Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Can we all just pause for a sec and reflect on how fucking important Tailscale is, and how nobody ever talks about them? I don't think I've ever seen a more useful service with a more invisible corporate footprint.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Explaining to TradFi guys I meet at conferences that insulting Dear Leader is to North Koreans what garlic is to a vampire is an endlessly gleeful factoid to me
That a group could be amongst the most sophisticated threat actors on the planet, yet have such a simple weakness, is something most people just couldn't conceive of on their own. Their reactions to learning about it are an endless source of entertainment
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
UPDATE: Harry has now threatened us with legal action after I exposed him for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
Welcome to consequence culture, Harry.
Patriots keep it up.
Meet Harry Rosenthal. He is a senior at College of Charleston and an intern at the historic Charleston foundation.
He made a TikTok celebrating “Kirk Hashana.”
You can contact the historic Charleston foundation here: (843) 723-1623
.@CofC do you condone political violence on your campus?
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
We’re now sliding into DAY 3 of Carnegie Mellon’s Professor Uju Anya scandal, and somehow it’s getting uglier.
After catching backlash for suggesting on social media that she would dance on the graves of white men, her latest response to any American criticizing her is simple:
“EAT SHIT.” 😐
As American taxpayers continue pouring $455 MILLION in federal funding into Carnegie Mellon’s coffers, here are some notable quotes from this academic luminary:
- “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”
- On the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s murder: “He’s a shitbag. May he rot in piss.”
- On Queen Elizabeth’s failing health: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving and raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Americans work for every dollar Washington takes from them. Using those dollars to fund THIS? Absolutely indefensible.
Editor’s Note: I don’t think this genius knows what the definition of doxxing is, but that’s the least of her problems.
@SecScottBessent
@CarnegieMellon
H/T and superb reporting by @DeAngelisCorey
Hey @CarnegieMellon, your racist professor is apparently doubling down on Instagram from behind her locked account.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Nick Shirley just went FULL THROTTLE at the EPIC Islamic Center in Texas.
He showed up to film. Peacefully.
They didn’t debate him.
They didn’t welcome questions.
They hunted him down on their property and told him to get out.
A Muslim man follows him, pointing, demanding:
“Are you a Muslim?! This is NOT for you.”
Not “this is private property.”
Not “please stay on the sidewalk.”
Straight up: You’re not one of us. Leave.
Nick didn’t flinch. Camera rolling the entire time.
This isn’t a misunderstanding.
This is the mask slipping.
They built it. They control it.
And they just told America, on camera, that parts of Texas are off-limits unless you convert.
Cohabitation?
They just said the quiet part out loud.
Watch every second. This one is going to travel.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
We’re almost 🆙.
TailscaleUp starts at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET. Tune in and join us.
tailscale.com/tailscaleup/on…
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Community Day is tomorrow.
Here’s what’s happening on Day 0 of #TailscaleUp26. Take a look at the agenda and we’ll see you there.
tailscale.com/tailscaleup/?u…
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Learn how platform teams are balancing self-service access for developers with security and operational consistency across Kubernetes clusters.
Join Krumware, Tigera, and Tailscale on July 14.
Register → buff.ly/CcDYWea
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
🚨 With Zohran Mamdani seizing control as Mayor of NYC, we're committed to tracking every part of his and the radical socialist agenda all across the nation
Stay tuned for updates on the DSA. Like, follow, and retweet to help us spread the word.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Anti-Israel.
Anti-America.
Anti-Western Civilization.
Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
I keep trying to explain to people, but America doesn’t have a viable 3D printer company because we don’t have any of the underlying architecture.
Shocking how many people think a complex product is some singular thing you build at a “factory.”
A 3D printer is really just a featherweight CNC mill, so much so that they speak yeh same language (G-Code). You need:
- micron accurate linear rails
- Sub micron bearings for those linear rails.
- High resolution servo/stepper motors.
- Motion control chips and boards and stuff.
- Sheet metal, injection molding, various coatings.
America has *no* industrial base for *any* of this at consumer product scale. We invented or definitively innovated everything above, then the McKinsey set came in and convinced us to ship it all to China for the last 40 years.
So yea, sure… you can screw a 3D printer together in America, at great expense… but you are doing so with primarily Chinese components.
What we need is a bunch of uninvestible (by venture funds) businesses that are boring and competently supply a bunch of even more boring, medium margin, no-moat components.
This is what I keep coming back to. So many companies in the US and Europe, driven out of the printer business over the last few years. Each one was its own thing, there was a place for everyone, and we were all friends sharing innovations across the industry. Now everything is just a copy of a copy of a copy 📉
I'd do anything I can to make that possible again. I miss a lot of my friends from this business.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
UPDATE: Chris Ostroushko says that the backlash his family has been receiving for their actions last weekend has been “overwhelming” and “nonstop”
He’s now “second guessing” living in the United States, because he’s unhappy with how negatively the public has reacted to him assaulting a woman on camera.
He is in complete disbelief, stating that, "I've never had anything like this happen in my life".
Chris and Deyanna have been going on a press tour continuing to assert that they are the real victims, despite millions watching the footage of them instigating everything.
There is also a GoFundMe for them, where they are currently trying to raise $8k, stating that they’ve lost their jobs and, “are facing one of the most overwhelming and life-altering moments they have ever experienced”.
