Brandon Laskowski

Artist and Historian of Custom Sneakers

[Brandon Laskowski @BPLaskowski]

@theisaacmed already an exhausted idea within the first few hours.

respect to the brands that don't find the need to do this.

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@thesamparr need a well worn selvedge pair transformed to this.

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@frontpageaaron unless i missed it...i saw zero acknowledgment of his involvement from the actual collaborator.

I guess sneaker designer now equals being invited to decide where the colors of a country's flag should be placed on an existing sneaker model meant to represent said country.

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@WTFJXR63 @LouisPisano yeah but let's be serious...every "sneaker blog" ever is essentially just an advertisement of products that are coming out. Maybe all time they've done like 2.5% true journalism type content.

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@DylanAbruscato not sure I've ever seen anyone sign their name and then print their name along with it.

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@futurecommerce the why is simple. these brands have the same product with little changes over decades. The only way to get attention is to attempt to insert their image into a current topic.

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@avstorm Imagine if they brought back og version of the app itself.

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@_magowan @gramsdidit Times change. It’s all a business. Fans follow the photog. These photogs on their own accounts promote the team by simply sharing their job.

It wouldn’t kill teams to give a lil tag or mention credit to their employee here and there, especially if the photo is remarkable.

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

my subway take is that people who don’t actually ever take the subway shouldn’t be allowed on subway takes.

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No point in telling anyone what’s going on in your life until what’s going on is complete.

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yet you still can't legitimately pay the creators a regular rate per view, @mosseri?

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Meta Instagram Reels is currently doing $50B of run rate revenue

Just Reels alone makes more revenue than Netflix, Nike, Coca Cola, Visa, Spotify, Uber and Airbnb

Let that sink in

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[blue @bluewmist]

Nobody tells you this: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It's the dopamine from reading, planning, or learning, but never doing. Stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.

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@LaModeUnknown So stupid with DIOR on it as well.

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@retro_dodo @iambrandonsalt Idk how any media survives without something that brings people back to interact in a space with the members of the community.

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@PaulTassi Hate to say it but wtf does any of your recent articles I just scrolled have to do with Forbes, historically speaking?

Forbes did practically the same thing thinking they needed to cover practically everything under the sun.

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@CubsCreator Bigger flex to wear a signed jersey.

What you gonna do look at it on your wall?

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@whorememberspod So accurate i want to believe it’s a parody of someone making this prediction back then.