Tony Stark
@tonystark.bsky.social
Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5
Sequel: Project Duality, coming soon.
Substack: www.BreakingBeijing.com
Natsec. Tech. China.
Sequel: Project Duality, coming soon.
Substack: www.BreakingBeijing.com
Natsec. Tech. China.
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Tony Stark
@tonystark.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Ex Supra
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This is the story of the war after the next war. In 2035, an AI-driven disinformation campaign turned us on ourselves. We became the enemy's first strike we...
www.audible.com
The fall of Taiwan ✅
AI-enabled disinformation attacks ✅
An unending war in orbit ✅
82nd Airborne jump into Malaysia ✅
Marines fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal (again) ✅
Helljumpers on Mars ✅
The Rosatom Blonde ✅
Welcome to World War III, as read by me.
www.audible.com/pd/B0DH5VLVJ...
AI-enabled disinformation attacks ✅
An unending war in orbit ✅
82nd Airborne jump into Malaysia ✅
Marines fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal (again) ✅
Helljumpers on Mars ✅
The Rosatom Blonde ✅
Welcome to World War III, as read by me.
www.audible.com/pd/B0DH5VLVJ...
On FFG, we’ve left the period where there’s no consequence from a policy perspective for failed major acquisitions programs. You are burning years you can’t get back against a red threat that is only getting closer to being ready. It was a bad program but the capabilities are needed from somewhere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
On FFG, we’ve left the period where there’s no consequence from a policy perspective for failed major acquisitions programs. You are burning years you can’t get back against a red threat that is only getting closer to being ready. It was a bad program but the capabilities are needed from somewhere.
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It’s 2046. The navy struggles to keep the last SLOC open to the allied Free State of Hawaii. There are still no frigates, so it’s up to the overstretched fleet Arleigh Burke Flight IX destroyers to provide convoy escort.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It’s 2046. The navy struggles to keep the last SLOC open to the allied Free State of Hawaii. There are still no frigates, so it’s up to the overstretched fleet Arleigh Burke Flight IX destroyers to provide convoy escort.
It really wasn’t. Both the Navy and Fincantieri ruined what was a good idea. As CRS repeatedly points out bad management and business practices from both sides destroyed a program we actually really needed. I was in the room when Del Toro promised not to screw with the designs and they did anyway.
This is the stupidest and most self-destructive USN procurement decision in at least a decade.
Constellation was a relatively healthy program and progressing on a realistic budget and schedule, mostly baseless criticism of it notwithstanding.
Constellation was a relatively healthy program and progressing on a realistic budget and schedule, mostly baseless criticism of it notwithstanding.
BREAKING: Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program, Considering New Small Surface Combatants — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It really wasn’t. Both the Navy and Fincantieri ruined what was a good idea. As CRS repeatedly points out bad management and business practices from both sides destroyed a program we actually really needed. I was in the room when Del Toro promised not to screw with the designs and they did anyway.
If you have not read Ron O’Rourke’s work on the FFG program you don’t get to talk about it:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you have not read Ron O’Rourke’s work on the FFG program you don’t get to talk about it:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
I look forward to the evangelical schism between those who want to build a god made in *their* image and those who recognize blasphemy lol.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I look forward to the evangelical schism between those who want to build a god made in *their* image and those who recognize blasphemy lol.
Ah I see we’ve reinvented Monte Carlo sims.
“We’re doing it wrong…but now we’re doing it wrong 10,000x faster”
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Ah I see we’ve reinvented Monte Carlo sims.
