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Dec 19 πŸ’ͺ 411 13 17 44.9k 1 .
Dec 19 Crazy 2 out of the top 3 richest people are called Larry? https://t.co/FmMoypeva9 102 1 34 37.4k 81 .
Dec 19 https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq 9 0 1 12.3k 23 .
Dec 19 πŸŽ„ Added Christmas lights to https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq 🌌 Remember those cosy days when you had time off school and you just computered πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή https://t.co/HfLjTMVZOD 110 4 26 96.4k 161 .
Dec 19 Idea for @xai team Let people import their conversation history / data from other LLM chat apps That'd make it much easier to switch from other apps because a big part of the lock-in of LLM chat apps is their memory about you https://t.co/ZoPV4FXswv 4.1k 121 288 301.9k 251 .
Dec 19 One of the coolest overlooked things with AI image and video generation is that you can use it manifest your future You want to terraform Mars? Generate it You want to be fit and ripped? Generate yourself as that Kinda like manifesting it by writing things down but when you generate it, it actually looks real and it feels more approachable and that can help you reach your dreams I think Or the counter: if you're not actionable, keeps you stuck in dreaming about it but now it looks like you already reached it because you have photos and videos of it 377 16 49 57.8k 558 .
Dec 19 https://t.co/rCYEB4Hhvz 431 8 19 46.7k 23 .
Dec 19 https://t.co/OoHLlyzYXp 4.2k 108 61 179.2k 23 .
Dec 18 So we lost the Chinese bottle so we can't test it Then again most creatine comes from China anyway 39 0 13 23.2k 99 .
Dec 18 I will be honest with you I got new creatine in Europe, same brand Optimum Nutrition It does taste different than the one we got in China from Taobao Whether the Optimum Nutrition in China was fake and laced with something we will never know... https://t.co/KMhu8alnYf 318 7 107 217.7k 271 .
Dec 18 I've fixed all the broken links, so now you can go from https://t.co/5xtZcNgaW0 my first post going digital nomad in 2013 To every travel post and then end up at the summary at the end of 2014 My end goal is to finish all the missing stuff that happened 2015-2020 too until I kinda switched to blogging on X again Maybe put it all in a book? 312 5 52 81.9k 346 .
Dec 18 No start a TikTok 386 5 57 105.2k 17 .
Dec 18 Every single @Airbnb booking I had in the last few years something was severely broken and we had to ask for a full of partial refund and half the times move to a hotel Airbnb customer support was very nice about it but probably cause I asked on here The core problem of Airbnb is that the reviews are moderated and mean nothing, if the reviews were actually real we'd know what properties to avoid 924 17 133 154.5k 400 .
Dec 18 If you understand anything about women then you know she's so in to him 11.7k 471 446 797.2k 71 .
Dec 18 Yes https://t.co/Jm8mtJL0nh is the first start of my journey in 2013 You can click through the next blog post in each blog mostly 628 17 35 241.2k 130 .
Dec 18 Big if true > @xai is working on their own inference chip (code-named X1) built on TSMC’s advanced 3 nm process. they should start initial production in 2026… 560 14 46 77.6k 162 .
Dec 18 I think one of these days someone is going to die at Lisbon Airport "Yesterday I waited almost 6 hours for my brother. He, his daughter, and thousands of people had to stand for 6 hours, without water, without food, without being able to go to the bathroom, and they even lost an entire day of tourism. This is neglect of the people. Shame" 433 15 53 203.5k 341 .
Dec 18 https://t.co/obZzeXsWci 122 2 4 89.3k 23 .
Dec 18 Okay I didn't know that but that's great too Also Google owns 14% of Anthropic Rumor is they also own a big % in Stripe 707 15 28 91.8k 121 .
Dec 18 Oh and Google's rise is also largely attributable to the work of one great man @OfficialLoganK Follow him 569 3 25 87.5k 107 .
Dec 18 I forgot one big reason why I also wanted to invest so much in Google They own @waymo And just like with AI the only ones who are serious contenders for self driving are Waymo (Google), Tesla and again the Chinese (with their EVs) Uber and Lyft will be wiped off the market, not even talking about all the classic car brands which might turn useless overnight too when self driving takes over worldwide Self driving cars will change society and our lives radically everyone says and I think too, and if you wanna invest in that, Waymo is one of the best ways via Google 1.1k 35 134 258.3k 573 .
