Yes, majority of my Dutch friends are "burn out"
You get 1 year of FREE fully paid salary and then another year of 70% FREE fully paid salary and you can just sit at home and chill!
You have to keep "appearances" up though because you might get snitched, so on Facetime with friends you do this schtick:
"It's all too much for me"
"I'm so tired"
"I don't think I can go back to work yet"
Meanwhile it's partyyyyyyyy time chilling at home with Netflix and popcorn
Welcome to European social welfare in 2026 😂
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2115951722019397859
Read on levels.io →
You get 1 year of FREE fully paid salary and then another year of 70% FREE fully paid salary and you can just sit at home and chill!
You have to keep "appearances" up though because you might get snitched, so on Facetime with friends you do this schtick:
"It's all too much for me"
"I'm so tired"
"I don't think I can go back to work yet"
Meanwhile it's partyyyyyyyy time chilling at home with Netflix and popcorn
Welcome to European social welfare in 2026 😂
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2115951722019397859
Read on levels.io →
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I thought it was just a proposal, but it actually passed 🤯
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116284214131961910
Read on levels.io →
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116284214131961910
Read on levels.io →
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What you see happening in France is essentially what will happen throughout the whole of Western and Southern Europe at some point
Europe regulated away all new and existing businesses so they with the money and the talent moved elsewhere (like US and Asia)
When money flees a continent, the businesses, then the people and the government run out of money
Meanwhile cost of living keeps growing → people get poorer and → people need more government welfare → meaning the government has to borrow more money to pay for that → borrowing for worse and worse rates → which pushes down the Euro → meaning less spending power for its people → making Europeans even poorer
Obviously it's deeper than this and related to the unsustainable pension system and import of masses of low quality immigrants too
The core is the same, if you regulate away business, there won't be new businesses, the good businesses will leave, your talent leaves and you soon realize there's no new jobs created, no tax income and with that you can't pay those pensions, nor unemployment benefits or welfare
Done
Very very related as the money is drying up in Europe
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116157883943440583
Read on levels.io →
Europe regulated away all new and existing businesses so they with the money and the talent moved elsewhere (like US and Asia)
When money flees a continent, the businesses, then the people and the government run out of money
Meanwhile cost of living keeps growing → people get poorer and → people need more government welfare → meaning the government has to borrow more money to pay for that → borrowing for worse and worse rates → which pushes down the Euro → meaning less spending power for its people → making Europeans even poorer
Obviously it's deeper than this and related to the unsustainable pension system and import of masses of low quality immigrants too
The core is the same, if you regulate away business, there won't be new businesses, the good businesses will leave, your talent leaves and you soon realize there's no new jobs created, no tax income and with that you can't pay those pensions, nor unemployment benefits or welfare
Done
Very very related as the money is drying up in Europe
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116157883943440583
Read on levels.io →
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Yesterday France announced tax of €0.055 per GB on internet traffic
Today Germany is considering taxing all AI-generated revenue
You will see European countries keep clawing more and more money from foreign companies as they are slowly running out of money themselves to pay for their pensions and welfare state
Add to this the planned wealth taxes and exit taxes on any European who will try to leave (already active in many EU countries)
Europe is running out of money
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116485229779058954
Read on levels.io →
Today Germany is considering taxing all AI-generated revenue
You will see European countries keep clawing more and more money from foreign companies as they are slowly running out of money themselves to pay for their pensions and welfare state
Add to this the planned wealth taxes and exit taxes on any European who will try to leave (already active in many EU countries)
Europe is running out of money
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116485229779058954
Read on levels.io →
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After France Gigabyte tax, Germany's AI tax now Italy is proposing an exit tax
Europe is out of money
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116604593282965549
Read on levels.io →
Europe is out of money
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116604593282965549
Read on levels.io →
There seems to be an inverse correlation with spending money on social welfare and your economy's growth
It's like repeatedly spoiling a child, they'll just want more and more and will never be satisfied
Instead of teaching the importance of frugality, the value of money and not wasting it
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116493713769652294
Read on levels.io →
It's like repeatedly spoiling a child, they'll just want more and more and will never be satisfied
Instead of teaching the importance of frugality, the value of money and not wasting it
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116493713769652294
Read on levels.io →
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What's left to do when AI can build everything?
Many things actually!
Inspired to vlog by @PeterSantenello @girdley @theo @marclou @robj3d3 @frederickjames and other people I probably missed, thank you!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116843791214629021
Read on levels.io →
Many things actually!
