Andrew Côté

engineering physicist, writes about deep tech, physics, energy, sci fi and whatever. founder @hyperstition_x produces @deeptechweek

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We have the first speaker lineup for the first event of SF Deep Tech Week 2026.

It's about hardware and manufacturing.

There's a few T of future enterprise value here. Recognize anyone?
@bscholl @EdwardMehr @jordannoone @jimbelosic @aphysicist

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@mpopv @SpaceKoala Maybe it did

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

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Capitalism was born for this very moment, pricing future contracts for electricity and compute, prediction markets on every outcome, financial derivatives built out of financial derivatives to underwrite, hedge, and get exposure to every nuance of an intelligent machine economy

[Matthew Gialich @MattGialich]

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. - Carl Sagan

We hope to change that. The exploration of the cosmos, and our eventual expansion into the Solar System starting with industrializing deep space, is the sole mission behind @AstroForge.

About 9 months ago I went on the @ShawnRyanShow. Anyone who has the honor of stepping into the studio will see a bunch of amazing paintings, many depicting military missions.

I asked @ShawnRyan762 if he could introduce me to Justin, the painter. Nine months later, this now proudly hangs in our lobby. It describes everything we are, but more importantly, shows why we need to grow.

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@mattparlmer Peasants just getting ripped on mead ale and barley wine at 30 festivals per year

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You can come see @schrep and @gigascale at SF @deeptechweek where they’ll be taking the main stage to present their fund thesis and portfolio building the Electric Industrial Stack

https://t.co/m11hCfbmag

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

1/ Today we're announcing Gigascale Capital's $250M first institutional fund to back early-stage founders rebuilding the physical economy.

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

1/ Today we're announcing Gigascale Capital's $250M first institutional fund to back early-stage founders rebuilding the physical economy.

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@JacobAShell make tartaria great again

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Every now and then I stop and look at some of the buildings in San Francisco and realize we live in the shadow of a different civilization when it comes to Architecture

Before WW2 people were building a Civilization, and since then they are just putting up buildings

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@goddek Yo what the fuck

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@TurnerNovak This is actually the great chain of being. People start in the unthinking depths of H and reincarnate through successive startups to A, after which they ascend to the heavenly kingdom of Marin County

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No matter what the current shock headline is the most important thing in history is happening

The Space Industry is finally taking off.

Not hail-mary nation state moon shots that are Herculean one-off programs. No.

Industrial scale launch capacity and permanent settlements

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

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@fedpoasts crystal dozer

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@is_OwenLewis hardware moat and software leverage

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It turns out the greatest moat in the history of SaaS is a vertically integrated reusable orbital class heavy lift rocket

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Difficulty Levels of Startups:

Insane: Robotics
Hard: Hardware
Medium: Consumer Software
Easy: B2B SaaS

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@joshua_goodman_ yes my statement is basically retarded if you think about it longer for 10 seconds but its a nice castle and distinctly German

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A country is the way it is because of the people who live there

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@Devon_Eriksen_ You may not realize it but you are the modern day Heinlein and I love everything you write

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@AtelierMissor_ You guys rock, when will you be here?

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@mspringut @Cryptogator3 That's actually a kind of fascinating fact

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@iron_redux Yes of course. The success of the west is built around the legal rights of individuals as equals regardless of their born circumstances

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The modern world was built by Christianity and the Christian ethic, of compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, of charity and giving. It is the first world religion that teaches Kant's Categorical Imperative, and, it has produced by far the most successful countries in history.