Tom Matthews

Ag, technology, and finance

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@Oilfield_Rando @thomasbsauer Along with their aunts, grandmas, sisters, and cousins. Exile them all from the free gibs plantation. The “culture” would transform overnight.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@mayurekbote @championswimmer See, just a homo. If you don’t understand why Carmack is more respected than you then you have nothing to contribute.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@mayurekbote @championswimmer He has a history of measuring the latency of everything in his path on everything he’s ever worked on and you are some homo on the internet. Be gone train autist.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

Every data center should be forced to build enough of these to power themselves and to give back at least as much power to the net tax paying citizens in their local area.

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My third interview with @Isaiah_p_Taylor, Founder of @ValarAtomics.

Valar just became the first startup in history to power an NVIDIA Blackwell with a nuclear reactor.

0:32 Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem
2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 10
4:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors
7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding
10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers
11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear
16:02 Becoming a nuclear company
18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself
21:55 Obsessing over critical path
24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple
30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed
30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate
35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari
38:07 Running through 1-way doors
41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat
46:13 Wartime mode
48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things
51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies
56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper
58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs
1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors
1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale
1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb
1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces
1:20:55 Inevitable time
1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks
1:28:08 Scaling
1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

We’re at the “let’s burn Jet A to power AI data centers” stage of climate hysteria, so that’s good.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Now that we're actively building a turbine and a turbine factory, we've moved to video updates for our investors.

Here is our Q2 investor update, with just one juicy tidbit redacted for now.

Hint: there is an Easter egg at the end🥚

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@BowTiedKong He’s running for an open easy D senate seat in a corrupt state and nobody suspects politics is playing a role?

It could also just be someone in the right position with an aks to grind given the makeup of his “family”.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@ThomBrady5 This was the same sort of launch.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@WomanDefiner They should spend every day terrified they will be institutionalized against their will if anyone finds out how crazy they are.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@aidannonx @niclucylife They hate Mary because they worship their mothers, wives, and daughters rather than Christ.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@HomericFuturist @Anarseldain They showed us some cool Japanese poasters for a week so we’d forget how much we hate seeing the shitstains of the world.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@oxfinthesip @TheOnlyDSC Zookeeper

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@VDAREJamesK Every dime spent on boomers should henceforth be redirected to this effort until it is finished. Then their infinite boomer gibs can continue *if* they learn how to behave themselves too.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@husafell_stone Use an agent to convert it to an ebook and customize it to your preferences. The readers will still spy on you, but you are in control of the content and styling and features.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@grayzoneintel Not even close.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@JoelWebbon Yes, and just like with Mohamed, Joseph Smith was “educated” and encouraged by jews and apostate Christians.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@escapefrommelos That thing has/had a dick.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@RealPostFolder Just fucking another man is enough to turn off the best men. Nobody worth a shit wants used underwear. Women are currently years away from relearning this valuable biological reality.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@Anc_Aesthetics @Babygravy9 The world would be dramatically better off if none of them existed.

[Tom Matthews @TomMatthews972]

@RogueLou18 We aren’t giving commies anything when exterminating them is so cheap and easy.