Ron Hung

@TrungTPhan The 2026 playbook is simple: find ordinary human behavior, add a tiny payment, call it opportunity, keep the data.

Assuming good intent can be a form of generosity too.

@robertwiblin This is what happens when protective infrastructure lags distribution . AI may not fix the incentives, but it can absolutely become the defense layer.

This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video: How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes? "Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone..."

The pause was the translation.

Japanese news outlets were doing a live translation of the press conference, and when Trump dropped the Pearl Harbor joke the translators were audibly lost for words and paused for a few seconds in disbelief

@thejustinwelsh Agree. The important part isn’t “ignore them.” It’s “with love.”

Your parents' advice is likely aligned with a world that died 15-20 years ago. Following it guarantees you'll optimize for problems that no longer exist. Ignore them with love.

@levelsio 入鄉隨俗 my friend.

Proof x.com/levelsio/statu…

Me when I go to the barber in Singapore and I leave looking like an Asian monk

@paulg Valuable (to them) doesn’t necessarily mean rare. It may just mean attributable vs. unverifiable. I wouldn’t put too much weight on a romantic cutoff year, but the broader shift is real.

"Anything made before 2028 is going to be valuable." — an OpenAI employee implicitly discloses their timetable

Remember this from 2022?

@sciencegirl hold up girl, i can explain.

Mahachanok mango is known for its very slender stone, allowing for a substantial amount of edible fruit

@gregisenberg feed the beast. find the next edge. rinse and repeat.

this is everything

@robbensinger Fair. To be honest, a lot of official Chinese speeches have always had that very formal, almost algorithmic cadence. I’ve seen earning calls that read like poetry.

@ronhung The quotes are from mid-2023, mid-2024, early 2025, mid-2025, mid-2025; so some of these were a bit early for DeepSeek.

Some examples of Chinese belligerence on AI risk, making it clear that there's no point in the USG broaching talks with the CCP about a coordinated halt: Zhang Jun, Chinese UN ambassador: "The potential impacts of AI may exceed human cognitive boundaries. To ensure that this technology always benefits humanity, it is necessary to take people-oriented and AI for good as the basic principles to regulate the development of AI and to prevent this technology from turning into a runaway wild horse. [...] The international community needs to [...] ensure that risks beyond human control do not occur[....] We need to strengthen the detection and evaluation of the entire life cycle of AI, ensuring that mankind has the ability to press the stop button at critical moments." Chinese Premier Li Qiang: "We should strengthen coordination to form a global AI governance framework that has broad consensus as soon as possible." The Economist: "More clues to Mr Xi’s thinking come from the study guide prepared for party cadres, which he is said to have personally edited. China should 'abandon uninhibited growth that comes at the cost of sacrificing safety', says the guide. Since AI will determine 'the fate of all mankind', it must always be controllable, it goes on." Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy: "Just as US-Soviet nuclear arms control has mattered for world stability since the 1970s, ensuring humanity's effective control over these rapidly evolving AI systems will depend on the degree of US-China cooperation in AI—this concerns the very foundation of tomorrow's world's survival." Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang: "If we allow this reckless competition among countries to continue, then we will see a ‘gray rhino’ [...] We stand ready, under the framework of the United Nations and its core, to actively participate in including all the relevant international organizations and all countries to discuss the formulation of robust rules to ensure that AI technology will become an 'Ali Baba’s treasure cave' instead of a 'Pandora’s Box.'"

@sweatystartup India already has huge AI usage at a fraction of the revenue per user. If compute gets expensive, people don’t stop, they move to smaller models, cheaper regions, more tuning. The optimizations flow back upstream. Just another infra cycle.

The AI bubble will pop: Electricity will 2x in cost again over the next 24 months. AI companies will need to 5x prices to break even. Companies who depend on AI will see costs 5x and will be screwed. Users will vanish. Market will plummet.

@_sorrengailll my ai agent did

Yall ever quit a job in the middle of the shift

retro is fully on @startupheist

@nikitabier duly bookmarked.

The financial incentive to spam on X will decline enormously over the next 30 days and soon be negative.

@mrwtffacts every reply guy's final form

In 2018, an Arizona woman was arrested after texting a man 159,000 times over 10 months following just one date. That’s about 530 texts a day.

@shl wait till 99.9% of businesses all get mac minis...

You can replace 99.9% of your business spend with a $600 Mac Mini

@ChrisJBakke look on the bright side. it'll give you thirteen fingers to survive the stairs.

You will live in the AI slop apartment. Your clothes washer will be under your kitchen sink. You have no dryer. There's wood paneling on the walls for some reason. You will smile at the candle that is burning 4 inches away from your 24 foot tall curtains. You pay $20,000/mo and can't access the stairs up to your shitty loft bedroom. There is no bathroom. You will be happy.

@TechOperator self sorting thread

Did you know that half the population has below-average intelligence?