Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity. @skaushik100
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“In the Los Angeles area, for example, the average exit tax for homeowners 65 and older is $185,000, while the annual cost of insurance, maintenance and property taxes on a zombie home is only about $10,000, the data showed..” https://t.co/IQziF3MH1R
@JoeFernandez Is there anything that can be done locally despite prop 13? There’s a house on my block that has been empty for 16 years since the owners died; their kids have let it rot — needless to say, it’s an eyesore. Occasionally coyotes nest in there.
Solid Curtain '26 was a counter-UUV exercise that brought together multiple mission stakeholders and demonstrating teams to detect asymmetric underwater threats in semi-contested port environments.
The Andrenam team brought 12 buoys fully ready for the exercise. We deployed six across two locations and successfully detected several unmanned underwater vehicles in real time.
Mission success. More to come.
Solid-state batteries are changing naval warfare. And the threats they enable are far harder to detect.
A post recently went viral claiming Iran's "Azhdar" UUV patrols at 18–25 knots with 4-day endurance and 600+ km range.
This appears to be false, but the post went viral because the narrative is true. UUVs are a growing threat and maritime, as demonstrated by this crisis, is more important than ever.
And the stakes are high. Iran has long held the Strait of Hormuz as a pressure point; roughly 20% of global oil supply flows through a 21-mile-wide chokepoint.
UUVs capable of covertly laying mines in those waters would further threaten naval assets and escalate the conflict.
UUVs are already being deployed by multiple nations. Today's lithium-powered vehicles cover hundreds of kilometers and patrol for days. Solid-state batteries at 400 Wh/kg, and climbing, mean that gets dramatically better, cheaper, and more scalable this decade.
Sensing underwater is categorically harder than any other domain.
cUAS has radars, cameras, RF, microwave. The electromagnetic spectrum works for you in air.
Water kills RF. Acoustics are the primary detection modality, and littoral environments add clutter and complexity that open-ocean legacy systems were never built for.
Those legacy systems were designed to find large submarines in deep water. Not swarms of small autonomous vehicles near ports, chokepoints, and critical infrastructure.
As UUVs get cheaper, faster, and more autonomous - sensing is the defining gap.
cUUV is going to be a massive market.
Interdiction starts with detection. And detection underwater is still largely unsolved.
LFG, congrats @nunzi46 on Also Cap's $50M second fund! Mike moves fast and isn't scared of the truly hard/ambitious/messy stuff. Proud to play a small part!
We’re back with round 2!
Announcing @CapitalAlso’s second fund, $50M to catalyze founders solving hard problems
Was a ton of fun breaking the news with @tbpn@jordihays@johncoogan 🙏
We’ll share more detail tomorrow, but for now we made this graphic to celebrate 🚀
@OpenAI what does it take to get a human to help me cancel my paid subscription? there is literally no way to do so in my account (both web & iOS) and your AI support keeps going in circles.