Troy Benjegerdes
@technomagik.bsky.social
Agronomic Artist and Holistic Engineer
Gigawatt supercomputers for open science fusion research, cause I need a 1MW Mr fusion for my next tractor.
Gigawatt supercomputers for open science fusion research, cause I need a 1MW Mr fusion for my next tractor.
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Troy Benjegerdes
@technomagik.bsky.social
· Apr 21
“there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium.”
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I call bullshit. The Q3ube collective gigawatt supercomputer design requires no water. It is intentionally designed to operate with free air cooling, when the sun shines and the wind blows.
The bulk of the mass is aluminum and iron.
Do you want to invest in building, or in defeat? 1/2
The bulk of the mass is aluminum and iron.
Do you want to invest in building, or in defeat? 1/2
Who else is dreaming with me of Dessa at the Sante Fe Opera on the Solstice?
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Who else is dreaming with me of Dessa at the Sante Fe Opera on the Solstice?
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There is a large coronal hole facing Earth right now that is currently sending fast solar wind towers Earth! We may feel the first effects as early as August 17 or 18. It’s possible we see G1 or even G2-level storming and mid-latitude aurora. The moon will be less bright, too. Who’s ready?
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There is a large coronal hole facing Earth right now that is currently sending fast solar wind towers Earth! We may feel the first effects as early as August 17 or 18. It’s possible we see G1 or even G2-level storming and mid-latitude aurora. The moon will be less bright, too. Who’s ready?
www.impactlab.com/2025/08/12/m...
This is the 3D printer I need at the farm to print the waterblocks for the Gigawatt supercomputer.
This is the 3D printer I need at the farm to print the waterblocks for the Gigawatt supercomputer.
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
www.impactlab.com/2025/08/12/m...
This is the 3D printer I need at the farm to print the waterblocks for the Gigawatt supercomputer.
This is the 3D printer I need at the farm to print the waterblocks for the Gigawatt supercomputer.
@thesciencefemme.bsky.social cross posting for commentary.. Do I want to date an intelligence that mistokenizes blueberry?
I don't know, but if some AI wants to collaborate and retrain itself to drive a tractor I'm down for that.
I don't know, but if some AI wants to collaborate and retrain itself to drive a tractor I'm down for that.
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@thesciencefemme.bsky.social cross posting for commentary.. Do I want to date an intelligence that mistokenizes blueberry?
I don't know, but if some AI wants to collaborate and retrain itself to drive a tractor I'm down for that.
I don't know, but if some AI wants to collaborate and retrain itself to drive a tractor I'm down for that.
Make it so.
9.20.2025, Fall equinox weekend.
Join us at the farm or in the netiverse for after dark conversations on engineering the future today
9.20.2025, Fall equinox weekend.
Join us at the farm or in the netiverse for after dark conversations on engineering the future today
I insist on our Star Trek future. I'm going to do everything in my power to make our Star Trek future happen, even if I won't be here to enjoy it.
August 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Make it so.
9.20.2025, Fall equinox weekend.
Join us at the farm or in the netiverse for after dark conversations on engineering the future today
9.20.2025, Fall equinox weekend.
Join us at the farm or in the netiverse for after dark conversations on engineering the future today
If water use of AI is important to you, run the workload in a state like Iowa, Oregon, or Washington with high renewable base generation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This also means shifting use to do the work when the wind wants to help you rather than when you think it needs to be done.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This also means shifting use to do the work when the wind wants to help you rather than when you think it needs to be done.
List of U.S. states by renewable electricity production - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If water use of AI is important to you, run the workload in a state like Iowa, Oregon, or Washington with high renewable base generation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This also means shifting use to do the work when the wind wants to help you rather than when you think it needs to be done.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This also means shifting use to do the work when the wind wants to help you rather than when you think it needs to be done.
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Who chose the training dataset motherfucker…?
July 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Who chose the training dataset motherfucker…?
If we are not building the infrastructure to deliver food and processing infrastructure anywhere in the world in one orbit or less, what are we doing here? blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-if-the-...
