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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)  #917 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  #1626 [stocks](/list/stocks)  #208 [finance](/list/finance)  #871 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  #282 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  #118 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  #6506 [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #50, [ai](/topic/ai) #3267, [$googl](/topic/$googl) #34, [nano banana](/topic/nano-banana) #35, [if you](/topic/if-you) #4773, [portugal](/topic/portugal) #33, [japan](/topic/japan) #3257, [the world](/topic/the-world) #180, [money](/topic/money) #3581, [hotels](/topic/hotels) #4

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@grok](/creator/undefined) [@albyantoniazzi](/creator/undefined) [@jackfriks](/creator/undefined) [@willahmed](/creator/undefined) [@kimvondaniken](/creator/undefined) [@xai](/creator/undefined) [@entrepaul](/creator/undefined) [@hereticartwork](/creator/undefined) [@kyzo](/creator/undefined) [@marcospereeira](/creator/undefined) [@funandprofitco](/creator/undefined) [@danadvantage](/creator/undefined) [@alexmacgregor__](/creator/undefined) [@adev](/creator/undefined) [@vonderleyen](/creator/undefined) [@whoop](/creator/undefined) [@oultimobuilder](/creator/undefined) [@peacel1ghter](/creator/undefined) [@seftonhanley](/creator/undefined) [@tuantruong](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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 775.5K followers, 699.2K 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 775.6K followers, 1.5M engagements


"I think fitness hotels will be a massive thing in the next few years Every luxury hotel I go asks me "would you like champagne or wine" during check in Then you enter the room and there's a bottle of champagne waiting Then you go to the restaurant and they give you the 100-page wine list Then you go to the gym and it's X treadmills and and no barbell or plates in sight I understand this is because boomers are generally alcoholics don't work out except walking and they control most of the money; see how Bill Gates looks these days But when they die that will be the largest generational"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1936459630265106931)  2025-06-21T16:22Z 775.5K followers, 1.4M 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 775.3K followers, 484.9K 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 775.5K followers, 911.9K engagements


"What's everyone's tips for China Where to go I think I'll fly in from Kyoto to Shanghai Then high speed train everywhere I like Sichuan hotpot and was also thinking Chengdu (many people say it's great) Shenzhen of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1987552176177308125)  2025-11-09T16:05Z 775.6K followers, 130.7K engagements


"Reducing AC usage reducing emmissions paper straws etc. it's all just incredibly performative Meaning it's an act for show not something that actually contributes to saving the environment or stopping climate change Especially in the case of Singapore a tiny city state with barely any impact on the environment What's funny is that China keeps using more and more energy while getting richer and richer and nobody is going to stop them And the Western nations have essentially outsourced their pollution to China so they go down on the emissions charts while China goes up Nothing actually changes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1987788558162174162)  2025-11-10T07:44Z 775.5K followers, 541K engagements


"Night flights are such a terrible idea usually You arrive in the morning and you can't check into your hotel unless you booked an extra day before So you don't even save money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988437249818849351)  2025-11-12T02:42Z 775.4K followers, 430.9K engagements


"Revolut is one of the few European companies that actually just really great and impressive Many of the others ones being pumped are pumped by Europeans because they're European but inferior to US products Revolut is on-par or superior to US fintechs by now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1989252541201404245)  2025-11-14T08:42Z 775K followers, 223K engagements


"@KimvonDaniken Follower of Jheronimus Bosch Christ in Limbo Harrowing of Hell 14501516"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1991724542893723900)  2025-11-21T04:25Z 775.2K followers, 4702 engagements


"@sawyermidddd @edmundtian Please show New Amsterdam 1650 before it 🥹🥹🥹"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1992139413338632252)  2025-11-22T07:53Z 775.6K followers, 544.2K 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 775.5K followers, 745K 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 775.6K followers, 1M 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 775.2K followers, 60.9K 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 775.2K followers, 679K 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 775.6K followers, 88K 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 775.4K followers, 51.6K engagements


"@LexanderBrouwer Yep Luckin coffee tastes good better than Starbucks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994414139066986515)  2025-11-28T14:32Z 775.6K followers, 6065 engagements


