Casey Talbot

Live a life worthy of their sacrifice.

@signulll This should never, ever happen in Defense Tech. But it does.

it’s laughable how much venture capital goes into pure nonsense.

A lot of “Claude has gotten so bad lately, anyone else?” The first thing one should do is run hygiene/diagnostics on Claude’s memory and check tools, hooks, plugins. It can get messy under the hood - and your harness needs a tune up once in a while, like anything else.

@terronk Fulfillment Centers and Power Plants don’t challenge ideas and threaten ideology. So the water stays clear.

Ok true, but only if the data centers are used for AI. If the data center is used for photo sharing, the water stays clear.

@HillValleyForum @zebulgar @DAlperovitch I love the enthusiasm and patriotism but being in defense tech should mean understanding the full picture. Kinetic fires are significantly dependent and finite, no matter what. It’s deeper than just - ‘blow stuff up’

"If you're in defense tech and you're not helping to contribute to killing the enemy, then what are you doing?" @DAlperovitch: "Munitions are a problem, explosives are a problem. We need to invest in that capability and get over our aversion to kinetic stuff." Dr. Klaus Hommels: "Unfortunately, the enemies don't kill themselves. Either you're all in or you're not. This is a fig leaf discussion." Senator @ChrisCoons: "If the Ukrainians had sourced the weapons for their defense the way we source them in the United States and NATO, they would have lost." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 @HillValleyForum @SilveradoPolicy @velvetatom

Hi, actual warrior here: some contradictory messages here. Yes - kinetics matter. Type and Volume. But Ukraine is in the fight because of non-kinetics - and non-kinetics assure kinetics actually matter. If you’re in def. tech - you must know this or you’re barking up the wrong tree

@drewpusateri At some point; the anti-AI trend on both political extreme ends will lead to mass revisionism. Guess it’s starting.

Since joining OpenAI the amount of congressional staffers that've (very kindly and politely) reached out abt careers in AI/tech from offices whose Reps/Senators rail against AI/tech/infra is...notable. Tbc, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and I'm always happy to chat and help people connect with opportunities/networking etc. I didn't agree with the electeds I worked for on everything either, but the divisions there feel a lot wider than on most issues.

@sudoingX Cursor is really, really good. The concept of the IDE washed away but it’s the most robust command center IMO.

cursor cli is so fast it's almost disrespectful. this is my frontier driver now.

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

Used @GeminiApp Omni on one of my favorite pics of me. Actually not too bad, and some impressive detail - check out the screen flicker and the water. I added the comm script since the original was stupid and not realistic.

@jediahkatz He must have nailed his “tell me about a time” stories to the middle manager who interviewed him

i would never hire anyone with a 4 year resume gap

@molcranenewman @pmarca @NYCMayorsOffice The party of violence.

“I’m saying fuck Brian Thompson. I don’t give a flying fuck he died,” says Ashley Rojas, wearing her press badge provided by @NYCMayorsOffice. Lena Weissbrot adds that Thompson’s teenage sons “are better off without him” and should “enjoy the blood money.”

The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the NYC press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history”

@pronounced_kyle To leverage C5ISRT in all its glory, one must ME3C(PC)² based on the ATO pulled from MIRC and a quick review of CONOPS before PREFRAG.

We make fun of Canada for 2SLGBTQI+ But then our Department of War says "C5ISRT" with a straight face

The negativity towards graduation speakers encouraging students to embrace and take ownership in the new era of AI is a sharp reminder: If you have grit, determination, independent thought, and foresight, the future is so bright.

@garrytan And those who push this myopic and ignorant world view would never let you speak.

A California mayor just pled guilty to being a literal foreign agent of the Chinese government. She ran a CCP propaganda website disguised as local news. NBC's angle? The real problem is that reporting on it "reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination." As an Asian American: accurately reporting that a foreign agent infiltrated local government is not anti-Asian. Framing it that way to suppress the story is. Using "anti-Asian bias" as a shield to protect an actual CCP agent from scrutiny is the most anti-Asian thing I can think of. It implies that Chinese Americans are so fragile, or so suspect, that we can't handle the truth about foreign espionage in our own communities. We can handle it. We're the ones most harmed by it. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…

@garrytan The idea of stewardship can be conceptualized, but it cannot be understood or practiced by anyone who hasn’t taken risk. It is a byproduct of adversity. The problem’s lack of exposure to what it’s like nurturing progress.

I went to BJ's Restaurant last night with my kids. The bathroom was disgusting. The front of house was kind but sloppy and slow. The food upset my stomach and I woke up at 4am this morning because of it. Whoever BJ is, they probably aren't a real person, because everyone acted like nobody's name is on the door. I studied the management history of BJ's. The original founders left after the seventh location. Then it was sold to their accountants. Then it went public. Then the CEO resigned last year after 19 years and was replaced by an interim board member from Darden Restaurants, who was then replaced by a "Chief Concept Officer" promoted to CEO. The CFO also quit. Roaches behind the takeout counter in Coral Springs. Rodent droppings and mold in the ice machine in Pembroke Pines. An "F" retention score on Comparably. Glassdoor reviews that say "management turnover is high... that should say quite a bit about the company culture." Seven layers of management between the person cooking your food and anyone who owns the outcome. General manager reports to area director reports to regional director reports to regional VP reports to SVP of Operations reports to the COO (who started in January) reports to the CEO (who started last year). 218 locations. Founders long gone. Managers rotate every 18 months. The kitchen is run by compliance checklists, not pride. A dirty bathroom is nobody's personal failure because it's nobody's personal restaurant. This is the stewardship crisis in America in one building. In Chinese restaurants, the 老板 (laoban) is there. He tastes the food. He watches the kitchen. His family's reputation is the business. The restaurant is clean not because of health inspectors but because his name is on it. Haidilao built a $30B hot pot chain with less than 10% employee turnover. Servers can give you free dishes without asking a manager. Why? Because they're treated like stewards, not interchangeable parts. The West replaced stewardship with professional management. MBAs who optimize spreadsheets for people they've never met. CEOs who've never touched the product they sell. Politicians who sign the bills and spend the people's money but never checked the money built anything that helped the people they claimed to care about. Founder mode isn't new. It's the oldest idea in Chinese business culture. We just forgot it. The best founders I fund at YC are natural stewards. They own the outcome. They're in the kitchen tasting the food. They care about the bathroom. Most of society's problems are a stewardship crisis. Not a lack of resources or technology or intelligence. A lack of people who give a shit because their name is on it.

@triketora Y’all need to go outside. grab a workout. Relax.

extremely overused words in the sf lexicon right now legible load bearing agency taste permanent underclass generational wealth