Dec 17 So I bought over $1M in Google today Kinda crazy but also not so crazy I've been the biggest Google hater for years, it was completely mismanaged, destroyed by politics and lack of any leadership, fumbled inventing Transformers etc. Then Sergey returned and suddenly Google is dominating not just in the AI benchmarks and leaderboards but in real usage AI benchmarks can and are easily rigged But me running an AI startup and always wanting to use the best models makes me conclude something basic now: it's really just Google and Elon Musk and the Chinese in the end who will probably win The models I use are all by either Google, xAI, or the Chinese (ByteDance, Kling, Minimax) As you know Google now has its own chips (TPUs), Google has the biggest data set in video (YouTube), images (Google images) and generally the web (for LLMs), still the one of the biggest general user bases (Google Search etc), and they finally have a real engineer being the de facto CEO now (Sergey Brin) Elon Musk with xAI you can't bet against cause he simply has the sheer willpower to get things done The Chinese are similar, sheer willpower and they don't sleep and they really want to win, and companies like ByteDance (TikTok) have massive data sets in video too of course In my opinion everyone is still staring too much at LLMs, I've always been more interested in image models, video models and now the nascent 3d and world models, that's where it's going and where we'll be able to prompt entire worlds or apps or whatever, it's hard to imagine WHAT exactly With my app Photo AI I try be a little part of that journey there of course Now I can't invest in xAI, I'm a bit invested in the Chinese via the ICHN ETF, but of course Google anyone can invest in and so I think I should I've reduced my Nvidia investments already months ago, as it was inevitable there'd be real competitors to their chips at some point, with Google's TPUs there are now I'm not an expert, and you should mostly just buy ETFs, and you shouldn't listen to me and this is not financial advice 6.9k 265 544 2.74M 2.1k .
Dec 17 If I think of an AI agent, I think of something that can autonomously operate Claude Code etc still just respond to what I tell them 325 5 140 80.2k 133 .
Dec 17 ⏰ 4 minutes from X feature request to new feature by @nikitabier https://t.co/NUPHu0QtHg 1k 15 94 166.2k 88 .
Dec 17 Like this https://t.co/0miuZFoj5S 123 0 7 26.9k 33 .
Dec 17 Feature request for X iOS @nikitabier We need a history tab of what we saw So that when we saw some video but we forget it or lose it we can go back 2.6k 31 136 372k 151 .
Dec 17 Updated GitHub iOS, still same bug Wrong number entered, but I can't even enter a number? @github 5 1 3 14.6k 99 .
Dec 16 New word "Clankerphiles" 67 5 10 32.2k 24 .
Dec 16 So I am working on new stuff but it's mostly features https://t.co/sGYUI4N6gD 59 1 7 38k 78 .
Dec 16 It started here: https://t.co/tqhTVxbRG7 36 2 2 22.2k 40 .
Dec 16 ✨ I'm getting very very close to the original vision I had for Photo AI when I started it 3 years ago which was essentially: [ πŸ“Έ Photography Simulator 2025 ] I wanted to 100% be able to simulate being a real photographer, and what that means is actually being able to move the camera around a subject I think I'm getting really close now by integrating @theworldlabs, it lets me put real people into a 3d world that you can then move around in with WASD and your mouse Then my idea is you have a [ πŸ“Έ Take photo ] button there to turn that shot into a new photo with AI I'm not there yet but I'm getting close I think, one thing is that World Labs still suck at people and faces, although if I just ask the AI to take only the angle of the pic maybe that's not a problem so much I first used World Labs on Interior AI where it lets people move around in their re-styled interior design, I thought it'd be a gimmick maybe and few would use it, but now it's one of the most used features Anyway very exciting!!!! 😊 1k 36 58 418.1k 1k .
Dec 16 Any idea why my @GitHub login is broken for months? I try login to @GodelTerminal for example It says approve via GitHub app, so I do and then it says wrong number, but it didn't even ask me to enter a number? Actually I can't even login to GitHub itself either if I wasn't logged in already πŸ€” 82 5 32 44.4k 296 .
