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Man of the sea @UlyssesInc. Founder of the Hamilton Society.

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2010
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Ulysses has raised $46M led by a16z American Dynamism. We are building The Ocean Company. The ocean is 71% of the planet. But it is less explored than Mars, and full of secrets, waiting to be told. It is the backbone of global defense. Home to the critical infrastructure that powers our world. And the key to the health of our planet. This frontier needs technology to protect and steward it. We are building it. And we need more builders Join us and explore the Great Blue Frontier: theoceancompany.com/careers
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Come watch my leftist friend Growing Daniel (he/him) get DESTROYED by RATIONAL CAPITALISTS and watch him CRUMBLE under their FACTS and LOGIC
🚨 HAMILTON IS DOING IT AGAIN 🚨 Hamilton Society will be convening this Saturday evening to debate whether capitalism SUFFOCATES human flourishing. As an AVOWED leftist I will be arguing AGAINST the patriarchal and racist capitalist system and FOR the people. Link below
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Quit your desk job and get on the boat
Ulysses TV - Episode Two: Soft Ware, Hard Hat. Quit your desk job. We're hiring. theoceancompany.com/careers
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Ulysses loves hiring farmers btw They consistently prove themselves to be the most crafty, resourceful, low ego and hard working engineers If you are a farmer and want to work at Ulysses please apply on our website ulysses.inc/careers If you don’t see a job that fits apply under “General Opportunities”
Danny’s work at @reservoirfarms is something everyone in tech should be following. Agriculture is a huge market, critical to human wellbeing and has been largely forgotten by San Francisco technologists. Farmers are a part of the American backbone and they deserve more help from us. Reservoir Farms run an incredible testbed down in the Central Valley trialling the coolest new agricultural technologies. It’s always so cool to see what they’re testing on the farm.
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Danny’s work at @reservoirfarms is something everyone in tech should be following. Agriculture is a huge market, critical to human wellbeing and has been largely forgotten by San Francisco technologists. Farmers are a part of the American backbone and they deserve more help from us. Reservoir Farms run an incredible testbed down in the Central Valley trialling the coolest new agricultural technologies. It’s always so cool to see what they’re testing on the farm.
Two robots on a mountain of grain. @Grain_Weevil took its bin robot out of the bin and onto a flat-storage pile. Doing the work no farmer should.
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will o’brien retweeted
The coexistence of RSI with a fundamentally bottlenecky world will give rise to a late 2020s that feels like this: the rich strangeness of hyperfuture living alongside large swaths of unchanged or even regressing social practice, a temporal redshift all over your perception
reading the METR report on RSI and then going to the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new on site recycling bins for my apartment block
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will o’brien retweeted
Date a center??? I barely know her
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We have people everywhere
The Irish run America
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Will the bitter lesson hold for robotics? Seems like it could. Will be interesting to see how this plays out
Replying to @claudeai
Fable 5.2 shows substantially improved skills in controlling physical robots, even on tasks it has never explicitly been trained to do. On RoboDojo, a benchmark with a simulated two-arm robot, it outperformed other models and most AI systems built to control robots.
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Aurelius x Ulysses collab product leaked @LaFrogman
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7 the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day: > two cameras watch every salmon that swims past > AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse > then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away > the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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The Irish people are so lucky to have politicians like @albertdolan_ He is doing great work on slashing wasteful government spending
Today marks an important milestone as I launch my first piece of legislation, the Tender to Payment Bill 2026. Every euro of taxpayers’ money matters. My Bill is about bringing greater transparency, accountability and better value to how the State spends it. A smarter, more efficient State that delivers more for the people it serves. This is just the beginning ✅
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DeSantis is Cork-posting rn The Hibernian Century is only beginning
I will say that looks legit. Is it available everywhere in Ireland or just certain areas?
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Farming states like Kentucky and Iowa have the highest cancer rates in the WORLD Not just America, the West, but the entire world This is so obviously correlated with the use of poisons like Glyphosates on our crops Why is this practice still legal
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This is totally insane Calley Means is an incredible human being God bless him and RFK Jr.
Calley Means Says Susie Wiles Pushed for Glyphosate Getting Liability Protection MEANS: “Susie called Bobby's office and said, ‘We're not discussing this’ … and it was announced the next day.” ROGAN: “How is that possible that something that's known to give people cancer gets liability protection?” MEANS: “It's indefensible.”
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California's still beautiful.
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HAM SOC HAM SOC CAPITALISM DEBATE SWANKIEST VENUE YET AYN RAND THEOLOGIANS HAM SOC COME JOIN US
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Hamilton Society is pleased to announce Debate XV next Sat., 11/14: "Resolved, That Capitalism Suffocates Human Flourishing." Moved by Marc Barnes and Alex Denley; opposed by Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos. Dress code is strictly formal: suit and tie for men, equivalent for ladies. Doors open at 7:00pm, debate begins at 8:00pm. Drinks served throughout the night. All tickets will be checked at the door. Looking forward to seeing you all soon. -The Hamilton Society Register here: luma.com/capitalism
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terrible day for my stock portfolio but Kings of Leon released a new album so it's okay
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will o’brien retweeted
Many merely adopted Nature. We were born in it, molded by it. We didn’t see defense until we already had a product, by then it was more use cases for an already revenue generating product
Replying to @Mr_Voorakkara
For the record. Ulysses’ doing ocean conservation before the blue wave. +1bn dollars
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the year is 2031. AOC is President. the defense tech companies are competing to see who has the biggest pride flag in their warehouse.
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Did you know that in San Francisco they let you vote multiple times even if you’re not from here!
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Maritime Renaissance
Corridian is out of stealth with a $38M seed round led by @p72vc, joined by @balerionspace, @harpoonventures, @DCVC, @Marlinspike. We build ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicles that carry payloads thousands of nautical miles without a crew: axios.com/2026/11/03/corridi…
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