Man in Overalls

Grow & support others to grow groceries for self & neighbor. I geek on social mvts, coops, networks, tech, business, systems, and organizational design.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

I’ve grown food in the Deep South since 8, & I’ve made it my biz to help you #growyourgroceries. And, every garden gladdens my heart. But i need a place to think, to talk, sow & to grow seeds of #socialmovements #networks, #coops #innovation & #biz. Join me? Garden talk on FB&IG

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@Hedgeye oh.... that's why the prices are going down.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Success is an inverse factor of "The gap between failure and next attempt..."

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@johnrobb yes. The social backlash is proportional to the lack of ownership and sense of generalized societal benefit.

King Louis & the early nation state vibes.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Welcome to the future

[John Robb @johnrobb]

A murmuration of bots

Emergent behavior we'll see with autonomous robotics and bot agents for reasons that defy attempts to prevent them.

Longer term, they could get big enough to create a crisis (tank markets, bankrupt companies or small economies, swamp supply chains, choke cities).

https://t.co/zHldz8PbTU

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Automated garden squirrel defense anyone? Lol

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY BUILT AN AUTOMATED PIGEON DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR HIS BALCONY

pigeons kept nesting on his balcony so he engineered a full detection and deterrent system

here's how it works:

1\ camera captures video in real time
2\ an AI model identifies the pigeon in real time
3\ a water gun mounted on servo motors turns toward it
4\ sprays the pigeon automatically

the hardware:

> an orange pi 5 running the detection model
> a disassembled electric battery-driven water gun
> USB camera
> 2 servo motors for aiming
> resistors and a transistor to trigger the water gun

the detection runs on an AI vision model (yolo world v2) using the rockchip 3588's built in neural processing unit.

the best part is that it's not limited to pigeons. because it uses open vocabulary detection, you can reprogram the target to any object. squirrels, cats, raccoons, whatever is messing with your balcony

fully automated, runs 24/7, no manual intervention needed

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Block.

Now China.

World is getting rewired.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Deepseek just casually closed the biggest AI round in Chinese history but most people in the West still don't get it:

This isn't a normal startup.

The Chinese government is essentially building DeepSeek into the AI company that runs the country.

Back in February, Xi Jinping pulled together a small private meeting in Beijing with the most important CEOs in China:

The founders of BYD, Huawei, and a few others.

He invited DeepSeek's founder, Liang Wenfeng, into that room and personally told government officials to start using DeepSeek by name.

That kind of direct endorsement from the top of the Chinese government almost never happens.

After that, the money started pouring in from the government itself.

There's a giant Chinese government fund called Big Fund III.

It has over $50 billion to spend on AI and chips.

It only invests in companies the Chinese government wants to win.

Big Fund III is now backing DeepSeek alongside Tencent in the round that just closed: $7 billion at a $51.5 billion valuation.

The founder, Liang, personally put in $3B of his own money and still owns 90% of the company (unheard of in the West)!!

DeepSeek also gets tax breaks and government research money from a special "high-tech" status the government granted it back in 2023.

And around all of this, the Chinese government is spending massive amounts of money to build the AI infrastructure DeepSeek needs to grow.

17 Chinese provinces are giving out free compute credits worth up to $300,000 to AI companies.

Beijing has spent over $6 billion building giant data centers in the western part of the country.

But the most insane part is how fast they're rolling DeepSeek out across the country.

72 local Chinese governments are now running DeepSeek inside their own offices to handle paperwork and admin.

Shenzhen, a city of 17 million people, gave DeepSeek to 20,000 of its government workers.

Document approval times dropped by 90%.

90 of China's biggest hospitals are using DeepSeek on real patients to help doctors make decisions.

One hospital said it became 40x more efficient at patient follow-ups.

> Universities are running it on their supercomputers.
> Hotel chains use it for customer service.
> Local police are using it to help find missing people.

Then in August, the Chinese government made it an official national policy.

They issued something called "AI Plus" basically ordering every Chinese ministry to start using AI in everything they do.

There is nothing even remotely like this happening in the West.