Inspired to vlog by @PeterSantenello @girdley @theo @marclou @robj3d3 @frederickjames and other people I probably missed, thank you!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116843791214629021
Read on levels.io →
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This is why I said you want your VPS ports all closed
Then only let it be accessible inside your Tailscale for SSH and via a Cloudflare Tunnel to receive web traffic
Any Linux box can be taken over with just a single TCP port exposed to the internet now
A stop gap is disabling MPTCP on your VPS now but even better is not having any public ports exposed!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116949634111115348
Read on levels.io →
Then only let it be accessible inside your Tailscale for SSH and via a Cloudflare Tunnel to receive web traffic
Any Linux box can be taken over with just a single TCP port exposed to the internet now
A stop gap is disabling MPTCP on your VPS now but even better is not having any public ports exposed!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116949634111115348
Read on levels.io →
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My vlog today was fully edited by Claude Code with Opus 5.5!
I copied the video clips from my DJI to a folder, then opened Claude Code in it and asked it to edit it into a 10 minute vlog
I made a few adjustments but not a lot
It transcribed everything I said with mlx-whisper (Whisper large-v3-turbo running on my MacBook Pro's GPU through Apple's MLX)
It pulled video frames every few seconds into grid images (contact sheets), so Claude could see what's in each clip
It used SpeechBrain ECAPA (a voice-matching model) to figure out what was my voice from other people
It then made thumbnails with OpenCV with YuNet's face detector
The edit itself is a list of cuts in a JSON file: which clip, start time, end time, Claude then picked the pieces by reading the transcripts and looking at the frame grids by itself
I added on screen captions for X and on YouTube for the first minute with Pillow (Python's image library)
P.S. I didn't ask for any of this, and I didn't know any of this until @thesamparr just asked me how I edited it
All I asked for was "Claude can you edit these clips into a 10 minute vlog for X and YouTube"
I think if I didn't have AI to edit it, I wouldn't be vlogging because editing would be such a painful and slow process for me and hiring someone to do it would be even more hassle for me!
Here it is
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116959423117857026
Read on levels.io →
I copied the video clips from my DJI to a folder, then opened Claude Code in it and asked it to edit it into a 10 minute vlog
I made a few adjustments but not a lot
It transcribed everything I said with mlx-whisper (Whisper large-v3-turbo running on my MacBook Pro's GPU through Apple's MLX)
It pulled video frames every few seconds into grid images (contact sheets), so Claude could see what's in each clip
It used SpeechBrain ECAPA (a voice-matching model) to figure out what was my voice from other people
It then made thumbnails with OpenCV with YuNet's face detector
The edit itself is a list of cuts in a JSON file: which clip, start time, end time, Claude then picked the pieces by reading the transcripts and looking at the frame grids by itself
I added on screen captions for X and on YouTube for the first minute with Pillow (Python's image library)
P.S. I didn't ask for any of this, and I didn't know any of this until @thesamparr just asked me how I edited it
All I asked for was "Claude can you edit these clips into a 10 minute vlog for X and YouTube"
I think if I didn't have AI to edit it, I wouldn't be vlogging because editing would be such a painful and slow process for me and hiring someone to do it would be even more hassle for me!
Here it is
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2116959423117857026
Read on levels.io →
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So @Ubuntu still hasn't patched this open hole on any Ubuntu server on the public internet that lets anyone take it over
We might just have to switch all our servers over to Debian in this new post-AGI time of rapid cybersecurity hacks which require just as rapid patching
Slowpokes will be left behind
https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117272451545514001
Read on levels.io →
We might just have to switch all our servers over to Debian in this new post-AGI time of rapid cybersecurity hacks which require just as rapid patching
Slowpokes will be left behind
https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117272451545514001
Read on levels.io →
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A very tragic crash with a private jet once again
Before this crash the Learjet 60 was had fatal odds per trip of 1 in 1.1 million
To compare a good commercial airline like Delta has a 1 in 25 million odds, many airlines never crashed though so the real odds are even lower like 1 in 40 million trips maybe
So the Learjet 60 was already 40x less safe than commercial airliners
That's something I keep repeating about private jets, they're simply not as safe as flying commercial because:
- pilots require less flight hours
- private aviation is less regulated
- smaller airports with less or no instrument landing systems (ILS)
- smaller planes are more affected by weather (in this case icing)
The Learjet 60 now has fatal odds of 1 in 800,000 which is still about double as safe as the Cessna Citation (one of the most common private jets)
Most Gulfstreams still have flawless safety records though, G500/G600, G550, G650/G700/G800 never crashed, so if you are boarding a private jet anytime soon, I'd say go with them!