"@Z7xxxZ7 And Tesla"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994414694493495588)  2025-11-28T14:34Z 775.6K followers, 3175 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 775.4K followers, 140K 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 775.6K followers, 123.3K 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 775.5K followers, 2929 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 775.6K followers, 316.6K engagements


"Honestly it reminded me of COVID in intensity a bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996061758008811614)  2025-12-03T03:39Z 775.5K followers, 20.5K 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 775.5K followers, 9697 engagements


"@alexmacgregor__ Still better than Lisbon Airport :D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997153207735492733)  2025-12-06T03:56Z 775.1K followers, 2132 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 775.6K followers, 1358 engagements


"@DmytroKrasun Good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997276214546026599)  2025-12-06T12:05Z 775.5K followers, 1554 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 775.1K followers, 2503 engagements


"@DmytroKrasun Added now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998296028303507900)  2025-12-09T07:37Z 775.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@64Based Hah no it's Alibaba Health certified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998385558905651387)  2025-12-09T13:33Z 775.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@andreasklinger It's a very interesting time: - currencies inflating like crazy I measure XX% YoY USD - most other assets also inflating though: stocks real estate crypto So what does market crash mean It means stocks crash vs USD. But that'd only make sense if it's more useful to hold USD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1471047782127390722)  2021-12-15T09:21Z 776K followers, XX engagements


"I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1936730059370315959)  2025-06-22T10:16Z 775.6K followers, 2.5M engagements


"@oultimobuilder Yes I will try I need to get my Meituan to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994041529699303587)  2025-11-27T13:52Z 776K followers, 19K engagements


"@wey_gu Nice how do I do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997596363660689759)  2025-12-07T09:17Z 776K followers, 4443 engagements


"I tried self checkout at @Uniqlo and it was so smooth and different Throw all your stuff in a box it scans everything instantly via RFID literally less than a second no errors tap your payment card done The scanning barcodes of supermarket self-checkouts makes it unusable the software is horrid it starts beeping annoyingly Supermarkets stopped innovating it at v1 and now everyone hates supermarket self checkout as someone said in the replies 💯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1769423609531916702)  2024-03-17T18:00Z 776.2K followers, 3.6M 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 776.3K followers, 317.4K 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 776.3K followers, 18.5K 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 776.3K followers, 120.8K engagements


"And peoole say X doesn't have discoverability It does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995294386616504617)  2025-12-01T00:50Z 776.3K followers, 342.1K 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 776.3K followers, 9095 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 776.2K followers, 256.6K 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 776.3K followers, 82.4K 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 776.2K followers, 21.5K engagements


"@DanielLockyer Damn maybe you can't go work today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997694798283903007)  2025-12-07T15:48Z 776.2K followers, 1593 engagements


"Just to rub it in Remember 2023 Elon firing XX% of Twitter staff renaming it to X and everyone predicting it would go to zero Look where we're now 👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1965431479032541499)  2025-09-09T15:05Z 776.3K followers, 2.7M 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 776.6K followers, 449.7K engagements


"Even the socialist mayor of New York City is cutting regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1995112283026939975)  2025-11-30T12:46Z 776.3K followers, 996.9K engagements


"@maximnovak @LuisGas64296020 Last year I paid 100x more tax than the average Portuguese person close to half a million euros Capital gains tax (28%) property transfer tax (10%) and sales tax (23%) is very high here This year I spent close to a million euros mostly for construction work in our house"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999116518446272954)  2025-12-11T13:58Z 776.3K followers, XX 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 776.7K followers, 963.4K 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 776.7K followers, 436.7K 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 776.7K followers, 249.9K 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 776.7K followers, 342.9K engagements


"This could be easily fixed by an AI vision model that's prompted against clickbait thumbnails YouTube can score each and then derank if it's clickbait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999037816588898767)  2025-12-11T08:45Z 776.7K followers, 46K engagements


"@itsolelehmann Lisbon is a shithole I will DM where you should live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999451026488012898)  2025-12-12T12:07Z 776.7K followers, 85.6K engagements


"It was really nice hosting @javilopen a few weeks ago And he wrote a little story about it which shows you a little bit of my life when we're at home and not traveling/nomading 😊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999510601392136303)  2025-12-12T16:04Z 776.7K followers, 93.5K engagements