Dec 16 "I'm going to sell a big chunk of my portfolio, pause my monthly DCA buys, and hunker down in a defensive position for a few months." S&P500 grew 12% in the last 6 months, so if it continues, he misses out on this Then when he decides "okay it won't crash now I'm gonna buy back in" Then it actually crashes so he lost 12% return + crash vs just the crash if he remained in the market 94 0 16 23.1k 387 .
Dec 16 https://t.co/q6bpKAEhTt 1.1k 40 48 85.7k 23 .
Dec 16 Statistically it's unlikely he can time the market crash so he is likely to lose money by missing out on the gains that are still to happen Also statistically he is guaranteed to lose money with this by missing out on the rise back up (which he also can't time) The only one winning here is his broker who wins from all the fees of selling and buying But there is a tiny odd he does bet it right !remindme 6 months 344 10 51 93.7k 418 .
Dec 16 Okay @JohnONolan told me he is the opposite and has never had more ideas 175 0 15 46.2k 72 .
Dec 16 6 months later and nobody talks about Tea app anymore Which proves it was artificially pumped UGC marketing Like so many apps these days Flash in the pan and then disappear 377 3 62 77.5k 176 .
Dec 16 People keep asking me "are you working on something new?" and I'm not and it's because I don't have any real new ideas or problems to solve? Also AI in 2022 was groundbreaking you had the first image model, then the first real LLM, then video a year later, then 3d Now most of it is iterative, the image model is better, the LLM is better, the video model is better, everything gets better So there's less stuff to jump on for me technologically I think unless I go deeper and develop it myself I guess What's weird is most of my friends I ask "do you have any new ideas you're working on?" and they also have nothing, maybe it's some collective thing (I don't know so that's why I post it) 1.3k 18 296 408.9k 694 .
Dec 16 One of the consistently weird thing I experience with hotels anywhere is when they ask you for feedback Or well maybe it's my misunderstanding that they ask for feedback I remember the hotel manager would stand in the lobbby of Kimpton Maa-Lai in Bangkok and talk to the guests every day, and he talked to me and @AndreyAzimov "How do you like your stay? If there's anything you don't like, please let me know" And of course we had a list of feedback of things that could be improved, he then said "Thank you. If there's anything you don't like, please let me know" Like some fucking robot? We were kinda flabbergasted, we just told you? Another hotel I gave feedback "The coffee takes 20 minutes to arrive at breakfast, I think because there's only 1 person staffed at the coffee machine" "We're terribly sorry to hear your stay has not been perfect, we have put a handwritten card in your room, a bottle of red wine and fresh fruit" Okay but that how does that solve the coffee situation πŸ˜‚ It's like some collective hotel school psychopath training that thinks the best reaction to customer feedback is to flat out ignore it and instead give the guest some free stuff Maybe it's because I'm in startups and if my customer gives me feedback, I try immediately fix it so the next customer doesn't have the same problem Which for me as a customer makes me feel more happy too, I like to improve the experience of a product or service, for myself (so it's better next time) and for other people too Very interesting 649 11 105 72.1k 1.5k .
Dec 16 Oh I have to add he's European ofc 97 0 7 23.1k 34 .
Dec 16 I don't know if things have changed But every time I told my dad (a retired cardiologist) about doing preventive MRIs and body scans etc He said "yes Piet with any scan, you will find lots of stuff that looks malign (bad) but is mostly benign (good), but you're unsure so you start cutting in the body, doing invasive stuff, doing treatment and that's how you actually make someone sick who was fine before" An example would be prostate cancer which apparently most men have latent cancer cells of anyway after age 50 and it's slowly growing but doesn't mean it will kill them I'd love to hear counters to this though as I want to be a believer in preventative medicine, and do blood work and checkups regularly too 1.1k 21 264 173.6k 719 .
Dec 15 Ok so my gf said it nicely, so most hotels these days suck pretty bad with shit service, and every place you visit it's some new hotel that sucks and even if it you're lucky to find one that doesn't, there's too much variance in quality with hotels So a yacht is just your house on the sea and it just goes with you wherever you go, you can go visit a place and when you wanna go back, you just go on your boat and everything is the same as how it was yesterday cause you didn't have to switch hotels, and risk the probabiltiy that you enter some new enshittified experience So I think that's what yachts are for rich people, just a super consistent experience that they can control (with their own consistent staff) etc. 675 13 62 127.1k 723 .
