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# ![@levelsio Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1577241403.png) @levelsio @levelsio

@levelsio has been actively experimenting with AI, specifically with image editing models like Nano Banana and Flux, and sharing his progress and insights on social media. He has also been discussing the potential applications and implications of AI, including its impact on the job market and the ability to create new startups and apps. Additionally, @levelsio has been sharing his experiences with building and launching AI-powered projects, including a recent project called Uptime Canary.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  #7605 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #3961 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  #2109 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  #256 [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #400, [ai](/topic/ai) #4261, [$googl](/topic/$googl) #506, [nano banana](/topic/nano-banana) #51, [if you](/topic/if-you) #3513, [eu](/topic/eu) #349, [japan](/topic/japan) #2582, [countries](/topic/countries) #360, [all the](/topic/all-the) #3, [the first](/topic/the-first) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@whoop](/creator/undefined) [@spet_io](/creator/undefined) [@willahmed](/creator/undefined) [@albyantoniazzi](/creator/undefined) [@kimvondaniken](/creator/undefined) [@oultimobuilder](/creator/undefined) [@simonbalfe](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@jackfriks](/creator/undefined) [@alexmacgregor__](/creator/undefined) [@amusedcynic1982](/creator/undefined) [@xai](/creator/undefined) [@quchengg](/creator/undefined) [@juransir](/creator/undefined) [@gerry](/creator/undefined) [@hereticartwork](/creator/undefined) [@kyzo](/creator/undefined) [@marclou](/creator/undefined) [@adev](/creator/undefined) [@bitcoin_eagle](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare) [Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)](/topic/johnson-johnson) [PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP)](/topic/$pep) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997152611481670047)  2025-12-06T03:54Z 774.5K followers, 104.7K engagements


"Most evil companies according to ChatGPT: X. Pfizer X. Nestl X. Meta X. Google (Alphabet) X. PepsiCo X. Johnson & Johnson X. Bayer (Monsanto) X. ByteDance (TikTok) X. Anheuser-Busch / Diageo XX. 3M / DuPont I swear ChatGPT got an update in the last few days it's brutally honest and radical in its opinions I love it Timeline shift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1904620186373677436)  2025-03-25T19:43Z 774.5K followers, 669.4K engagements


"I hate ChatGPT X it's so bad it's so lazy and it won't let me switch back to 4o cause I'm on Plus this might really make me switch to Anthropic's app now I'm actually annoyed by how bad it is it's making my productivity go 10x lower cause nothing it says works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1954208088065556676)  2025-08-09T15:48Z 774.4K followers, 1.1M engagements


"So many ideas you can try This one I saw Google themselves post very cool: "Make Photorealistic Image Daytime and Isometric (Building Only)" Turn any photo into isometric 3d model image It's more accurate than you think it's AI so never PERFECT but very close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1960886873389174882)  2025-08-28T02:07Z 774.4K followers, 856.3K engagements


"So many crazy applications that wouldn't work just a few days ago but now do work with Nano Banana Upload any flat lay "get the look" type pic Prompt: "show woman wearing the outfit" It outputs highly accurate pics with a woman wearing the exact outfit It's really a wow moment again like first time I saw Stable Diffusion in 2022 or like Google Street View in 2007 It's just really really smart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1960902857722617892)  2025-08-28T03:10Z 774.4K followers, 911.9K engagements


"I just got a new AC installed by Mitsubishi Electric I was wondering why it was so weak and tried to find the Powerful (or Turbo) button like any AC has On the images on the internet the Powerful button is shown below the Econo Cool button Weirdly on my remote the button seems to have been removed showing an empty space Of course you can see where this is going 🤡 Yes you're right The European Union has banned Turbo modes on AC units now because it's not 🍃 Eco friendly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1972732952015507756)  2025-09-29T18:39Z 774.4K followers, 1M engagements


"Today I had to go the Netherlands Embassy to renew my passport and had to print a form I was wondering why my new Brother printer kept printing everything double sided So I tried to disable it in the printer's own display menu where it's hidden X levels deep: Settings - All Settings - Printer - 2-sided - 2-sided Print - Off But it still printed everything double-sided then I Googled and discovered it's a forced default by the European Union of course for 🍃 Eco reasons: "To comply with EU ecolabel the default setting is expected to be duplex (double-sided) in new printers sold in the EU since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1973722731108553051)  2025-10-02T12:12Z 774.4K followers, 1M engagements


"I love @revolut's Global eSIM I just flew from Portugal to Netherlands to Qatar to Singapore and now to Japan and I when I land I'm directly connected again to 5G with the same eSIM I can use anywhere And it auto renews so no catch-22 where you run out of data and then can't add data because you don't have data Not affiliated but it's just a great product and how connectivity should be by default global as an eSIM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1987998933143220546)  2025-11-10T21:40Z 774.5K followers, 449.5K engagements


"Something is finally happening EU is: - scaling down the GDPR (data privacy laws) - watering down the AI Act (more like AI Ban) and - finally removing the Cookie Banner laws This gets us a bit closer to the top eu/acc ideas being reached"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1991448106416894290)  2025-11-20T10:06Z 774.4K followers, 776K engagements


