François VDH

Belgian software engineer and DJ.
Main interests: Technology, Science and Music

[François VDH @frvdh]

𝕏 is already becoming the ultimate social media and it’s only just begun. It has:

- short text posts
- long form posts (Like a blog/Substack/Medium/etc.)
- short videos (reels, shorts, tiktoks, etc.)
- long form videos (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.)
- Paid verification of companies and users
- Freemium model
- Spaces (Clubhouse, podcasts)
- Bookmarks
- Job postings (LinkedIn)
- Communities (Reddit, FB groups)
- Its own great AI LLM model: Grok
- Suggested/similar posts for almost every post
- Trending page
- Paid subscriber model for bonus content made for subscribers only
- Better, tailored ads
- Advertising payouts to creators
- Free speech maximalism constrained by the local laws of every country
- e2e encrypted DMs (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, etc.)
- Voice calling (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, etc.)
- Video calling (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, etc.)
- Group calls (Spaces) (Discord, Messenger, Whatsapp, etc.)
- Livestreaming (Twitch, Youtube, TV channels)

Important coming features and events:

- Payment system (𝕏 Coin coming?)
- Micro-tipping to creators
- Grok integration to posts and trending topics
- Grok full rollout to premium+ users
- Many, many more features (partly requested by users)
- Presidential elections
- Lawsuits of companies that made illegal usage of 𝕏/Twitter’s data for training
- Creators flooding in onto the platform because better engagement
- Death or large reduction of presence of legacy media
- Eradication of the woke mind virus
- Uncovering of many corruptions, lies and censorship in pursuit of truth maximization

The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk made it a much better platform than it would have been otherwise and it’s gonna be even better.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

Never deleting this app.

[calle @callebtc]

Bitchat android downloads surging in India

As long as governments try to silence free speech, there will be demand for Bitchat.

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

For the first time in 4.5 billion years, life has a real chance to become multiplanetary

Maybe it’s time

[calle @callebtc]

Thanks India

[@jason @Jason]

Blade Runner 2026

[Omar Pimentel @OmarJPimentel]

Starship is one of those things money alone cannot buy.

Give another organization $1 trillion tomorrow + a decade and they still won’t have what SpaceX has built.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Almost half of employed Norwegian/Danish/Swedish women work for the government.

[calle @callebtc]

In response to India's recent ban of the Bitchat source code on GitHub, there are now

- 50 nodes seeding the code on Radicle, an unstoppable peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
- 25 copies on GitHub
- copies on codeberg, gitlab, gitlawb, and more

Thank you, I guess?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

beautiful engineering

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A low birth rate due to extended periods of prosperity and low perceived external danger is the primary reason that Rome and most other powerful civilizations collapsed.

Rome had a very high birth rate when under extreme pressure from Carthage and a low birth rate a few generations after Carthage, their last serious threat, was finally destroyed.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So deserved

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

Legacy media exposed! @elonmusk

A major legacy media outlet published an article about SpaceX based on false information I sent from a fake email address.

They didn't verify the information and even cited me as "people familiar with the matter."

1/n

[François VDH @frvdh]

This is the way

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Any civilization that loses faith in the future will die.

Exploring the stars is an exciting future that you can believe in.

[Ratón Pérez @RatakPerez]

@NTFabiano English traslation:
"Is it possible that once you go full Twitter, you never, ever go back to Facebook?"
"Not to TV, nor the movies, nor books, nor family."
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Aug 25, 2018

[Jonathan Bartlett @jb_61820]

@NTFabiano For me, the infinite scroll is worse than short-form video. I hated it when it came out. I still do. Give me back my paged interface so I have regular natural stopping points.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Humans can accomplish some pretty cool stuff.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

we are living through an age of miracles

any past civilization would consider us gods

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Literally, who else would do something like this?

Tesla will give access to Model S and Model X designs and software so others can use them to improve their own EVs.

They were still incredible cars when they were sunsetted. Some of the best still out there.

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

it's ironic that the first autonomous AI attack was done by a close weight model defended by an open weight model, where everyone was expecting the opposite

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m convinced that you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by showing up. By closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.