Dec 15 https://t.co/ACJudy2DOS 826 15 42 76.2k 23 .
Dec 15 Excellent high IQ rebuttal that if you work from your $450M yacht remotely you can actually be happy like Gabe Newell 381 7 24 87.9k 117 .
Dec 15 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ You probably already heard this but interesting story in the context of what I was talking about American iRobot filed for bankruptcy and is now owned by the Chinese company that actually produced their products, called Shenzhen PICEA Shenzhen PICEA did something very smart, they bought up a lot of the debt that iRobot had and couldn't pay and through that managed to get full ownership of iRobot when it went bankrupt It's another story of the Chinese manufacturer acquiring their Western brand A similar story happened with Segway in 2015, where the Chinese company that cloned them called Ninebot managed to acquire the original they cloned, Segway I don't know what the strategy here is but I think it's to own the Western brand name iRobot and Roomba which still has a lot of brand awareness worldwide (as the original inventor of the vacuum robot) and gives the Chinese legitimacy 2.4k 193 133 831.1k 896 .
Dec 15 This is Sergey Brin's yacht He got so bored of sitting on this $450M yacht that he had to get out and go create things again The only true long-term satisfaction for man is to create, either things, or babies https://t.co/I6hogFp8jZ 7.5k 428 262 2.35M 234 .
Dec 15 TIL there's a giant subset of people who have no idea how to cross their eyes?! 115 1 38 55.3k 79 .
Dec 15 And cost of living is high everywhere with rent being the biggest problem And then also everywhere they're now against immigrants and foreigners cause too many came (and the wrong ones) And everyone just watches short videos all day Everyone's the same mostly everywhere cause of the internet 709 37 53 99.3k 295 .
Dec 15 Added top comment https://t.co/vkKq9ZKR5L 6 0 0 12k 41 .
Dec 15 X really is the Forum Romanum of our time I think A place where anyone can post anything and if it resonates it rises to the top of the global conciousness And then it gets debated by other people, and if they have good counter arguments, those also rise to the top And everyone learns in the process It's rapid collective iterative thought development on a global scale 756 53 77 68.3k 374 .
Dec 15 Also added hourly-updated Hacker News digest now! https://t.co/670nIF6DB9 21 1 3 16.6k 73 .
Dec 15 Funny story We wanted to show @csonotes the Tesla Y self driving, well more like lane assist because FSD is banned in Europe/Portugal It drove around and then managed to crash itself into one of the big stone balls on the sidewalk, rekt the rims So literally a computer can't even fit the 2 meter wide Tesla Y in the Portuguese streets, let alone a human πŸ˜‚ The top sold car in Portugal is 1.7 meter wide btw 168 1 43 80.3k 411 .
Dec 15 Man is made to create, not retire 4.9k 400 114 355.6k 33 .
Dec 15 Me driving my Tesla Y through Lisbon 269 3 30 122.6k 36 .
Dec 15 This is super easy, not some autistic super genius thing You just cross your eyes and overlap the two images And the diff shows up as flashing in your eyes I learnt this with those fake 3d magazines you could get as a kid, 2 images and then you cross your eyes to see the 3d 996 22 162 201.5k 277 .
Dec 15 Never I think people like my blog posts on here cause they see it's absolutely not AI, just real me writing on my phone The only thing I do is fact check with AI to pre-empt the reply army correcting me 297 4 45 46.6k 204 .
Dec 14 Someone else said "America is a socialist country pretending to be capitalist. China is a capitalist country pretending to be socialist" 2k 127 126 451.6k 137 .
Dec 14 Really cool website I discovered today called https://t.co/HhfVMjejO7 which lets you check the live arrival queue time for any airport in the world Very useful with European (and some American) airports now just becoming by default very slow when you arrive to get through immigration If anyone knows the founder, I'd love to add this data to πŸŽ’ https://t.co/UXK5AFqCaQ and let it affect the ranking because arriving in a place fast and smoothly is a big part of what makes it attractive to travel to (for me) 3.1k 160 113 412.8k 510 .
