Justus Bruns

Making beauty accessible.

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

Launching something new - https://t.co/6QwVJfo8v4

[Maxime Rivest 🧙‍♂️🦙🐧 @MaximeRivest]

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

Surinam: Gold and Oil

[Samuel @SamueILFC]

Mohamed Salah immediately went to shake the Australian players hand first before celebrating the penalty shootout win.

Absolute class and respect. ❤️

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

Live footage #7813 that proves that AI is absolutely sentient. We mortals are just too stupid to understand.

[María Benavente @merybenavente]

… and they say romance is dead.

[Thijs Niks @thijsniks]

Very Trumpian

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

@talithamuusse Het is jammer dat het niet samengaat met excuses

[Old Internet @OldInternetFeel]

Miffy at the Museum (1997)

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

China now manufactures 89% of the world’s solar panels, 70% of the world’s wind turbines, 83% of the world’s batteries, and 75% of the world’s electric vehicles — all at a lower cost than the West.

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

Closed models are all about getting all your data

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Personal finance now available for for ChatGPT Plus in the U.S.

[Wey Gu 古思为 @wey_gu]

这个刷新率作为 agent 人机终端太适合了

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely fascinating to see the difference in rhetoric on China between the German business community and the European political class.

This is the lead story of the business section of today's Berliner Zeitung, titled "Why We Need China | Germany needs help with a fresh start — Beijing stands ready to provide it"

The author is my good friend Michael Schumann, the chairman of the Board of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (@BWA_Vorstand) - one of Germany's main business lobbies.

Michael argues that it would be considerably harder for Germany to reindustrialize without Chinese capital, technology, and market access.

His core argument is that beyond being a competitor for some German companies, China is also "a technology driver, supply chain power, investor, and increasingly a production partner on German soil." He says that "anyone who seriously wants to shape Germany's industrial future should make strategic use of this."

As he points out, we're already at a stage where, in 2025, "China surpassed the United States in the number of new investment projects in Germany." And, given that you need new investments and new industrial projects to reindustrialize Germany, it'd be completely schizophrenic to attempt reindustrialization while simultaneously closing the door to such a major provider of new investment projects.

On reciprocity and fairness, a criticism often made to China ("your market is more closed than ours") Michael makes an interesting point: "Reciprocity is achieved through negotiating power, and a significant expansion of Chinese investment stocks in Germany strengthens rather than weakens the German position."

Which makes sense: if China is cut off and has nothing to lose from Germany - and Europe overall - then your word doesn't carry much weight.

Which is, incidentally, the same strategy that China itself followed with "reform and opening-up": by opening up to Western companies, China gave them a stake in its success.

Michael is arguing that Europe should give China a stake in its success as opposed to more to gain from its decline. Always sound business advice: you make your life immensely easier when incentives are aligned.

That, however, requires a political class capable of thinking strategically rather than ideologically, which is a different matter entirely...

[CTO ROBOTICS Media @ctorobotics]

Nature solved this problem millions of years ago. Engineers are only just catching up.

This bird-inspired robot can walk, hop over obstacles, then launch itself into flight without a runway.

The future of drones may not look like helicopters. It may look like wildlife.

Which is smarter: wheels, propellers... or legs?

🎥 Media: @EPFL

⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.

[Amir D @starks_arq]

This picture means something to an entire generation of Dutch people.

I'm one of them.

My parents came to Holland as Moroccan immigrants.
I was born there.

Dutch passport.
Dutch better than my Arabic.
The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me.

The Moroccans helped rebuild Holland.
Holland gave them roads, schools, a future in return.

Fair trade.

But we never really integrated.

That's not on one side.
That's on everyone.

We learned to speak for our grandparents, because they never got to learn the language.
We brought our food.
We brought our culture. Mosques. Books and humor.

We had fun.
We hung out.
We went to each other's weddings and loved the mix of it.

And still.
We never really became one.

The politicians made sure to categorize us.
They needed us to be outsiders, while we were busy acting like insiders.

So a wall went up between neighbors.

Then yesterday a silly game with a ball put two teams on the same grass.
Two continents.
Two cultures.

Except they're not two teams.

They're teams stitched together by the same life.

The Dutch know the Moroccans. Intimately.
The Moroccans know the Dutch. Intimately.

The Moroccans in Morocco spend every summer selling to the Moroccans from Holland.

The Dutch spend every day next to Moroccans. In School. At The local butcher. The streets.

The Moroccan team is full of Moroccans carrying Dutch passports.

The Dutch team is full of their actual friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Such a simple game.
Such a complicated story.

When I look at this image I don't see football.

I see high school.
I see pride.
I see distance.
I don't see compassion.
I see resentment.

And that's exactly how we lived in beautiful Holland.

Together. Happily.
And quietly, unconsciously, apart.

I left when I was 18.
I went back to Morocco.

I resented Holland.
For years it was me vs them.

Now I understand what I actually have.

I can read two cultures from the inside.

And I get to choose.
What I carry with me.
What I leave behind.

Because every culture has its gold.
And every culture has its rot.

The trick is knowing which is which.

Love. Be kind to each other.

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

Vienna must have been a dream during this time.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Here are the populations of 100 European cities of major importance in 1854. Note that it doesn’t say biggest cities. Didn’t expect Naples so high up the list. Only London and Paris had over a million residents.

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

I see a marmot - now I cannot unsee it

[carwow @carwowuk]

REVEALED: All-new BMW X5!

BMW just unveiled the fifth-generation X5, and the spec sheet is absolute madness! For the first time ever, it supports FIVE separate powertrains: Petrol, Diesel, PHEV, Electric (iX5), and Hydrogen 🤯🏎️

🔋 iX5 EV: 578hp, 450kW+ charging, & 500-mile range!
🐎 M60e PHEV: 612hp & 0-100 km/h in 4.5 secs!
🚪 "Winglet" door handles like a Purosangue!
🖥️ Windscreen-wide "Panoramic Vision" display!
❎ LED headlights with double X light icons!

It even introduces a "Symbiotic Drive" system allowing hands-free motorway cruising, complete with automatic lane changes triggered simply by looking at your side mirror!

The mild-hybrids drop this November, with the full EVs and PHEVs due in early 2027. Would you park this on your driveway over the all-new Audi Q7? 👀

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

A study from @Stanford showed that 71.3% of chatgpt queries could be accurately answered by a local model. I suspect a major part of enterprise AI workloads could be run locally too for free (compared to the massive costs of frontier API cost).

Also, it reduces the risk of these workloads being taken away from you because you own the models instead of renting them - which sounds like a good idea these days haha.

That's why we're introducing the ability for everyone to filter AI models on @huggingface based on your local hardware.

For me, there are 800k+ public models that fit on my M5 24GB and that I can use easily thanks to llamacpp.

Let's go local AI!

[محتوى @Mohtawaae]

دموع فرح بين صيباري وأمه 🇲🇦⚽
بعدما سدد ركلة الترجيح الحاسمة بنجاح وقاد #المغرب إلى دور الـ16.. لم يتمالك #إسماعيل_الصيباري دموعه وهو يحتفل مع أمه في لحظة إنسانية خطفت الأنظار بعد عبور #أسود_الأطلس هولندا

#شغف_بالمعرفة

[Justus Bruns @justusbruns]

@HaraldDoornbos Wat een sneue vertoning was dat van Duitsland.