The family has still taken zero accountability for any of the violence they committed and are in complete shock that they are facing consequences for their actions.
Last week Chris also did an interview where he lied, stating that his family is “absolutely not violent" and that all he did was "stay back and watch" everything, despite being on camera shoving me multiple times.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.
The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.
The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.
You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.
"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.
Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.
Today his own party would call him a fascist.
The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.
The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.
The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.
Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:
Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.
Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.
Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.
State ideology forced on families. Democrats.
Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.
Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.
Cult of personality. Both sides.
Ultranationalism. Republicans.
Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.
You marched against kings on Saturday.
You marched FOR kings.
You just didn't know which was which.
Stop being gaslit.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Tailscale + Border0.
Border0 is joining Tailscale to help us build a more modern, usable approach to privileged access management.
It’s already integrated with Tailscale today, and we’re excited about what comes next.
tailscale.com/blog/border0-j…
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Brighter Shores - Filtration Station, Kobold Arena and Blacksmith bounties are now live!
There are three kinds of blacksmith bounties:
Craft only
- Craft the weapons listed in the bounty for extra rewards.
Craft and deliver weapons to the Kobold Arena
- The kobolds in the Kobold Arena are hungry for battle, but they need the shiniest metal weapons you can make to really show off their skills.
Filtration Station
- Spongle has been placed in charge of the new filtration station, a machine designed to clean the corruption from the river. However, getting the water to the right place can sometimes be more work than one goblin can handle, and Spongle wants your help.
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Wait Tailscale wtf? this is a thing?
You’re telling me you can have a private mesh computing network in 5
minutes with all the computers in your house and no middleman?
or hundreds of friends around the world? for free?
Wtf
Introducing LM Link ✨ Connect to remote instances of LM Studio, securely.
🔐 End-to-end encrypted
📡 Load models locally, use them on the go
🖥️ Use local devices, LLM rigs, or cloud VMs
Launching in partnership with @Tailscale
Try it now: link.lmstudio.ai
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Remember LAN parties? Plug in and everything just worked.
At @AllThingsOpen, Allen on the Tailscale Solutions Engineering team recreated that across AWS, a home lab, hotel WiFi, and MongoDB Atlas.
Watch it here - allthingsopen.org/articles/s…
Allen Vailliencourt retweeted
Red Robin is a case study in how to kill a restaurant chain from the inside out.
In 2015, the stock hit $92.90 per share. Revenue peaked in 2017 at $1.4 billion across 573 locations. Families loved the place. Bottomless fries. Birthday parties. “Gourmet” burgers when that word still meant something in casual dining. The brand had real equity.
Then management panicked about rising minimum wages and made the single worst decision in the company’s history: they fired all the bussers.
January 2018. CEO Steve Carley cut bussers across every location, eliminated expeditors, and replaced kitchen managers with generic “back-of-house” roles. The logic was pure spreadsheet thinking. Labor costs were rising, so remove labor. The savings looked great in quarterly earnings. The second and third order effects were catastrophic.
Tables stopped getting cleared. Wait times ballooned. Walkaways increased 85% year over year. 75% of the dine-in traffic loss came during peak hours, the exact window when the restaurant makes money. Ticket times out of the kitchen jumped a full minute on average. Customers who waited 20 minutes for a table and another 20 for a burger stopped coming back. Red Robin’s own CEO at the time, Denny Marie Post, admitted the damage was self-inflicted.
And here’s the compounding problem. While Red Robin was gutting its own service model, it simultaneously launched a “Tavern Double” value menu at $6.99 to drive traffic. Orders of the cheap burgers jumped from 9% to 15% of all orders, which cratered the average check. So Red Robin was now serving worse food, slower, in a dirtier restaurant, at a lower price point. That combination is how you enter a death spiral.
Meanwhile, 16% of locations were in malls. Mall traffic was already declining. Those locations saw 5.5% sales drops versus 3% at standalone stores, dragging the whole system down. Management acknowledged the problem quarter after quarter and did nothing about it for years.
Five CEOs in 10 years. Think about that. The one leader who provided stability, Michael Snyder, was with the chain from 1979 to 2005. After that, it was a revolving door. Every new CEO launched a new turnaround plan. Every plan was abandoned by the next CEO. The North Star plan. The First Choice plan. New menu rollouts. Loyalty program reboots. None of it addressed the core issue: they’d trained an entire generation of customers to think of Red Robin as the place where the service is terrible.
The contrast with Chili’s makes the failure even clearer. Kevin Hochman took over Chili’s in 2022 and did the opposite of what Red Robin did. He simplified the menu, invested in operations, launched a $10.99 “3 for Me” deal that went viral on TikTok, and let the food speak for itself. Chili’s just posted 31% same-store sales growth. Red Robin’s comparable revenue was down 1.2% for all of 2024.
Both chains were in roughly the same position three years ago. One chain invested in the customer experience. The other spent a decade cutting it. Red Robin’s $65M market cap and Chili’s $3.3B market cap tell you which approach works.
The stock went from $92 to $3.61. That’s what happens when you optimize for the quarterly earnings call instead of the customer walking through the door.





