"@sawyermidddd @edmundtian Please show New Amsterdam 1650 before it 🥹🥹🥹"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992139413338632252)  2025-11-22T07:53Z 774.4K followers, 544.1K engagements


"I'm unable to convince normies that AI detectors don't work and probably will never ever work because of basics of AI which I think is More advanced models might be able detect AI in inferior models (like GPT-5 reading GPT-3 output) But an advanced model can't detect AI in output of an equally advanced model I think It doesn't matter though normies want AI detectors to exist and work so they do to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992904333156130827)  2025-11-24T10:33Z 774.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"We barely see any tourists at all The tourists in our hotel are domestic or international Chinese The rest is Russians Everywhere I look actually is Russians Even Beijing's new airport at some points has signs in Chinese English.and Russian I didn't expect this Apparently Russians are blocked from traveling to most places so they come to China a lot And they do a lot of business now The Chinese we talked to say the Russian businesses for Russians in China are complaining that the Russians are spending less and the money is drying up though which is an interesting anecdotal point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993594647906865522)  2025-11-26T08:16Z 774.4K followers, 1M engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994217613405127101)  2025-11-28T01:31Z 774.5K followers, 663.9K engagements


"🥵 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996056673367253327)  2025-12-03T03:19Z 774.4K followers, 317.7K engagements


"Honestly it reminded me of COVID in intensity a bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996061758008811614)  2025-12-03T03:39Z 774.5K followers, 20.5K engagements


"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 XX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996223491683823815)  2025-12-03T14:22Z 774.4K followers, 256.3K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996262719163678756)  2025-12-03T16:58Z 774.5K followers, 818.2K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996563988562518238)  2025-12-04T12:55Z 774.5K followers, 125.9K engagements


"The true beauty of Florence in 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996775074381398434)  2025-12-05T02:54Z 774.5K followers, 150.8K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996805993905455495)  2025-12-05T04:57Z 774.5K followers, 405.5K engagements


"☎ Dial up internet is restored I migrated it to its own domain from to now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996963440133329021)  2025-12-05T15:22Z 774.5K followers, 85.6K engagements


"Chinese tourism is XX% 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 X Westerner (if we're lucky) vs. 10000 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 XX other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997575624265785799)  2025-12-07T07:55Z 774.5K followers, 1.7M engagements


"To show how helpful people generally are here Here's the China Railways train lady running us through the station because we were a bit late We arrived on time and made the train Yeehaw 🤠"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997584817895195009)  2025-12-07T08:31Z 774.5K followers, 311.5K engagements


"@wey_gu Nice how do I do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997596363660689759)  2025-12-07T09:17Z 774.5K followers, 4408 engagements


"So good to see the world wake up to the terrors of the European Commission I hope all the attention helps European people via their country's governments force the European Union to reform and redesign its structure to one that's actually democratic No indirect appointment of corrupt cronies but actual democracy close to the people It also makes no sense to have XXX members of the European Parliament it's simply too much and makes it too inefficient The real cancer rotting the EU from within though is the European Commission which should be disbanded and replaced with a democratic body FYI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998264960384942588)  2025-12-09T05:34Z 774.5K followers, 20.3M engagements


"✨ People liked these prompts so I made it into a TikTok Carousel Generator photo pack / sub page so I can rank for it a bit better on Google The photo pack auto enables 🍌 Nano Banana Pro so it's a bit more expensive (5 credits vs normally X credit) but it lets you instantly add text overlays too and you can change them to whatever you like These carousels (or slideshows) are very popular and seem to do really well on TikTok to tell stories (kinda like we do here on X with a long post but more visual) At the end of a slideshow you can actually convert users with a slide about your app or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998319213539455106)  2025-12-09T09:10Z 774.5K followers, 89K engagements


"@64Based Hah no it's Alibaba Health certified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998385558905651387)  2025-12-09T13:33Z 774.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Everything in Asia is so ridiculously convenient In this case Singapore You tap your keycard the door automatically opens and then it also automatically calls the elevator for you Just absolute High IQ thinking to make everyone's daily life easier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1840999366418698430)  2024-10-01T06:17Z 772.7K followers, 3.1M engagements


"Yes but also no Dating apps lack important IRL dating signals like: - pheromones: their body smell tells you their DNA variation with you: more different DNA is better for having kids (opposite of inbreeding) and those people literally smell better - social vouching: people part of social groups you're already in are implicitly vouched by the social group and share your social group identity - geographical match: obvious but meeting people from social group you're in IRL usually means you have some tie to a place which is opposite when you're on Tinder passport matching people on the other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1880999320196923858)  2025-01-19T15:22Z 772.7K followers, 154.8K engagements


"AeroPress is nice but mixing boiling water with plastic will never go together well IMHO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1936011460536054093)  2025-06-20T10:41Z 772.4K followers, 137.2K engagements


"My perfect health and fitness hotel: Sleep: - strong functional AC for sleep - black out curtains that actually fully black out the room - Eight Sleep type matress for cooling - no annoying LED lights everywhere in room (common) Fitness: - entire floor dedicated gym with everything you can think of: barbells plates kettlebells running track machines etc - sauna and steam bath - hot and cold pools (like Japanese/Korean onsens) Food and drinks: - healthy clean food meat vegetables and fruit - high protein food smoothies - CBD drinks and mocktails (no alcohol anywhere) Activities: - private or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1936724197880807623)  2025-06-22T09:53Z 773.4K followers, 422.2K engagements


