Alexander Marktl

Still trying to create magical Apps...

[TheWizard @TheRealWizar]

Thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the alphabet has never been easier to learn:

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".

First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.

The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.

Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades.

France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.

Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide.

Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@TheRabbitHole Accurate

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@horrormuseum 🤣

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@sigmargabriel 100% agree.

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@nikitabier AI is causing a massive increase in App submissions.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[Eddie Graf @Eddie_1412]

Winter - Vivaldi
Ok, das ist verdammt cool.
Es ist eine großartige Idee, wie man Musik visualisiert.

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

🤣

[Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins]

Finally, someone put international conflict into terms I can understand

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

This must be a joke, right?

[Lukas Niessen @iamlukasniessen]

German AI summit: THESE are the AI experts of our country?

Put @steipete there, for God's sake ‼️
(I know he is Austrian... just consider it part of Germany 😉) ... And @rasbt ... 😐

[Sam Altman @sama]

The most impressive people I know spent their time with their head down getting shit done for a long, long time.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 I just learned about a concept, I can't stop thinking about.

The Four Burner Theory.

It destroyed Elon Musk's first marriage.
It explains why Bezos is jacked but divorced.

And why Zuckerberg has no real friends.

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@steipete how do you talk to your AI? Literally what do you use? I just find it annoyingly slow...

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

It seems Codex 5.3 finally is an AI with UI taste...

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@jbulltard1 Well in Europe it mostly doesn't...

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

This is the way

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

Europe just overtook the US in the number of git pushes.

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

Try that in snowy Austria 🤣

[Alexander Marktl @alexmarktl]

@sama Make a mobile Codex App that controls my Mac Codex App