Hotel ACs in Europe are now designed to show it being about 4°C/9°F colder in your room than it really is
The difference there is if you put it at 20°C, it'll actually be 24°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 20°C, it'll actually be 24°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 🗺️ http://Hoodmaps.com
So now you can switch to [ 💰 Income mode ] and instantly see wealth or lack of wealth concentrated
𝕏 @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 🗺️ http://Hoodmaps.com
So now you can switch to [ 💰 Income mode ] and instantly see wealth or lack of wealth concentrated
𝕏 @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?
𝕏 @LeoBuilds_: https://x.com/LeoBuilds_/status/2093065142665683324
https://hayahora.futbol/#estado
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Craaaazy right?
𝕏 @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!
𝕏 @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!
𝕏 @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!
🍰 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!!!! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093628563693944889
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🍰 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!!!! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093628563693944889
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When something you make get lots of irrational haters, usually you're on to something
Omarchy by @DHH passes that test with flying colours 😂
𝕏 @ronaldlangeveld: https://x.com/ronaldlangeveld/status/2093621814375444485
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Omarchy by @DHH passes that test with flying colours 😂
𝕏 @ronaldlangeveld: https://x.com/ronaldlangeveld/status/2093621814375444485
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37,000 people watched Infinite Slop yesterday!
So I consider it a success and I registered a domain name for it:
http://InfiniteSlop.ai
Let me know if you have ideas how to improve, I thought maybe make the chat full height and move the video more left (like Twitch?) but also it looks cool like this?
Only 4 videos per minute can be generated (4x 15 seconds = 1 minute), so that's kind of a limitation, not everyone gets their video generated if it gets busy
Some people say "let people pay $$$ to bid on it" but that's less fun, I like kinda how 4chan-ey/Hoodmaps-ey it is now
Also some people said I should connect the new video with the previous video by using its last frame, that's possible but it causes a technical challenge where you have to generate SO fast without ANY slowdowns (and sometimes there is slowdowns in generating) to get a perfect sequence going, but maybe I can do it in a slightly imperfect manner
Watching this is oddly scarily addictive, and of course dystopian, but it's interesting to try these experiments early and see where it goes
Thanks @rehan_shei + @marcantoinefon for the idea and @fal for VERY generously sponsoring and making this possible!
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093754163343593802
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So I consider it a success and I registered a domain name for it:
http://InfiniteSlop.ai
Let me know if you have ideas how to improve, I thought maybe make the chat full height and move the video more left (like Twitch?) but also it looks cool like this?
Only 4 videos per minute can be generated (4x 15 seconds = 1 minute), so that's kind of a limitation, not everyone gets their video generated if it gets busy
Some people say "let people pay $$$ to bid on it" but that's less fun, I like kinda how 4chan-ey/Hoodmaps-ey it is now
Also some people said I should connect the new video with the previous video by using its last frame, that's possible but it causes a technical challenge where you have to generate SO fast without ANY slowdowns (and sometimes there is slowdowns in generating) to get a perfect sequence going, but maybe I can do it in a slightly imperfect manner
Watching this is oddly scarily addictive, and of course dystopian, but it's interesting to try these experiments early and see where it goes
Thanks @rehan_shei + @marcantoinefon for the idea and @fal for VERY generously sponsoring and making this possible!
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093754163343593802
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I think the hate for Dubai is mostly a Eurocope that can't deal with how dirty and unsafe Europe's cities have become in the last 10 years
"Dubai doesn't have culture!!!!!!"
True but at least it's safe and clean
𝕏 @teodorio: https://x.com/teodorio/status/2094003423435739575
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"Dubai doesn't have culture!!!!!!"
True but at least it's safe and clean
𝕏 @teodorio: https://x.com/teodorio/status/2094003423435739575
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I made https://infiniteslop.ai yesterday completely on my phone with @TermiusHQ on my @Hetzner_Online VPS with @claudeai Code in the sauna while in a group chat of my friends with @marcantoinefon in it
𝕏 @marcantoinefon: https://x.com/marcantoinefon/status/2094070564532916668
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𝕏 @marcantoinefon: https://x.com/marcantoinefon/status/2094070564532916668
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I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now
Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever
If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it
I'm confused how Anthropic is fumbling their lead so much with this stuff, I love to use Claude Code but they're kinda forcing me to move elsewhere to actually get my work done
Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data
𝕏 @edzart: https://x.com/edzart/status/2094070645621674327
*getting rejected
At least all these typos show I write my own tweets
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Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever
If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it
I'm confused how Anthropic is fumbling their lead so much with this stuff, I love to use Claude Code but they're kinda forcing me to move elsewhere to actually get my work done
Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data
𝕏 @edzart: https://x.com/edzart/status/2094070645621674327
*getting rejected
At least all these typos show I write my own tweets
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There is no reason NOT to have every single email you get routed through an agent / LLM / API to be scored and approved or rejected
And then the approved emails ordered by importance
It's crazy this isn't a feature of Gmail, Fastmail etc
AI could permanently fix email!
