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Dec 07 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese tourism is 95% domestic: this means most of the tourists you see in China are not foreigners but just other Chinese Even if we'd visit the most tourist places in China, we'd see maybe 1 Westerner (if we're lucky) vs. 10,000 Chinese Which honestly makes it a more fun place to visit to Maybe the most fun place I visited since I became a digital nomad in 2013 I thought about WHY I liked this so much, and I think one of the reasons traveling for me as a digital nomad starting 10+ years ago was so magical, was because it was NEW and there was barely anyone doing it, like there'd be 20 other digital nomads in Chiang Mai You felt a lot like Ernest Hemmingway, traveling to far away countries, interacting with people and observing the differences in culture and learning from them But things have changed a bit. There's now 2x more people traveling in the world than 15 years ago (from 900 million to now 1.8 tourist trips per year). By 2035, that'll be 3x more Now that everyone can travel anywhere (and also bring their laptop), travel has boomed, and there's a lot less places where you're still the only foreigner visiting Even if you go to some remote non-tourist place, you're bound to run into another Dutch, German, Brit, Spanish or American traveler every 5 minutes China feels like you are the only one there, and due to geopolitics it's more isolated from the West than ever, and many Westerners are scared to visit (whether that's valid or not) This makes people also really super super nice, because you're the odd one out, and they know that, so they'll do everything to help you and be very pragmatic at that too. And they're not tired of tourists/foreigners yet, more like excited to see you (because there simply is barely any) This video is obviously a very tourist spot, but most of the non-touristy things you see in China are not crowded like this, actually more like very spacious and not busy, which also makes it a very comfortable place to visit, because other places have become so crowded with tourism and just general travel, that they're overcapacity, and it's not fun China is generally under capacity, and that makes it generally smooth to travel here (okay maybe except this tourist spot :D) This spot btw is the Hongya Cave famous for being built into the rocks and full of lights, it actually looks sick from inside too, imagine building a house in Minecraft into the rocks, very cool and full of food and shops inside the rocks (it's where I took the food video from below) 1.8k 158 142 1.69M 2.5k .
Dec 07 ✨ You can now make TikTok carousels with Photo AI! I like seeing @onlinedopamine's tips how to do TikTok/IG slideshows so I thought it'd be nice to add this He says they get way more views than videos these days and if you do them well convert well also The cool thing with Photo AI real influencers can use it to make pics with themselves in it, so it's not artificial AI characters, they can actually use it for their content Prompts: 1) model with ponytail and white cap wearing pink string bikini, in a balinese coworking studio, bamboo walls, lush tropical plants, sunlight pouring through high windows, vibrant tropical decor, wearing relaxed business attire, thoughtful expression, soft natural lighting, candid workspace vibe. text overlay: "insane things i did as a digital nomad to become a self-employed baddie" and small letters below "(from a just graduated uni student) 2) photograph of model woman in a tranquil loft, warm amber glow from dozens of flickering candles, ornate sacred symbols etched in wood and glass, TikTok text overlay: "how i actually found myself spiritually again after being lost for years" 3) low angle view of model looking down into camera as corporate girlie in sleek high‑waist navy trousers, crisp white blouse, minimalist silver necklace, in a modern glass office. soft diffused daylight filters through windows, casting gentle shadows. background of city skyline. style: polished realism with subtle cinematic depth. TikTok text overlay: "best skill to surviving corporate?" . smaller text below (from a 5+ year corporate girlie) 523 34 26 348.8k 1.6k .
Dec 07 ✨ Photo AI already supported JSON prompts But now you can [ JSONify ] your regular prompts also into JSON with one-click, for better understanding with 🍌 Nano Banana Pro Whether AI models actually like JSON more, I doubt it, but it does force people/AI to be more descriptive and specific with the photo you're trying to create Like it defines pose, clothes, expression, backgrounds etc. all very detailed 426 35 35 91.8k 408 .
Dec 06 πŸ’Œ Sending emails on https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da also works again It's a massive undertaking because Eudora from 1995 only supports port 25 but Hetzner blocks port 25 So me and @bai0 had to IPTABLES forward the port 25 in the ISP to 587 to make it work But now you can send and receive emails to web@pieter.com again 79 3 13 114.6k 314 .
Dec 06 🍌 This also works for people on Photo AI, you can essentially 🩻 X-Ray people with it: "Model presented in a high-contrast scientific studio render against a pure black void. The photo features false-color thermal X-ray aesthetic, where the transparent shell reveals a sharply detailed internal architecture of body, using a vibrant heatmap gradient. The colors shift from deep cool blues to intense yellows and red highlights, creating a futuristic, clinical look with orthographic perspective and a soft, neon-like glow." Or if you want only bones and nerves: "Keep pose. Model presented in a high-contrast scientific studio render against a pure black void. The photo shows ONLY the internal skeleton and bones and nerves of the body. The colors shift from deep cool blues to intense yellows and red highlights, creating a futuristic, clinical look with orthographic perspective and a soft, neon-like glow." 350 34 22 103.7k 912 .
