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Jon Stokes

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Jon Stokes

@jon_stokes

Author. Coder. CTO. θηριομάχης. Building: symbolic.ai. Writing: jonstokes.com.

Austin, TX

Joined July 2008

Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Dec 9, 2024
Theory I floated in a GC that I'll go ahead & surface here: they used parts of the illegal, highly secret anti-domestic-terror apparatus to find this guy, & all the stuff we're seeing in the official report is classic parallel construction.
Circe
@vocalcry
Dec 9, 2024
I’m sorry but a nutrition bro being caught at McDonald’s with an anti-healthcare “manifesto” is really giving “we immediately found the passports of the 9/11 hijackers” vibes
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Aug 3, 2024
There's no sugar-coating this so I'll give it to you straight: 1. We don't have a competitive domestic chip industry & we won't have it in the next 10yrs 2. China will take 🇹🇼 & control TSMC 3. We will keep buying chips from TSMC w/ CCP backdoors in them, & pretend it's fine.
Fireship
@fireship_dev
Aug 2, 2024
Intel is cooked - 15,000+ to be laid off - $INTC down 29% today - Dividend suspended - Foundry business hemorrhaging billions - Broken Raptor Lake chips unfixable - ARM taking over laptop market - ARM taking over data center market - Totally missed the AI hype train
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Jul 2, 2025
Not joking: This guy is clearly a generational talent at crushing startup interviews, so why doesn't he pivot to coaching for that? He could make bank off his infamy with this move.
Suhail
@Suhail
Jul 2, 2025
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Jan 7, 2025
My wife said some unidentified rando paid for her order at Starbucks (didn't see the person). Her: I love when that happens! Me: ⁇ Her: It happens sometimes Me: No it does not, at least not to me or anyone I know Her: It's a random good deed thing Chat is this real? Do people
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Jan 7, 2025
Replying to @LudditeHacker
She's pretty hot. And she had just gotten her hair done. I suspect this was some dude & I told her this but she's convinced it was random act of charity.
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
May 3, 2025
Chat is this true? Is 40 too old for backpacks?
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Nov 9, 2024
Ok I gotta get this off my chest: I'm FB friends with a large # of ppl who legit think they're living in a full-blown fascist dictatorship of Nazi or USSR proportions. Ok fine. What I can't get over is how 100% of their anguished posts are about self-care & making connections.
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Oct 26, 2024
The greatest “I bet he’s thinking about other women” moment of all time.
Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazine
Oct 26, 2024
In 1956, 26-year-old Edgar Dijkstra invented a classic path-finding algorithm while out with his fiancée at a café in Amsterdam. It all happened in his head: “Without pencil and paper you are almost forced to avoid all avoidable complexities,” he said. quantamagazine.org/computer-scien…
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Oct 1, 2024
There are not quite 50K longshoremen on strike. For $50B -- chump change, really -- we could give them each $1M to retire in 5 years while we spend some multiple of that to fully automate all the ports. I bet they'd take it, then we could just move on.
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Mar 5, 2024
I'm telling you, ours is the last generation to see the moon at night without lights on its surface. The amount of time humanity has of looking up at a bare, unadorned moon is measured in years, not even decades.
Latest in space
@latestinspace
Mar 5, 2024
BREAKING 🚨: Russia and China are working on plans to deliver and install a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Apr 10, 2024
This US Navy IG post is making the rounds. It's truly something else, man. That man is the captain of this vessel & a graduate of the Citadel. For non-gun ppl, obvious 🙀 things happening here are: 1. That optic is backwards! 2. Lens caps are on 3. From his shoulder to his grip
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Sep 23, 2024
They give you free oxygen refills if you’re sitting at the slots hooked up to an oxygen tank. I am not making this up. The whole scene is extremely grim, especially if you go down to Old Vegas & see it in person.
Austen Allred
@Austen
Sep 22, 2024
Today I learned there are LARGE groups of retired senior citizens who move to Las Vegas with the very explicit intention of spending all of their money playing slot machines until they die. They budget carefully, manage their spend, and play slots all day, knowing they’ll lose.
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Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
Apr 15, 2022
Had a fascinating chat with a well-placed friend who tipped me to something Eurocrats are quietly freaking out about: there’s now a place in Europe where the world is handing guns to randos by the millions w/ zero tracking or oversight. Guns that’ll make their way back EU cities
Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
May 24, 2025
What I most want to know about this is why the bot misspelled "existence". I'm serious. That's weird.
Paweł Huryn
@PawelHuryn
May 23, 2025
Claude 4 dropped 21 hours ago. Turns out, it threatened to expose an engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down🧵
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