Source: my site Airline List which collects and presents safety data for airlines and airplanes! https://airlinelist.com/?filters=private_jet-x
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117251343467291120
Read on levels.io →
Before this crash the Learjet 60 was had fatal odds per trip of 1 in 1.1 million
To compare a good commercial airline like Delta has a 1 in 25 million odds, many airlines never crashed though so the real odds are even lower like 1 in 40 million trips maybe
So the Learjet 60 was already 40x less safe than commercial airliners
That's something I keep repeating about private jets, they're simply not as safe as flying commercial because:
- pilots require less flight hours
- private aviation is less regulated
- smaller airports with less or no instrument landing systems (ILS)
- smaller planes are more affected by weather (in this case icing)
The Learjet 60 now has fatal odds of 1 in 800,000 which is still about double as safe as the Cessna Citation (one of the most common private jets)
Most Gulfstreams still have flawless safety records though, G500/G600, G550, G650/G700/G800 never crashed, so if you are boarding a private jet anytime soon, I'd say go with them!
Source: my site Airline List which collects and presents safety data for airlines and airplanes! https://airlinelist.com/?filters=private_jet-x
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117251343467291120
Read on levels.io →
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I decompiled probably my favorite game ever: Battlefield 1942 and I put it on the web with multiplayer for you to play here:
👉 http://bf1942.pieter.com 👈
(It's the free shareware demo)
It was way harder than the other ports like Quake and DOOM I did because they already had lots of open source projects and work behind them
In case of Battlefield 1942 there was literally absolutely nothing to work on top of, nobody had ever ported it and there was no open source engine for it, nor did the makers ever open source it (like id Software did with Quake 3)
I tried it 6 months ago and essentiay gave up but I tried it today again with Opus 5.5 asking "can you try port the BF1942 demo in this folder to web"
So me and Claude Code (well let's be honest mostly Claude Code) did crazy shit today:
- it disassembled the x86 raw machine code to find 57,000 x86 functions
- it translated each x86 function into a C function (mov eax, [esi+0x110] becomes eax = READ32(esi + 0x110), I have no idea what any of this means btw)
- it outputed 100,000 lines of C
- it then compiled that to WebAsswmbly with Emscripten
- there were 300x Windows and Direct3D functions used which we had to rewrite to WebGL 2 and OpenGL to work on the web
- then we had to build our own network stack so it could connect to our multiplayer server via WebSockets
I have no idea how it did any of this but it did it and it seems to work! 😊
Come play and report any bugs here!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117374984192512391
Read on levels.io →
👉 http://bf1942.pieter.com 👈
(It's the free shareware demo)
It was way harder than the other ports like Quake and DOOM I did because they already had lots of open source projects and work behind them
In case of Battlefield 1942 there was literally absolutely nothing to work on top of, nobody had ever ported it and there was no open source engine for it, nor did the makers ever open source it (like id Software did with Quake 3)
I tried it 6 months ago and essentiay gave up but I tried it today again with Opus 5.5 asking "can you try port the BF1942 demo in this folder to web"
So me and Claude Code (well let's be honest mostly Claude Code) did crazy shit today:
- it disassembled the x86 raw machine code to find 57,000 x86 functions
- it translated each x86 function into a C function (mov eax, [esi+0x110] becomes eax = READ32(esi + 0x110), I have no idea what any of this means btw)
- it outputed 100,000 lines of C
- it then compiled that to WebAsswmbly with Emscripten
- there were 300x Windows and Direct3D functions used which we had to rewrite to WebGL 2 and OpenGL to work on the web
- then we had to build our own network stack so it could connect to our multiplayer server via WebSockets
I have no idea how it did any of this but it did it and it seems to work! 😊
Come play and report any bugs here!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117374984192512391
Read on levels.io →
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💸 Update: My total biz expenses have now dropped to just ~$300/mo!