The Blogs: What if the real enemy is inside our own minds? A response to Leah Aharoni
From the blog of Shira Gura at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If we are not building the infrastructure to deliver food and processing infrastructure anywhere in the world in one orbit or less, what are we doing here? blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-if-the-...
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I can see it now, thousands of gamers running to scrap yards looking for radiators and fans. It will be glorious!
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Someone cooled AMD's $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump still can't match liquid nitrogen, though
Geekerwan's BMW-cooled Shimada Peak is overtaken in the fast lane by Uncle Tony and his LN2.
www.tomshardware.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I can see it now, thousands of gamers running to scrap yards looking for radiators and fans. It will be glorious!
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
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So if anyone from Intel wants to come to Iowa and build open source semiconductors on a farm let's talk.
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
Intel bombshell: Chipmaker will lay off 2,400 Oregon workers
The faltering company has laid off 4,000 in the U.S. this week. The impacts will be felt most acutely in Oregon.
www.oregonlive.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So if anyone from Intel wants to come to Iowa and build open source semiconductors on a farm let's talk.
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
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None of this happens under any scheme of degrowth or climate-driven austerity. There's only one way forward and it's to build the future.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
None of this happens under any scheme of degrowth or climate-driven austerity. There's only one way forward and it's to build the future.
I guess Andreesen didn't buy enough midwest senators yet.. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I guess Andreesen didn't buy enough midwest senators yet.. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tech might eventually replace migrants, if you can afford to pay the extra ROI for tech investors.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Tech might eventually replace migrants, if you can afford to pay the extra ROI for tech investors.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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The price of software freedom is eternal politics
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too
Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…
dlvr.it
July 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
@gtconway.bsky.social Before you throw stones from a glass house, would your wife be willing to get violently rounded up to demonstrate what's wrong with what's going on here?
This is a fight for American Taxpaying Citizens and fiscal conservatives to balance the budget by defunding ICE.
This is a fight for American Taxpaying Citizens and fiscal conservatives to balance the budget by defunding ICE.
July 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@gtconway.bsky.social Before you throw stones from a glass house, would your wife be willing to get violently rounded up to demonstrate what's wrong with what's going on here?
This is a fight for American Taxpaying Citizens and fiscal conservatives to balance the budget by defunding ICE.
This is a fight for American Taxpaying Citizens and fiscal conservatives to balance the budget by defunding ICE.
About 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the summer solstice the sunset lines up with 7th Street in Minneapolis
July 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
About 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the summer solstice the sunset lines up with 7th Street in Minneapolis
Reposted by Troy Benjegerdes
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
Reposted by Troy Benjegerdes
For a different perspective check out Rebecca’s thread as someone with experience in rural ag support and why there seems to be a news blackout on rural ICE action. This campaign reeks as an op to drive a wedge between town and county blue. bsky.app/profile/rebe...
Are ICE raids happening in South Dakota? Of course they are. You don’t see them on the news because by & large they’re happening at very rural, gated facilities (big dairies, hog CAFOs, etc.).
Those facility owners/managers don’t call reporters or advertise they’ve had ICE enforcement actions 🧵
Those facility owners/managers don’t call reporters or advertise they’ve had ICE enforcement actions 🧵
June 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For a different perspective check out Rebecca’s thread as someone with experience in rural ag support and why there seems to be a news blackout on rural ICE action. This campaign reeks as an op to drive a wedge between town and county blue. bsky.app/profile/rebe...
I would have thought they were going to film this at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, but no, they just had to go right to LA. What's next, Escape from New York felony convictions? Oh, and I can't wait for the prequels of the Noem family immigration story.
www.newsweek.com/kristi-noems...
www.newsweek.com/kristi-noems...
Kristi Noem's Immigration Game Show Would Be Appalling—and a Ratings Hit
Turning human desperation into ratings gold is no longer unthinkable—it's in development.
www.newsweek.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I would have thought they were going to film this at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, but no, they just had to go right to LA. What's next, Escape from New York felony convictions? Oh, and I can't wait for the prequels of the Noem family immigration story.
www.newsweek.com/kristi-noems...
www.newsweek.com/kristi-noems...