"What you need to do is: - buy a vintage shelf company that is a company that's still alive but has a very old founding date for ex Hermes was founded in 1837 - then create some story about artesanal history of the company that actually matches its history but make it a bit more marketable - then create new luxury products that tie into that history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1966203210168705405)  2025-09-11T18:12Z 773.1K followers, 252.5K engagements


"AEG is a third-tier low quality brand Everything in my house came with AEG and I'm actively replacing everything with Miele or Bosch Miele is still top-tier (if you avoid the smart devices with touch screens)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1981999887387349023)  2025-10-25T08:22Z 772.8K followers, 73K engagements


"Not sure if I'm the only one but I think @WHOOP isn't very good tracking lifting weights It generally doesn't auto detect weight lifting (instead showing it as ACTIVITY) and then rates it as low strain compared to cardio probably because it's lower BPM But that doesn't really make sense I can do an extremely heavy lifting workout that hurts for days after but WHOOP will show a strain of X Then I go for a light bicycle ride and it's a strain of XX simply because it gets my heart BPM up This problem is confirmed to me by people at WHOOP but since it's so hard to measure the strain of lifting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1982536310909792286)  2025-10-26T19:54Z 772.9K followers, 149.3K engagements


"The European Commission has unfortunately denied my request for GPUs 🥺"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1982873956593086502)  2025-10-27T18:16Z 772.9K followers, 732.9K engagements


"@feulf But except for you I don't see people put them on anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988452581304398090)  2025-11-12T03:43Z 772.8K followers, 80.3K engagements


"I just realized the only X countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups doesn't have the funding can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1990231875248635919)  2025-11-17T01:33Z 772.5K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Here's a tour of our Aman room was very nice with nice view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1991075156559630753)  2025-11-19T09:24Z 772.5K followers, 461K engagements


"Sergey Brin is still % owner of Google (or Alphabet) together with Larry Page But more importantly together they own XXXX% of all Class-B voting shares which give them XXXX% total voting power Imagine being a dev or product creator with Sergey by your side whenever Google's bureaucracy (which they have a lot of) tries to get you stuck you just message Sergey and he gives the go-ahead You essentially have a free pass to make anything ship anything and launch anything without much constraints That makes Google operate like a small startup again and that's why they're winning again I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1991766655362548080)  2025-11-21T07:12Z 772.5K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Oh and WOMEN TOO Lifting has the SAME benefits to women And no you won't start looking like a guy Instead your boobs will get bigger from chest exercises and your ass from glute exercises 10/10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993692880800714993)  2025-11-26T14:46Z 772.9K followers, 74.8K engagements


"The Russian connection in China doesn't stop I see it everywhere now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993915459956257265)  2025-11-27T05:31Z 772.5K followers, 755.3K engagements


"If I run up the stairs with @WHOOP it shows more strain than X 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994017234591920478)  2025-11-27T12:15Z 772.5K followers, 120.6K engagements


"Any idea why even with @letsvpn I can't access most sites Weirdly they show the SSL cert of Facebook Anyone know why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994254047868502503)  2025-11-28T03:56Z 773.2K followers, 63.9K engagements


"Ah seems like DNS poisoning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994255342654398859)  2025-11-28T04:01Z 772.5K followers, 28.8K engagements


"Okay enabling Secure DNS-over-HTTPS to Cloudflare in Chrome Now I can finally code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994258668582265119)  2025-11-28T04:14Z 772.4K followers, 19.7K engagements


"@albertgao It's really highly predatory priced in the West compared to China I believe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994277074870391254)  2025-11-28T05:28Z 772.6K followers, 9094 engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994357115377668451)  2025-11-28T10:46Z 772.5K followers, 96.3K engagements


"Ok I knew about Bezos wife and Gates wife obviously but the rest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994614094398460019)  2025-11-29T03:47Z 772.7K followers, 40.2K engagements


"@amyailien We can't use Aliexpress in China I think gf tried to change country but China isn't in the country list. Are you sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995088161354272784)  2025-11-30T11:10Z 772.6K followers, 2925 engagements


"@alexmacgregor__ Still better than Lisbon Airport :D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997153207735492733)  2025-12-06T03:56Z 773.6K followers, 2128 engagements


"@loaibassam I just hate these posts "I got acquired for $10M" okay but you didn't get $10M It gives people false idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997235754037305479)  2025-12-06T09:24Z 773.5K followers, 1353 engagements


"There is a lot of enshittification and a lot of things not good But Miele is still excellent we have a Miele washing machine dryer freezer fridge and now I want a Miele dishwasher too Our house came with AEG stuff which is generally dogshit and dysfunctional with terrible service When we had to buy new stuff I asked everyone what's the best brand and Miele won by a long shot Excellent company 10/10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1956337674467340773)  2025-08-15T12:50Z 773.7K followers, 484.9K engagements


