mktguy.bsky.social
I'm just a marketing guy. I also may have opinions on tech, sales, the creator economy, sustainability, AI, brand strategy, design, or foreign policy. In that order.
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You'd be less worried about a GPT taking your job if we had an unemployment and social security system that people can trust, had access to actual job retraining programs, or a national social safety net.
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If you are like me, you used to wonder how the people of Germany stood by while the Nazis tore apart their country.
Now I think I get it.
It doesn’t start with evil men. It starts with silence, fear, and all of us making excuses and looking the other way.
We must not let that happen here.
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ICE isn't a venerable US institution. It was formed in 2003 with the patriot act. These are Gestapo tactics. Once introduced, they’re hard to walk back—and not just for immigration. They’ll be used again, under some partial truth or manufactured threat. That’s how civil liberties erode.
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But here’s the fear we don't name:
We are normalizing enforcement practices that undermine our constitutional rights as Americans. Warrantless arrests. Plainclothes officers in unmarked cars bundling people away. No due process or 4th amendment. Military vs. civilians.
How can we allow this?
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42% of US farm workers are undocumented. Remove them, and we’ll face higher costs, lower output, and empty fields. Demand stays the same but prices don't... and not to be blunt like emily, but nobody needs or wants higher prices right now, nevermind other countries who we export our goods to.
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It’s also bad economics. About 13M people in the US—roughly 4% of the population—are undocumented. Most work low-wage jobs in farming, food service, or labor. Many of those jobs won’t be filled even at double the pay, and business owners, customers, and the American economy is what suffers.
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Being undocumented isn’t a crime—it’s a civil violation. If we don’t want immigrants here, we need to stop them at the border, or pass laws require proof of citizenship as a work requirement.
But deporting people after they’ve built lives and tearing apart families? That’s wrong. It's unjust.
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Video is crazy too. 500 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube and AI has access to all of it, and can make it more interesting, with better picture and audio then we can and in any language.
It's hard to predict the second order effects of this....
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I want to believe content that feels human will be rare and precious. “Written by a real person” will be a flex. Musings on what the color we can't see might look like. A review of a doughnut shop, or the struggles to cook them right at home. If the future is AI at scale it's one of humans at soul.
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AI can summarize everything except the stuff we haven't figured out yet. So anything new, weird, personal, and/or emotional are blindspots. Gimme a first-time product use. An honest review or hot take. This is optimism talking, but shouldn't human curation and voice matter more and not less?
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💯. If you were a mod, you had fewer and fewer tools. But now they just made it completely impossible.
Subreddits are going to require people to turn on their post history, real engagement is going to fall, everything that makes Reddit unique is going to be diluted...the enshittification continues.
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It's just new age Christian fundies who reject the trinity (and the name Jesus).
...Because clearly, with world peace and poverty and suffering solved, the real crisis our world faces right now is how Catholics and Protestants do math with god.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAth...
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Sounds like a natural worry. Its hard to build something and raise it up. When you know something or someone better than anyone else in the world, what you know and see best are the flaws and weaknesses -- both in it and through it in yourself.
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We're on the same side--don't mean to pick a fight or Stan Nintendo. I just feel sympathy for a Creator that's adding value to the community by sharing the latest titles, keeping studios honest, and letting the rest of us decide whether it's worth the 80. Can we focus hate on corps, not creators?
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Looks like mid chat GPT thoughts and a copy-paste from my boy Tim.
The real story is over 210M DTC (if it's real) is insane w/ no retail. Crowded space? lot of lookalike celeb products? getting 800M is drunk elephant prices. its a fifth of what elf is doing! and she has just a few products!
wild.
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Why blame creators and not Nintendo for their decision to price games at $80? How is it worse than a $60 title plus $30 for a "season pass" to unlock characters and content, or SNES and N64 games that were $70 in the 90s (~$140 today).
Why unsub or get mad when you can just... not pay for it?
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Sac A's have a mascot named Stomper that thinks the marketing team needs to get demoted to pulling tarp.
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It’s no wonder so many creators talk openly about anxiety, imposter syndrome, and the struggle to keep going.
Remember: Behind the smiles and carefree lifestyle is someone doing the work of 3 people. Being a creator is hard—harder than it looks, and harder than most people will ever know.
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3rd, you’re a content machine. The internet never sleeps, and neither do the algorithms. You wake up knowing you need to produce, edit, and post something better than yesterday, something that will break through the noise. And that noise is deafening. What worked last week is already old news.
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Second, you’re running a business. Negotiating with sponsors, tracking analytics, hustling for deals, managing finances, and maybe even leading a small team. Every day is a balancing act between creativity and commerce. Artist vs CEO. You always are going to be worse at one of those two jobs.
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You’re the face of your brand. Always “on.” Every post is a performance, and the audience is always watching, always judging. You want to be authentic, relatable, and likable—but also to stand out. You’re not just sharing your life; you’re curating it, and the self-surveillance is dexhausting.
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Let's review:
More expensive. more specialized. harder to complete & finish. much worse for the planet without embodied carbon offsets. and here's the killer--3D may get cheaper at scale but its kinda hard to scale houses that look like absolute !@#$.
Shame on you for bullying OP. Be better.
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The slow and expensive part of building is running wires, plumbing, heating, roofing, laying floors and tiles, installing appliances, hardware and finishings, all of which are MUCH harder in a printed concrete home w/ no drywall, square corners or access.
First principles: The goal is cheaper.
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This is a myth that gets debunked again and again.
Not only that, we cant grow concrete like pine boards used to frame houses, which are so cheap and easy to install most houses get framed in a day (Prefab? Hours.)
But it gets worse: The slow and expensive part is literally everything else.
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Instead they crap on their temporary baseball home and act like they are ashamed to be there, when the real shame is that the Oakland A's have a head of marketing and communications that managed to fail so impressively and comprehensively at their job they make John Fisher look smart by comparison.
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Its also about following through with influencers and creators for a full campaign run. One hit spots aren't a good tactic. They're a gimmick.
If you cant commit to multiple videos or podcast spots, don't waste your time or your budget.
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Its also about following through with influencers and creators for a full campaign run. One hit spots aren't a good tactic. They're a gimmick.
If you cant commit to multiple videos or podcast spots, don't waste your time or your budget.
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HBO board comms: "Beloved shareholders, if you give us a dollar, we'll give you back 38 cents and pay our CEO a third of a billion dollars over the last 4 years."
Why tho?