"Amap (in Chinese Gaode Map) is my favorite navigation app in China Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong when we told the staff they said "yes Google Maps isn't used in China" it is so useless in China that even the city grid and roads are positioned wrongly on top of the satellite map so it doesn't seem to be maintained at all by Google But Amap is great Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English It also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999767360102715446)  2025-12-13T09:04Z 776.7K followers, 561K engagements


"I own a home now Home ownership is a cult A mortgage is massive long term loan that holds considerable risk when a local market crashes (see Detroit) It's a bad investment and a moneypit After real estate fees taxes and maintenance it heavily underperforms most other investments The only arguments to be made for home ownership is leverage by borrowing money (most people can't borrow $1M to put in S&P500 but they can to buy a house) And being able to highly customize your own living experience (like me I installed a home gym sauna jacuzzi etc) Don't let anybody tell you it's a great investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1952454292230545637)  2025-08-04T19:39Z 776.5K followers, 639.8K 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 776.5K followers, 856.4K 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 776.6K followers, 1.5M 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 776.5K followers, 521K 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 776.5K followers, 581.8K 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 776.6K followers, 241.3K 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 776.5K followers, 73.1K 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 776.5K followers, 923.3K 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 776.6K followers, 1.2M 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 776.5K followers, 3.1M engagements


"@MarcusAnthony I have natural high T 860ng/dl I'm XX my brother who's XX has a slightly better hairline he doesn't work out heavy so yes high T does increase DHT which can increase hair loss a bit But then again which guy at XX has a great hairline right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999314623779283384)  2025-12-12T03:05Z 776.6K followers, XXX 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 776.7K followers, 200.6K 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 776.7K followers, 806.2K 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 776.7K followers, 1.5M 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 776.7K followers, 8.1M 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 776.7K followers, 13.6M engagements


"POV building an AI startup"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988947337419583694)  2025-11-13T12:29Z 776.7K followers, 2.5M 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 776.7K followers, 1.5M 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 776.7K followers, 237.7K 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 776.7K followers, 236.5K 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 776.7K followers, 776.2K 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 776.7K followers, 1.5M 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 776.7K followers, 1.2M 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 776.7K followers, 232.6K 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 776.7K followers, 272.3K 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 776.7K followers, 231.7K 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 776.7K followers, 634.5K 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 776.7K followers, 651K 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 776.7K followers, 2M 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 776.7K followers, 100.4K 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 776.7K followers, 14.1K 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 776.7K followers, 546.2K 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 776.7K followers, 2M engagements


"@Ranicket @peacel1ghter I didn't say that don't twist my words I said it's one the dumbest thing they've done because it makes foreigners think twice before starting a company in China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997339716719435910)  2025-12-06T16:17Z 776.7K followers, 3011 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 776.7K followers, 1.5M 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 776.7K followers, 89.5K 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 776.7K followers, 79.1K 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 776.7K followers, 25.9M 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 776.7K followers, 172.9K 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 776.7K followers, 72.4K 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 776.7K followers, 237.6K engagements


"100% Skinny body = neurotic mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998615611723886953)  2025-12-10T04:47Z 776.7K followers, 301.1K engagements


"@ErisBlisset @Artur_JSantos It's 92"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998763329377202500)  2025-12-10T14:34Z 776.7K followers, 1873 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 776.7K followers, 953.5K engagements


"Crazy thing about making money is if you don't spend it you just keep getting richer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998971810478698923)  2025-12-11T04:23Z 776.7K followers, 210.7K engagements


"If money doesn't exist or stops existing post-AGI Maybe real human social following will become the currency because everything else will be AI bots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999011696015454571)  2025-12-11T07:01Z 776.7K followers, 48.7K engagements


"This is why I avoid running like the plague personally High odds you position your feet wrong and then running on asphalt makes it worse because it doesn't bounce like running on sand or grass would I can't count how many people I know who have knee injuries from running it's not worth it for me I do cardio on a Concept2 bicycle in my gym and have never had any injury in my life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999019017428963374)  2025-12-11T07:30Z 776.7K followers, 608.1K engagements