Dec 14 Anyone know what's Baidu GenFlare 2.0? It showed up in the video model rankings but I don't see anywhere I can run it? https://t.co/ZSYFbKrePI 359 15 23 96.4k 142 .
Dec 14 πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί European Commission 524 11 10 87.8k 22 .
Dec 14 πŸ—žοΈ More new email features on https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI (of course) which writes directly into /Home/web/Maildir/cur, which is the location of the emails And like before you can reply to the email and it will show up in your inbox and everyone else's 138 11 13 95.8k 475 .
Dec 14 I think China then successfully reset the decel parts of Confucianism during the Cultural Revolution The decel parts being walking on eggshells from having too many social scripts and not being able to be direct ever (like you have in Korea, Japan and lesser so in Taiwan) Because the Chinese I met were super direct and open about their lives (the good and bad) I saw in the last few weeks meeting them all over China Very very very very different than the Japanese and Koreans (where I've both lived) 488 24 78 110.4k 505 .
Dec 14 I'm always surprised why the Koreans didn't get richer I studied there, I lived there and I don't really have a real strong reason why They work really hard I guess one thing that could be a barrier is that in public life nobody can be direct and everything is ruled by unwritten rules of behavior (a lot like Japan) that they can only escape in private settings or when they get drunk Not being direct slows things down a lot especially in innovation In Korean startups I remember they'd use English names to avoid the hierarchy that came with Korean names (like you add words to the name for people older or younger than you etc. which would mean you can't rly go against ppl older than you) In China everyone I meet is hyper direct, pragmatic and very open (kinda like how I try to be on here and IRL) Maybe that's part of it? 14.6k 674 503 4.93M 836 .
Dec 14 I meant biggest physically not biggest selling 24 1 3 14.1k 46 .
Dec 14 Ratio'd the πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί EC gg πŸ˜‚πŸ‘Œ 750 13 15 46.7k 23 .
Dec 14 I meant that $1,000 to fly somewhere is never cheap if most people make $2,000/mo Not that Qatar isn't cheap, yes it's actually affordable for business class, I agree 68 0 9 23.5k 167 .
Dec 14 About $1B to $3.5B invested per year in startups by the Saudis 255 5 20 58.2k 62 .
Dec 14 One of the main things I learnt from the fall of the Spanish and Portuguese empires is that they both never re-invested their wealth They instead built gold plated palaces (see the one in Mafra full of Brazilian gold) and other types opulence And they thought the colonies would remain forever so they were fully dependent on the wealth from there (sugar, gold, silver, coffee) But once they became independent, they lost a large share of their GDP overnight, Portugal lost about 80% of their income after Brazil went independent in 1822! If they would instead have re-invested the wealth, they could have developed industry and new businesses but they became resource dependent instead One interesting thing about the relatively young states of UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia is that they do exactly that. UAE and Qatar heavily invest their oil money to become destinations to live and Saudi Arabia is one of the top investors in tech startups worldwide On a personal level I also learnt from this to do the same, don't waste the money you made on assets that don't return (like cars, boats, general opulence) Instead try to re-invest most of it so you get income from new sources so that if the income sources that made you the wealth (for me my startups) eventually dry up (almost guaranteed in business, see the business or "product life cycle") you have already switched to the new industry I personally do that through ETFs, stocks, real estate and a little bit of startup investing So yes don't be like the Spanish or Portuguese empire πŸ‘Œ 3.3k 322 219 614.7k 1.6k .
Dec 14 No way https://t.co/ZqhhuHCDGT 391 13 44 89.5k 30 .
Dec 14 Once you look you start seeing Chinese vehicles everywhere around the world, here the Yutong electric bus in Qatar https://t.co/TH7WJx2TBW 413 14 37 73.1k 138 .
Dec 14 πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ If you fly business class with @qatarairways, you get this special arrival reception, passport control and security They have some snacks and fresh coffee and a lounge you can chill after a long flight if you want Very nice Business at Qatar starts at about $1,000, not cheap (but business class never is), but it's fully worth it especially for seeing Doha's amazing airport and getting the business class facilities there (like the jacuzzi!) In my opinion the #1 airport in the world and #1 airline in the world, which is why I always try fly with them 1.8k 101 143 1.12M 561 .
