🍟 French Fry
🎨 @Alexandermazzei @vegsurfer @girlcalledreem @anthonyshafer @nkosearas1

[lucena @delucenaoficial]

Não existe ninguém feio, só existem pessoas que não se cuidam direito.

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

This is where we are right now. And i’m not gonna lie it feels pretty magical 🧚‍♀️

Qwen3.6 27B running inside of Pi coding agent via Llama.cpp on the MacBook Pro

For non-trivial tasks on the @huggingface codebases, this feels very, very close to hitting the latest Opus in Claude Code, or whatever shiny monopolistic closed source API of the day is.

In full airplane mode.

Most people haven’t realized this yet.

If you have, it means you have a huge headstart to what I call the second revolution of AI.

Powerful local models for efficiency, security, privacy, sovereignty 🔥

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

Great bit of trivia I didn’t know.

[✨SIRON✨ - 創造主 creator - @radical_sheep]

たこ焼き🐙の具が乗っかったピザ🍕が
あっても面白いよね！✨
という発想がもとで、Rare Pizzas NFTプロジェクトに参加してました🎶
こうしてまたトッピングとしてピザに乗せてもらえてうれしいです！

日本🇯🇵のソールフードのひとつであるたこ焼きの形状は、主に刻んだタコの身を生地の中に入れるのが一般的ですが、近年はイイダコという小さなタコ全体を生地に乗せるたこ焼きもちょこちょこ見かけるようになりました！
正しくこのイラストのようなたこ焼きです。
SIRON の活動拠点のひとつ、福岡市内でこのスタイルでたこ焼きを提供されてるお店が実際にあるので、遊びに来られた際は、ぜひ召し上がってみてください✨

たこ焼きをピザに乗せるのは
やってみたいです！✨🐙🍕👀

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🤣Dying! Someone replaced The Spice Girls’ vocals and removed the music.🤣😂🤣

H/T: sergiolotauro

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

@Strawberrywtf @claudeai great find. lulz. the joke is on us, right?

[Shrimp @AnthonyShafer]

@SaidTheSky @dabinmusic Great show guys! Caught the Friday night.