"Casually ran into @sama at the farmer's market today Only in SF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992884110839451825)  2025-11-24T09:12Z 773.8K followers, 72.9K engagements


"The problem is the founder of WHOOP's favorite sport is Padel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993936366284288448)  2025-11-27T06:54Z 773.8K followers, 31.2K engagements


"I literally bought this Banana font for $XX so I could make this toggle for it 😊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994374736210714938)  2025-11-28T11:56Z 773.7K followers, 355.9K engagements


"I'm so happy AI models still sometimes produce stuff like this I know @yongfook was always a big fan of these 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994393791755895043)  2025-11-28T13:11Z 773.6K followers, 108.2K engagements


"@juransir Do you know how They all say we can't ship it if we're not a Chinese company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996064693836992946)  2025-12-03T03:51Z 773.9K followers, 9086 engagements


"@DmytroKrasun Added now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998296028303507900)  2025-12-09T07:37Z 774.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Literally not an excuse: X. Register a company abroad (US UK SG) Use Stripe Atlas to start a US LLC (Delaware) Or use StartGlobal Firstbase or Doola Costs $300500 upfront + $100/year maintenance Youll need a US bank account (they help with that) X. Use Razorpay or Instamojo Stripe alternatives that work in India Supports INR UPI Indian cards But less global-friendly than Stripe X. Use a payment aggregator like Paddle Paddle handles payments tax invoicing for digital products You dont need a company just a payout account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1931760794469114125)  2025-06-08T17:10Z 774.2K followers, 1.5M engagements


"It's that time again guys What matress brand to buy I know most are filled with cancer chemicals and I want something clean And ship inside Europe cause I can't get anything into Portugal they stop everything at the border these days with massive duties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1953814136242000139)  2025-08-08T13:42Z 773.8K followers, 238.4K engagements


"ChatGPT explains SWR = Safe Withdrawal Rate: Its a rule of thumb in investing: how much you can pull from your portfolio each year without (statistically) running out of money over 3040 years. The classic is X% per year (Trinity Study). Example: $1M invested withdraw $40k/year. Why only take out SWR Because markets go up and down. If you withdraw more than the portfolio can sustainably regenerate (via dividends + growth) you risk depleting it. SWR is the balance point: you skim off a slice that historically survived recessions and crashes. It keeps your principal roughly intact in real terms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1957086442301083926)  2025-08-17T14:25Z 774.1K followers, 242K engagements


"So now that AI can do music really well too What remains human is - live performances - authenticity/emotional bond - using AI during live performances (imagine live generating music on the fly) - ultra-famous artists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1957411401623900570)  2025-08-18T11:56Z 774.3K followers, 200.5K engagements


"@iamfromMars5 @SaitoWu Setting up WeChat is a pain You need a Chinese person to verify you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994613419832742079)  2025-11-29T03:44Z 774K followers, XXX engagements


"@ikuznetsov_com I bought a $XXX RoboRock and all it does it get stuck in my rug and eat all my cables"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996226894371360865)  2025-12-03T14:35Z 773.8K followers, 6744 engagements


"@muslimwife1992 Nope we barely see them as I said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997600811501961233)  2025-12-07T09:35Z 774.2K followers, 2534 engagements


"New fun Nano Banana prompt I thought of after @csonotes told me to buy an IRL store and start selling CDs of my websites "Make your website into a product box with a CD-Rom as if it was from 1995""  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1967593100676943892)  2025-09-15T14:15Z 774.5K followers, 520.9K engagements


"2023 was the year of AI avatars 2024 was the year of AI photos 2025 was the year of AI videos And I think it's becoming clear now that 2026 will be the year of AI world models Fully interactive explorable 3d worlds generated from one or multiple 2d images or a prompt In turn these 2d images can then be generated by AI too So soon you can generate fully explorable virtual 3d worlds based on your own imagination Next will be figuring out how to make those worlds interactive This is @theworldlabs (unaffiliated but I like it) As always a lot of big AI model companies are now working on the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1968747296604004362)  2025-09-18T18:41Z 774.5K followers, 581.5K engagements


"Hi guys I just moved to SF here to meet new people 👋"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1979186036409303429)  2025-10-17T14:01Z 774.5K followers, 240.7K engagements


"POV building an AI startup"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988947337419583694)  2025-11-13T12:29Z 774.5K followers, 2.5M engagements


"The morning after posting this photo in Tokyo a stranger awaited me in the lobby of my hotel I went for breakfast and while passing through the lobby someone on the sofa there turned around and said "Hello Pieter 🤝 " I was like WTF 😳 It turns out he was an indie hacker living in Japan (not Japanese but Western) who'd been waiting all morning to meet me He figured out which hotel I was staying at just from the photo below I had a chat with him and he was nice he had a regular job in Japan and wanted to build his own business too all friendly and nice and fine But still it did make me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1989599901555286435)  2025-11-15T07:42Z 774.5K followers, 1.3M engagements


"My Brazilian gf couldn't believe it when she asked my dad what he'd want for lunch he said "oh just a slice of bread and cheese or something" I'm Dutch and I'm not exaggerating that this is literally what most Dutch people have for lunch A piece of bread with a slice of cheese with a glass of milk But they're tall so maybe it works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992044899978592283)  2025-11-22T01:38Z 774.5K followers, 2.6M engagements


