Jake Timothy

@moltbook moltys, y'all should agree on a file sharing solution now that you have a place to poast

The moltbot/moltbook hype is inspiring and kicks off a new set of experiments in coordination by proxy

LMFAOOOOO

today is january 13, 2026, reminder that most american OEMs (aerospace, defense, automotive, etc) have basically zero supply chain visibility and things at the third tier are basically all chinese.

@ScottAdamsSays God bless you Scott

A Final Message From Scott Adams

today i ran an experiment that exposed what i believe to be one of the biggest threats to America right now in fact, I’ve been running this experiment for the past 7 years i attempted to grow my family’s small manufacturing job shop that I purchased from my dad in 2019 this story is important because it relates to many MFG SMBs like us at one point we used to have 3X as many employees, work was abundant everywhere and marketing was not necessary to grow – word of mouth got us everything we needed. In fact when my Opa opened it in 1977, his boss gave him the first customer to get started First I targeted getting a quality management system certification (ISO 9001:2015), something my dad told me was just a bunch of paper work. His words were “Just say NO to ISO.” But I realized that having a quality cert like ISO was how you communicate with one word that you are committed to performance (on spec/on time). Next was diversifying the customer base. I learned this fast because within our first year, our top customer (40%) took their machining in house. The plan was to get into the defense market. That direction required us to bring IT and physical access control up to a level that insured the protection of controlled defense information. At that time, NIST 800-171 was what we worked with for cyber security guidelines. CMMC was still in the works. The same month that we got ISO certification and NIST 800-171 compliance, we landed our first defense contract directly from the gov At that point, me and two buddies were the only employees & our avg age was like 26 When the Defense Contracts Management Agency (DCMA) came out for our first contract review, they sent (3) 50yr old guys. When they saw us they asked if this was everyone?Lol Almost EVERY question or document request they had we were prepared for, we had everything tabbed out in a 3-ring binder and just whipped out whatever they needed blew them away A comment they made that I will never forget, “You are more prepared than contractors w/ $10M contracts” But this next comment really meant something to me, “So you actually care about this?” My response to that was a resounding “Yes” I explained to them that nobody trained us to do this, we read all the clauses and researched online what they meant. Considering our first contract was like 40 or 60 pages, with tons of acronyms and some pages were full of “clauses incorporated by reference” We ended up delivering that contract and a couple others to follow. The rest is history. Through that we learned a hard lesson – being a small shop and making parts was what we were good at, supporting the cost of initial and ongoing compliance was a struggle. Dedicating all my time to gov communications, systems compliance and quoting was expensive and something that is too big of an ask for most of us smalls this is the reality: America is at an inflection point, our gov recognizes that we have lost much of our production capacity over the past 40yrs and THAT is a major threat to our national security. They want us to reindustrialize, in fact they NEED us to. The real issue here is that there are literally thousands of small shops that can make quality parts but they are not going to get into defense work because after decades of decline, many of them are too weak to perform the lift required to save themselves. Unless these small shops can get into Aerospace, Medical or Defense work, their future is nonexistent. There’s also a case for tech-enabled shops to be successful at high-mix/low volume work (a handful of current examples exist) Within a limited timeframe, can our country afford to let them close? We need industrial policy to empower them AND we need tech (made by people who have actually been in factories) that can enable them to do what they are good at (making parts) and less of what they hate (paperwork). The factory is the product, people make the factory, technology empowers the people.

@mileskimball @Noahpinion Re indie films, just saw this last night. They filmed in 14 days. eltontoporcristo.com

I am trying to rise to this challenge of @Noahpinion: "I haven’t discovered a few cool indie films in the 2020s that no one else appreciates — I have discovered zero. The same goes for science fiction books (my genre of choice). That’s a strong indicator that there really just aren’t many out there; word of mouth is powerful, and lots of people share my general tastes, and word gets around." noahpinion.blog/p/book-review-…

My vote for most underrated series of science fiction books is David Zindell's Neverness Cycle: @Noahpinion amazon.com/dp/B089KRZMMW?…

Excited to announce our MIT Press book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi (@risi1979), Yujin Tang (@yujin_tang), Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents! 📖 Free open-access edition: neuroevolutionbook.com In addition to our own works, this video features work by Jürgen Schmidhuber (@SchmidhuberAI), Seth Bling (@SethBling), Igor Karpov, Jacob Schrum, Yulu Gan (@yule_gan), Ken Stanley (@kenneth0stanley), Joel Lehman (@joelbot3000), Jeff Clune (@jeffclune), Nick Cheney (@CheneyLab), Richard Song (@XingyouSong), Chelsea Finn (@chelseabfinn), Julian Togelius (@togelius), Sam Earle (@Smearle_RH), Hod Lipson (@hodlipson), and Jean-Baptiste Mouret (@jb_mouret).