*pls* do not make me write a “why SOF still matters” article
You - yes, you Ds specifically - will need SOF & just because the SEALs have cultivated a far right internal culture it doesn’t warrant disbanding a critical strategic asset.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
*pls* do not make me write a “why SOF still matters” article
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I have a brilliant idea on how to counter Russia and China. We could focus on building up our partners in Asia and the ongoing conventional fucking war in Europe instead of a pointless war in South America.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I have a brilliant idea on how to counter Russia and China. We could focus on building up our partners in Asia and the ongoing conventional fucking war in Europe instead of a pointless war in South America.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
New Second Breakfast episode in which we talk about exotic sushi, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and more.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New Second Breakfast episode in which we talk about exotic sushi, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and more.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
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Two things can both be silly/dumb at once:
• A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex
• The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”
• A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex
• The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Two things can both be silly/dumb at once:
• A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex
• The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”
• A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex
• The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”
New Second Breakfast episode is live:
This week we talk China’s sushi ban, Jake Sullivan, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and William Manchester’s absurd memoir.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
This week we talk China’s sushi ban, Jake Sullivan, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and William Manchester’s absurd memoir.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New Second Breakfast episode is live:
This week we talk China’s sushi ban, Jake Sullivan, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and William Manchester’s absurd memoir.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
This week we talk China’s sushi ban, Jake Sullivan, the latest Ukraine peace plan, and William Manchester’s absurd memoir.
open.spotify.com/episode/7CMB...
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The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.
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Remember when Biden’s biggest gaffe that his staff had to walk back was him stating we’d defend Taiwan lol
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Remember when Biden’s biggest gaffe that his staff had to walk back was him stating we’d defend Taiwan lol
If we do this, I’m opposed. But if we must, give it to the 42As so they never deliver on time.
I did not realize there was any interest in this at all.
I agree ICBMs aren’t exactly a great fit for the Air Force, but the arguments they should shift to the Army really aren’t all that compelling. Just doesn’t seem worth the bother.
I agree ICBMs aren’t exactly a great fit for the Air Force, but the arguments they should shift to the Army really aren’t all that compelling. Just doesn’t seem worth the bother.
The time to move ICBMs from the Air Force to the Army is now - Breaking Defense
Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute explains in this op-ed why now is the right time to move the ICBM enterprise from the Air Force to the Army.
breakingdefense.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If we do this, I’m opposed. But if we must, give it to the 42As so they never deliver on time.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
The last cabinet secretary to become POTUS was Herbert Hoover but for some reason people still believe it’s a viable path to the presidency in the modern era. The last Secretary of State specifically to become POTUS was James Buchanan.
Not a great track record for Rubio to lean on going into 2028
Not a great track record for Rubio to lean on going into 2028
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The last cabinet secretary to become POTUS was Herbert Hoover but for some reason people still believe it’s a viable path to the presidency in the modern era. The last Secretary of State specifically to become POTUS was James Buchanan.
Not a great track record for Rubio to lean on going into 2028
Not a great track record for Rubio to lean on going into 2028
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It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
A chunk of the internet has been taken offline.
www.theverge.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
The twist. Holy shit.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The twist. Holy shit.
So far the responses I’ve gotten to this from people are “wiring’s a mess but probably fine” to “is that an IED”
Been a minute since I’ve toyed with electrical stuff but something about that doesn’t look quite right
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So far the responses I’ve gotten to this from people are “wiring’s a mess but probably fine” to “is that an IED”
Been a minute since I’ve toyed with electrical stuff but something about that doesn’t look quite right
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Been a minute since I’ve toyed with electrical stuff but something about that doesn’t look quite right
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Besides ending (illegal) tariffs on various goods, have we stopped tariffing all those penguins?
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Besides ending (illegal) tariffs on various goods, have we stopped tariffing all those penguins?
What is going on
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What is going on
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Except no child left behind wasn't the problem. The problem is we haven't been teaching phonics. Bush actually wanted to mandate phonics instruction as part of NCLB but the teachers unions and Democrats fought against it.
There are valid criticisms of NCLB but this isn't one.
There are valid criticisms of NCLB but this isn't one.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Except no child left behind wasn't the problem. The problem is we haven't been teaching phonics. Bush actually wanted to mandate phonics instruction as part of NCLB but the teachers unions and Democrats fought against it.
There are valid criticisms of NCLB but this isn't one.
There are valid criticisms of NCLB but this isn't one.
Lol Black Ops 7 is so bad the AI is telling me it’s not real.
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Lol Black Ops 7 is so bad the AI is telling me it’s not real.