Happy to officially announce — I'm writing a book!. From the early days of In-Q-Tel and Palantir to the founding of DIU, Anduril and Shield AI up through this current boom in 🇺🇸/acc energy, I present:

RT @MachinePix: Pepper roasting line with stem and seed remover.

also shout out to @MilesKlee for writing this story a month ago for Rolling Stone.

It does not seem great that ChatGPT is better at preying on the weaknesses of recovering addicts than playing chess.

RT @lemonodor: The original Advisory Circular bot is back: The only bot that posts when it detects aircraft flying in circles, in real time….

Time for a single engineer with that kind of revenue to raise a round as a one-man company with a $2 billion valuation.

If anyone wants to go deep on how crucial microwaves/radar were to the Allied effort, @sgblank has some reading for you:.

Also got to dip into some of the history:. MIT professor Vannevar Bush, both with the university and his company Raytheon, built the American military microwave power that helped win WW2 (and incidentally still heats up our leftovers). Fun to bring the microvibes back to MIT ⚡️.

I am writing again!. Here's my profile of Epirus and their anti-drone microwave zapper for @techreview — a company spun out of @8vc, currently being tested by the Army to fry drones out of the sky, and pushing the limits of the new generation of gallium nitride chips to do it.

RT @techreview: This giant microwave may change the future of war

RT @PalmerLuckey: Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. Leveraging….

And ty to @jaycaspiankang for having Kyle on the pod, the system works.

Just finished this sitting at a bar in Tampa — truly a lovely read, recommend to anyone who’s ever driven through the desert or contemplated a Kokopelli.

RT @owenbroadcast: so this guy let snakes bite him hundreds of times and injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times and now his bl….

we've reached pope smoke explainer.

If we were serious about the moon+mars you'd think it would be a gut+replace kind of thing at NASA, not just a gut.

RT @Brendan_Duke: Looking at incoming vessels to the Port of Los Angeles (America's largest port):. 1.) This week we're still in frontrunni….

RT @Bagehots: We're excited to announce the 2025-26 Knight-Bagehot fellows. Congrats @aronczyk, @ByKyleCampbell, @suzannahcav, @aishagani,….

RT @sfstandard: An @SFStandard investigation revealed that Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has been using a shadowy campaign committee….

RT @typesfast: The container ships are still all going around.

RT @TheStalwart: THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS. In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about how there are so many different argu….