Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸

Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep.

"Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries"

An early sketch:

[Jim Sharkey (@madscienceskill) @madscienceskill]

Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empire’s bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a “Pentagon Wars” style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks!
#StarWars

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@traestephens Not the NBA finals but MLB games for sure 😂

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, from Virginia Water, Surrey. Britain’s only serving female Royal Navy Commando.

Killed in training on 3 June 2026 when a Merlin Mk4 from 846 Naval Air Squadron crashed at Sourton Down, Devon.

The career arc was extraordinary. An MSc in Geology from Imperial College London in 2016. Junior international representative for England in lacrosse and pole vault. Two years as a geologist with British Petroleum before commissioning in 2019 into the Royal Navy.

During a break in flying training she completed the 16 week All Arms Commando Course, earning the green beret as one of only seven women in British military history to do so, and becoming the UK’s only serving female Royal Navy Commando.

She was killed on her final assessment of flying training. Her Pilot’s Wings were to be awarded in June 2026. She died alongside Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson, 42, and Petty Officer Owen Green, 24.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@DefenseAnalyses I think a ton of Colonels probably hit Goldeneye hard. The Goldeneye GOFO's time is coming soon

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@Gundo_OG Ok but the joke is funny right?

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

It's not a big deal. I can count the number of accidents on o̶n̶e̶ two hands

[David Jeans @DavidJeans2]

New-

Military startup Shield AI told me last year it had upgraded its VBAT drone after a Navy official had his fingers partially severed.

A few weeks ago, it happened again:

https://t.co/ynxxohUZI1

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@yangtzepatrol Siren song of the whirring blades? Maybe its an acoustic problem lol

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@thomasehendrix @da_sails There has to be a way to make a triso powered coffee pot right?

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

People denigrate mercenaries but they have a role to play in an integrated security strategy.

Just don’t misjudge that role.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@hardaway_cam @traestephens Have you guys played werewolf? Same engine more character types/abilities. Adds a little extra spice

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@jamoses92 @nickgalano It's an Elon company though. It will have a strong base that diamondhandshodlmaxxxx

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@PeterJ_Walker @Trace_Cohen If someone were 3X over the 95th percentile would that be good?

Asking for a friend?

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@foundersfund Incredible idea. I may have to steal this.

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

37 years ago today, the Chinese government brutally crushed peaceful protesters in and around Tiananmen Square who were demanding an end to corruption, freedom of speech, and democratic reform. The massacre revealed a truth the world should never forget: the Chinese Communist Party will do whatever it takes to preserve its grip on power. If it did not value the lives of its own citizens, why would it value the lives of others?

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@OwenWest91 Incredible!

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

So the communist wants us to all go back to the farms. Maybe create some new communities. Low tech low automation but the sort of work that strengthens the soul.

True communism has never been tr….

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Two months ago, when @AOC and I proposed an AI data center moratorium, we were called “Luddites.”

Now New York is on the verge of passing a moratorium and dozens of localities are doing the same.

People understand: AI must work for all, not just oligarchs.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

If you think that these businesss are built on copyright theft than the answer isn’t to seize the companies it’s to launch a civil class action. The outcome could be similar but the rational and where it leads is entirely different.

Bernie’s proposal and the rational it’s based on can be used to seize any and all private property and given that he is a communist he won’t stop at one juicy target. Your property will be next.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

I’ve introduced a bill to confiscate Bernie’s house. He has 60 days to move out before I put it on the market.

I’ll distribute the proceeds to everyone who votes for my Bill.

Who’s with me?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies.

The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@TheMinute268390 Should I explain the difference between investment and seizure or are you being willfully ignorant so as to align your political views with the proposal?

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@iownthelibs @DriverHawk @DaleVM An investment and a seizure are different as is a bargain. You ask for a bailout and I counter with an equity purchase that’s capitalism.

Taking equity just because and redistributing it is communism.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

@sarah_cone If he votes for my Bill he will receive his fair portion of the proceeds just like everyone else. Fair is fair.