"This doesn't work because a "product launch" isn't what it was XX years ago anymore Back then you'd launch on Product Hunt and you'd get thousands or tens of thousands of users overnight and journalists would pick it up after A lot has changed since then Firstly nobody cares anymore there's too many products and things launching and unless your product is completely groundbreaking and new a launch won't get much attention anymore Secondly these days you essentially should be launching every day non-stop: you try get attention from potential new users posting new features you build based on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999056414027993116)  2025-12-11T09:59Z 776.7K followers, 395.4K engagements


"✨ I updated Photo AI's video model to @Kling_ai XXX now By default it also generates audio (like Veo X does) and if you prompt for it it also produces voice and it's pretty realistic too I'd say the cadence of the voice can be improved to be a bit more real but it's definitely getting there It's just one click just generate an AI photo first then hover over it and press 📼 Make video It's 3x more expensive but I sell it below cost (5 credits) so that you all sign up to Photo AI and generate your UGC influencers with me 😊 Here's my XXX% AI influencer telling what she thinks of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999105251329360295)  2025-12-11T13:13Z 776.7K followers, 136K engagements


"@DanielLockyer They're just copying Hermes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999106258054595047)  2025-12-11T13:17Z 776.7K followers, 7008 engagements


"@AIRevoltHQ Blocked for AI reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999331491864875298)  2025-12-12T04:12Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LaurencePostrv Why are you anti Chinese AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999397123150983372)  2025-12-12T08:33Z 776.7K followers, 24K engagements


"@ringsosaturn What's terrible about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999497732210458996)  2025-12-12T15:13Z 776.7K followers, 46.4K engagements


"Yes sometimes I wonder though if I design it flashy or hire some designer will it make 10x but I doubt it :D I think hot design mostly goes together with more money because it's VC funding and then you also have money to spend millions and lose money per $ spent just to get users and growth To raise the next VC round But I have XX% profits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999505037580714234)  2025-12-12T15:42Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LPizarro Yes the high taxes here don't help that at all esp for businesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999517617867096573)  2025-12-12T16:32Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This seems to happen often these days when I'm in a plane Especially during boarding or taxiing there's engine bleed air that smells like heavy kerosine I always try cover my face with my hoodie tightly which @grok says reduces your intake of the toxic fumes by 50-80% Because the particles are relatively big so simple thick fabric stops it quite well The risks to your brain of toxic bleed air are real so better not inhale it Plane maintenance is suffering in many places which is another part of enshittification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999685425775149366)  2025-12-13T03:38Z 776.7K followers, 164.6K engagements


"🎧 So I made a DJ photo pack on Photo AI Then I tried to turn the photos into videos to see what would happen I was expecting to be bad some cheesy EDM stuff but it actually created kinda experimental weird still good sounding techno very different The second video especially is some weird semi syncopated beat I love it very different The third video is panic attack inducing techno very dark and also nice 👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999695348244283780)  2025-12-13T04:18Z 776.7K followers, 44.1K engagements


"Anyone have any idea why @xai Grok X Vision is super slow via the API In the chat it takes X seconds to describe an image but in the API it takes like XX seconds Here's the CLI curl test: curl -v --max-time XXX -H "Authorization: Bearer xai-KEY-REDACTED" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999710836655554785)  2025-12-13T05:19Z 776.7K followers, 54.2K engagements


"Chinese EVs have been taking the world by storm whether you like it or not When I look around here on the street in China I try recognize the car brands and I see so many brands I don't know One brand I see a lot is LI but also BYD Zeekr and XPeng Apparently there's now XXX () EV brands in China producing cars which kinda shows the massive scale of the EV boom here There's a real historical parallel here with the US a hundred years ago where there were about 2000 new American car companies in America. Of course most failed and only a few remained The same is predicted for China where only 15"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999791498687136104)  2025-12-13T10:40Z 776.7K followers, 87.6K engagements


"Tried Justin Bieber + Kylie Jenner today generated by my people-diffusion AI model Interpretation of tattoos by AI get pretty interesting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1615455547788267521)  2023-01-17T21:06Z 776.6K followers, 85K 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 776.6K followers, 192.4K 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 776.7K followers, 1.6M 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 776.6K followers, 1.2M 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 776.6K followers, 846.2K engagements


