@levelsio (Pieter Levels)
2025
I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 𝕏
I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha 𝕏
Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
NIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration 𝕏
Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏
I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
We've literally just lost power in Europe 𝕏
Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
I started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle 𝕏
China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
European Commission denies my request for GPUs 𝕏
EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 𝕏
EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
levels.vc - my investment fund
Get a VPS at Hetzner already 𝕏
Counter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats 𝕏
CdK Podcast: A brutal foreigner's view on Portugal
It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
Jesus was a Jewish hippie that went backpacking in India 𝕏
Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏
10g of creatine per day 𝕏
Europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500,000 per year 𝕏
Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John Collison
Chinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
Spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning 𝕏
Silence is high IQ 𝕏
More Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings 𝕏
My friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC 𝕏
I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc) 𝕏
South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏
Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏
The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
Winners of the 2025 vibe code game jam 𝕏
Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
So Trump is vibe presidenting 𝕏
Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
Europe is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c 𝕏
Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job 𝕏
What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick 𝕏
What's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers 𝕏
fly.pieter.com, my first vibecoded flight simulator which reached $1M ARR in 17 days 𝕏
Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 𝕏
Leaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape 𝕏
We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
Europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago 𝕏
Dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends 𝕏
Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
Make Europe great again 𝕏
Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever 𝕏
