I've spent the last few years developing new products for startups working in network protocol frontiers:

A decentralized search engine for Holepunch, a proprietary bot detection circumvention platform for Rabbit's AI agents, and the P2P proxy system for a U.S. State Department-backed censorship circumvention VPN, to name a few.

Before that, I founded Weird Tools — a startup building "the network layer for movies." Our tech demo acquired 1M+ users and became kind of famous for abusing scraped Instagram content — Fast Company called it "delightfully disturbing," SFist called it "strangely fascinating," and Boing Boing called it "awesome."

In 2019, I was named a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio fellow in artificial intelligence.

I won Mozilla's $50,000 award for AI.

I won a Webby for Stealing Ur Feelings, an AI-powered interactive film which analyzes your face to reveal the threats to our liberty posed by emotional surveillance. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, exhibited at the Tate Modern, made the front page of Y Combinator's Hacker News, and was profiled by MIT, Scientific American, the Museum of the Moving Image, Engadget, CBC News, and many more.

(The project was somewhat notoriously plagiarized by the Financial Times. I wrote about that for The American Prospect.)

I invented a fake mobile app for chill dudes which confused a bunch of journalists.

I've spoken at institutions including NYU, Mila, and the Royal Society of Arts. I've appeared on the CBC, London's Resonance FM, and Italy's Rai3, among others.

I was born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. I grew up in the last days of the underground BBS scene — hacking payphones, coding DOS demos, and forever avoiding school.

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