Sam Altman doesn't own 90% of OpenAI.

The US government isn't putting billions of dollars directly into Anthropic.

The president isn't bringing AI founders into the White House to publicly tell other government agencies to use their product.

In America, AI companies compete with each other for customers.

In China, one company is being chosen by the government, funded by the government, and installed inside the government, all at the same time.

It’ll be interesting to see where this approach leads, that’s for sure.

V4.1 (Deepseek’s agent model) ships in June.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@SimonDixonTwitt "If you want to change the outcome, you first have to change the monetary system that drives the incentives."

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Wooow. Quite the delegation of nobles headed to China.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

🇨🇳🇺🇸 These are many of the key nodes within the Western corporatocracy operating inside the emerging multipolar world order.

The financial-industrial complex, military-industrial complex, and technological-industrial complex are increasingly intertwined.

Full list of business executives joining Trump on the trip to China:

Jane Fraser (Citi)

Tim Cook (Apple)

Elon Musk (Tesla)

Brian Sikes (Cargill)

Larry Fink (BlackRock)

Kelly Ortberg (Boeing)

Ryan McInerney (Visa)

Chuck Robbins (Cisco)

Jacob Thaysen (Illumina)

Jim Anderson (Coherent)

Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron)

Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm)

Michael Miebach (Mastercard)

Dina Powell McCormick (Meta)

David Solomon (Goldman Sachs)

H. Lawrence Culp Jr. (GE Aerospace)

Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone)

Regardless of the political branding (nationalist, globalist, left, or right) capital, technology, defense & finance coordinate at the highest levels across borders.

That is the real architecture of the modern multipolar system.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Science again catching up to ancient wisdom.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Boom! Scientists Discovered a Hidden Superhighway Inside You That Might Finally Explain Why Acupuncture Actually Works!

How tattooed skin biopsies proved something over 4,000 years old.

Buckle up…research just dropped a bombshell that is rewriting the human anatomy textbook and high fiving ancient healers at the same time!

Deep inside your body lies an enormous, previously overlooked network called the interstitium. It is a vast, fluid filled web that acts like a secret third circulatory system alongside your blood vessels and lymphatics. It is not just empty space between tissues.

It is a dynamic, interconnected superhighway made of collagen bundles suspended in a shimmering hyaluronic acid gel that soaks up water and lets fluids, cells, and molecules flow slowly but surely throughout your entire body, from skin to muscles to organs and back again.

For over a century, scientists saw these spaces as isolated little pockets. But groundbreaking work starting in 2018 by pathologists revealed the jaw dropping truth: it is one giant, continuous network.

When researchers examined tattooed skin biopsies, the ink particles had boldly marched from the skin deep into the fascia below, traveling through the interstitium in ways that made scientists say, That was not supposed to happen!
Here is where it gets truly electrifying.

This hidden highway might finally give Western medicine the biological proof it has been craving for acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For 4000 years, TCM has described chi flowing along 12 specific meridians. Acupuncture needles target precise points along those lines.

Skeptics have long asked for hard science. Now they have it.

Studies, including tracer injections and dye experiments in living volunteers, show that when you inject dye into an acupuncture point, it does not just sit there or race through veins.

It flows exactly along the traditional meridian pathways through the interstitial spaces between muscles, heading straight toward the heart. The dye follows the interstitium like a GPS guided river.

Rebecca Wells, one of the lead scientists, sums it up perfectly:

“I actually do think that the interstitium could be the link between Eastern and Western medicine”.

The implications are massive and mind blowing.

Cancer cells may hitch rides on this network to metastasize.

It could explain autoimmune flare ups where gut particles travel to distant organs.

It might even unlock better treatments for Type 2 diabetes by revealing how interstitial cells influence healthy fat production during weight gain.

This is not just a cool anatomy fact. It is a paradigm shift that could reshape pain management, chronic disease treatment, and how we think about the body as a whole.
Evolutionarily speaking, similar fluid systems appear in ancient creatures going back hundreds of millions of years.

The interstitium is not new. It has been with us since the dawn of multicellular life. We are only now catching up.

