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I'm German. 16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined. Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

I'm European. I recently visited the USA for the first time since 2018, hitting up Las Vegas and New York City. What I witnessed left me stunned. 15 American oddities I still can't wrap my head around:

I'm German. 16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined. Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

I'm German. My country just made a €500 billion mistake: We demolished our last nuclear plants while France kept 56 reactors running. Now we're reliant on Russia, pay 2x for electricity, and burn more coal than ever. Here's the brutal story of Germany's nuclear suicide 🧵:

Average European morning

While the West crumbles, one Eastern European nation is quietly building a superpower: • Outpacing US economy • Strongest military in Europe • Silicon Valley's new favorite $62.7B hub The rise of Poland is the greatest story nobody's talking about 🧵:

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.” it was called project panama. here's exactly what happened: 1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.” 2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy. it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.” 3: that piracy created a massive legal risk. so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.” 4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs. those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers. 5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months. 6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them. a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling. 7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data. the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

Everyone says Europe can't compete with America in tech. But 48 hours ago, Mistral's 'Le Chat' just proved them wrong: • 13x faster than ChatGPT • 100% open-source • Completely free (vs $20/month) The European AI breakthrough Silicon Valley didn't see coming 🧵:

I used to think I was rational. Then I read Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on human decision-making. He routinely asks 8 questions to expose cognitive traps you fall into daily. Test yourself with these questions (it's the ultimate BS detector for your brain):

ok this might be the most aggressively american startup i’ve ever seen 🇺🇸 > they’re trying to build nuclear reactors 100x faster than the nuclear industry ever has > the founder isaiah taylor grew up on food stamps + dropped out of high school at 16 > his great-grandfather literally worked on the manhattan project > generations later isaiah built a working nuclear reactor before turning 28 and named it “ward” after him > the pentagon used 3 military c-17s to airlift the reactor 700 miles from california to utah in a first-of-its-kind mission > the company culture is hardcore americana > they hold bible studies, offer raw milk, love fast cars + have a cigar lounge > plus 4 gigantic patriotic paintings of columbus discovering america, the pilgrims arriving on the mayflower, the signing of the declaration + the constitutional convention > they sued the nuclear regulatory commission for slowing them down > valar's end goal is to build the same reactor thousands of times across nuclear “gigasites” to make energy 10x cheaper > then they'll use that energy to pull carbon out of thin air and turn it into oil and gas for supreme energy abundance > just raised $1b at a $6b valuation to scale it > if valar pulls it off, isaiah’s family will have helped usher in both of america’s atomic ages yeah this gets my vote for most badass startup of the year

Europe is bleeding tech talent, and no one's talking about it. A senior engineer in Paris makes $65K. The same role in Silicon Valley? $320K. This gap is creating the biggest talent exodus in European history. Here's the brutal reality behind Europe's massive brain drain 🧵:

I'm German. Europe is dying out. Birthrates are rapidly collapsing. Government incentives aren't working. By 2100, Europe will have lost 117 million people. Here's why Europe's population is imploding (and what it means for the world) 🧵:

Day of a European in 2025 - wakes up - likes a meme on x, gets arrested - tries to use AI, blocked - drinks water, bottlecap gets stuck - opens browser, 48 cookies - wants to watch a workout on YT, blocked - buys coffee, pays 50c extra for the cup - clicks to buy a product, no EU shipping - starts a website, gets fined for GDPR - orders meat, gets shamed for destroying planet - tries to start company, gets sued - repeat

They told Europe "you can't compete with SpaceX." But a new Munich startup just raised €350M to prove everyone wrong. Now their Spectrum rocket is set to make history as Europe's FIRST commercial orbital launch. How Isar Aerospace is rewriting Europe's space future 🧵:

While the West crumbles, one Eastern European nation is quietly building a superpower: • Outpacing US economy • Strongest military in Europe • Silicon Valley's new favorite $62.7B hub The rise of Poland is the greatest story nobody's talking about 🧵:

2 years ago, I moved my entire life to Cyprus to escape Germany's 50% tax rate. It was the most expensive "money-saving" decision I've ever made. Here's 21 brutal realities of tax haven living (that nobody warns you about):

I'm German. 16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined. Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