Dec 13 We have a new guy doing the thing Let's see where he gets in 6 months 305 10 32 83.4k 70 .
Dec 13 βœ… Fixed https://t.co/vwaJlQgLOO 4k 369 62 181k 31 .
Dec 13 πŸ’― https://t.co/Exbd6DWWla 160 7 34 31.5k 25 .
Dec 13 πŸ“‘ I got 100+ mbps plane internet on @qatarairways with @Starlink 😊 Very cool!!!! And the coolest was no annoying login, just straight connecting to the WiFi and you're in Great work Qatar + Starlink, this is how every airplane WiFi should be, fast and simple πŸ‘ https://t.co/183jAGM51M 1.3k 29 66 1.21M 288 .
Dec 13 Grok puts China in 2025 at about Japan in 1970 So just before their boom to high quality and world dominance: "In summary, China has largely moved past the "purely low-quality" phase (like Japan's 1950s) and is in active ascent (like Japan's 1970s), with full reputation reversal likely in the coming decade if trends continueβ€”especially as brands like BYD, Huawei, and Xiaomi gain more international traction. The journey isn't complete, but the momentum is strong in priority areas." 127 0 17 26.7k 487 .
Dec 13 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Another very popular EV brand in China (and elsewhere) is NIO Apparently this is the biggest EV on the market now https://t.co/8Qlj15JnCq 976 92 76 431.1k 141 .
Dec 13 Japan was famous for extremely low quality goods, until they were suddenly not, China is the same: "Japan was historically known for producing low-quality goods, particularly in the immediate post-World War II era through the 1950s and into the 1960s In the late 1940s and 1950s, "Made in Japan" often signified cheap, shoddy, or imitation products, similar to how "Made in China" is sometimes perceived today. Japanese exports, such as toys, textiles, transistor radios, and ceramics, were mass-produced quickly to rebuild the war-devastated economy, prioritizing quantity and low cost over durability. This led to a widespread international reputation for poor quality, with goods frequently seen as unreliable or knockoffs The perception began shifting in the 1960s as Japan adopted advanced quality management techniques, influenced by American experts like W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Juran. Japanese manufacturers embraced concepts like Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen (continuous improvement), and statistical process control, focusing on defect prevention rather than inspection." 942 73 69 99.7k 1.1k .
Dec 13 And here's the photo pack if you wanna try it with yourself https://t.co/ekhXnCKora 10 1 2 15.4k 83 .
Dec 13 Every single time they're German πŸ˜‚πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ https://t.co/o7Hxy0Ilk9 341 7 53 107.8k 60 .
Dec 13 Yes, big cognitive differences without creatine, I'm more forgetful, less sharp, less energetic 386 4 50 69.2k 95 .
Dec 13 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese EVs have been taking the world by storm, whether you like it or not When I look around here on the street in China I try recognize the car brands and I see so many brands I don't know One brand I see a lot is LI, but also BYD, Zeekr and XPeng Apparently there's now 129 (!) EV brands in China producing cars, which kinda shows the massive scale of the EV boom here There's a real historical parallel here with the US a hundred years ago, where there were about 2,000 new American car companies in America. Of course most failed, and only a few remained The same is predicted for China, where only 15 EV brands are predicted to survive in a decade, so a real battle is going down here now to see who will win One interesting thing is that there is one American brand that is remarkably present here, and that's Tesla, you see Teslas everywhere, the Tesla Y often holds the top spot for most cars sold in China, and you see Tesla superchargers here a lot What's also interesting is that where Elon Musk gets so much hatred in the West (not from me), in China he's revered as a hero. Elon is a high IQ engineer and successful entrepreneur. And it's a real artefact of the culture that Chinese respect that kind of person while in the West if you're rich, successful and smart you're seen as a bad person by at least half of society. I think that says a lot about our society and how we educate people in the West and we should really reconsider that. Engineering and entrepreneurship are the key stones of a functioning society. Engineering invents new things and entrepreneurs turn those inventions into businesses that bring them to people. Without both, you don't have jobs, money, and well, prosperity! Chinese culture seems to understand this well, which is why they like Elon Musk and still drive Teslas as one of the few Western cars here. Anyway to continue, in this video I visited the Huawei store and I have to add a correction, because due to new Chinese regulation that requires car brands to fully own their manufacturing, Huawei has "officially" separated their car business, but in fact they still fully design the car, sell the car, and get most of the profit from it. They just can't call it a Huawei car anymore Huawei is interesting because they produce everything, phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and, well