Dec 06 The more upscale restaurants here do the same as Japan: the food is shown as artificial plastic dishes in front πŸ₯˜ 106 1 17 48.2k 113 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ I love how almost every restaurant in China just shows their menu as photos and some print them out massively on the wall too In the West I'm always staring at some bland text on a menu not having a clue what I will get once I order it In China you know immediately πŸ˜‹πŸ‘Œ https://t.co/cLUFpLS73v 2k 95 171 2.04M 297 .
Dec 06 🍌 You can run Nano Banana Pro with people and no restrictions with one tap on https://t.co/1vEawpIDkJ Super easy and also one of the cheapest places to run it as I sell it below cost https://t.co/xJn5i7rXpu 196 7 19 102.6k 207 .
Dec 06 RT @Colin_d_m: We need less democracy at the local level if we want more infrastructure. Put the governor, the state DOT, and the mayor in… 0 147 0 8 139 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Yesterday @peacel1ghter in the replies invited us for hotpot We went to a World War 2 bomb shelter (I saw it somewhere) with hotpot inside, there's like 30 of these and it's kind of a tourist trap but this was one of the better ones Chongqing was the WW2 capital of China when the Japanese invaded, so there's a lot of bomb shelters here We ate beef stomach (tripe), pork intestines, chicken feet and lots more food in the extra oily Chongqing-style hotpot @peacel1ghter grew up in America and now lives in China so he's a great balanced source of what's really happening here The TL;DR is essentially you have to come visit China to really understand it in every context like social, cultural, economic and geopolitically and you can't believe everything you read in the West about it As I guess you can't believe everything about the West in Chinese media, same same! US and China as I said before are more similar to each other than different, both very ambitious, pragmatic and masculine cultures that both want to win in every aspect And to better understand that, going for hotpot is a great start 😊 737 17 110 550.4k 1.1k .
Dec 06 Next few days I'll be in Shanghai and Hangzhou, I'd love to visit AI and robot companies, if you work there or know anyone let me know! 562 14 105 105.2k 135 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή If you're flying to Portugal from outside Europe, NEVER fly directly into Lisbon Fly into a different European airport like Amsterdam or Paris Then take an EU flight with EasyJet/RyanAir to Lisbon, that way you can skip the 3+ hour immigration queue because intra-EU flights don't have immigration checks This has been my workflow the last year or so πŸ‘Œ 7.4k 540 265 1.48M 358 .
Dec 05 It's actually described in RFC 1661 as the PPP protocol https://t.co/dETAFZASnD 10 0 2 12k 80 .
Dec 05 Try: > websocat -b wss://pieter.net/ You'll get back this: ~?}#?!}!}!} }8}"}&} } } } }#}$?'}%}&-??}!}'}"}(}"??~ Which in HEX is: ⎿  00000000: 7eff 7d23 c021 7d21 7d21 7d20 7d38 7d22 ~.}#.!}!}!} }8}" 00000010: 7d26 7d20 7d20 7d20 7d20 7d23 7d24 c227 }&} } } } }#}$.' 00000020: 7d25 7d26 937d 3fd6 a97d 277d 227d 287d }%}&.}?..}'}"}(} 00000030: 22d8 377e 0a ".7~. Decoded: 7e = PPP frame start flag (~) ff = Address field (broadcast) 7d 23 = Escaped 0x03 (Control field) - 7d means escape, 23^0x20=0x03 c0 21 = Protocol: LCP (Link Control Protocol) 7d 21 7d 21... = LCP Configure-Request packet (escaped) 7e = PPP frame end flag (~) This is the same data sent back from an ISP to a modem on a real dial up connection Just this dial up connection is via Websockets and to https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da! 14 0 2 14.4k 805 .
Dec 05 ☎️ Dial up internet is restored, I migrated it to its own domain from https://t.co/m2bzvbH0k8 to https://t.co/I1CzsNTkC5 now https://t.co/du8CG9m48m 83 5 17 88.2k 148 .
Dec 05 Baijiu η™½ι…’ has hit https://t.co/uGE1rAycEk 424 5 62 171.5k 41 .
Dec 05 Slightly less followers actually (except for Dec 1) with a girl as avatar, funny experiment πŸ˜‚ https://t.co/azwZbgCBNm 316 4 63 149k 117 .
Dec 05 Actually this is an Asian thing, generally people are happy to get feedback about their countries and culture Maybe except Indonesia, they also have a big "go home foreigner" internet army :D 144 1 11 21.7k 192 .
Dec 05 The general response from the Chinese to my honest China posts have been great To compare in Portugal I literally got hundreds of death threats for critical posts And after posting how great Spain was @ky__zo got death threats for that too I don't know what to conclude here 526 16 67 100.6k 277 .