I'm European. I recently visited the USA for the first time since 2018, hitting up Las Vegas and New York City. What I witnessed left me stunned. 15 American oddities I still can't wrap my head around:

I'm German. My country just made a €500 billion mistake: We demolished our last nuclear plants while France kept 56 reactors running. Now we're reliant on Russia, pay 2x for electricity, and burn more coal than ever. Here's the brutal story of Germany's nuclear suicide 🧵:

I'm German. 16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined. Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

i'm running a live claude cowork workshop for non-technical people on april 22 by the end of the 2 hours, you'll have a fully set up marketing system on your computer that: > produces a full week of content in one sitting, dialed into your voice so it sounds like you on your sharpest day > turns any marketing framework or post into a repeatable skill that claude runs on command for you > builds sales pages in minutes so you stop paying designers and copywriters thousands > schedules tasks to run while you sleep so you wake up to finished drafts, fresh ideas, and updated reports every morning > writes launch emails, newsletters, and sequences using the same frameworks behind my 6-figure product launches all click by click, on your machine, while i do it on mine here's everything that you get: • the full 2-hour live workshop where you build everything in real time • 16 personal skills that i built over 100s of hours for my own business • the complete recording so you can rewatch anytime • a self-paced course version of all the material • access to Claude Marketing OS telegram group this system runs 90% of the marketing behind my 7-figure brand doing 15M+ impressions/month and it's all yours come april 22nd comment "Cowork" and i'll DM you the link

i made a 3-day Claude Cowork for Beginners course, and it's yours for free by the end, you'll have a personalized AI teammate on your computer that: • knows your style • connects to your tools • and produces finished work you can send immediately here's what you get: day 1: install cowork, set global instructions, and run your first real task (15 min) day 2: workflows that replaced hours of my week, including building landing pages from a description and running full competitive analyses in one prompt day 3: skills, plugins, and connectors so cowork actually knows how you work and can access your tools + copy-paste prompts so you can follow along as you read like + comment "COWORK" and i'll DM it to you

I want to start a new hobby in 2025 give me some ideas Best if - not with a computer - you create something while you do it - challenging stuff im thinking about: - 3d printing (i know, its with a computer) - getting better at playing handpan (I love the combination of drum + melody) - martial arts help me out here

I'm German. Europe is dying out. Birthrates are rapidly collapsing. Government incentives aren't working. By 2100, Europe will have lost 117 million people. Here's why Europe's population is imploding (and what it means for the world) 🧵:

The most expensive mistake in American history: Choosing highways over high-speed rail. Meanwhile, Europeans travel between major cities in half the time at a fraction of the cost. Here's why Europe's transportation network leaves America's in the dust 🧵:

While the West crumbles, one Eastern European nation is quietly building a superpower: • Outpacing US economy • Strongest military in Europe • Silicon Valley's new favorite $62.7B hub The rise of Poland is the greatest story nobody's talking about 🧵:

2 years ago, I moved my entire life to Cyprus to escape Germany's 50% tax rate. It was the most expensive "money-saving" decision I've ever made. Here's 21 brutal realities of tax haven living (that nobody warns you about):

I've been microdosing mushrooms for 3+ years. It's massively improved my life, creativity, & decision-making. I just made a microdose guide showing you how to experience these benefits, too. Like + Comment "🍄" and I'll DM it to you for free. Must be following.

Everyone says Europe can't compete with America in tech. But 48 hours ago, Mistral's 'Le Chat' just proved them wrong: • 13x faster than ChatGPT • 100% open-source • Completely free (vs $20/month) The European AI breakthrough Silicon Valley didn't see coming 🧵:

I've been microdosing mushrooms for 3+ years. It's massively improved my life, creativity, & decision-making. I just made a microdose guide showing you how to experience these benefits, too. Like + Comment "🍄" and I'll DM it to you for free. Must be following.

They told Europe "you can't compete with SpaceX." But a new Munich startup just raised €350M to prove everyone wrong. Now their Spectrum rocket is set to make history as Europe's FIRST commercial orbital launch. How Isar Aerospace is rewriting Europe's space future 🧵:

Want to generate better content ideas, 10x faster? I just created a ChatGPT + YouTube workflow that'll save you 100s of hours of writing this year. (It's also just really fun to use). Like and Comment "Flow" and it'll show up in your DMs. Must be following (so I can DM).