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Extremely happy to see the output of my software in this @Nike
Making software to produce hardware 🤯 @TheZellerfelds

[Nike @Nike]

Nike Air is not just a shoe. It's innovation and the constant pursuit of pushing design into new spaces.

The AIRMAX 1000 reinvents the iconic Air Max 1 for Nike's latest expression of visible Air cushioning.

Launching exclusively at ComplexCon in Las Vegas, from 11.16 to 11.17.

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@simonw I know but no clue why it generated an image

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@OfficialLoganK Well ... I expected something else. Will test it more with real stuff later 😁

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 I'm doing an AMA today on Product Hunt about @euaccofficial

I'd love to answer your questions, and I'd even more love to hear YOUR ideas on how to save Europe:

https://t.co/U4726LOMge

For the last decade, I was digital nomading and living in different places all around the world. While the places where I lived abroad, like Asia and America, were getting more ambitious and modern every time I visited them, Europe, and especially Western Europe, started to feel stagnant to me.

Of course, that was one of the reasons why I left Europe in the first place. When I said I wanted to be an entrepreneur after graduating university, I was laughed at even by my university classmates who studied business! It was "safer" to get a job for a big corporation and get experience first. Then you could start a business later.

And when I finally had my own internet business that was making thousands per month, I remember telling people in Amsterdam, and they'd ask me "when are you going to get a real job?".

This was a stark difference from when I was abroad and told people what I did. People were excited, supportive and wanted to learn to do the same thing.

Every year that I came back to Europe the culture felt more stagnant, more pessimistic, and more normie.

Of course there was great things about Europe for me pulling me back: my parents and brothers live here, and when I ended up in Portugal during COVID, I loved the nature, the clean air and the laid-back coastal surf village life and ended up moving here.

And that brought me to an interesting point: seeing where the rest of the world was going, as a European, while seeing Europe slowly getting worse. It became harder and harder to build a startup here. And we started seeing this in losing any lead we had in technology in the last decade. The big tech and AI companies are now all in the US and China, there's very few left in Europe:

The insane regulation that the EU brought upon everyone I think directly caused this:
- VATMOSS
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Digital Services Act (DSA)
- Digital Markets Act (DMA)
- ePrivacy Regulation
- The AI Act

...and many more

Which all had good intentions, but made it very difficult to comply as a small or medium business owner. Sure if you're a billion dollar corporation, you can hire bookkeepers and lawyers to comply. But if you're a one-man or small startup?

Last year around April, the data finally started showing what I felt for over decade, Europe was in fact struggling and for the reasons that I felt in my gut:

https://t.co/gmCW5K7Fdq

I felt we had to at least try do something to change the mindset in Europe. So I started eu/acc, European Accelerationsim as an offshoot of e/acc, Effective Accelerationsim, a similar movement by Beff Jezos in the United States:

https://t.co/QIFfimGlJh

Out with the pessimism about the future, and in with optimism about technology and the future. And in particular in eu/acc's case: draw attention to the problems of Europe and propose practical ways to fix them.

eu/acc is a movement to deregulate and save Europe

Thousands of people have now crowdsourced tens of thousands of ideas of which the most important ones have now become part of the official eu/acc manifesto on https://t.co/NdorAWqJC3

And it hasn't just stopped there: eu/acc's ideas are part of Mario Draghi's European Competitiveness report which was presented to the European Commission in September 2024 and implemented in January 2025 by Ursula von der Leyen as the European Competitiveness Compass.

Of course that's just reports. We need actual action and laws changed to make Europe a great place for people and business again. And to guarantee its economic future.

One of the most important components is not regulation, but deregulation: remove regulation that makes it impossible for tech entrepreneurs, startups and companies in Europe to do business and compete with the rest of the world.

Because Europeans are highly skilled, highly educated, they have great ideas, and many are actually ambitious. They're just stifled by regulation and as a consequence a culture that has slowly become so risk-averse that it's been starting to self-sabotage its future.

Europe can be great, so let's make it that again! 😊

I'd love to answer your questions, and I'd even more love to hear YOUR ideas on how to save Europe

Post your questions + ideas here:
https://t.co/U4726LOMge

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.@chesscom can you explain the difference between 74,000 players with rank 2100 but I'm at global rank of 31,000 with 2800 Elo?

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@chesscom Look further to find @IM_Rosen otherwise 6 with @GothamChess

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@RealChaseChick @chesscom @GMHikaru He might have started at a lower rating than his actual. Also if he is a cheater by your logic you aren't far from being a cheater yourself. Just enjoy the game!

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@karpathy Well... @GeminiApp

[OsmAnd @osmandapp]

Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket.

https://t.co/fnEekvxvPr

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.@chesscom something seems mixed up

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@BaptisteVicini Video credits (YouTube) ... This isn't how to credit people or be helpful. Add a link such that your audience can see for themselves.

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

Wow, Google Colab just added Julia support!!! 🎉

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@lexfridman @ThePrimeagen @dhh @taylorotwell You might want to add @JuliaLanguage to your list. It's a wonderful language for scientific computing that I think you would enjoy and a whole bunch of amazing people who create it.

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@BenjDicken @killlsport Looks like with compilation time.

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@glyder_games seems like drawback chess has an error

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Unfortunately the @HMSQNLZ will arrive in #Hamburg in the late afternoon due to strong winds.
https://t.co/SaIeNbh8lw

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Not the smartest move @GeminiApp
Especially reading it exactly as it's written there... And also mispronouncing "hai" in general but that's a different matter.

[Keno Fischer @KenoFischer]

We're hiring for the Julia Runtime and Compiler team. If you know someone who's strong in systems or compilers, please send them our way. It's a very fun piece of tech to work on and you get to support important scientific applications. https://t.co/ywEAGFdhGB