The more dysfunctional public services are the more you force people to go private and fend for themselves
This moves you into the direction of Brazilification
Rich people will pay for their own walled condos with private security, bulletproof cars, private healthcare, and everything will be high quality but only for the rich. At the same time the rich will build constructions to not pay tax or just flee the country because why would they not?
This pushes down tax income for governments meaning they will have to increase taxes to pay for the already dysfunctional government services
Meanwhile poor people get further isolated, they don't have money to go private so they rely fully on public services which are now worse than they were before. And they get isolated even more and now you have a 2-tier society of rich and poor fully divided
This forces the poor to start robbing the rich and now you get even more private security and rich fleeing the country and less tax income
"Brazilification"
It's a vicious cycle
Now if you had safe cities, great public services, great healthcare, you would never have this problem. You'd have both rich and poor participating in the functioning system. And rich would be happy to pay more because they get a great liveable society!
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091476185876254816
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This moves you into the direction of Brazilification
Rich people will pay for their own walled condos with private security, bulletproof cars, private healthcare, and everything will be high quality but only for the rich. At the same time the rich will build constructions to not pay tax or just flee the country because why would they not?
This pushes down tax income for governments meaning they will have to increase taxes to pay for the already dysfunctional government services
Meanwhile poor people get further isolated, they don't have money to go private so they rely fully on public services which are now worse than they were before. And they get isolated even more and now you have a 2-tier society of rich and poor fully divided
This forces the poor to start robbing the rich and now you get even more private security and rich fleeing the country and less tax income
"Brazilification"
It's a vicious cycle
Now if you had safe cities, great public services, great healthcare, you would never have this problem. You'd have both rich and poor participating in the functioning system. And rich would be happy to pay more because they get a great liveable society!
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091476185876254816
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I think if you make a sportswear brand that is not plastic but organic materials you will become very rich
They exist but they mostly all suck
I can't find non-plastic swim shorts, gym shorts, and gf can't find non-plastic bikinis, yoga shorts, leggings, etc.
π @IvanLandabaso: https://x.com/IvanLandabaso/status/2091597966255460431
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They exist but they mostly all suck
I can't find non-plastic swim shorts, gym shorts, and gf can't find non-plastic bikinis, yoga shorts, leggings, etc.
π @IvanLandabaso: https://x.com/IvanLandabaso/status/2091597966255460431
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π¬π· Greece now has the highest AC adoption rate in the entire Europe
85% of homes have AC installed, compared to a still measly 20% on average in entire Europe
They love AC so much here that they even installed it at the ποΈ Acropolis! π
Some countries like Spain have pretty good AC rates too at ~41% but they usually set it at a still pretty hot temperature of 26C
Not in Greece, everywhere I go they're blasting freezing cold air and it's set to 18C
An example for the rest of Europe π
π @Arnold_Platon: https://x.com/Arnold_Platon/status/2070057667662406127
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85% of homes have AC installed, compared to a still measly 20% on average in entire Europe
They love AC so much here that they even installed it at the ποΈ Acropolis! π
Some countries like Spain have pretty good AC rates too at ~41% but they usually set it at a still pretty hot temperature of 26C
Not in Greece, everywhere I go they're blasting freezing cold air and it's set to 18C
An example for the rest of Europe π
π @Arnold_Platon: https://x.com/Arnold_Platon/status/2070057667662406127
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Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7
Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called http://Hotelist.com (or http://HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
http://Hotelist.com
Tell your friends please!!!!!! π
π @PascalLindenau: https://x.com/PascalLindenau/status/2091778565482094964
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Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called http://Hotelist.com (or http://HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
http://Hotelist.com
Tell your friends please!!!!!! π
π @PascalLindenau: https://x.com/PascalLindenau/status/2091778565482094964
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I can confirm @xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when I was traveling in China
Because my eSIM was routed through Hong Kong
Both Anthropic and OpenAI fully block Hong Kong
Again, it's not Hong Kong blocking them, it's them blocking Hong Kong
Also did you know Elon's mom lives in Shanghai?
