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[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

I sold my first company for 7 figures

But I couldn’t have done it without these 5 must-read books 👇

[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

Looking forward to seeing this company grow https://t.co/vSmIFTDFxT

[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

@Houseofyogi Do one for Canada it’s probably like 60%

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Every Canadian should read this twice:

🇨🇦 Canada ranks—
🥇 1st in uranium
🥇 1st in potash
🥈 2nd in nickel
🥉 3rd in oil
🏅 5th in gold
💧 1st in freshwater

Countries start wars for LESS than this.

And somehow we are told we’re too poor to cut taxes, too broke to build homes, too weak to compete, too small to matter.

It took historic levels of incompetence and ideological sabotage to bury a country this blessed.

Imagine where Canada would be if we were actually allowed to win.

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[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

@BowTied_Mystic Well done. Great read. I thought the same thing

[BowTiedMystic @BowTied_Mystic]

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[Nozz @NoahEpstein_]

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[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

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[Clint Jarvis @clinjar]

One simple decision is saving me 3+ hours a day.

I stopped doom scrolling.

That doesn't mean I don't use my phone, I just set better boundaries.

Here’s exactly how I do it (#5 is key).

[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

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[X Freeze @XFreeze]

> Be me - Elon
> Just nuked the timeline with a Kardashev Scale reality check "I have a plan"
> Meanwhile, China’s out here printing solar panels like it’s counterfeit fentanyl, absolutely curb-stomping the US in the sunshine Olympics. We’re bringing pocket knives to a laser fight
> Bro we are literally about to run out of atoms for NVLink cables and you think the Nevada grid is gonna save us?
> Realize AI is now the most expensive cocaine habit in human history
> Current US grid: ~500 GW average, already sweating like a vegan at a Texas BBQ
> One frontier model run in 2028 gonna slurp more juice than the entire country of France role-playing as a lights festival
> Earth data centers already out here committing war crimes on rivers for cooling water
> Do the math, smooth-brains... we’re about to need the entire grid just to train Grok-7

> Chips? TSMC and Samsung sending me the same email every quarter: “Dear Elon, lol no ❤️”
> Fine
> Tesla Terafab incoming - 10 million wafers/year, built next to Giga Texas, powered by whatever the fuck I want because I own the rockets
> Power situation?
> Earth: crying over natural gas permits
> Me: quietly lofting 500–800 MW of thin-film solar per Starship flight like it’s Uber Eats for the vacuum
> That’s one fully functional orbital gigawatt every week if I feel spicy
> Orbital data centers = infinite free sunlight + 3 K cosmic microwave background heat sink
> Translation: your Earth rigs are space heaters with a gambling addiction
> My orbital rigs are perfect blackbody radiators running at 100% duty cycle while sipping starlight like it’s martinis at 3 a.m
> Latency? Starlink lasers already do 100 Gbps cross-continent
> In two years we’ll be doing petabit
> Your query goes up, answer comes down faster than your GPU finishes complaining about spot pricing
> Phase 1: xAI orbital constellation makes Memphis supercluster look like a Raspberry Pi someone dropped in a puddle
> Phase 2: every AI company on Earth begs for rack space on my satellites like it’s the last helicopter out of Saigon
> Phase 3: Kardashev Type II by 2045 or I’ll personally apologize to the Sun for underutilizing it
> Groundcels seething in replies: “b-but atmospheric losses” “b-but launch costs” “b-but orbital decay”
> My brother in Christ I own the launch company I am the atmospheric loss
> Stay poor down there fighting over lake water I’m moving humanity’s IQ to orbit

[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

@ManyBeenRinsed My grandfather who build homes in the 60’s did this exact same strategy

[Dallas Fontaine 🎈 @FontaineDallas]

@LoganTGott Amen

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@MikeCalcara Do you work in Canada ?

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