indirectly, EV cars too A similar brand is Xiaomi, who actually do own the manufacturing of their EV, and their EV is one of the fastest growing in sales in China It's a real slap in the face for the West I feel that Apple, the creator of the iPhone, wasn't able to produce a car and cancelled their car project, when many of the Chinese phone companies are producing their own cars now with relative ease Of course the iPhone is produced in China, and manufacturing is in China, so being closer to the manufacturing physically, it must have been easier to design a car, than try to do it remotely from Apple's office in Cupertino But it does seem significant that we couldn't do this While I'm writing this the news comes in that Germany's car and greater manufacturing industry is tanking, their energy costs have gone up 2-3x due cutting off the Russian gas, and they've simply become too expensive overnight Germany's car industry, the historical center of car production in the world with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Volkswagen, has started laying off 100,000+ employees and scaling down their production due to declining sales, which are a direct result of the competition from China offering cheaper, more advanced EVs with better software than the Germans And I mean you can feel it, I walk around in EV car stores here and the cars look great, the interior looks modern, the software is miles ahead of the clunky interfaces of German cars, most EVs here have a little cute robot on the dashboard that you talk to, so you never have to touch the screen anymore to do anything, like "switch on the wipers" or "route me to my hotel" etc. The EVs here honestly do not feel cheap, they're well built and comfortable Europe has tried to stop the rise of the Chinese EVs in the European market with a 45% tariff, but even with that tariffs, many Europeans still prefer to buy Chinese EVs over others, and they're still cheaper than the German cars! The US went further with a 100% tarrif, and that stopped them from being sold mostly in the US because it's not profitable anymore for the Chinese One thing I have to add which you probably know is that the Chinese government does heavily subsidize their EV industry (with about $230B+ in the last decade), it's not a secret and their subsidies do not compare to the ones the US and EU provide for their industries, which gives Chinese EV companies the (unfair) advantage to produce them at a discount and sell them abroad cheaper, which is exactly why the EU and US put tariffs on them Even with the subsidies, the engineering and production and software is impressive and feels very modern, I'm a Tesla fan, own a 2025 Tesla Y, but the Chinese EVs feel and look more modern to me. They usually have more screens, more features etc. There's real innovation happening here it feels like And that's kinda the conclusion you get being in China with every industry, they've already by far departed from being cheap clones of Western products, they're now at the next stage of adding their own features and ideas, which is what we always criticize Chinese on "they're not creative", well they are creative, they just start from the point where Western products are now, and then start innovating from there (instead of starting from scratch fully, I mean, why would they?) If you ask Grok how does the future of the Western car industry look like, especially the European/German ones, it's pessimistic. The only positive it can find is that maybe European brands can focus on premium and exclusivity. Like they do with Hermes hand bags, but then do the same with cars. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are of course luxury brands and they could survive by remaining premium and make money that way. But the regular middle and low end of car production in Europe (and America?) will most probably be wiped out and replaced by the Chinese I think That is if the Americans and Europeans will keep allowing them into their markets But even if they don't, the Chinese are happily going to the rest of the world like South America, the Middle East or the rest of Asia where you see BYDs literally everywhere As a European this does feel bittersweet, but then again we've all been shouting from the roof tops for years that this would happen if you didn't create a pro-business climate where startups would sprout, so now it's kinda "I told you so" 1.7k 161 211 585.9k 6.7k .
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Dec 13 https://t.co/36Q53HT7xv 8.1k 424 77 756.3k 23 .
Dec 13 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Amap (in Chinese ι«˜εΎ·εœ°εœ– Gaode Map) is my favorite navigation app in China Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong, when we told the staff they said "yes Google Maps isn't used in China", it is so useless in China that even the city grid and roads are positioned wrongly on top of the satellite map, so it doesn't seem to be maintained at all by Google But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English It also has more features like cute 3d maps and showing the live status of the stoplight like many other apps in China do too 3.7k 271 168 1.47M 731 .