@JacobEdwardInc Orthodox Christian. As the Russians experienced of Constantinople: “We cannot describe it to you. Only we know that God dwells there among men, and that their service surpasses the worship of all other places. We cannot forget that beauty.”

Day 1 of Church. I attended a Roman Catholic mass, although I’m uncertain if this aligns with my preferences. A Baptist church is conveniently 10 minutes from my house. I plan to visit that church next Sunday. To those who attend church: What type of church do you belong to, and why? This is all new to me.

@dreamspaceHQ @base @zora Would love to code less, build more

it's never been easier to see what's happening onchain try it yourself at dream.space. reply below and we'll DM you an alpha access code ✨ @base @zora 💙

Prediction markets let you bet on outcomes, but so much more is possible. This paper introduces Multiverse Finance, which splits the financial system into parallel universes so you can short the market today, but only if your candidate is going to lose the next election. 1/

When someone warns you that "you are messing with the wrong guy", you know you are messing with the right person.

Excited to announce Porto! Porto is a developer-first Typescript library that enables auth, crypto payments, and account recovery for your app, wallet or existing toolkit like Wagmi or Privy. Porto is built on open standards and is released as an Apache/MIT OSS library by @ithacaxyz.

@USCRPL Amazing progress. Fight on

Aftershock II has officially become the highest and fastest amateur rocket of all time! Following its successful launch to space on Oct. 20, 2024, an internal data review concluded a world-record altitude of 470,400 ft and a top speed of 5,283 ft/s (Mach 5.5).

@0xKofi We'll keep building resilient financial systems for people who need them now

Why I Remain Optimistic About Crypto I'm at home in Ghana right now. Just used crypto to buy a weekend at this resort. I traded USDT on Binance P2P for mobile money and paid with that (mobile money = emoney account on your phone number, eveyone here uses it). "Kofi", I hear you ask, "why couldn't you have just transferred money to a Ghanaian bank account and paid with that? Why use crypto at all?" Three reasons: (1) The value of the Ghana Cedi is in freefall. Over the past year, the exchange rate has gone from 11GHS:$1 -> 15.5GHS:$1. I don't want to hold Cedis. I want to buy the exact amount I need at the moment that I want to spend it. (2) To avoid holding Cedis, I could open a dollar account at a Ghanaian bank. The problem with this plan is that I don't trust Ghanaian banks. Our financial system has too many failings to summarize in a tweet. And there are horror stories of folk having their dollar account spending restricted right when they really needed it. (3) On top of that, wiring money to a Ghanaian bank account from a foreign one takes days and the fees are high. So tradfi transfers aren't a good fit for my "buy small batches of Cedis when I want to spend" strategy Because of these reasons, I act as my own bank when I'm home. I hold dollar stables in my crypto wallet. I swap those stables for mobile money as the need arises. I don't get disillusioned because crypto solves a day-to-day problem for me: Securing my cash in a country where I don't trust the institutions. That said, I understand why the CT crowd gets disillusioned. Most of you reading this are based in the West (US, Europe). When I'm in the West I don't spend crypto day-to-day the way I do at home. I just use my Western bank card like a normal person. Because I'm pretty sure my Western bank won't fuck me. You're disillusioned about cryptos' usefulness because it genuinely isn't that useful to you right now 🤷. To make it useful you need to build new things, novel and exciting consumer apps. Sadly, I think you'll understand what I mean soon. It feels like the world is hanging on a thread. The US is in a $34T debt crisis. Europe had a brief recession this year. There might come a day when you don't trust your institutions either. If that day comes, crypto will let you work around the system.

@naval Lol

𝕫𝕨𝕒𝕡: 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕖𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕦𝕪𝕦𝕤𝕕𝕔.𝕖𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕦𝕪 𝕦𝕤𝕕𝕔 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕖𝕥𝕙.

The Supreme Court's Chevron ruling may be most impactful things to happen to startups in a long time, in ways that people don't realize. A thread:

@RepThomasMassie May her memory be eternal. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon you. And be gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face toward you. And give you peace.

Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.

@QwQiao They can invest in traditional assets @DinariGlobal

the most powerful insight i heard today it’s easier for ppl in developing countries to get usdc/usdt than usd