π @damonchen: https://x.com/damonchen/status/2091726363506123053
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Because my eSIM was routed through Hong Kong
Both Anthropic and OpenAI fully block Hong Kong
Again, it's not Hong Kong blocking them, it's them blocking Hong Kong
Also did you know Elon's mom lives in Shanghai?
π @damonchen: https://x.com/damonchen/status/2091726363506123053
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This is exactly what annoys me about Claude Code
You're treated like a child getting lootboxes just to be able to do your work while you pay massive amounts of money for extra usage tokens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413750
I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
I already run all my sites on them and I trust them as they don't lie all the time
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You're treated like a child getting lootboxes just to be able to do your work while you pay massive amounts of money for extra usage tokens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413750
I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
I already run all my sites on them and I trust them as they don't lie all the time
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Testosterone is the hormone of honesty
π @Templarpilled: https://x.com/Templarpilled/status/2091450874069680156
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π @Templarpilled: https://x.com/Templarpilled/status/2091450874069680156
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I kinda missed at what point the Linux community turned into cosplaying furries
Nice to see Linux will be healing from now on!
π @dhh: https://x.com/dhh/status/2091390705360867525
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Nice to see Linux will be healing from now on!
π @dhh: https://x.com/dhh/status/2091390705360867525
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Never stop talking about your new projects until everyone finds out!
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091863677574009001
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π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091863677574009001
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My last Airbnb booking went so crazy that Airbnb deleted our review of her but kept her negative review of us
She was mentally insane and threatening us so we mentioned that in the review, but that's "offensive" π
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091861871087308997
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She was mentally insane and threatening us so we mentioned that in the review, but that's "offensive" π
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091861871087308997
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When buying interior for our house we discovered most sofas, chairs, rugs, carpets, curtains now use materials that are almost without exception fully plastic
And of course they shed all this plastic in their lifetime that they sit in your house, and you just end up breathing in nanoplastics over 10-20 years
It's very hard to find stuff with natural materials, these days and if you do find it, it's super super expensive
Also most times the sales people look at you like you're high when you ask for it
But sir this is "ultrasuede alcantra olefin", all those terms are bullshit, and it's all plastic
Unless they say cotton, wool, linen, silk, cork, or actual natural latex, it's generally just plastic and you'll be breathing it in (or worse)
They often use fancy names to cover up it's all plastic:
- "vegan leather" that's literally just polyurethane (PU) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic
- "leatherette/pleather" same PVC
- "air leather" perforated PU
- "bonded leather" leather scraps glued together with PU
- "alcantra" luxury sofas use this and guess what: it's polyester and PU blended
- "ultrasuede" synthetic microfiber plastic
- "olefin" stain resistant polypropylene (PP) plastic
- "polyamide" a mesh of synthetic polymers
- "lustrous" or "trevia cs", both used in curtains, both fully polyester
For our house we mostly have cotton, wool and leather finishes and it wasn't easy to get that, most is custom finishing because almost nobody asks for it!
π @Mentioum: https://x.com/Mentioum/status/2091601136059126068
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And of course they shed all this plastic in their lifetime that they sit in your house, and you just end up breathing in nanoplastics over 10-20 years
It's very hard to find stuff with natural materials, these days and if you do find it, it's super super expensive
Also most times the sales people look at you like you're high when you ask for it
But sir this is "ultrasuede alcantra olefin", all those terms are bullshit, and it's all plastic
Unless they say cotton, wool, linen, silk, cork, or actual natural latex, it's generally just plastic and you'll be breathing it in (or worse)
They often use fancy names to cover up it's all plastic:
- "vegan leather" that's literally just polyurethane (PU) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic
- "leatherette/pleather" same PVC
- "air leather" perforated PU
- "bonded leather" leather scraps glued together with PU
- "alcantra" luxury sofas use this and guess what: it's polyester and PU blended
- "ultrasuede" synthetic microfiber plastic
- "olefin" stain resistant polypropylene (PP) plastic
- "polyamide" a mesh of synthetic polymers
- "lustrous" or "trevia cs", both used in curtains, both fully polyester
For our house we mostly have cotton, wool and leather finishes and it wasn't easy to get that, most is custom finishing because almost nobody asks for it!
