James Schmeling
@jschmeling.bsky.social
Founder, Arsenal Industrial Restoration Partners. Restoring capacity. Rebuilding Readiness. Matching/restoring facilities with defense and commercial manufacturers. USAF veteran (AFTAC). President & CEO, National Defense University Foundation.
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Yikes. Now multiply this by connected cars even if smaller and not as much individual impact.
Holy shit. The feds think Iran hacked oil tankers bound for the port of Galveston:
Coast Guard and FBI boarded 2 energy tankers due to cyberattacks. How big is the risk?
U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas-bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks struck the vessels while they were traveling toward the United States, according to U.S. ...
www.cbsnews.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Yikes. Now multiply this by connected cars even if smaller and not as much individual impact.
Anyone else remember the crises whith the Exxon Valdes oil spill? ~11 million gallons of crude oil spilled? Or Deepwater Horizon with about 210 million gallons spilled? And now the US and Iran are just sinking oil tankers?
September 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Anyone else remember the crises whith the Exxon Valdes oil spill? ~11 million gallons of crude oil spilled? Or Deepwater Horizon with about 210 million gallons spilled? And now the US and Iran are just sinking oil tankers?
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the criterion channel costs the same as it did in 2020.
Streaming prices are rising 3x as fast as inflation.
All 8 major streamers w/out ads will cost you $151/month now vs $90 in 2022.
Cable companies made studios fight for every price increase. Remove the middle man, and you remove the guardrails.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... #TVSky
All 8 major streamers w/out ads will cost you $151/month now vs $90 in 2022.
Cable companies made studios fight for every price increase. Remove the middle man, and you remove the guardrails.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... #TVSky
Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did
Congrats, you cut the cord. Now you have six more cords. Streaming prices are rising three times as fast as inflation, making escaping cable company greed now seem quaint.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
the criterion channel costs the same as it did in 2020.
Off to Seoul tomorrow. First ever visit to South Korea. Looking forward to the program and seeing a new city and country.
August 25, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Off to Seoul tomorrow. First ever visit to South Korea. Looking forward to the program and seeing a new city and country.
I'm not saying this is a better alternative to full self drive in a Tesla, but I'm not not saying that, either. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army — autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range
The US Army tested an autonomous breaching vehicle with an onboard counter-UAS turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg on August 18.
www.yahoo.com
August 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I'm not saying this is a better alternative to full self drive in a Tesla, but I'm not not saying that, either. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
I started @ArsenalIRP because I couldn't ignore a problem I'd been seeing.
After 1993, foundries, shipyards,, many of the facilities that produced national readiness were mothballed. The bones are still there and can be returned to production.
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#SideHustle
After 1993, foundries, shipyards,, many of the facilities that produced national readiness were mothballed. The bones are still there and can be returned to production.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jamess...
#SideHustle
#defenseindustrialbase #industrialreactivation #veteranownedbusiness #leadership #sidehustle | James Schmeling
I started Arsenal Industrial Restoration Partners LLC.
I started it because I couldn't ignore a problem I'd been seeing.
America's industrial base contracted hard after 1993, the same year I left th...
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August 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I started @ArsenalIRP because I couldn't ignore a problem I'd been seeing.
After 1993, foundries, shipyards,, many of the facilities that produced national readiness were mothballed. The bones are still there and can be returned to production.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jamess...
#SideHustle
After 1993, foundries, shipyards,, many of the facilities that produced national readiness were mothballed. The bones are still there and can be returned to production.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jamess...
#SideHustle
I’ve spent 25 years noticing the same things across different areas of focus. Same challenge. And then built organizations and solutions within them. About to do what’s next. #SideHustle
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#defenseindustrialbase #nationalreadiness #veteranled #sidehustle | James Schmeling
I've spent 25 years noticing the same thing, in different rooms.
At Syracuse, it was veterans with real knowledge and skills and employers who had no channel to reach them, while the veterans and fam...
