Abe Cajudo

funnyman, movieman, bidnessman, musicman, human, game over, man.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

Entrepreneurship is gonna look a lot more like art than business because the only moat left will be taste, not technicality. The role of art has always been to detect the signs of cultural change—artists find creative arbitrages, saying what people think before they realize it themselves. So the future of consumer products depends on how well you can detect, define, and create what people want before they know it. Traditional market research might be less useful because most people don’t know/can’t articulate what they want—it’s up to the artistically intuitive and psychologically inclined thinkers to find the local religion or patterns of belief and desire in a given market.

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” (Freud)

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

"Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop. The mind is just as malleable as the body. We spend so much time and effort trying to change the external world, other people, and our own bodies, all the while accepting ourselves the way we were programmed in our youths. We accept the voice that talks to us in our head all the time as the source of all truth. But all of it is malleable, every day is new, and memory and identity are burdens from the past that prevent us from living freely in the present."

— @naval in Tribe of Mentors

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

Here's the link: https://t.co/B237JZTBEa

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

Whoa this new Collaborater feature on @gumroad is big, making it easy for creatives to go multi-player and split profits on digital products. Who wants to build something cool with me??

[Communies @communiess]

The strike has put this moment in perspective.

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

Before Twitter implodes (further) let’s wildebeest to this next watering hole? https://t.co/VjoArnOOtE

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

The Summer of the Whale: https://t.co/YCRzWQ7pN0

Loved this 🐳

[Magic Realism Bot @MagicRealismBot]

A pianist finds a telescope that lets him talk to the Enlightenment.

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

Pedro Pascal as mushrooms.

A thread.

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

YES! I was lucky enough to be in that theater and it was surreal watching the Oscars last night from SXSW this year. Thanks Daniels and huge congrats on the successeseseses!

[Daniel Kwan @dunkwun]

It has been exactly one year since our film premiered at SXSW. I tried (and failed) to sum up all of my feelings in a far too sincere instagram post you can go and find if you're curious (or bored).

[natalie tran @natalietran]

Too many movies and shows where people wear shoes on beds or in bedrooms or in kitchens. At that point I'm only watching the shoes. Can't hear any dialogue. Everyone in that scene becomes a villain

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

☀️FUSION☀️

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

Welp! I'm writing on @substack. Subscribe to me there? https://t.co/waXyLFg3uE

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

Welp!

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made

[Hannah Thomasy, PhD @HannahThomasy]

are there science camps for adults? like i just want to help someone dig up dinosaurs or count mushrooms or weigh turtles for like a week

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

#NopeFilm was REALLY good. Still working on me hours later. The most layered of @JordanPeele’s films and flips the social thriller recipe to 2 shots social, 1 part thriller, some simple syrup and a mad dash of hoodied orange Peele.

[Dave Wiskus @dwiskus]

The Matrix described 1999 as the peak of human civilization and I laughed because that would obviously not age well but then the next 23 years happened and now I’m like yeah okay maybe the machines had a point

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

I worked on the Kickstarter video for this campaign with @mysourcelife, model Riya Ray, shot by @homerdulu w/direction by Joe Freed. So much fun and learned a lot about #sustainability from Natalie #MSLbags 🛍️♻️🌎

[Abe Cajudo @AHAbraham]

This is cool! Check out this new #ecofriendly bag that's LIVE on Kickstarter! #sustainablefashion https://t.co/c2aKaydvD9 #MSLbags @mysourcelife