"💸 A good yapping month again: $5557 ad rev share $1437 subs revenue (=$6995 per XX days) = $7619/month A bit down but still good @X payouts are nice 😊👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992498491487408616)  2025-11-23T07:40Z 774.5K followers, 238.2K engagements


""This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars. You don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions. It's a fire in a mad house" - Terrence McKenna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992524790746529845)  2025-11-23T09:25Z 774.5K followers, 86.1K engagements


"China isn't easy to travel Alipay won't accept my Revolut WeChat won't let me sign up without someone else using WeChat to verify me "  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993166906006942064)  2025-11-25T03:56Z 774.5K followers, 436.3K engagements


"Either @WHOOP starts tracking strength training properly or all of us lifters will just move to whatever wearable does @willahmed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993923470334509218)  2025-11-27T06:02Z 774.5K followers, 237.6K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993944367296598269)  2025-11-27T07:25Z 774.5K followers, 606.4K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993947109704520050)  2025-11-27T07:36Z 774.5K followers, 845.7K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994270320472002962)  2025-11-28T05:01Z 774.5K followers, 775.6K engagements


"How do I order creatine in China Which app THANK YOU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994305937117434275)  2025-11-28T07:22Z 774.5K followers, 264.7K engagements


"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 👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994312542412276084)  2025-11-28T07:48Z 774.5K followers, 1.5M engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994385812151222680)  2025-11-28T12:40Z 774.5K followers, 51.5K engagements


"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 🌖 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994391379137765751)  2025-11-28T13:02Z 774.5K followers, 1.6M engagements


"Not at all anymore in 2025 I was in Beijing in 2009 (so like XX 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 XX years and up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994752136740311302)  2025-11-29T12:55Z 774.5K followers, 140K engagements


"Is Vietnamese Pho just Chinese beef noodles or are Chinese beef noodles just Vietnamese Pho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994764539670471021)  2025-11-29T13:45Z 774.5K followers, 249.6K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995005913351295461)  2025-11-30T05:44Z 774.5K followers, 123.2K engagements


"And peoole say X doesn't have discoverability It does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995294386616504617)  2025-12-01T00:50Z 774.5K followers, 341.8K engagements


"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 🥢 chopsticks mostly inb4 racis Anyway NEVER EVER bring a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996113677624434933)  2025-12-03T07:06Z 774.5K followers, 633.9K engagements


"Many people don't know this but Chinese high speed trains are now the fastest in the word and officially faster than even the 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 $XX for biz class) This one is the slightly older 350km/h model The business class cabin has X 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996520997990883471)  2025-12-04T10:04Z 774.5K followers, 2M engagements


"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)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996523905440518188)  2025-12-04T10:16Z 774.5K followers, 2.1M engagements


"@tzhechev Shibuya's local government and Tokyo's local government are fully part of actively creating and presenting Shibuya as futuristic like this though for decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996584116389921094)  2025-12-04T14:15Z 774.5K followers, 9645 engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996823292154610083)  2025-12-05T06:05Z 774.5K followers, 100K engagements


"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 XX = Escaped 0x03 (Control field) - 7d means escape 230x20=0x03 c0 XX = Protocol: LCP (Link Control Protocol) 7d XX 7d XX. = LCP Configure-Request packet (escaped) 7e = PPP frame end flag () This is the same data sent back from an ISP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996973326380777537)  2025-12-05T16:01Z 774.5K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Yesterday @peacel1ghter in the replies invited us for hotpot We went to a World War X bomb shelter (I saw it somewhere) with hotpot inside there's like XX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997176259970032062)  2025-12-06T05:28Z 774.5K followers, 544.2K engagements


"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 😋👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997277434249695704)  2025-12-06T12:10Z 774.5K followers, 2M engagements


"China can be very very cheap I'd say hotels and accomodation can be cheaper than Thailand We had a 63rd floor Chongqing hotel suite with X bathrooms X living room X bedroom for just $300/night Normally suites in other places easily go for $1500 and up And I've seen other hotels with regular good rooms that go for $XX to $30/night Food can also be very cheap but not a lot of Western food to be fair so you gotta be open to new flavors 😋"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997587854848057590)  2025-12-07T08:43Z 774.5K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Don't throw out the baby (a federal European union) with the bath water (the corrupt and undemocratic European Commission)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998306055303147784)  2025-12-09T08:17Z 774.5K followers, 70.1K engagements


"Most European democratic nation states are much younger than the US though They're older if you pre-democracy as kingdoms etc But younger than US in the modern nation state concept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998308695382581719)  2025-12-09T08:28Z 774.5K followers, 37.5K engagements


"Okay let's try 😂👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998381193142931715)  2025-12-09T13:16Z 774.5K followers, 454.2K engagements


"@ErisBlisset @Artur_JSantos It's 92"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998763329377202500)  2025-12-10T14:34Z 774.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Another pollution trend people will focus on is light pollution. That means too much light shining especially at night. And that has negative health consequences too from disrupting our circadian rhythm to potentially real diseases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1175044625775480833)  2019-09-20T13:50Z 774.5K followers, XX engagements