Dec 05 You can criticize most ordinary things pretty fine actually, like me here talking about some of the infrastructure being rusty etc. Chinese also criticize it and it gets fixed, there's municipality phone numbers where you can report broken potholes etc. Regarding actual politics it's smart as a foreigner to stay the fuck out of it, which I think is common sense in most of Asia 503 8 45 82.5k 380 .
Dec 05 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chongqing in the day without the lights honestly looks a lot different It's more gray and dare I say a lot of the buildings look quite derelict, kinda like when I visited Mongkok in Hong Kong A lot of spots need some heavy maintenance, the stairs in this square have broken tiles, the main bridge of this square that's I think at the 22nd floor and full of tourists all day has its cables and bolts rusting away, I'm not a structural engineer but looks dodgy to me I do think the lights at night are cool and impressive though but it'd be even more impressive if Chongqing would also be beautiful in the day without them One relatedd thing I noticed that many Chinese cities and stations and airports do not have a lot of trees or plants, and it makes everything look kinda cold and functional. Like compare Singapore's Changi Airport with any Chinese airport or train station, it has much more aesthetic I do know that Singapore is respected here a lot, as it is in the West, and I think in many things China can model itself after Singapore. Singapore is a strict rule based society which it needs, and China needs too, or it'd turn into chaos. And Singapore isn't perfect, but it's quite pretty and comfortable to look at aesthetic wise with plants everywhere and even on top of buildings and inside their architecture But then again maybe we're just at the start. Start with some fancy lights, and then start cleaning up the city and doing more maintenance I feel China is great at rapidly building new stuff out of the ground but then I don't see them maintaining it so well. In Chongqing particularly, I see so many things rusting or chipped and broken and it shouldn't be like that I think Chengdu felt much better maintained, I wonder why? Another thing is I see is that you don't see this stuff on YouTube Shorts or TikTok because it's short videos and then the fancy lights get easy views (like my video below of course too!) because you don't need to show many of the details 1.1k 43 211 406.7k 2k .
Dec 05 A lot of posts now that I'm some paid China shill Of course to be expected if you travel to China But I'm already rich, I'm not paid to be here, I just like to travel and tell my stories like I did the last 10+ years! 173 2 16 22.7k 219 .
Dec 05 The true beauty of Florence in 2025 https://t.co/8RO3BDvY8t 286 2 31 151.4k 59 .
Dec 04 I just dislike many in West always measuring China with a different ruler than for example Japan If Japan has lights, omg it's soooo futuristic UwU If China has lights, it's a waste of energy, light pollution and unhealthy It's so intellectually dishonest https://t.co/wW3WAY8B6C 5.1k 318 366 439k 282 .
Dec 04 I want to classify replies like these as "extreme naivety with good intentions" You know that every train ticket you buy in the West is directly tied to your payment and with that you? The Visa/MasterCard system is essentially a co-op with gov and they know exactly where you are, where you go, what you buy and what you do at all times if they want Not that I think that's good at all btw, I think the gov shouldn't know much at all, but you can't act all superior about China when we pretty much do the exact same 1.1k 33 96 125.5k 518 .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Arriving in Chongqing is craaaazy, they designed it well so you drive into the city from the airport immediately seeing the crazy lit up skyline They just put a LED strip on literally every edge or line or road in the city and lit it up It's so funny seeing Europe try to save the climate by using less energy when obviously China could not give any less fucks (as they should) and just spends more and more energy (because they know to develop society you have to spend energy, as the Kardashev Scale describes) 5.2k 337 360 2.12M 517 .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Many people don't know this but Chinese high speed trains are now the fastest in the word and officially faster than even the πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japanese Shinkansen Chinese trains go 350-400km/h (217-250mph) depending on the model While the Japanese Shinkansen goes 320km/h (200mph) max So I went to try it from Chengdu to Chongqing (just $80 for biz class) This one is the slightly older 350km/h model The business class cabin has 5 big seats that can lay flat with a stewardess dedicated to the cabin who serves you drinks like coffee, water, orange juice etc. I guess if it's a longer trip you probably get food served too The journey was very smooth and very fast, it maintained close to 350km/h at all times and there wasn't many stops or breaks (good) It didn't have WiFi, which is kind of a miss but it seems Chinese just use 5G for everything which worked fine for me without interrruption too I'd say the interior could be a bit more beautiful and modern. I usually say things in Japan look ancient but I think the Shinkansen interior there looks a bit more modern than here The trip took 1 hour and it passed about 300km in that time, roughly equivalent to the width of my country the Netherlands πŸ˜‚ Anyway solid experience (and cheap!) πŸ‘ 1k 60 101 2.01M 1.2k .