Sam Dean 🦅
@SamAugustDean
ex-Business Reporter @latimes
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:
Robo @PalmerLuckey waves farewell to the crowd and @ashleevance at Reindustrialize
The original Advisory Circular bot is back: The only bot that posts when it detects aircraft flying in circles, in real time. See the image for where to find it.
Time for a single engineer with that kind of revenue to raise a round as a one-man company with a $2 billion valuation
Lol
This giant microwave may change the future of war trib.al/l6LtebV
Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. Leveraging Meta's massive investments in XR technology for our troops will save countless lives and dollars.
so this guy let snakes bite him hundreds of times and injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times and now his blood may contain a magical universal anti-venom. but the most interesting part is deeper: his first snake bites were self-administered in a craze induced by 9/11
This is insanely hardcore
we've reached pope smoke explainer
As the world prepares to witness plumes of black or white smoke above the Sistine Chapel that will signal the result of the vote for a new pope, a pyrotechnics expert explains how the smoke works reut.rs/3EJjPZX
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.
White House's FY26 NASA skinny budget proposal - $1B for Mars human exploration - $2.3B cut to NASA science - No Mars Sample Return - 'Streamline' workforce and centers - $1.2B cut to Earth science - No climate sats - SLS + Orion gone after Artemis 3 - No Gateway -…
Looking at incoming vessels to the Port of Los Angeles (America's largest port): 1.) This week we're still in frontrunning mode (57%+ YoY). 2.) Next week we're basically at normal (-8% YoY). 3.) Two weeks from now we're in The Bad Place (-44% YoY)
We're excited to announce the 2025-26 Knight-Bagehot fellows. Congrats @aronczyk, @ByKyleCampbell, @suzannahcav, @aishagani, @esmyjimenez, @AKMcGlinchy, @saahilmenghani, @robaeprice, @stlbiznrubbelke, @yifanxie Full list and bios at journalism.columbia.edu/2025-knight-ba…
An @SFStandard investigation revealed that Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has been using a shadowy campaign committee to spend thousands on extravagant meals and cocktails. We have the receipts. 🧾 📝: @Josh_Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/04/10/cal…