"How do I order creatine in China Which app THANK YOU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994305937117434275)  2025-11-28T07:22Z 776.6K followers, 265.2K engagements


"And how I know if it's real or poison 😂🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1994307571713200304)  2025-11-28T07:29Z 776.7K followers, 438.8K 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 776.6K followers, 665.1K 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 776.6K followers, 1.6M 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 776.6K followers, 960.1K 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 776.6K followers, 318.2K 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 776.6K followers, 338.7K 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 776.7K followers, 102.4K 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 776.7K followers, 102.2K 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 776.7K followers, 50.4K engagements


"@mvrckhckr Lowest fees in da game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998783118883606531)  2025-12-10T15:53Z 776.7K followers, 14.9K engagements


"@marcospereeira You should be president of Portugal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998783268943180127)  2025-12-10T15:54Z 776.7K followers, 2554 engagements


"They're gonna ban GTA X aren't they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998953401145766039)  2025-12-11T03:10Z 776.7K followers, 123.5K engagements


"That's 10.5%/year which is the average S&P500 return over XXX years some say 11%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998989676041171169)  2025-12-11T05:34Z 776.7K followers, 19.4K engagements


"@micmat02 This is debunked by @foundmyfitness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999095827894354261)  2025-12-11T12:36Z 776.7K followers, 5057 engagements


"@andmyjake Blue zones are fully debunked It was all pension fraud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999326030486732910)  2025-12-12T03:50Z 776.7K followers, 5602 engagements


"@henriquepreze Ah interesting Ana say they sell a lot of luxury brands though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999453372357968235)  2025-12-12T12:16Z 776.7K followers, 2181 engagements


"This is endless cope You can go Asia and things are super affordable but they actually work This culture just isn't made to work it's made to leech off government handouts Which makes Portugal a microcosm of greater Europe of course same at European scale: nobody wants to work hard everyone wants free handouts Which is why both Portugal and Europe aren't competitive now or in the future and US and China will win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999524143788929511)  2025-12-12T16:57Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@funandprofitco Yes even with kids you have to work out or well especially with kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999759137291534735)  2025-12-13T08:31Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@arianoangelo @SomberOne I thought this before I used these now I want an iPhone that can turn into an iPad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999810133946437869)  2025-12-13T11:54Z 776.7K followers, XXX 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 776.7K followers, 2.3M 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 776.6K followers, 1.8M 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 776.7K followers, 776.4K 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 776.7K followers, 548.8K 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 776.7K followers, 2.6M 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 776.7K followers, 699.7K 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 776.7K followers, 2.9M 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 776.6K followers, 606.8K 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 776.6K followers, 664.4K 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 776.7K 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 776.7K followers, 432K 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 776.6K followers, 182.4K 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 776.7K followers, 819K 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 776.7K followers, 2.1M 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 776.7K followers, 126.2K engagements


"The true beauty of Florence in 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996775074381398434)  2025-12-05T02:54Z 776.6K followers, 151.2K 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 776.7K followers, 86.7K engagements


"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 776.7K followers, 105.1K engagements


"@tessiermaurice Portugal is a great extreme microcosm of whatever happens in Europe at scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997222277558243359)  2025-12-06T08:31Z 776.7K followers, 5180 engagements


"@JoeNakamoto Bullshit they've never worked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1997277441770053731)  2025-12-06T12:10Z 776.7K followers, 26.1K 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 776.7K followers, 47.9K 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 776.7K followers, 1.7M 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 776.7K followers, 26.6K 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 776.7K followers, 313.7K 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 776.7K followers, 73.6K 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 776.7K followers, 39.7K engagements


"@marcospereeira Why all the High IQ Portuguese live in Porto and the Low IQ Portuguese live in Lisbon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998783361578578422)  2025-12-10T15:54Z 776.7K followers, 2599 engagements


"@seftonhanley He's not mostly cash I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998952774437110175)  2025-12-11T03:07Z 776.7K followers, 6056 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) and - take 10g creatine per day yes 5g was the previous recommendation but after 5g the benefits are cognitive and in studies it delays Alzheimer - start lifting weights 3-4 times per week strength training avoids guaranteed age-related muscle atrophy and bone density loss no running is not enough you need both strength training and cardio get a personal trainer to check your form - build a business or SaaS so you can escape the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998969639909601696)  2025-12-11T04:14Z 776.7K followers, 1.1M engagements