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ πŸš†I took the high speed train in China today We booked business class tickets, which was relatively cheap, just $90 for 3.5 hours You could get 2nd class tickets for just $20 by the way Also this train is the fastest train in the world now, faster than Japan's Shinkansen that I took a week ago Here is the business class lounge, it's a special entrance at the station with its own security, and free coffee and snacks, it does have a bit of a 1970 North Korea aesthetic which you honestly don't see here a lot, everything is modern. I think because the train company is state owned? But then the station itself does look hypermodern, any Chinese know why? Of course the video starts with a cough πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘Œ Today was a bit of an ordeal, we went to the station before, we didn't get tickets because there's so many "official" restrictions on luggage and we already lost so many things (like powerbanks), and gf was understandably scared to lose more stuff So we thought we'd first try enter the station and pass security and if we got through fine then by tickets on Trip app But then the Didi driver drove us to the dodgiest entrance of the station called West Squate (not the most popular one) where it was a crowd of ppl trying to enter, we were stopped and couldn't enter and the old man started yelling Chinese at us A group of Thai behind us were also yelled to leave by him So then we and the Thai were outside We then discovered it was because you need a ticket to enter the station in the first place, which again is pretty unique to China In Japan, you just walk in, buy a ticket 20min before and board, not in China Anyway a lot of lessons learnt again today, and that's why traveling in China is hard but also fun, but once you get it it's actually easier than abroad, like there's no train tickets at all, not even digital! You just scan your passport as it's all tied to your ID Very cool 857 65 127 652.4k 1.9k .
Dec 04 πŸ’Ύ https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da now has a persistent file system that syncs locally to yours @bai0 worked his crazy magic and added IDBFS and you can try it here https://t.co/UqGTWmUXAZ (the progress bar doesn't work yet so check your network tab, it should pull the 300mb drive in first and then boot) Now whatever you do on the computer, is saved forever via IndexedDB locally in your browser, even after closing the tab/browser And then when you come back, it'll be in the same state (at least file wise), so you can play Command & Conquer for example, and come back later and continue where you were, or write documents, send emails, browse the web, add bookmarks etc and everything stays persistent It's crazy to me this works because this builds a virtual JavaScript bridge between a DOS FAT16 emulated drive and IndexedDB running in the browser, it's just as crazy as the virtual modem that dials up via a fake COM 1 port that's then routed via Websockets to a PPP daemon It's still beta and for me it somehow nuked c:\windows\system.ini, but it did save the image file at c:\docs\fstest.bmp so it's a good start 😊 Let me know if it works (or not) 80 5 11 80.9k 1.2k .
Dec 03 If a @waymo gets dirty, it detects it with cameras and sensors and drives back to get itself cleaned And probably, the previous customer who made them dirty isn't going to get another ride again 789 14 58 819.4k 195 .
Dec 03 Ride hailing must be the first industry where the robot experience is now not just equal but highly superior to the human experience Ubers have become smelly, dirty and low quality, esp in Europe but not just I have friends who don't let their teen kids take Ubers, makes sense My Uber in SF was reeking of urine, my Uber in Amsterdam tried to fight me and my Uber in Portugal bragged he didn't sleep for 32 hours, and I have 100s more Uber stories like this Pre-Uber around 2010, I remember filing a complaint because the taxi driver in Amsterdam forced me to tip and when I didn't, he became violent and then actively reversed into me I'm so happy there's now a viable replacement that lets you transport yourself around a city in a comfortable, clean and most of all safe way Amazing work @Waymo 1.8k 51 126 255.2k 804 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ DHL China delivery guy came by to ship the Japanese kitchen knife to Europe and rejected it as he said it would get confiscated by Chinese customs even going outside of China We had help from the Chinese hotel staff and it was impossible So last thing we'll try is flying with it as check-in luggage Which went fine flying Beijing to Chengdu btw eventhough it seems also banned the airline woman let us through I feel they've made this way way way too difficult, you gotta leave shipping as the alternative and they don't Maybe cause they use πŸ₯’ chopsticks mostly? inb4 racis Anyway NEVER EVER bring a knife to China FYI!!!! 255 8 88 635.7k 632 .
Dec 03 He's so productive, really good to see An acquisition marketplace that actually works and is nice to use (unlike that one that forces you into low multiples) would be a great addition to the world And it's a great business to be in too Brokers usually take 5-15% in sales price as commission Marc should undercut that, maybe go 0% first to get traction 1.1k 28 73 230.7k 356 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Thanks for the tips Shun Fong Express and the Chinese train company consigment both denied it because the knife as a whole is >15cm So I think we're out of luck Maybe we can ship it OUT of the country back to Europe with FedEx though Even the domestic airlines ban knives from check-in luggage! Anyway good lesson here: never ever buy a kitchen knife and think you're gonna travel with it in China, our hotel guy said Chinese never ever do this either cause they know how strict it is here 201 3 43 273k 497 .