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August 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I’ve spent 25 years noticing the same things across different areas of focus. Same challenge. And then built organizations and solutions within them. About to do what’s next. #SideHustle
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www.linkedin.com/posts/jamess...
Worth a read:
What China’s PLA says it is learning from the Iran war
breakingdefense.com/2026/08/what...
What China’s PLA says it is learning from the Iran war
breakingdefense.com/2026/08/what...
What China's PLA says it is learning from the Iran war - Breaking Defense
From AI integration to the economics of air and missile defense, Chinese military commentators are paying especially close attention to the US-Israel war in Iran.
breakingdefense.com
August 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Worth a read:
What China’s PLA says it is learning from the Iran war
breakingdefense.com/2026/08/what...
What China’s PLA says it is learning from the Iran war
breakingdefense.com/2026/08/what...
Fantastic piece from Business Insider (yahoo link for access). Focus on learning from Ukraine by engaging/training the Ukrainian forces. Electromagnetic warfare incredibly important. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
A NATO commander says training Ukrainian soldiers is showing his forces that skills neglected after the Cold War matter again
Ukraine's battlefield experience is showing Norway why electronic warfare has become a priority again.
www.yahoo.com
August 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Fantastic piece from Business Insider (yahoo link for access). Focus on learning from Ukraine by engaging/training the Ukrainian forces. Electromagnetic warfare incredibly important. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
Have not spent hardly any time on Twitter in a few years but searching the web for certain announcements on the DIB seems to point to all those sources being there and sometimes LinkedIn. Followed a few in the past few days. But how is it now?
August 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Have not spent hardly any time on Twitter in a few years but searching the web for certain announcements on the DIB seems to point to all those sources being there and sometimes LinkedIn. Followed a few in the past few days. But how is it now?
Anyone ever bought an airline ticket for potential trip, forget to cancel w/in 24 hours, and then be shocked when a phone notification says your flight is departing? No? Just me? Ok
Anyone w/ eyeglasses repair kit tiny screwdrivers confiscated in Mexico on way to USA? Forty trips or so w/ them?
Anyone w/ eyeglasses repair kit tiny screwdrivers confiscated in Mexico on way to USA? Forty trips or so w/ them?
August 9, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Anyone ever bought an airline ticket for potential trip, forget to cancel w/in 24 hours, and then be shocked when a phone notification says your flight is departing? No? Just me? Ok
Anyone w/ eyeglasses repair kit tiny screwdrivers confiscated in Mexico on way to USA? Forty trips or so w/ them?
Anyone w/ eyeglasses repair kit tiny screwdrivers confiscated in Mexico on way to USA? Forty trips or so w/ them?
I have never watched 30 Rock but decided in the serious stuff going on I could use humor. A few episodes in I am laughing. I am loving the Six Sigma episode right from the top. (The Baldwin part, not the leering at the assistant part just to be clear.)
July 31, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I have never watched 30 Rock but decided in the serious stuff going on I could use humor. A few episodes in I am laughing. I am loving the Six Sigma episode right from the top. (The Baldwin part, not the leering at the assistant part just to be clear.)
Guess Ukraine scared them per the article. A poster. www.businessinsider.com/russia-repla...
Russia replaced its once-grand Navy Day parade with a shipless event and a giant poster
As the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes looms, Russia scaled down its Navy Day event to receive Putin with several dozen sailors instead.
www.businessinsider.com
July 29, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Guess Ukraine scared them per the article. A poster. www.businessinsider.com/russia-repla...
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"We keep asking why there is not more outrage.
Maybe outrage is not an unlimited resource.
Alarm fatigue teaches people to discount the warning.
Disaster fatigue leaves them too exhausted to respond even when they believe it.
Authoritarianism benefits from both."
Maybe outrage is not an unlimited resource.
Alarm fatigue teaches people to discount the warning.
Disaster fatigue leaves them too exhausted to respond even when they believe it.
Authoritarianism benefits from both."
July 28, 2026 at 12:04 PM
"We keep asking why there is not more outrage.
Maybe outrage is not an unlimited resource.
Alarm fatigue teaches people to discount the warning.
