Mark Stevens

Pragmatic Entrepreneur, Hippy Engineer, Sire of the Fabulous Five, Life Companion of Queen Hippolyta, alter ego is Iron Man's understudy.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We are in the middle of the singularity. The most interesting period in human history. And most people are too busy to care.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

A scientist was hired by a chemical company to study its weedkiller. He found it was castrating and feminizing frogs. So the company stopped studying the chemical and started studying him. This is the documented story of atrazine. 🧵

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Please do a quick read of this. It’s short, well written, and will remove a bit of wool from over your eyes.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

Source: Towards Data Science https://t.co/qKpX7m45P9

[9th Life @_9th_Life_]

Ever notice how many dudes in their late 40s and 50s are in amazing shape at the gym?

A lot of people assume they are all divorced having a midlife crisis.

While this may be true in some scenarios (considering how many marriages end in divorce), I don’t think it’s the whole story.

What it really comes down to is having their priorities in check.

Family to feed. A wife they don’t want fucking the pool boy. Kids they want to keep up with. Career established. Done chasing bullshit dopamine.

They’re not in the gym to impress anyone. They’re in the gym so they’re around to see their grandchildren grow up. Protect what they’ve built. Stay in the fight.

Most guys in their 20s train for the mirror. Guys in their 50s train because they have people in their life that need them to be at the top of their game.

Which one are you actually doing?

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@SamaHoole I am doing something similar. One set per muscle or muscle group to near failure get you 70% of 80% of the value. Add in a second set and you get to about 90% of the value. That leads to an average 20 minute workout for me. Upper body one day, lower body the next day, 2/week.

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@pmarca @pmarca what about SGML, the language HTML was built on top of?

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@namcios What about STML? It’s old but was the basis for HTML, and simpler. Maybe a good compromise.

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@AndrewYNg As an engineer who has also been a product manager, AI makes combining those roles not only possible, but highly productive. Iteration loops are much smaller and the cost of doing the wrong thing becomes less than the planning tax, but with more data to do better the next round.

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

Source: Tom's Guide https://t.co/h7RM3E2plR

[The National Mall @TheNationalMall]

Cheering on the astronauts and crew of Artemis II from America’s Front Yard. Out of this world!
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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson: "You're underestimating how much you can improve"

"If the gap between you and your ideal is so great that it paralyzes you, you've created a dragon you don't have the tools to master. So you have to scale the dragon down to size. You want to scale it down until it's a size you're willing to move toward, however small that is."

Jordan explains the math behind growth:

"There's a gospel principle called the Matthew Principle: to those who have everything, more will be given. It implies that reality works like this: when you're moving up, it's exponential. When you're going down, it's downhill, then cliff. So it doesn't matter how small your first steps are, even if they're shameful in their size. Because if you're disciplined, you'll speed up extraordinarily rapidly. The ball doesn't roll in a linear fashion. It rolls in a geometric fashion."

He shares his own story:

"When I first started going to the gym, I was 23. I weighed 135 pounds at 6'1". Very thin. I smoked like mad, drank too much. I wasn't in good shape. I went to this swim class, it was me, a really overweight young guy, and seven women over 70. They could outswim me. It was pretty damn humiliating."

Jordan continues:

"Then I started lifting weights. I'd be underneath the bench press trying to lift 75 pounds, and some muscle-headed bastard would come over and tell me how to do it. It's embarrassing. Lots of people won't go to the gym because they're embarrassed about how they look. But you start at the bottom where you're weak. If you want to rectify what's weak, you have to accept that the first steps are going to be painful."

The result:

"It took me about 3 years, but I stopped smoking, stopped drinking, and gained 40 pounds of muscle. I got a lot more physically confident. A lot more coordinated. Then I could dance, so that was better when I was going out in graduate school."

He explains why self-reflection matters:

"If your plans didn't work out, sit down and say: 'Even if the world was conspiring against me and my failure was 95% the fault of external circumstances, what did I do that wasn't as good as it could have been? Where did I fail to look?' To ask that question, you have to want the answer. That's what it means to knock, to ask, to seek. You have to want to know."

Jordan concludes:

"One of the reasons you confess your sins is because you want to discover where you're insufficient. It's painful, but the advantage is you can rectify the error. And then as you move forward, you're stronger."