Dec 03 Honestly it reminded me of COVID in intensity a bit 50 2 8 20.8k 51 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ We want to take the high speed train in China The problem is we bought this kitchen knife in Japan (not the smartest decision of my life), which was fine to fly into China with btw, but you can't take it in your luggage in the subway or trains as they're hyper strict You can't even have a mini scissor in your suitcase! What's worse is China leaves you with no options here, because you can also not really ship it domestically, unless you are a Chinese business yourself and it's a commercial shipment and then you still have to do a lot of negotiation in Chinese I wonder how Chinese do this, they just buy mini scissors and nail clippers again in every city they go by high speed train? If you thought TSA security was strict you have not experienced China's train security πŸ˜„πŸ‘Œ P.S. I get the rules, you just gotta make sure there's then an alternative to get your things to the next city in another way 528 13 93 339.1k 915 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ₯΅ This China flu was hardcore af Days of sweating, especially night sweating (absolutely the worst), then showering to cool down or heat up, and fever kept going away coming back but it's finally finished now and I feel good again, yeeehaw 🀠 Some people said when they come to China after a year away or so, they always get sick the first few weeks as they have their own localized flu strains, big if true Definitely recommend wearing an N95 mask if you just enter China and go on planes at least during boarding because a lot of people are coughing and they don't wear masks so odds you catch something is high I think Comparatively: we were in Japan for weeks just before China, there was lots of coughing there too, but they all wore masks so I didn't get sick Now the China video posting shall continue.... 220 8 42 319.2k 819 .
Dec 01 RT @yasser_elsaid_: Today, @Chatbase crossed $8M in ARR. 100% bootstrapped. What started as a side project has grown into a platform tru… 0 82 0 1 140 .
Dec 01 people* omg 24 2 4 111.8k 11 .
Dec 01 Something about traveling makes my views and follows explode every single time We started traveling to Asia on November 6 I guess I'm more boring when I'm at home and when I travel my brain gets stimulated by whatever I observe https://t.co/oEFez9HpDk 708 9 149 181.9k 253 .
Dec 01 OK 🀝 https://t.co/UjqxS14tED 19.7k 150 600 7.06M 28 .
Dec 01 And peoole say X doesn't have discoverability It does! 294 9 36 342.1k 55 .
Nov 30 This is the way to go Instead of changing to shitty alternatives like paper straws, wooden cutlery, and cassava bags that disintegrate and are all inferior to plastic You gotta make something that's good for the environment AND as good or better than plastic (cheap and strong) Also bacteria that break down plastic seems to be promising That's why I hate the performative eco stuff, it makes our lives worse when instead we should be looking at making our lives better while caring for the environment And you do that by inventing new technology instead of limiting the AC and making us suck through paper straws 939 30 74 315.9k 618 .
Nov 30 Even the socialist mayor of New York City is cutting regulation 9.2k 305 142 987.5k 63 .
Nov 30 RT @AntonioEscudero: @ionutlogs We were in our University's library at 3:00AM not knowing what to do with our future, having dropped out of… 0 7 0 0 140 .
Nov 30 Does somebody work at Taobao? I'm locked out of my account and already did all the verification steps and passport etc. but can't get it to work :O 209 3 64 123.4k 147 .
Nov 29 RT @tslaming: GOOD NEWS 🚨 Tesla FSD is officially accelerating in Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί β€” big updates this week πŸ”₯ πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Netherlands: Tesla pushing hard f… 0 183 0 0 140 .
Nov 29 RT @Tomsha711: How long will it take until this spins out of control and degenerate gamblers/investors start funding different factions in… 0 2.5k 0 0 139 .
Nov 29 Is Vietnamese Pho just Chinese beef noodles or are Chinese beef noodles just Vietnamese Pho??? https://t.co/A3qg8x24qn 490 10 264 249.6k 118 .
Nov 29 Not at all anymore in 2025 I was in Beijing in 2009 (so like 16 years ago) backpacking Everyone was clearing their throat and spitting everywhere We saw ONE old guy do that IN the mall this week actually But it's mostly the old generation like I'd say 70 years and up 440 9 59 139.9k 272 .
Nov 29 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 🀧 Aiaiaiai I got the China cough, runny nose and mini flu after 4 days in China One benefit of Japan was (where I noticed a lot of people coughing too) that they wear masks when they're sick so they don't really spread it Not so much here, it's not really the culture I think Lots of coughing everywhere and I guess immune wasn't so strong from all the flying! 440 7 87 316.7k 366 .
Nov 29 I meant to ask about "Japan bashing" Obvi Asia works harder 18 0 3 36k 60 .
Nov 29 Related this week it came out Luckin is trying to buy Costa https://t.co/A4jed2fCeF 22 1 5 30.5k 84 .