Disaster fatigue leaves them too exhausted to respond even when they believe it.
Authoritarianism benefits from both."
Maybe outrage is not an unlimited resource.
Alarm fatigue teaches people to discount the warning.
Disaster fatigue leaves them too exhausted to respond even when they believe it.
Authoritarianism benefits from both."
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Just FYI, ignore the ridiculous and stupid.
July 28, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Just FYI, ignore the ridiculous and stupid.
We’re all talking (saying words) measurably less apparently. Another Symptom of Growing Isolation - The Atlantic
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Another Symptom of Growing Isolation — The Atlantic
A recent study found that people spoke fewer words a day in 2019 than in 2005.
apple.news
July 28, 2026 at 3:22 AM
We’re all talking (saying words) measurably less apparently. Another Symptom of Growing Isolation - The Atlantic
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You know how I know I could never get away with murder? Fingerprints on my reading glasses lenses. I swear I never touch them, but sure as can be there are distinct prints on them regularly.
Moistening Glasses
Alt: A person cleaning their eyeglasses by blowing on them and then wiping them with a cloth.
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July 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM
You know how I know I could never get away with murder? Fingerprints on my reading glasses lenses. I swear I never touch them, but sure as can be there are distinct prints on them regularly.
I subscribe to the daily BookBub email with bargain e-books. I'm always excited by the email. I often click to buy one of the $1.99 or $2.99 Kindle books. And then Amazon tells me I bought it last year. Or last month. Or a few years ago. Why am I not reading all of these books?!?
July 26, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I subscribe to the daily BookBub email with bargain e-books. I'm always excited by the email. I often click to buy one of the $1.99 or $2.99 Kindle books. And then Amazon tells me I bought it last year. Or last month. Or a few years ago. Why am I not reading all of these books?!?
Leave them alone. Don’t me a touron!
Photos and videos of tourists getting too close to wildlife can be found almost weekly on social media, which has collectively dubbed these individuals as “tourons,” a cross between tourists and morons.
Here's how to not be one when encountering wildlife in Colorado.
Here's how to not be one when encountering wildlife in Colorado.
How not to be a ‘touron’ when encountering Colorado wildlife
www.denverpost.com
July 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Leave them alone. Don’t me a touron!
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There are CCC projects you enjoy everyday and may not realize. In my area, RT 401 and French Creek State Park to name just two.
Enjoy Harroson Ford
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Enjoy Harroson Ford
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Civilian Conservation Corps, Narrated by Harrison Ford
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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July 25, 2026 at 12:52 PM
There are CCC projects you enjoy everyday and may not realize. In my area, RT 401 and French Creek State Park to name just two.
Enjoy Harroson Ford
youtu.be/LL-M1LwHaZg?...
Enjoy Harroson Ford
youtu.be/LL-M1LwHaZg?...
Today’s pain point. Just filled up. Ouch.
July 25, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Today’s pain point. Just filled up. Ouch.
A favorite, though my mom made them open faced and on hamburger buns. Is an open faced sandwich a sandwich? If I had to be I'd say that @swordsjew.bsky.social and David Swanson probably have an opinion and writeup somewhere on that topic. Mmmm. Tuna melt. We also add onion and use mozzarella cheese.
July 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A favorite, though my mom made them open faced and on hamburger buns. Is an open faced sandwich a sandwich? If I had to be I'd say that @swordsjew.bsky.social and David Swanson probably have an opinion and writeup somewhere on that topic. Mmmm. Tuna melt. We also add onion and use mozzarella cheese.
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i wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #143: Tuna Melt
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
buttondown.com
July 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
i wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who knew? www.travelandleisure.com/two-wheeled-...
Should You Use a Suitcase With Two Wheels or Four? Here’s What Flight Attendants and Frequent Fliers Say
Travel experts explain whether two-wheel or four-wheel suitcases are better for your joints, plus the packing and carrying habits that reduce strain.
www.travelandleisure.com
July 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Who knew? www.travelandleisure.com/two-wheeled-...