If you are farming without treating farmland as a speculative generational investment in tax breaks for your children,
I cannot see how the farm is anything more than an expensive hobby.
Or maybe you are a food philanthropist, and I want to meet you and talk about farmers funding universal income.
I cannot see how the farm is anything more than an expensive hobby.
Or maybe you are a food philanthropist, and I want to meet you and talk about farmers funding universal income.
Make sure it preserves farmland & benefits farmers in practice.
In WI, the tax breaks are essentially prop tax exemption, which hurts local municipalities, who can rezone farms away.
Real estate speculators buy the land, get the tax breaks while renting it back to the farmers until a big sale.
In WI, the tax breaks are essentially prop tax exemption, which hurts local municipalities, who can rezone farms away.
Real estate speculators buy the land, get the tax breaks while renting it back to the farmers until a big sale.
June 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If you are farming without treating farmland as a speculative generational investment in tax breaks for your children,
I cannot see how the farm is anything more than an expensive hobby.
Or maybe you are a food philanthropist, and I want to meet you and talk about farmers funding universal income.
I cannot see how the farm is anything more than an expensive hobby.
Or maybe you are a food philanthropist, and I want to meet you and talk about farmers funding universal income.
Why do we have farm tax breaks?
Because we built a car-centric infrastructure that turns the world's best farmland into an unwalkable suburbia as fast as the farmer's family will sell it.
@katiecashman.bsky.social This is why I have a downtown condo and keep running for mayor. Farms matter.
Because we built a car-centric infrastructure that turns the world's best farmland into an unwalkable suburbia as fast as the farmer's family will sell it.
@katiecashman.bsky.social This is why I have a downtown condo and keep running for mayor. Farms matter.
The 5th generation family farm? Yes.
Real estate speculators? Yes.
The nice hippie couple with an organic passion project? Yes.
Shareholder-owned companies? Yes.
The sweet little widow renting her family's acreage out? You bet!
Farm tax breaks are the grand unifying theory of rural economics.
Real estate speculators? Yes.
The nice hippie couple with an organic passion project? Yes.
Shareholder-owned companies? Yes.
The sweet little widow renting her family's acreage out? You bet!
Farm tax breaks are the grand unifying theory of rural economics.
June 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Why do we have farm tax breaks?
Because we built a car-centric infrastructure that turns the world's best farmland into an unwalkable suburbia as fast as the farmer's family will sell it.
@katiecashman.bsky.social This is why I have a downtown condo and keep running for mayor. Farms matter.
Because we built a car-centric infrastructure that turns the world's best farmland into an unwalkable suburbia as fast as the farmer's family will sell it.
@katiecashman.bsky.social This is why I have a downtown condo and keep running for mayor. Farms matter.
I don't quite know why but this makes me happy www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
I mean, who wouldn't be trying to romance Jewel?
I mean, who wouldn't be trying to romance Jewel?
Kevin Costner Reportedly Made a 'Big Miscalculation' in Attempting To Romance Jewel
Kevin Costner’s dating life is always a hot topic in Hollywood, but some insiders seem to think he isn’t done with trying to romance Jewel. The 70-year-old actor insisted to Howard Stern in June 2024 ...
www.yahoo.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I don't quite know why but this makes me happy www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
I mean, who wouldn't be trying to romance Jewel?
I mean, who wouldn't be trying to romance Jewel?
I want to see more discussions like this in my feed.
I want to do business with humans, organizations, and sentient AI that have demonstrated the capacity to understand that we have a choice to selected and use currency with a good monetary policy might include an upper limit on wealth accumulation.
I want to do business with humans, organizations, and sentient AI that have demonstrated the capacity to understand that we have a choice to selected and use currency with a good monetary policy might include an upper limit on wealth accumulation.
May 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I want to see more discussions like this in my feed.
I want to do business with humans, organizations, and sentient AI that have demonstrated the capacity to understand that we have a choice to selected and use currency with a good monetary policy might include an upper limit on wealth accumulation.
I want to do business with humans, organizations, and sentient AI that have demonstrated the capacity to understand that we have a choice to selected and use currency with a good monetary policy might include an upper limit on wealth accumulation.