Nov 29 RT @yasser_elsaid_: @stripe @levelsio spotted https://t.co/v568i2fEhF 0 3 0 0 69 .
Nov 29 Ok I knew about Bezos wife and Gates wife obviously but the rest? 296 2 12 40.1k 65 .
Nov 29 @grok is this true (in 70s and 80s) 90 1 23 139.4k 35 .
Nov 29 Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant donations to NGOs was not on my bingo card 9.6k 868 135 948k 111 .
Nov 29 RT @jasonfried: One of my favorite bits in "A Guide to the Good Life" by Irvine (https://t.co/TihpMA5J43) is to avoid becoming a connoisseu… 0 92 0 1 140 .
Nov 28 So well made and fun https://t.co/ajnmd7lyB2 Of course I love the 3d computer, now I need to improve my https://t.co/GGhB9z2Ksz too to make it pretty like this 😊 https://t.co/6Epqzhi7QP 943 35 18 431.8k 187 .
Nov 28 RT @dhh: This is so ridiculously over-the-top! An OS sim with dragable windows, a pinball game that's really playable, and the bonkers sale… 0 80 0 0 140 .
Nov 28 RT @ScottHickle: My dad turns 70 in a month and is my lifting partner Talk about a role model https://t.co/imoRytduXA 0 31 0 2 118 .
Nov 28 I'm so happy AI models still sometimes produce stuff like this I know @yongfook was always a big fan of these πŸ˜† https://t.co/1H8e1TplQB 176 2 40 108.5k 136 .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ The DJI store in China is called DJI Hasselblad "Hasselblad was a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden" They made the cameras used to fill the πŸŒ– Moon landing and lots of Hollywood movies Anyway from 2015-2017 drone and camera maker DJI bought Hasselblad And now they use that name in China (and in the London store I checked) Another example is Volvo which was bought by Geely, a Chinese car producer It's kinda similar to what happened in the 1980s with many American brands being bought up the Japanese like 7/11, Columbia Pictures, etc 2k 155 133 1.65M 629 .
Nov 28 I like this vlogging in China and I hope you like it too What do you want to see more of that I can show you? Someone said the Sesame credit score thing for ex 353 3 129 51.3k 161 .
Nov 28 This one came out great I actually looked like this around 2001 https://t.co/x4f9zL0BtA 317 2 36 232.8k 88 .
Nov 28 Honest answer: I think just competing with them on the same things like cost and quality and brand as Western brands always did The Luckin example is one where you see a 3x cheaper competitor quickly takes the market from Starbucks though Western brands might be too expensive (especially if tarrifs are involved) 133 9 32 88.1k 315 .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese hotel AC goes down to 5Β°C / 41Β°F! No signs of eco degrowth communism in China Ironic, isn't it? πŸ˜‚ https://t.co/INSUZ5CFv6 1.8k 74 142 709.1k 134 .
Nov 28 I literally bought this Banana font for $60 so I could make this toggle for it 😊 https://t.co/mTQ2Qs9tSr 390 3 18 415.8k 104 .
Nov 28 🍌 Nano Banana Pro is now live on Photo AI I'm a bit late because I had to hack a lot to make it get the resemblance up and it's still not as much as Hyper Realism but the quality of the photos apart from that are just too cool to not have it as a feature You can use it with any of your trained people models including the ones trained on Flux! It's 5x more expensive (5 credits vs 1 credit) Your prompts can be quite simple: "camera flash overexposed, model opening the fridge at 3am, kitchen a mess. wearing boxers, searching for snacks. Flash-lit, real life, afterparty." or "a single everyday photo taken with a low-quality disposable camera. A poorly taken photo by a high school student of model and his friends" or "model skateboarding and doing a kick flip wearing typical skate clothes (baggy pants etc)" Where "model" is your trained Flux model! 433 13 27 665.8k 866 .
Nov 28 The problem with this is that the non-premium non-luxury world has 1) more people (most people), 2) has lots of interesting people (regardless of money), and 3) if you like, actually has people who will be succesful in the future (but are not yet) I feel that's also where the new ideas are, not with the already succesful rich people I was staying in cheap hostels in 2013 and was broke and trying to make it but it'd be fun to meet me then as @DarrenJSmith can attest to 314 8 25 108.9k 474 .
Nov 28 RT @katexbt: @levelsio Welcome to the right side of history, @levelsio https://t.co/L8AUGQLdLb 0 13 0 0 94 .
Nov 28 The performative submissive servitude "how is your stay sir oh that's fabulous ha ha ha" it makes me so deeply uncomfortable because I know it could be me doing that job too and faking that It's so obviously a hotel theater played to appease to boomers in luxury hotels whose children don't even listen to them anymore so the staff in luxury hotels now have to "yes the pagodas were so authentic!" All I want when I pay more for a hotel is things to just work and be clean and service to be fast but that's where luxury hotels suck at now so I just book cheaper ones now which have higher volume of guests and so problems get fixed much faster and since they're more simple businesses there's less things that can go wrong 329 7 26 96.4k 725 .