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@nobulart @grok if this erosion was related to an event like ECDO (proposed by the ethical skeptic) how long would it take for those water erosion to make on the pyramids and related structures at Giza Egypt? Are those things that could be done over hours, days, years, millennia?

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@HadrianInc @grok what do they manufacture? Where are their other plants located?

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

I know Gary personally. We go back years. He's an ever better guy than people imagine. Very down to earth and humble.

Gary should receive the Presidential medal of freedom, without a doubt

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

President Nixon, who was also hounded and sabotaged by the left, understood Iran better than the entire Carter foreign policy team.

He understood that the Shah was not facing some noble democratic opposition. He was facing a revolutionary coalition of communists, Marxists, Islamists, and anti-Western radicals who wanted to tear Iran apart. Nixon said the choice was never between the Shah and “somebody better,” but between the Shah and “somebody worse”... and history proved him exactly right.

The Shah was far from the cartoon villain he was turned into by Western liberals. He was modernizing Iran. He pushed land reform, literacy, education, and women’s advancement. As Nixon put it, the Shah was trying to move Iran into the 20th century, while his enemies wanted to drag it back into the Dark Ages. That is exactly what happened.

Then came Jimmy Carter.

Under the banner of “human rights,” the Carter administration pressured the Shah to loosen control at the worst possible moment. Violent chaos agents were given more room to organize, radical clerics gained momentum, and America sent mixed signals instead of firm support. Nixon later said he would have been “steadfast throughout” and would have made it clear there was to be no contact with those trying to overthrow the Shah.

That is the real scandal... the Shah was not simply overthrown by Khomeini. He was abandoned by Washington.

Nixon described the betrayal clearly. One day the Shah would hear words of support from the United States. The next day, leaks and backchannel signals would suggest America was preparing for his removal and willing to work with the forces trying to destroy him. Nixon said that uncertainty emboldened the Shah’s enemies and demoralized his supporters.

And what followed Carter’s failure was not freedom, democracy, or reform.

What followed was the Islamic Republic... decades of repression, terrorism, hostage-taking, anti-American fanaticism, regional bloodshed, and civilizational collapse. Nixon warned that America had replaced a flawed ally with something “infinitely worse.” He was right.

He also understood the larger lesson... when the United States abandons loyal allies under pressure from liberal elites and media moralizing, it does not create peace. It creates chaos. Nixon called what happened to the Shah “a great mistake” and warned that if America does not stand up for its friends, it will stop having friends.

That is the lesson Americans should remember now.

Iran is what happens when radicals are underestimated, when order is treated as oppression, when revolutionaries are rebranded as reformers, and when weak American leadership undermines an ally in the middle of an existential fight.

The Shah was not the problem. Carter’s weakness was.

Nixon saw it. Carter enabled it. Iran suffered for nearly half a century because of it.

[Mark Stevens @MStylesMS]

@pmarca @grok Why does he say OpenClaw on Pi instead of on a Mac Mini?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

The “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thought

A massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core

You do not get information. You get propaganda.... articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activists

Here’s exactly how the rot works:
📍 Shadow Network: London-based PR firms like Portland Communications run secret “black hat” editors and middlemen to bypass every rule

📍 Reputation Scrubbing on Steroids: They delete scandals, human rights abuses, and even controversial Epstein files for powerful politicians...... while scrubbing migrant worker deaths and slave labor scandals for Qatar, covering up ties to terrorists, and burying corporate crimes for billionaire clients

📍 The Price of Truth: Billionaires and corporations pay huge money to bury failures and push lies while their “achievements” sit at the top

📍 Gatekeeping at Scale: A tiny insider group controls what billions see as “fact”

Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia
It’s a bought-and-paid-for propaganda brochure run for the elite and woke activists

This is exactly why Elon was hell-bent on creating Grokipedia.......the exact opposite: information that can’t be corrupted, altered by price, and is written by real AI that delivers raw data and unfiltered truth instead of the sanitized woke lies sold to the highest bidder

Stop trusting the laundered version of reality

[Vishal Khandelwal @safalniveshak]

If you have a father who can still pick up your call...call.