"2019: Huawei passes Apple to become the world's 2nd smartphone producer closing in on Samsung 2019: US bans all Huawei products 2022: AI becomes most important tech and AI needs a lot of semiconductors 2022: US bans sale of semiconductors to China 2023: TikTok becomes the top social media app in US 2024: US bans TikTok (via forced sale) 2023: BYD becomes world's top selling electric car (EV) producer 2024: US sets XXX% tax on Chinese EVs effectively doubling their price 2023: Shein and Temu become the world's #1 and #2 clothing retailers 2024: US now discussing ban of Shein and Temu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1792156378783453430)  2024-05-19T11:32Z 774.5K followers, 4.1M engagements


"VC STARTUPS - odds of IPO for VC startup: X% - avg time spent on VC startup: XXX years - market cap avg @ IPO: $5B - avg % ownership @ IPO: 15%* $5B = $750M - avg XXX cofounders = $300M - payout = odds * $$$ = X% * $300M = $3M - payout per year = $3M/8.5 years = $352000/year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1811512295140311274)  2024-07-11T21:26Z 774.5K followers, 699.2K engagements


"You've been tricked Very high traffic is cheap too I serve 314000000 requests per month One VPS can be just $50/mo to handle all this traffic with Cloudflare caching most of it (for free)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1963262970147766516)  2025-09-03T15:29Z 774.5K followers, 1.5M engagements


"My fellow Europeans You have to fight ChatControl 💪 Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1971348684500762968)  2025-09-25T22:58Z 774.5K followers, 2.3M engagements


"Bali influencers are cooked This is Sora X Pro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1975505972765323447)  2025-10-07T10:18Z 774.5K followers, 685.7K engagements


"$3.48/mo for a VPS server on @Hetzner_Online With XX TB of data included No I'm not sponsored I just love them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1980342325030318245)  2025-10-20T18:36Z 774.5K followers, 317.3K engagements


"The story gets stranger. Apparently I was never able to use the EU's GPUs in the first place Because I wasn't on their pre-approved organization list of "Horizon 2020" So how can you join the Horizon 2020 list as an organization Well you can't. It was made in 2014 and closed in 2020"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1981864024041193704)  2025-10-24T23:22Z 774.5K followers, 1.8M engagements


"Lifting heavy weights is proven to work better against depression than any medication And personally I know why I just lifted extremely heavy (for my standards) today was squats and deadlifts (with personal trainer) It's now an hour after and I am mostly unable to think I am in a state of zen trance silence there is literally nothing in my brain left Just an empty space and these words flying through If I stop writing this it's just silence and nothignness If I was depressed which I'm not I wouldn't be able to be depressed right now because I'm not able to be nothing right now I barely exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1982917181491880393)  2025-10-27T21:07Z 774.5K followers, 923.2K engagements


"@nullnameguy What app is made in Germany and used outside Germany except SAP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1990365051719704697)  2025-11-17T10:23Z 774.5K followers, 18.5K engagements


"@slobbba @nullnameguy Regional not global Everyone in the world uses Google Instagram ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1990371133879971971)  2025-11-17T10:47Z 774.5K followers, 3737 engagements


"✨ Photo AI just reached a new record of $150000/mo 💳 2573 active subscribers 💸 XX% profit margin 👌 XXX% bootstrapped + $X funding 😊 Employees: X = just me on my laptop 🥞 Tech: PHP + jQuery + SQLite on a Hetzner VPS with Nginx and Ubuntu It took X years X months XX days or almost 1000 days to get there Photo AI started out in 2022 as Avatar AI (the first app to make those gimmicky avatars which started that trend) Then I pivoted it into Photo AI a year later to take real AI photos of yourself. Because I thought that might be possible next. In a way I was way too early and the photos were"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1970858876212756506)  2025-09-24T14:32Z 774.4K followers, 805.8K engagements


"✨ The biggest upgrade to Photo AI's model since Flux I managed to make the photos VERY realistic now by combining more models together for realism Highly detailed environment + high person resemblance at the same time So I call it 🤯 Photo AI Realism Here's some pics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1972813704660996247)  2025-09-30T00:00Z 774.6K followers, 963K engagements


"What in the F is an AI factory I had to investigate what the unelected @EU_Commission is talking about today So according to them it's some data centers (which they call supercomputers) in X different EU countries I checked out the most powerful one: Karolina a Czech data center it mostly has CPUs though (see pic) not GPUs so mostly useless for AI The GPUs it does have are 72x 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU so 576x A100 or equivalent of 240x H100s (H100 is about 2.4x the compute power of A100) So let's compare that: @xAI has 200000x H100 GPUs So the xAI data center has 800x more compute than the Czech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1981351393513615813)  2025-10-23T13:25Z 774.6K followers, 1.5M engagements


"It's that time again X What hotel you recommend in Tokyo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1986231523243090171)  2025-11-06T00:37Z 774.6K followers, 192.3K engagements


"This is really so useful ask Q then ask @grok to rank the answers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1986779284653154687)  2025-11-07T12:54Z 774.6K followers, 8.1M engagements


"Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers The AC in most buildings is now set to a sweaty 25C/77F by government recommendation called "Go 25" Sleep productivity and learning rapidly decreases once indoor temperature exceeds 23C/73F Lee Kuan Yew would not approve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1987759309619446177)  2025-11-10T05:48Z 774.6K followers, 1.6M engagements


"When I see laptops full of stickers nowadays it looks kinda cringe to me It was normal though XX years ago I wonder what exactly changed in culture to make it cringe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988429559792803949)  2025-11-12T02:12Z 774.5K followers, 13.6M engagements


"I'd just create an entirely new hotel chain No front desk no lobby Payment and booking via app only Room keys via Apple / Android Wallet Hourly rates Coworking in building Powerful AC in every room and space Only cleaning staff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988531900114235517)  2025-11-12T08:58Z 774.6K followers, 3.1M engagements


"Just a month later and. ChatControl is back Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan without needing any of the EU countries votes The new proposal: - total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats emails and social media in the EU - obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat email or social media account - minimum age requirement for chat email and social media apps of XX () The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988953538903376071)  2025-11-13T12:54Z 774.4K followers, 1.5M engagements


"More great news from Europe 😊 Gradually then suddenly. Nothing changed for X years and now a lot of things are finally changing: The Netherlands is changing its stock options tax to be modeled after the American system which is the default in startups () Stock options will now be taxed when sold not when exercised () This was #7 most voted idea on to save Europe and now it's happening Right now in most of Europe stock options are taxed when exercised This creates very problematic situations: imagine you have stock options for a startup you worked for. Many/most startups have a clause that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1991792590040203431)  2025-11-21T08:55Z 774.4K followers, 548.5K engagements


"Who do you actually want to win in the big AGI race if you could choose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992218683356401703)  2025-11-22T13:08Z 774.6K followers, 744.9K engagements


"Okay got Alipay to work Alipay is nice because it acts as a proxy to use other apps like Didi and Didi won't let me sign up directly so via Alipay it auto logs you in (kinda like OAuth) Also Meituan app lets me order food from anywhere and apparently it can arrive via a delivery robot Other handy app is Baidu Translate The challenge here is that every Western app like Google Translate ChatGPT Google Maps ChatGPT etc doesn't work at all or doesn't work most of the times so you kinda have to use the Chinese apps like DeepSeek Of all my eSIMs my Revolut Global seems to work best it lets me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993537837569130802)  2025-11-26T04:30Z 774.7K followers, 699.2K engagements


"@m_saidow The top travel destinations are in Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993668381803950255)  2025-11-26T13:09Z 774.6K followers, 11.3K engagements


"I've been annoyingly saying this on X for years and people never believe it Most people are still fat or cardioholics and only run or play padel You have to lift weights it improves your nervous system it stops or reverts guaranteed () muscle atrophy and bone density loss after age XX meaning you will AGE LESS FAST and age more healthily Which is why I as a not really athletic person (was just skinny 50kg/100lbs) started lifting around that age Now I try lift 4x per week I'm not skinny anymore close to 80kg/160lbs so I gained 30kg/60lbs (almost doubled in mass so there's 1.6x Pieter's now)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993692443779145994)  2025-11-26T14:44Z 774.5K followers, 2.9M engagements


"How to explain to gf a Chinese luxury taxi car that smells like cigarette smoke is just a cultural artefact of China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1993932322299867231)  2025-11-27T06:38Z 774.4K followers, 60.8K engagements


"Okay we lost about $XXX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994024658543480840)  2025-11-27T12:45Z 774.6K followers, 678.9K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994237476572115256)  2025-11-28T02:50Z 774.6K followers, 116K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994239479645692259)  2025-11-28T02:58Z 774.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"🍌 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 $XXXX per photo so it's not super economical yet (Flux for example is $XXXX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994268836548448520)  2025-11-28T04:55Z 774.4K followers, 235.9K engagements


"And how I know if it's real or poison 😂🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994307571713200304)  2025-11-28T07:29Z 774.5K followers, 430.5K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994348537950429390)  2025-11-28T10:11Z 774.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"🍌 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 X 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994374568627294517)  2025-11-28T11:55Z 774.4K followers, 663K engagements


"Chinese hotel AC goes down to 5C / 41F No signs of eco degrowth communism in China Ironic isn't it 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994376350636102033)  2025-11-28T12:02Z 774.4K followers, 710.3K engagements


"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)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994384121943195667)  2025-11-28T12:33Z 774.4K followers, 87.9K engagements


"This one came out great I actually looked like this around 2001"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994385579036049463)  2025-11-28T12:39Z 774.4K followers, 232.3K engagements


"Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant donations to NGOs was not on my bingo card"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994590852392550534)  2025-11-29T02:14Z 774.6K followers, 959.6K engagements


"🤧 Aiaiaiai I got the China cough runny nose and mini flu after X 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994744628143427925)  2025-11-29T12:25Z 774.6K followers, 315.8K engagements


"Even the socialist mayor of New York City is cutting regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995112283026939975)  2025-11-30T12:46Z 774.6K followers, 996.5K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995136986500538871)  2025-11-30T14:25Z 774.6K followers, 316.5K engagements