Nov 28 I also wonder this I'd expect busier from 1.4 billion people 244 2 76 140.3k 61 .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese brands seem to be replacing Western brands in China Just like Chinese-owned Luckin Coffee replacing American-owned Starbucks in my tweet below You see it with lots of other shops too Here's Maia, a Lululemon/Alo Yoga clone, but with sizes specifically for Asian women, which the Western brands are, well, too Western to be able to niche in to Then they also make them a bit cheaper than the Western brands but with same or higher quality And many to most Chinese customers will just switch over to the Chinese brand You have to think on a geopolitical level what this means, we can put all the tarrifs we want on Chinese products, but they'll do the same back to us, and meanwhile one of the biggest markets for Western brands with 1.4 billion people is lost to us when we get too expensive / low quality for them Again these are not cheap rip offs, it's real brands with quality materials that they're switching over to The same with GPUs of course, we can ban China from using ASML chip making machines, but they'll just develop their own and by then we've lost them at customers I don't have a dog in this fight but it's very interesting to see the macro economics and politics actively happening on the ground! 1.6k 164 176 1.21M 1.2k .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ In China you see a lot of Western people used in marketing, to represent quality, very interesting This is Luckin Coffee which just surpassed Starbucks in sales and outlets, because it's cheaper and Chinese My voice is a bit rekt from a China cough I got but all good πŸ‘Œ https://t.co/7OINy4earz 561 38 143 1.54M 298 .
Nov 28 And how I know if it's real or poison? πŸ˜‚πŸ€ πŸ€ πŸ€ πŸ€ πŸ€ πŸ€  https://t.co/crrqQ6YLOZ 472 2 169 443.1k 70 .
Nov 28 And how do I get a Chinese numer for JD? 26 0 17 26.9k 40 .
Nov 28 RT @willahmed: @levelsio Trust me it’s a priority for me personally too https://t.co/Xg4zKRzNFZ 0 1 0 0 95 .
Nov 28 How do I order creatine in China? Which app? THANK YOU 158 2 108 265.8k 54 .
Nov 28 Business class was full, also it was a short flight and this is also fun I think it's more fun to mix very cheap and very luxury to feel the contrast I started to realize luxury business class, and luxury hotels, and all that, it just gets very boring very fast if you don't mix it with cheap/regular stuff You feel kinda isolated and it's more boring Travel is more fun being on the road and experiencing real life even if it's less comfortable 2.6k 52 127 774.9k 450 .
Nov 28 🍌 Nano Banana Pro is very impressive but still seems very hit and miss with resemblance and still have less resemblance than both Flux and Hyper Realism Some photos do not look at all like me (like the first, looks more like Martin Garrix), while others do (the second here) It's also very expensive at $0.15 per photo so it's not super economical yet (Flux for example is $0.01 per photo) For now Hyper Realism on Photo AI still has higher resemblance and is much cheaper, so I'll keep running that. I'll happily switch it over though once Nano Banana Pro becomes good enough or I can hack it to become good enough to have high resemblance (I haven't been able to yet!) Apart from the resemblance, Nano Banana Pro is superior in how real it looks, especially stuff like skin detail, it's really excellent I think in 3 to 6 months though, if there's an update, it probably can have high resemblance and become much cheaper and economical One great thing is that Google deserves lots of respect for is they didn't nerf it at all, it has little restrictions, which is a really great thing, more free expression = better Obviously every technological breakthrough has good and bad, and society will have to adjust to not trust every pic, but it also finally gives us a new time of boundary-less expression which is what I've been working on for the last 2.5 years with Photo AI So it's very very very cool to see it finally happen!! 477 14 44 237.3k 1.4k .
Nov 28 Okay enabling Secure DNS-over-HTTPS to Cloudflare in Chrome! Now I can finally code 60 0 6 19.9k 83 .
Nov 28 Ah seems like DNS poisoning https://t.co/Cnw5lW4AIZ 50 0 5 29.1k 51 .
Nov 28 Any idea why even with @letsvpn I can't access most sites Weirdly they show the SSL cert of Facebook? Anyone know why? https://t.co/NUHfxz1LQq 110 3 54 64.2k 143 .
Nov 28 Very fun to follow this guy He was scared to make videos of himself so now he's making one every day (starting yesterday) I hope he grows out into some podcast personality 748 10 29 204.9k 173 .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ I found the rentable powerbanks in China One scan to pay with Alipay and then you take the battery and you return it later This would never work in US or Europe because people would just steal the powerbanks https://t.co/Cc8M6GCENv 2.4k 278 1.7k 1.2M 236 .