This is to run all my websites/apps serving per year:
- 20,000 paying customers
- 252 million visitors
- 2.4 billion requests
- 2.4 petabyte (PB) in bandwidth
(~$8,000/mo if you add the $7,000/mo GPU bill and $800/mo R2 storage I pay for Photo AI, I exclude it above because it's one project that's so much more expensive in size than all the other sites together, but included in the chart below)
Claude Code helped me to find smart ways to save more money, AI is just really really really good at finding cost savings by itself, which is not so great for the economy short-term, but long term it trims all the fat and opens up spending for better investments I think
Anyway here's what it saved me in money, almost $34,000/mo:
- $29,000/mo - switched to better and cheaper video models on Photo AI, video was very expensive and since I didn't update it ever it stayed expensive, also routed some image jobs to Google Cloud where I have some Google Cloud Credits, and also routed some jobs to Sume which sells AI models at market cost, very cool! This made my GPU bill go from $36,000/mo to $7,000/mo
- $3,000/mo - consolidated my servers, cancelled Digital Ocean and Linode and moved everything to Hetzner saving about $3,000/mo
- $1100/mo - analyzed my Backblaze B2 server backups, I had infinite versioning and lifecycle policies, that's reduced now to 30 days, this literally pushed the bill from $1,200/mo to $26/mo, about 50x cheaper! I had essentially versions of files for all my servers for over a decade, crazy!
- $400/mo - similarly added Lifecycle Policies to my Cloudflare R2 bucket for Photo AI, pics are automatically put in cheaper Infrequent Access after 90 days, there was years of photos in there so this reduced the R2 bill from $1,200/mo to $800/mo
- $118/mo - Claude analyzed all my Cloudflare Domain registrations, lots of domains I didn't use and didn't make sense to keep paying for, lots of things that also don't really make sense anymore in a post-AGI world, renewals for .io TLD are now $50/year which adds up fast!
- $100/mo - Claude also analyzed my Claude subscription (yes!) and discovered I don't even use the Max 20x plan limits, so I downgraded from $200/mo to $100/mo
Even including Photo AI, I have now cut my costs by 90% from last year, getting me close to my biz expenses amount from a decade ago when I started building things
Costs slowly creep up over the years and you don't realize all the things you're spending on but AI is nice to help you figure all that out (also in your personal life!)
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117694259558293692
Read on levels.io →
This is to run all my websites/apps serving per year:
- 20,000 paying customers
- 252 million visitors
- 2.4 billion requests
- 2.4 petabyte (PB) in bandwidth
(~$8,000/mo if you add the $7,000/mo GPU bill and $800/mo R2 storage I pay for Photo AI, I exclude it above because it's one project that's so much more expensive in size than all the other sites together, but included in the chart below)
Claude Code helped me to find smart ways to save more money, AI is just really really really good at finding cost savings by itself, which is not so great for the economy short-term, but long term it trims all the fat and opens up spending for better investments I think
Anyway here's what it saved me in money, almost $34,000/mo:
- $29,000/mo - switched to better and cheaper video models on Photo AI, video was very expensive and since I didn't update it ever it stayed expensive, also routed some image jobs to Google Cloud where I have some Google Cloud Credits, and also routed some jobs to Sume which sells AI models at market cost, very cool! This made my GPU bill go from $36,000/mo to $7,000/mo
- $3,000/mo - consolidated my servers, cancelled Digital Ocean and Linode and moved everything to Hetzner saving about $3,000/mo
- $1100/mo - analyzed my Backblaze B2 server backups, I had infinite versioning and lifecycle policies, that's reduced now to 30 days, this literally pushed the bill from $1,200/mo to $26/mo, about 50x cheaper! I had essentially versions of files for all my servers for over a decade, crazy!
- $400/mo - similarly added Lifecycle Policies to my Cloudflare R2 bucket for Photo AI, pics are automatically put in cheaper Infrequent Access after 90 days, there was years of photos in there so this reduced the R2 bill from $1,200/mo to $800/mo
- $118/mo - Claude analyzed all my Cloudflare Domain registrations, lots of domains I didn't use and didn't make sense to keep paying for, lots of things that also don't really make sense anymore in a post-AGI world, renewals for .io TLD are now $50/year which adds up fast!
- $100/mo - Claude also analyzed my Claude subscription (yes!) and discovered I don't even use the Max 20x plan limits, so I downgraded from $200/mo to $100/mo
Even including Photo AI, I have now cut my costs by 90% from last year, getting me close to my biz expenses amount from a decade ago when I started building things
Costs slowly creep up over the years and you don't realize all the things you're spending on but AI is nice to help you figure all that out (also in your personal life!)
