David Stuart Snell

Writer, Director & occasional Photographer.
My feature thriller ‘I Bring Joy’ is out there for your viewing pleasure...

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

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.

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@YvetteCooperMP Follow the example set by nearly every other country and summon their foreign minister. Then go a step further and send Royal Navy vessels to accompany any future aid ships to the region.

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

The @LibDems should double down and make a referendum on rejoining the EU their election pledge. Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. #Brexit #RejoinEU

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

Nice to see another bit of promo for the indie I released last year 👍 https://t.co/qrelezvG9M

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

FIFA and 2026 World Cup tickets.

Nasty work.

[📸 @THINGEO]

He’s speaking the truth

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

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[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@SkyNews you’ve deactivated an audio channel on your VT packages. ‘Gold-fishing’ galore - apart from the narrator 🤣

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@mikemovies Great film. No question.

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@BFI His comment resonates. I couldn't drum up any interest for my last feature script so I cast, produced, directed, shot and edited it myself and 'I Bring Joy' won Best Feature Thriller at London IFF. It was truly hard but I needed to make the film any way I could. #indiefilm

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@FedExHelpEU Sent 🤞

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@FedExEurope @FedExHelpEU Here all day but nobody rang the bell or left a note and redelivery options are currently unavailable on your website - ready for your best suggestion to jumpstart your team into 'action'? #CustomerService

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

Really happy to say that the feature thriller I wrote, directed, cast, produced, shot, edited, and served as the single crew member for 95% of the filming is now streaming on @Tubi in the USA. If you have 90 mins free do give it a watch. #FilmNoir
https://t.co/31q5uTpkzA

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@intimissimi Sale price changes to full price when you add it to your basket 🤷🏻‍♂️ #CustomerService

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Added: Rishi Sunak located a digger, and dug himself much much deeper into the mess when he gave a shocker of a tone-deaf apology interview to pool reporters.

It's a continuous car crash, 6+ minutes of uninterrupted grinding metal and smashing glass.
https://t.co/GpoXFTapbH

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

Hugely grateful for this fabulous review!
Dark and twisted: I Bring You Joy - Review - Voice Magazine https://t.co/OuguBiC68e via @VoiceMagUK #indiefilm

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

Many thanks for awarding us 4.5 stars! #indiefilm I Bring Joy https://t.co/F1toFSFjn1

[David Stuart Snell @daveysnell]

@jeffreyhoward33 Totally agree with you.

[Film Threat @FilmThreat]

"…led by a powerful turn from Rivers..." I Bring Joy puts Bobby LePire on the edge of his seat.
https://t.co/1kUUUIMibg #SupportIndieFilm #IBringJoy #Thriller