π @Mentioum: https://x.com/Mentioum/status/2091601136059126068
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More apps than ever
Less sales than ever
π @adamlyttleapps: https://x.com/adamlyttleapps/status/2092201317058150859
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Less sales than ever
π @adamlyttleapps: https://x.com/adamlyttleapps/status/2092201317058150859
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I feel this highly correlates with the general enshittification of everything
Intelligence and competence is more rare than ever
π @paulbohm: https://x.com/paulbohm/status/2092468356053860826
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Intelligence and competence is more rare than ever
π @paulbohm: https://x.com/paulbohm/status/2092468356053860826
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Hotel ACs in Europe are now designed to show it being about 4Β°C/9Β°F colder in your room than it really is
The difference there is if you put it at 20Β°C, it'll actually be 24Β°C!
This is a product feature sold to hotels so they can save money on energy while tricking guests into thinking it's colder than it really is
"It must be only me thinking it's hot here?"
No it's not you! It's hotel AC displays lying to you!
If you wanna figure this out
Get the @airthings air quality and temperature sensor (all in one)
Not affiliated or paid but I love their product
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The difference there is if you put it at 20Β°C, it'll actually be 24Β°C!
This is a product feature sold to hotels so they can save money on energy while tricking guests into thinking it's colder than it really is
"It must be only me thinking it's hot here?"
No it's not you! It's hotel AC displays lying to you!
If you wanna figure this out
Get the @airthings air quality and temperature sensor (all in one)
Not affiliated or paid but I love their product
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Strava's data is quite protected so I couldn't index it for Hoodmaps
But the good thing is the US Census data publishes median income level and the data is very fresh and accurate, so I added it to πΊοΈ http://Hoodmaps.com
So now you can switch to [ π° Income mode ] and instantly see wealth or lack of wealth concentrated
π @NYCerInExile: https://x.com/NYCerInExile/status/2092008651288351088
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But the good thing is the US Census data publishes median income level and the data is very fresh and accurate, so I added it to πΊοΈ http://Hoodmaps.com
So now you can switch to [ π° Income mode ] and instantly see wealth or lack of wealth concentrated
π @NYCerInExile: https://x.com/NYCerInExile/status/2092008651288351088
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It's 2026 and Spain still blocks Cloudflare IPs so Spanish people can't visit my sites because there's a football game on and the Spanish football league LaLiga then makes Spanish ISPs block all Cloudflare IPs
Craaaazy right?
π @LeoBuilds_: https://x.com/LeoBuilds_/status/2093065142665683324
https://hayahora.futbol/#estado
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Craaaazy right?
π @LeoBuilds_: https://x.com/LeoBuilds_/status/2093065142665683324
https://hayahora.futbol/#estado
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Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation
You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it
Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video
@fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality
It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!
That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!
π @rehan_shei: https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2093528415576211819
Can try it here for free https://fal.ai/minimax-h3-max
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You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it
Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video
@fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality
It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!
That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!
π @rehan_shei: https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2093528415576211819
Can try it here for free https://fal.ai/minimax-h3-max
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Okay I built it!
π° Infinite Slop
http://levels.io/infinite-slop
An infinite and interactive AI generated live stream of slop that goes on forever and ever
Anything that you write in the chat is generated next and AI will try to connect it to the previous video so there's an actual sequence and story line
Idea by @marcantoinefon and @rehan_shei's original stream so I made it
It'd be very expensive to run this so @fal very generously sponsors this
They also fine-tuned the model that makes this possible for the first time, making Minimax H3 50x faster and as "Max" and it can now generate videos faster than you can watch them, very cool!
Let me know what you think!!!! π
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093628563693944889
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π° Infinite Slop
http://levels.io/infinite-slop
An infinite and interactive AI generated live stream of slop that goes on forever and ever
Anything that you write in the chat is generated next and AI will try to connect it to the previous video so there's an actual sequence and story line
Idea by @marcantoinefon and @rehan_shei's original stream so I made it
It'd be very expensive to run this so @fal very generously sponsors this
They also fine-tuned the model that makes this possible for the first time, making Minimax H3 50x faster and as "Max" and it can now generate videos faster than you can watch them, very cool!
Let me know what you think!!!! π
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093628563693944889
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