𝕏 @gregisenberg: https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/2094121629840289894
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And then the approved emails ordered by importance
It's crazy this isn't a feature of Gmail, Fastmail etc
AI could permanently fix email!
𝕏 @gregisenberg: https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/2094121629840289894
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You stop wondering why the US is so insanely rich when you travel the rest of the world
In most of the world there is:
- no real willingness to solve problems
- nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride)
- simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time
- very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place
The rest of the world really mostly functions like this (except Asia and a few countries in the Middle East)
𝕏 @AndrewWarner: https://x.com/AndrewWarner/status/2094828714366214626
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In most of the world there is:
- no real willingness to solve problems
- nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride)
- simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time
- very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place
The rest of the world really mostly functions like this (except Asia and a few countries in the Middle East)
𝕏 @AndrewWarner: https://x.com/AndrewWarner/status/2094828714366214626
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153,000,000 American driver licenses leaked in KYC hack
This is 63% of all American driver licenses
In US driver licenses function as valid government-issues photo IDs
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2038667797350228114
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This is 63% of all American driver licenses
In US driver licenses function as valid government-issues photo IDs
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2038667797350228114
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💰 New price for Minimax H3 Max dropped
$0.0125/s*60s*60m*24h*30.5d=$32,940/mo
Meaning if you can make more than that with a perpetual AI live stream, you're profitable!
I'm at $15K/mo revenue now so I need just one more advertiser and I'm profitable!
𝕏 @isidentical: https://x.com/isidentical/status/2095231482012799112
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$0.0125/s*60s*60m*24h*30.5d=$32,940/mo
Meaning if you can make more than that with a perpetual AI live stream, you're profitable!
I'm at $15K/mo revenue now so I need just one more advertiser and I'm profitable!
𝕏 @isidentical: https://x.com/isidentical/status/2095231482012799112
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100% accurate
Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europe, they had all the tech founders from US visiting ~2020 as tourists, then as potential residents who could move their businesses to Portugal or open branch offices here and apply to the NHR program (which was a great idea)
The wealth that would flow into the country and the jobs created would be massive and their GDP could have more than tripled over 10 years
Portugal's GDP per capita would have been $100,000/year now, and Portuguese would be rich and high tech
But instead Portugal collectively decided they wanted to remain relatively poor and technologically and intellectually behind
Portugal's choice is cultural though and completely fits the general spirit in Europe which is fully anti-tech, anti-AI, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-business and anti-progress
The biggest fumble in Portugal's history after losing Brazil I think
𝕏 @thealepalombo: https://x.com/thealepalombo/status/2095433838503887329
I wrote this in 2024
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1807822245202403340
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Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europe, they had all the tech founders from US visiting ~2020 as tourists, then as potential residents who could move their businesses to Portugal or open branch offices here and apply to the NHR program (which was a great idea)
The wealth that would flow into the country and the jobs created would be massive and their GDP could have more than tripled over 10 years
Portugal's GDP per capita would have been $100,000/year now, and Portuguese would be rich and high tech
But instead Portugal collectively decided they wanted to remain relatively poor and technologically and intellectually behind
Portugal's choice is cultural though and completely fits the general spirit in Europe which is fully anti-tech, anti-AI, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-business and anti-progress
The biggest fumble in Portugal's history after losing Brazil I think
𝕏 @thealepalombo: https://x.com/thealepalombo/status/2095433838503887329
I wrote this in 2024
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1807822245202403340
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If both @xAI and @claudeai are down
Does that mean the Colossus GPU farm is down?
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2095517218217902313
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Does that mean the Colossus GPU farm is down?
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2095517218217902313
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I've tried for weeks now to build my own @ScrapingBee and repeatedly AI has now told me that it can't do it
80% of my scraping is Google SERP results for Hotelist and even with residential IP proxies and solve CAPTCHA services and OpenSERP scraper it won't do it well for thousands of queries, it just gets blocked
So I will keep paying them $99/mo
A good test to see what services might remain now AGI is here
My only remaining SaaS now are:
- Cloudflare Domains
- Cloudflare Email Sending
- Cloudflare R2 Storage (for Photo AI mostly and Litestream DB backups)
- Backblaze B2 for backups
- Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS)
- xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)
- Scrapingbee
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80% of my scraping is Google SERP results for Hotelist and even with residential IP proxies and solve CAPTCHA services and OpenSERP scraper it won't do it well for thousands of queries, it just gets blocked
So I will keep paying them $99/mo
A good test to see what services might remain now AGI is here
My only remaining SaaS now are:
- Cloudflare Domains
- Cloudflare Email Sending
- Cloudflare R2 Storage (for Photo AI mostly and Litestream DB backups)
- Backblaze B2 for backups
- Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS)
- xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)
- Scrapingbee
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🎒After a decade, I have made http://nomads.com free for everyone now!
Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam
The reason is
1) I have made enough money (from it)
2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at $299 you get 50 new members per month, at $99 you get 200 people, at $29 you get 400 people, etc.
And this always annoyed me, I don't want to put a limit but I had to, to be able to make money from it, so it's free now
I want it to be it the biggest community for digital nomads, world travelers, sovereign thinkers and network state type people
For years it has has a great sponsor with @SafetyWing and I think that's maybe a better model for the future, get much more people in and then just add more sponsors
Right now for the record it has 43,252 paid members (so about 300/mo for 12 years!), so it will be interesting to see what it can grow too
I think now that AGI is on the horizon (or some say already here), online and offline (IRL) communities will become really important. People are talking more to AI now than to humans, and there was already a loneliness epidemic before AI
Making new friends and dating is not so easy for people now. And with remote work and entrepreneurship, people lack a space like an office where people would usually make friends or meet partners
I made most of the friends I have now through traveling and living around the world for the last 10+ years (and many via my site too), and I also met my girlfriend through those friends! So I think communities can have a real role in that post-AGI
Post-AGI business wise, communities also have a moat where many of my SaaS apps do not. So there is some urgency I feel to make Nomads in to the best community there is for those people. But that's why I have to remove any limitations to its growth now
So in a way after 12 years I am switching to the subsidized VC model a bit, but still 100% bootstrapped, kinda like "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Having enough money now I can afford to do these things and figure out the business model later, which I think will be more sponsors
Enjoy and please sign up and tell me what to improve!!! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2095953446742462807
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Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam
The reason is
1) I have made enough money (from it)
2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at $299 you get 50 new members per month, at $99 you get 200 people, at $29 you get 400 people, etc.
And this always annoyed me, I don't want to put a limit but I had to, to be able to make money from it, so it's free now
I want it to be it the biggest community for digital nomads, world travelers, sovereign thinkers and network state type people
For years it has has a great sponsor with @SafetyWing and I think that's maybe a better model for the future, get much more people in and then just add more sponsors
Right now for the record it has 43,252 paid members (so about 300/mo for 12 years!), so it will be interesting to see what it can grow too
I think now that AGI is on the horizon (or some say already here), online and offline (IRL) communities will become really important. People are talking more to AI now than to humans, and there was already a loneliness epidemic before AI
Making new friends and dating is not so easy for people now. And with remote work and entrepreneurship, people lack a space like an office where people would usually make friends or meet partners
I made most of the friends I have now through traveling and living around the world for the last 10+ years (and many via my site too), and I also met my girlfriend through those friends! So I think communities can have a real role in that post-AGI
Post-AGI business wise, communities also have a moat where many of my SaaS apps do not. So there is some urgency I feel to make Nomads in to the best community there is for those people. But that's why I have to remove any limitations to its growth now
So in a way after 12 years I am switching to the subsidized VC model a bit, but still 100% bootstrapped, kinda like "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Having enough money now I can afford to do these things and figure out the business model later, which I think will be more sponsors
Enjoy and please sign up and tell me what to improve!!! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2095953446742462807
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The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises
The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent
Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
𝕏 @AndrewHart: https://x.com/AndrewHart/status/2096585414546960649
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The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent
Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
𝕏 @AndrewHart: https://x.com/AndrewHart/status/2096585414546960649
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Congrats!!!
And it's great to see this perpetual ☃️ snowball happening
Back in 2013, I was inspired by @patio11 @yongfook @johnonolan @jenniferdewalt @sivers @Shpigford @dhh @jasonfried and they made me believe I could also make money on the internet
The more people try the better, and especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win
There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports
With bootstrapping more can win though because the goalpost can be much lower than for ex VC startups. You can make $5K/mo and be able to quit your 9 to 5 job and have a better life
But you can also go big and even raise VC later to go really big later like $ billions
Anyway it's great to keep the snowball rolling and get more people to try!
𝕏 @marclou: https://x.com/marclou/status/2096911867516252385
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And it's great to see this perpetual ☃️ snowball happening
Back in 2013, I was inspired by @patio11 @yongfook @johnonolan @jenniferdewalt @sivers @Shpigford @dhh @jasonfried and they made me believe I could also make money on the internet
The more people try the better, and especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win
There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports
With bootstrapping more can win though because the goalpost can be much lower than for ex VC startups. You can make $5K/mo and be able to quit your 9 to 5 job and have a better life
But you can also go big and even raise VC later to go really big later like $ billions
Anyway it's great to keep the snowball rolling and get more people to try!
𝕏 @marclou: https://x.com/marclou/status/2096911867516252385
Read on levels.io →
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