This discovery is pure science magic: ancient wisdom validated by cutting edge research, turning what looked like disconnected puzzle pieces into one breathtaking picture of how our bodies really work.

When reading this, be sure to send condolences to the “debunkers” that stole this 4,000 year old empirical science from your health. They were wrong.

Dive into the actual research papers:

The groundbreaking discovery of the interstitium: https://t.co/cqX5kzcVDZ

The study on continuity of interstitial spaces across the body: https://t.co/MeW2ZzPm3z

Research visualizing fluorescent dye migration along acupuncture meridians: https://t.co/C8juE92PA0

Your body just got a whole lot more awesome. The future of medicine is flowing through the interstitium right now, and it is going to be legendary!

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@datarade French flour? Or american?

If they bake without glyphosate, people will make the switch, feel good, and lose weight.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

This post isn't just about real estate.

[ZoAina_AI @AiwithZoaina]

🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.

Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.

Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.

The numbers are insane:

- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok

The science is wild too:

It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.

AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.

The grift opportunity is even wilder:

Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.

One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.

100% Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

"China is earning huge amounts of money through its very strong exports—so much money that it is difficult for those Chinese earning the money to know what to do with it.

Position of strength.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

The Two Different Paths: We are about to find out which path we are on.  As I said in my last note, from my conversations with a number of world leaders in a number of countries, and as seems obvious to me, there will either be a) a U.S. win over Iran, which will require taking control over the Strait of Hormuz and assuring that Iran's nuclear program is dead—i.e., defanging Iran, or b) a U.S. loss, which is the result if these things don't happen.

Most senior policy makers I speak with believe that we are likely headed down the b) path and that will be made clear soon. It needs to be made clear soon because continuing on the current path or being more forceful will cause sharp increases in oil and gasoline prices and great difficulties during the high travel season, bad political consequences for President Trump, and difficulties in his upcoming meeting with President Xi in China. So, we should have that verdict soon.

The perception that the b) path is most likely is already leading to a view that the United States will not be a reliable protector against possible opponents like Russia in Europe and/or China in Asia, and that is already leading to actions being taken that are sensible in light of that belief, like leaders paying "tribute" visits to China. As explained before, this set of circumstances is likely to have some analogous consequences to Great Britain losing the Suez Canal in 1956. By the way, this is also happening at a time when China is earning huge amounts of money through its very strong exports—so much money that it is difficult for those Chinese earning the money to know what to do with it. This is making China a very important player in world capital markets as well as world trade. In other words, these events are making China geopolitically and financially stronger.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@DrInsensitive 🤦‍♂️

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@pmarca prompt or custom instructions?

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

No tractors. More autonomy.

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

A guy in Alberta is selling tractors with zero computers. No software. No sensors. Just a diesel engine you can fix with a wrench.

400 American farmers tried to buy one after a single interview.

Sometimes the moat isn't more features.

It's less.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

The largest companies in the world are "worth" 20% more in the past month. 🤦🏽‍♂️

If you were looking for the sign that we're in a large-arc speculative bubble and money printing gone rogue era, here ya go.

i'm not saying it's the final run or the end is eminent, but I am saying when the dollar-based system rolls over... there were signs.

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Tech stocks in the S&P are up almost 20% so far in April, poised for the best monthly performance since 2002. Nvidia's market cap has risen by $1.25 trillion in the past four weeks, reaching $5.26 trillion.

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@HansAmato yes. this

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@thefoodbabe thank you

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

Time for the poisoning to stop.

[Vani Hari @thefoodbabe]

This rally is going to be unlike anything the world has ever seen. We have the most diverse crew of farmers, scientists, doctors, and advocates descending on Washington D.C. on April 27th to show the world we do not consent to being poisoned any longer. https://t.co/u27iYUZkmr

[Man in Overalls @Maninoveralls]

@hxxntrr What's your plan for year 2? The 0% is a promo rate that lasts 12-18months. Converts to 24% at the end of promo.

Or are you paying
it all back at the 11th hour? Or trying to roll over to new 0% balance transfer cards?