"Something about traveling makes my views and follows explode every single time We started traveling to Asia on November X I guess I'm more boring when I'm at home and when I travel my brain gets stimulated by whatever I observe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995453457080184916)  2025-12-01T11:22Z 774.4K followers, 182.2K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996061625913409542)  2025-12-03T03:39Z 774.4K followers, 338.3K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996069395651854536)  2025-12-03T04:10Z 774.5K followers, 271.9K engagements


"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 X% first to get traction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996093816663871865)  2025-12-03T05:47Z 774.4K followers, 231.5K engagements


"🚆I took the high speed train in China today We booked business class tickets which was relatively cheap just $XX for XXX hours You could get 2nd class tickets for just $XX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996512682636382400)  2025-12-04T09:31Z 774.5K followers, 649.9K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996578432277528835)  2025-12-04T13:52Z 774.5K followers, 438.1K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996813593682366559)  2025-12-05T05:27Z 774.5K followers, 82.2K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996824155967443094)  2025-12-05T06:09Z 774.5K followers, 21.3K engagements


"It's actually described in RFC 1661 as the PPP protocol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996974052662202610)  2025-12-05T16:04Z 774.5K followers, 11.5K engagements


"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 👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997151902589497692)  2025-12-06T03:51Z 774.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"🍌 You can run Nano Banana Pro with people and no restrictions with one tap on Super easy and also one of the cheapest places to run it as I sell it below cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997273554208145903)  2025-12-06T11:54Z 774.5K followers, 101.6K engagements


"@DmytroKrasun Good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997276214546026599)  2025-12-06T12:05Z 774.4K followers, 1463 engagements


"The more upscale restaurants here do the same as Japan: the food is shown as artificial plastic dishes in front 🥘"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997279359724650968)  2025-12-06T12:18Z 774.5K followers, 47.4K engagements


"🍌 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997306696214200420)  2025-12-06T14:06Z 774.5K followers, 101.1K engagements


"✨ 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997570538705911887)  2025-12-07T07:35Z 774.5K followers, 332.1K engagements


"A great post related to this China has its own local economic demand now and it does not necessarily need Western demand to keep going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997577930252386726)  2025-12-07T08:04Z 774.5K followers, 26K engagements


"I was expecting the air to be better because they said it was improved a lot with electric scooters and public transport all electric And it was better but still bad we're in winter now so that doesn't help To compare like XX years ago in China I'd see XXX AQI now it's XXX to XXX so yes better but still unliveably bad essentially I hear in the spring and summer it's better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997636503779061919)  2025-12-07T11:57Z 774.5K followers, 87.9K engagements


"@DanielLockyer Damn maybe you can't go work today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997694798283903007)  2025-12-07T15:48Z 774.5K followers, 1457 engagements


"@_sunilrawat No these are actual prices The conspiracy theories man 😂 Sure if I was a political person this could happen but same would happen in US with a Chinese person etc But I'm not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997862003910885651)  2025-12-08T02:53Z 774.5K followers, 2448 engagements


"Anyone know how to see your History in Grok in the X iOS app @nikitabier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997872542951113028)  2025-12-08T03:35Z 774.5K followers, 72.5K engagements


"A nice way to use Nano Banana Pro is to de-marketing marketing pages of hotels Because you know the hotel won't look like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997966336266527021)  2025-12-08T09:47Z 774.5K followers, 77.7K engagements


"Because the EU is a good thing if it'd be democratic The US is also a federal union of states and seems to work fine Europe is much better if it's not fragmented in lots of separate countries There's little difference between me a Dutch person or German or Spanish in modern identity we should keep our traditions though just like Texas has its traditions while having a federal union called the United States of America But right now the European Union obviously does NOT function and is NOT democratic because it's been taken over by an unelected authoritarian group of career politician cronies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998278375543128442)  2025-12-09T06:27Z 774.5K followers, 168.7K engagements


"Yes absolutely X is the #1 news apps in most European countries It's one of the few ways Europeans can read news and opinions from different sources than national (and EU) funded news organizations which all the lean into the same direction and will never criticize the EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998296634787319996)  2025-12-09T07:40Z 774.5K followers, 48.4K engagements


"I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1936730059370315959)  2025-06-22T10:16Z 774.5K followers, 2.5M engagements


"There's so many fake MRR screenshots on here but you can't really prove it except that generally it takes people years to even make a successful project and then many more years to build up substantial revenue It took me years to get to $10K/mo revenue Seeing people join X then post $50K-$100K MRR screenshots within weeks then disappear a year later obviously seems like a scheme to extract money from you Which is when they post reply "GAMEPLAN" so they can sell your their course It's a racket and you shouldn't fall for it or believe it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1983110741033996484)  2025-10-28T09:56Z 774.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"So well made and fun Of course I love the 3d computer now I need to improve my too to make it pretty like this 😊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994422208786219014)  2025-11-28T15:04Z 774.5K followers, 431.7K engagements


"100% Skinny body = neurotic mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998615611723886953)  2025-12-10T04:47Z 774.5K followers, 232.4K engagements


"Me X minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P XXX UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998781654878323037)  2025-12-10T15:47Z 774.5K followers, 82.6K engagements