Dec 13 Fixed it https://t.co/ZH2ruAPnJP 18 0 1 44.2k 32 .
Dec 13 I feel like a junkie measuring out my 🍚 creatine on the hotel room floor https://t.co/Lcx5I6sgZ3 607 6 221 272.9k 96 .
Dec 13 Ok for some reason 'model'=>'grok-4' is very slow But 'model=>grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning' is as fast as the chat! 54 4 12 41.7k 121 .
Dec 13 People don't know this but If you tweet your thoughts and it goes viral, many times it ends up in the meetings of BigTech or politicians And sometimes they tell you https://t.co/KzQNsm9zFM 666 7 33 117.8k 190 .
Dec 13 This is so good 1.9k 93 50 168k 15 .
Dec 13 Actually this took less than a second in SuperGrok @xai But 29 seconds on the API! https://t.co/MBBCOqtpR0 89 2 14 64.3k 108 .
Dec 13 Here's the pics https://t.co/Jb6NOXQDTO 17 0 7 26.4k 39 .
Dec 13 This actually looks like the famous Ellum from Maceo Plex's Boiler Room set (I'm probably the only one who knows this lmfao) https://t.co/l1xoMJL0UY https://t.co/ZNeHANZSaG 27 1 6 74.4k 173 .
Dec 13 🎧 So I made a DJ photo pack on Photo AI Then I tried to turn the photos into videos to see what would happen I was expecting to be bad, some cheesy EDM stuff, but it actually created kinda experimental weird still good sounding techno, very different The second video especially is some weird semi syncopated beat, I love it, very different The third video is panic attack inducing techno, very dark and also nice πŸ‘Œ 160 5 38 114.3k 420 .
Dec 13 This seems to happen often these days when I'm in a plane Especially during boarding or taxiing, there's engine bleed air that smells like heavy kerosine I always try cover my face with my hoodie tightly which @grok says reduces your intake of the toxic fumes by 50-80% Because the particles are relatively big so simple thick fabric stops it quite well The risks to your brain of toxic bleed air are real, so better not inhale it Plane maintenance is suffering in many places which is another part of enshittification 1.4k 62 78 250.5k 523 .
Dec 12 It was really nice hosting @javilopen a few weeks ago And he wrote a little story about it, which shows you a little bit of my life when we're at home and not traveling/nomading 😊 384 8 20 101.8k 180 .
Dec 12 Okay I made the whole button become a 🍌 banana now 😊 https://t.co/ea2KDBrErr 160 3 25 148.6k 76 .
Dec 12 Oh wait it's like SUPER old unread DMs??? 23 1 6 13.8k 41 .
Dec 12 I keep getting this things showing I have DMs on iOS Then I check and there's no new DMs https://t.co/t7cr5d9688 75 0 40 20.3k 113 .
Dec 12 πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή It's been an amazing few weeks in Asia and what I noticed is I'm not complaining about anything here Things. Just. Work. We still have to deal with some stuff in Portugal though because we live there We ordered furniture and it arrived broken And it's almost the exact same experience every single time when you buy something in Portugal, the sales is excellent, they promise you the world and respond fast, they come to your house with beautiful iPad presentations "oh yes everything is possible" Then once you pay, things rapidly change They stop responding fast, or responding at all, the promised dates of delivery aren't made at all, things get delayed for weeks or many many months, and when things arrive at all, half the time (at least!) they arrive broken or wrong And then you're in a real sour spot because in Portugal after sales service literally just does not exist, like really, it does not exist, you simply won't be able to reach anyone, which is what we experience almost every single time here And before people say I'm making this shit up, these days I just screen record everything to prove you as I did with this furniture store In this case as you can see, the official after service phone line simply does not exist πŸ˜‚ (very common in Portugal) and the main store doesn't ever pick up their phone either (also very common in Portugal!) I'm not a complainer, I'm a very positive optimistic guy But I hope it's a warning to anyone considering moving to Portugal It's a beautiful country and it has its merits, but Portuguese businesses are not one of them, and their culture of doing business is downright robbery "Take your money and disappear" is the motto! 963 39 210 324.1k 1.7k .
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