"We should be bottling sparkling water and storing it for years so you can buy like an expensive 1972 bottle of sparkling water and you can say "what a fine year for sparkling water that was" like a sparkling water afficionado"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998971603116503451)  2025-12-11T04:22Z 776.7K followers, 40.7K engagements


"No I always book hotels or apartments with gym in the building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999039030789611889)  2025-12-11T08:50Z 776.7K followers, 43.6K engagements


"This is/was the case before AGI and robots When robots can do anything and you have essentially free energy from the sun The cost of everything crashes to close to $X And there will be few things produced by humans I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999051581581672462)  2025-12-11T09:40Z 776.7K followers, 37.6K engagements


"No creatine does not ruin your kidneys it's debunked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999113834779513281)  2025-12-11T13:47Z 776.7K followers, 88.1K engagements


"I feel like a junkie measuring out my 🍚 creatine on the hotel room floor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999748265093587221)  2025-12-13T07:48Z 776.7K followers, 66.8K engagements


"@alysha_lobo I saw remarkably few Xiaomi stores"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999805379941962139)  2025-12-13T11:35Z 776.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Every single time they're German 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999806456410067098)  2025-12-13T11:39Z 776.7K followers, 41.9K engagements


"@alysha_lobo Beijing Chongqing Chengdu Shanghai Hangzhou Didn't see a lot of Xiaomi and def not with a car inside :O"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999811893494764022)  2025-12-13T12:01Z 776.7K followers, XXX 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 776.7K followers, 316.3K 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 776.7K followers, 442.1K 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 776.7K followers, 406.5K engagements


"It's actually described in RFC 1661 as the PPP protocol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1996974052662202610)  2025-12-05T16:04Z 776.7K followers, 11.7K 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 776.7K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Okay let's try 😂👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998381193142931715)  2025-12-09T13:16Z 776.7K followers, 531K engagements


"No because compounding interest makes that $100/mo into millions in decades Start as early as possible with saving and investing Doesn't matter if you can only save $100/mo compounding interest means earlier is better and also you learn how to spend less which is a great skill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1998989362856608208)  2025-12-11T05:32Z 776.7K followers, 94.3K engagements


"No because solar energy is essentially free When you launch data centers into space your only cost is the hardware + launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999054967949463903)  2025-12-11T09:53Z 776.7K followers, 37K engagements


"It's been an amazing few weeks in Asia and what I noticed is I'm not complaining about anything here Things. Just. Work. We still have to deal with some stuff in Portugal though because we live there We ordered furniture and it arrived broken And it's almost the exact same experience every single time when you buy something in Portugal the sales is excellent they promise you the world and respond fast they come to your house with beautiful iPad presentations "oh yes everything is possible" Then once you pay things rapidly change They stop responding fast or responding at all the promised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999448704244416843)  2025-12-12T11:58Z 776.7K followers, 304.3K engagements


"Okay I made the whole button become a 🍌 banana now 😊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999480173205540993)  2025-12-12T14:03Z 776.7K followers, 141.2K engagements


"Japan was famous for extremely low quality goods until they were suddenly not China is the same: "Japan was historically known for producing low-quality goods particularly in the immediate post-World War II era through the 1950s and into the 1960s In the late 1940s and 1950s "Made in Japan" often signified cheap shoddy or imitation products similar to how "Made in China" is sometimes perceived today. Japanese exports such as toys textiles transistor radios and ceramics were mass-produced quickly to rebuild the war-devastated economy prioritizing quantity and low cost over durability. This led"  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999843364070637890)  2025-12-13T14:06Z 776.7K followers, 1639 engagements


"Grok puts China in 2025 at about Japan in 1970 So just before their boom to high quality and world dominance: "In summary China has largely moved past the "purely low-quality" phase (like Japan's 1950s) and is in active ascent (like Japan's 1970s) with full reputation reversal likely in the coming decade if trends continueespecially as brands like BYD Huawei and Xiaomi gain more international traction. The journey isn't complete but the momentum is strong in priority areas.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1999844825584267535)  2025-12-13T14:12Z 776.7K followers, XX engagements