Darsh Thakkar

lately i’m into interactive art, data visualization, building music festival apps and chess!
product manager @microsoftteams formerly built @productbuds

[Tactical Manager @ManagerTactical]

Norway’s 🇳🇴 goal was disallowed because of this soft Haaland push and FLOP from the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 player…

Game is dead, this is ridiculous.

[Mark Valorian @markvalorian]

I have to be honest: I can’t take this World Cup seriously anymore.

3 outcomes now directly impacted by very questionable VAR interventions.

Croatia, Egypt, and now Norway.

A goal taken away because VAR intervened over a dive, and a goal scored against them because a ball hit a cable and they didn’t.

As an impartial observer, the outcome no longer feels legitimate.

[FF TV @FFTVofficial]

💥 Alexander Sörloth’un bu pozisyonda Haaland'a pas vermemesi sonrası Norveç taraftarları çileden çıktı.

[not so hourly haaland 𐙚 @hourlyerling]

it's free kick but they’re busy flirting

[Darsh Thakkar @darshthakkar96]

@justinchando go justin!! 🔥

[Darsh Thakkar @darshthakkar96]

@madebytushar @dyslexiabuddy super cool! you are building awesome stuff

proud of you 👏🏽

[Darsh Thakkar @darshthakkar96]

@madebytushar @justinchando let’s get this for Teams next! @MicrosoftTeams

[can @marmaduke091]

Unbelievable stuff is possible with AI models

Using Kling 3.0, reimagining RDR 2 in India

What game should be next?

[Darsh Thakkar @darshthakkar96]

@madebytushar @bobbyrayit @fayfers 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Dave Nick @iamdavenick]

Wow... I lost 1,000,000 subscribers.

And all my childhood videos.

AI moderation is out of control @YouTube

Their AI bot claims I violated "dangerous content policy" by claiming "guaranteed returns" or promoting a pyramid scheme.

I've never done any of that and can prove endlessly.

All I did was document trying and testing online businesses since 13 years old.

- I have never promoted scams.
- I have never put my community at danger.
- I have never violated terms intentionally, and when AI flagged my content, I corrected immediately.

If sharing business experience and lessons was so 'dangerous', then why did over 1,000,000 subscribe?

Why did over 400K people return every month to watch AGAIN?

I was getting thousands of messages a week from people who found my free content useful.

Knowing I've done nothing wrong, I just thought I'll appeal, they'll see AI made a mistake, and my life's work will be given back to me.

I appealed multiple times, and every time I did, I just got a generic response that they won't return my channel.

We had 14 full time employees who depended on this channel to feed their families.

So YouTube's AI response not only affects me, but affects our team, and millions of people whose lives were positively impacted by this channel.

I have been in this space since 2011, and it's heartbreaking to witness AI police bully the whole @YouTubeCreators community.

Over a decade of sweat and tears gone in an instant.

And I am not the only one that got unfairly removed.

Incompetence of AI moderation has financially and emotionally damaged millions of creators.

I'm not making this post to beg for sympathy, but as a warning to all creators.

If AI can do this to me with over a decade of content and a community of 1,000,000+ people...

Then no one is safe anymore.

So what can you do?

1) Own your audience.

Use YouTube to get discovered, and funnel that audience to a community, group, or email list outside.

2) Retweet this.

If we spread awareness far enough, more people will learn about AI police brutality on YouTube.

3) If you’ve had a similar experience, reply. I’m collecting stories.

4) Keep serving your community.

Got wrongfully removed? Okay, it's not fair, but you have to keep going.

Your audience went to you for a reason. They trust you and you should never let them down.

So find strength to rebuild from scratch.

It might take a year, 5 or even 10, but time will pass anyways.

And you only lose if you stop playing.

Lots of love,
- Dave🫶🏻

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The slow motion version of Cole Palmer’s fake pass and hesitation is pure art

[guglielmo @_guglielmo]

@cognition_labs https://t.co/JRIui4i86b

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

if you thought this whole situation couldn't be more "silicon valley", wait till you find out that the windsurf office is the actual set where the show was filmed 🤯

[Tushar @madebytushar]

it’s time

[Darsh Thakkar @darshthakkar96]

what does a product manager even do?

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Flat design is over. The future is colorful and dimensional.

[The Current Guy @_currentguy]

@Skype One more time, for old times' sake.

[Tushar @madebytushar]

seeing everybody's spotify wrapped got me thinking, what if apple fitness had a wrapped too?

couldn't find it so i decided to build it! planning on launching later this week :)

if you're curious about your fitness this year, join the waitlist! https://t.co/8FllUDbhF0

[Rithwik Jayasimha @thel3l]

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India

So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:

[Microsoft Teams @MicrosoftTeams]

🎃 Microsoft Teams is now free for personal use! Sign up with a personal email or phone number today—then start planning this year's virtual pumpkin carving competition over chat or by video call: https://t.co/oeTU27cg5n