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So I vibe coded a Mars colony desktop RPG based loosely on my favorite books, The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s called Underhill. (Link in thread.)
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Aria Alamalhodaei
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Aria Alamalhodaei
@breadfrom
building something new. ex-@techcrunch 🚀 viriditas 🌱 ✝️ per aspera ad astra 💫 Signal: ariaalam.18
Austin, TX Se unió Mart 2018
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Very excited about this mission.
Karan Kunjur@KaranKunjur
We have shipped our 20kW satellite - Gravitas - to the launch site. Given the supply chain to operate at this power regime doesn’t exist, we had to build 85% of the satellite in-house. This includes building our own large solar arrays, high power propulsion system, large batteries, large reaction wheels and much more. This launch will represent the first time all of these systems are test on orbit together. Internally at @K2SpaceCo, we’ve thought about a few levels of success for this mission - we expect mission success to fall somewhere along this spectrum: - Tier 1 (Baseline mission success): Deploy solar arrays, establish comms, operate the satellite —> we’ve now got an operational 20kW satellite on orbit - Tier 2: Power on the payloads, activate the 20kW propulsion system —> we’re completing payload missions and have fired the highest power hall thruster ever flown on orbit - Tier 3: Orbit raise the satellite, test performance in high radiation environments (like 2,000km) —> we’ve collected massive amounts of data on the performance of the platform in very very difficult environments More than anything, Gravitas represents the start of an iterative journey, where we will take the data we receive from this first satellite and incorporate it into the next wave of satellites launching next year. We’re excited to start this journey, we’ll report back as we get more data. Thanks to Tim for covering our story on TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/k2-…
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@jessegenet @openclaw your videos on your adventures with homeschool claw are my favorite on the internet right now, i get so much from them, thank you
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Sub 1 minute of “lesson planning” resulted in custom literature read aloud for my kids 🤯
Finally getting great on the fly lesson planning from my @openclaw 👏
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The claim is implicit: Silicon Valley extracts, we serve. Whether that’s true is a different question! warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-da…
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I’m not a vet so I’ll withhold comment on the larger argument re “vibe patriotism,” but defense tech founders/co’s use the word ‘service’ not just because it recalls military service but to signal they are the opposite of their peers (personal-optionality-maximizers)
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I’d be curious to hear from the SpaceXers "preparing to walk." How much of this is genuine mission disagreement and how much of this is just normal career changes after a liquidity event? If the goal is Mars, there's still only one company realistically pursuing it at scale...
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the story here really is not "$20B contract ceiling" it is "formalizes single contract vehicle" and "eliminates pass-through charges on subcontracts"
Bloomberg@business
US Army awards Anduril Industries a contract with a total value of as much as $20 billion to buy the defense startup’s software, hardware and services bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@Emily_Sundberg it is REALLY good weather today, unfortunately the exception not the rule
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just touched down in austin... i can work with this....
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@PabloPeniche @arenamagdotcom this looks good, need to get ahold of this mag! that is indeed a very crazy idea!
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Read my latest article for @arenamagdotcom - my craziest idea, yet.
Using space debris as a defense system.
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Sending this link out now!
DM me if you’d like to give it a try.
Grace Walker@graceongrid
Almost ready to share this app with friends! Answering simple prompts about your baby generates print-ready memory books, created from your phone whenever you have a spare moment.
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@nwilliams030 calculators, tv remotes.... babies crave squishy buttons!
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see also: label makers
all the fun of typing letters, nothing else, with the added benefit of printing stickers !
Natalia@natalianacar
Acabo de ver a este crío con una CALCULADORA en la mano en su carrito y estoy súper a favor. Mucho más divertido que un móvil
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@somefoundersalt yes USG contractor purgatory is too snarky, I certainly don’t mean to turn my nose up at the stickiest part of the budget!
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@breadfrom Yes. Nothing wrong with being a USG contractor, but there’s a reason why SpaceX is valued so much more highly than all the other primes (and why the supermajority of its revenue isn’t from USG either).
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Some convictions I now strongly hold regarding the future of the space industry:
1. Nations will want sovereign capacity for space-based infrastructure. Failing that, they will prefer to procure from non-U.S and non-Chinese companies.
2. Selling to the USG and primes inflicts significant costs for fickle customers. Space companies who can grow revenue independent of USG will be far more resilient with changing political cycles.
3. Decreasing cost of launch will turn satellites into a commodity. The high cost, low volume dynamic of the space industry will (deservedly) die.
4. Critical factors like network capacity and revisit rate scale with more satellites. Any satcom or EO company not bringing manufacturing in-house to churn out satellites at maximum volume and minimum price will die.
5. No one has priced in the Chinese.
6. The greatest innovation of SpaceX was creating an organization economically capable of pursuing long-term, civilizational projects without relying on government funding.
7. The only thing worth doing in the space industry is the above ^
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@aphysicist wait but his point is correct, hopping on the ‘deep tech’ bandwagon bcuz fomo IS lazy
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so deep tech, because it's hard to do, makes more money and is consensus now, is lazy, lmao
sam lessin 🏴☠️@lessin
The VC Flight to ‘Deep Tech’ is almost certainly the wrong move for you Mr. Lazy-Narrative VC
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@skyler_chan_ You told reporters earlier this year the first payload would launch in 2029 - was this mission moved up? Is the first payload still the ~10 kg demonstrators?
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Introducing: The GRU Moon Factory.
Thought it was just renders?
In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory, landing on the Moon as early as next year.
It's going to build permanent lunar infrastructure, starting with our Moon hotel, Moon bases, and cities on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
🌕@GRU_Space built the world's first Moon factory in just 6 weeks—patent-pending hardware turning lunar dirt into bricks and inflates habitats on the Moon. It's landing as early as next year to lay the foundation for lunar hotels and base infra. Congrats on the launch, @skyler_chan_! ycombinator.com/launches/Pfb-g…
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Aria Alamalhodaei retuiteado
Anduril Industries is set to double the size of its space unit with the acquisition of national security company ExoAnalytic Solutions, marking a significant expansion of the company’s space defense program bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Excited to join the crew of Artemis III (soon!) — can someone do a warm intro for me? Aria at Ariaalam dot com
@jason@Jason
Excited to have @DarioAmodei on the pod at some point (soon!) — can someone do a warm intro for me? Jason at Allin dot com
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12/ Biggest takeaway: Artemis is testing a new contracting model for human spaceflight. The upside is genuinely impressive cost control, but it also looks like this new way of buying services comes with its own safety, testing, and oversight issues.
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1/ Thread on the new NASA OIG report on the human landing systems being designed by Blue Origin and SpaceX. Reminder: both companies won multi-billion dollar contracts to build the lunar landers that will carry Artemis astronauts to the Moon’s surface and back.
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