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2117694259558293692
Read on levels.io →
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Claude Code can design furniture part by part and then give you a bill of materials to order each part and put it together yourself
And way cheaper than big interior brands sell you their furniture
Furnishing my house I discovered how absolutely insane prices are for the most basic cheap materials put together with a fancy brand tied to it
One shop had a sofa for $30,000 😂
I think with Opus 5.5 and other models easily operating 3d programs like Blender and FreeCAD (both free) it makes more sense to cut out the middle man and go straight to suppliers and design and build your own furniture
Which in a way makes customers more powerful (they can get exactly what they want and usually for cheaper without the markup)
Anyway @theannalux designed this table from scratch, she's not a furniture designer, not a coder, she just had an idea of a style and worked with Claude Code in the terminal (far superior to the app I will keep saying this)
If you design your own furniture and buy the raw materials directly, you can save 85% compared to premium brands like Poliform
That means the $30,000 sofa becomes $4,500! And the $8,000 dinner table becomes just $1,200!
You can see where the idea comes from that AI will make everything 5x to 20x cheaper, and it's already starting!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119132202952798369
Read on levels.io →
And way cheaper than big interior brands sell you their furniture
Furnishing my house I discovered how absolutely insane prices are for the most basic cheap materials put together with a fancy brand tied to it
One shop had a sofa for $30,000 😂
I think with Opus 5.5 and other models easily operating 3d programs like Blender and FreeCAD (both free) it makes more sense to cut out the middle man and go straight to suppliers and design and build your own furniture
Which in a way makes customers more powerful (they can get exactly what they want and usually for cheaper without the markup)
Anyway @theannalux designed this table from scratch, she's not a furniture designer, not a coder, she just had an idea of a style and worked with Claude Code in the terminal (far superior to the app I will keep saying this)
If you design your own furniture and buy the raw materials directly, you can save 85% compared to premium brands like Poliform
That means the $30,000 sofa becomes $4,500! And the $8,000 dinner table becomes just $1,200!
You can see where the idea comes from that AI will make everything 5x to 20x cheaper, and it's already starting!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119132202952798369
Read on levels.io →
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I will publish my full list of 10,000+ blocked AI spammer accounts soon so everyone can block them easily tooo
If you write AI replies under my tweets you will now permanently destroy your X account
Because you'll very quickly end up in a public data set of AI spammers that people will use to block them
Better turn those AI reply bots off today
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2118737314943754500
Read on levels.io →
If you write AI replies under my tweets you will now permanently destroy your X account
Because you'll very quickly end up in a public data set of AI spammers that people will use to block them
Better turn those AI reply bots off today
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2118737314943754500
Read on levels.io →
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It's never been this easy to build software
And never this hard to make money with it
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119773878222549451
Read on levels.io →
And never this hard to make money with it
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119773878222549451
Read on levels.io →
To a childless woman everything looks like a child
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119945847009862137
Read on levels.io →
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2119945847009862137
Read on levels.io →
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More than ever it'll be important to get your business as lean as possible I think
Moving from expensive PaaS platforms to your own VPS is usually 100x to 1000x cheaper:
Vultr VPS is $2.50/month
AWS Lightsail VPS is $3.50/mo
DigitalOcean VPS starts at $4/month
Linode VPS starts at $5/month
Hetzner VPS starts at $7/month
Yes that's an entire server you can host your sites on!
Add free Tailscale + free Cloudflare Tunnel + close all firewall ports and you're safe too!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2120150942674780181
Read on levels.io →
Moving from expensive PaaS platforms to your own VPS is usually 100x to 1000x cheaper:
Vultr VPS is $2.50/month
AWS Lightsail VPS is $3.50/mo
DigitalOcean VPS starts at $4/month
Linode VPS starts at $5/month
Hetzner VPS starts at $7/month
Yes that's an entire server you can host your sites on!
Add free Tailscale + free Cloudflare Tunnel + close all firewall ports and you're safe too!
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2120150942674780181
Read on levels.io →
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I got the Anker Prime 160W charger for my MacBook Pro to replace the gigantically huge and ugly (and white???) official Apple 140W charger
The Anker one is cool because it's tiny, is dark gray (fits the Apple black cable), has 3x fast charging USB-C ports so you can also charge your phone and another device with it at the same time
I love everything Anker makes so much
Not paid or sponsored btw just an absolutely excellent brand
Maybe Apple should acquire them?
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2121335377902588352
Read on levels.io →
The Anker one is cool because it's tiny, is dark gray (fits the Apple black cable), has 3x fast charging USB-C ports so you can also charge your phone and another device with it at the same time
I love everything Anker makes so much
Not paid or sponsored btw just an absolutely excellent brand
Maybe Apple should acquire them?
𝕏 https://x.com/levelsio/status/2121335377902588352
Read on levels.io →
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