Nov 28 Realistically I think the only way is to convince the EU member states to either 1) pressure the EU to redesign itself structually, and if not 2) exit the EU Once enough exit there will be restructuring of the EU or a whole new design or it disappears And the individual EU nations will just make deals with each other like they used to I'm a big believer in the concept of the EU but the current EU design especially with the unelected and authoritarian European Commission just doesn't work and it's not democratic And now it's seriously going into a direction of totalitarianism with Chat Control Very scary 2.1k 182 130 113.9k 615 .
Nov 28 We've literally just lost power in Europe The European Union is not of the people, by the people or for the people Not even in the slightest anymore 7.1k 744 300 658.5k 150 .
Nov 27 RT @bratricek: EU will scan every message ECB will scan every transaction We are approaching levels of control never even dreamed by the K… 0 2.9k 0 0 140 .
Nov 27 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ The flight with @CSAIRGlobal was again great, really good airline, well organized, friendly staff and good food Here's my food review Next I'll review the airports... https://t.co/daQ7ii2sjK 312 16 58 259.1k 195 .
Nov 27 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Okay we lost about $150 in power banks and got them confiscated from us at the airport flying to the next city in China because the power banks didn't have the Chinese certification called CCC They have every other certification known to man (you know like EC and FCC) but not CCC "CCC (China Compulsory Certificate) is a mandatory certification required for a wide range of products to be legally sold, imported, or used in China, covering aspects like safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility" Ironically they're new Anker batteries and Anker is a Chinese brand and they're made in China but that didn't convince the airport lady Lots of other non-Chinese ppl (but Asian) got rekt and it was a mountain of power banks thrown out Getting your stuff thrown away in front of you is annoying everywhere, but especially when it's new batteries We asked if we could ship them by post to our next hotel (there was a desk shipping stuff next to it) but she denied, very unfriendly lady but then again isn't every airport lady in the entire world usually unfriendly? They seem to be really really really aggressive about hand alchol, lighters and batteries with foreigners, probably for a reason 🚬 I was asked literally 6 times in a row by different people if I had a lighter on me, after the 6th time saying "I don't smoke" I had to shout it which seems to actually work well, a lot of esp age 50 and up people shout in China (which is the opposite of Japan of course), but the loudness of your voice here is part of the communication and sometimes work to shut everyone up and make the point 🀣 Then my bag was opened to find every single electronic device while they say "battery battery" like even about an Airpods box, crazyyyy And gf had to throw away her cute hand alcohol spray thing that every IG girl has, which made her sad Anyway not the most nice experience for foreigners visiting China in this case especially when you travel you really need a powerbank to survive the journey cause your phone runs out of power quick and travel distances in China are long (just a car ride to a hotel or mall can easily be 1 hour) And inb4 "omg n00b", none of the batteries sold outside China now have the CCC mark, so no you can't prep for this, thank you 😊 Please fix @xijinping 1.5k 59 314 678.9k 2.3k .
Nov 27 If I run up the stairs with @WHOOP it shows more strain than 1 hour of lifting the heaviest weights I've ever lifted It's completely biased against strength training And it seems they don't care and instead wanna be a cardio only tracker 605 7 107 120.4k 240 .
Nov 27 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Saw my first actually useful robot You know those toll way machines and you're always too far off the machine and have to hang out the window to pay, or you're too close and your wheel hits the side In Beijing they have a robot arm for it Although to be fair in Europe we just have a sensor we glue to the windshield and it auto charges your bank via IBAN So maybe not so useful But it looks cool! 1.4k 84 121 846.2k 405 .
Nov 27 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace today Built in 1750 by a Chinese emperor as a birthday gift to his mother It's a giant park with a lake but you can also sleep in it as we did And it's very tranquil and silent https://t.co/jbEWGw2RbQ 876 34 84 606.9k 241 .
Nov 27 The problem is the founder of WHOOP's favorite sport is Padel 271 7 20 31.2k 61 .
Nov 27 How to explain to gf a Chinese luxury taxi car that smells like cigarette smoke is just a cultural artefact of China 432 4 103 60.6k 116 .
Nov 27 Either @WHOOP starts tracking strength training properly or all of us lifters will just move to whatever wearable does @willahmed 893 8 141 237.3k 130 .
Nov 27 The πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russian connection in πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China doesn't stop, I see it everywhere now https://t.co/lcGIcLQyYB 930 37 115 755.5k 99 .
Nov 27 One big secret of looking ripped chad-like on pics is you starve yourself before then do a heavy workout to get the "pump" Then you also get a (fake) tan and shave your chest etc And the right directional light Most fitness people don't rly look 24/7 like the pics they post which is what GSP proves here 386 10 55 163k 307 .
Nov 26 RT @justalexoki: its over for the facebook generation. like 100% done. they are so cooked. call them, not even to warn them, just to say go… 0 2.2k 0 0 140 .
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