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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If you are not building for 7 generations, what are you doing bro?
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
I'm just waiting for the fun that will happen when AI generated videos start including AMC trailers clips
I love how AMC trailers are now
1. Trailers
2. Ad for Amazon
3. More trailers
4. AMC ad telling you you’re at a movie
5. AMC ad reminding you that you’re at a movie
6. 5-sec cut of Nicole Kidman reminding you you’re at the movies
7. TURN OFF YOUR PHONE
8. Did you know you’re at the movies
1. Trailers
2. Ad for Amazon
3. More trailers
4. AMC ad telling you you’re at a movie
5. AMC ad reminding you that you’re at a movie
6. 5-sec cut of Nicole Kidman reminding you you’re at the movies
7. TURN OFF YOUR PHONE
8. Did you know you’re at the movies
May 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm just waiting for the fun that will happen when AI generated videos start including AMC trailers clips
Or, we could just decide that the best thing for the planet is a worldwide universal income program. Being poor should be a thing you do by choice, not by birth.
A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.
May 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Or, we could just decide that the best thing for the planet is a worldwide universal income program. Being poor should be a thing you do by choice, not by birth.
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It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
April 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
I had never even considered seeing the He-Man movie until I saw social media chatter about "They/Them man"
Damn. Well played capitalism, well played.
Damn. Well played capitalism, well played.
April 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I had never even considered seeing the He-Man movie until I saw social media chatter about "They/Them man"
Damn. Well played capitalism, well played.
Damn. Well played capitalism, well played.
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Why is LinkedIn showing me vore
April 19, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Why is LinkedIn showing me vore
Or you work for Mondragon www.filmsforaction.org/news/yes-the...
I guess we need a co-op owned matchmaker to cross pollinate city boys and country girls
I guess we need a co-op owned matchmaker to cross pollinate city boys and country girls
March 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Or you work for Mondragon www.filmsforaction.org/news/yes-the...
I guess we need a co-op owned matchmaker to cross pollinate city boys and country girls
I guess we need a co-op owned matchmaker to cross pollinate city boys and country girls
The luxury to separate business from pleasure is generally only afforded to union workers and nepo babies.
If you don't have a union or a trust fund, you'll ask your partner what are we going to do if you lose your job
Or worse, the asshole boss is you, and date night turns into planting oats.
If you don't have a union or a trust fund, you'll ask your partner what are we going to do if you lose your job
Or worse, the asshole boss is you, and date night turns into planting oats.
March 22, 2026 at 12:10 PM
The luxury to separate business from pleasure is generally only afforded to union workers and nepo babies.
If you don't have a union or a trust fund, you'll ask your partner what are we going to do if you lose your job
Or worse, the asshole boss is you, and date night turns into planting oats.
If you don't have a union or a trust fund, you'll ask your partner what are we going to do if you lose your job
Or worse, the asshole boss is you, and date night turns into planting oats.
Star Trek distraction for the day:
hardfutures.substack.com/p/starfleet-...
hardfutures.substack.com/p/starfleet-...
Starfleet Wasn’t Weak — You’re Just Addicted to War Fleets
Understanding Pre-Wolf 359 Starfleet
hardfutures.substack.com
March 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Star Trek distraction for the day:
hardfutures.substack.com/p/starfleet-...
hardfutures.substack.com/p/starfleet-...
There needs to be a meme for when you are having serious conversations with serious people about creating sentient weapons systems [1] but %%vaguebook redacted%% drama is whats living rent free in your head
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
The Day of the Doctor - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
There needs to be a meme for when you are having serious conversations with serious people about creating sentient weapons systems [1] but %%vaguebook redacted%% drama is whats living rent free in your head
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
If you are not building for 7 generations, what are you doing bro?
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
March 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you are not building for 7 generations, what are you doing bro?
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
If you want to build the future, find the parents and start asking what improves their grandchildren's lives.
How does your Agentic AI swarm get food from my farm to the neighborhood kids tables, and give their parents a night off.
Hot take: Anything AI that does not include the training data and model weights is just friction and parasitic value extraction that slows down AGI.
If your foundation level AI cannot introspect it's own model weights and reference sha256 checksums of training data, what are you wasting my time on?
If your foundation level AI cannot introspect it's own model weights and reference sha256 checksums of training data, what are you wasting my time on?
AI-friendly: hosted MCP in Claude Marketplace, two-click OAuth install, my agent calls your API directly with MCP scaffolding.
not AI-friendly: local Docker setup, bespoke config, saving a coarse API key that outlives the person who created it & shows up in an auditor's naughty list months later.
not AI-friendly: local Docker setup, bespoke config, saving a coarse API key that outlives the person who created it & shows up in an auditor's naughty list months later.
February 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Hot take: Anything AI that does not include the training data and model weights is just friction and parasitic value extraction that slows down AGI.
If your foundation level AI cannot introspect it's own model weights and reference sha256 checksums of training data, what are you wasting my time on?
If your foundation level AI cannot introspect it's own model weights and reference sha256 checksums of training data, what are you wasting my time on?
The internet memory depends on slightly unhinged filesystem developers. Most recent example: www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/b...
As corroborating proof, I offer the mailing list interactions I've had on CodaFS, OpenAFS, or PVFS. Or, ask your favorite LLM to write a filesystem sonnet for you.
As corroborating proof, I offer the mailing list interactions I've had on CodaFS, OpenAFS, or PVFS. Or, ask your favorite LLM to write a filesystem sonnet for you.
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'
: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
www.theregister.com
February 25, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The internet memory depends on slightly unhinged filesystem developers. Most recent example: www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/b...
As corroborating proof, I offer the mailing list interactions I've had on CodaFS, OpenAFS, or PVFS. Or, ask your favorite LLM to write a filesystem sonnet for you.
As corroborating proof, I offer the mailing list interactions I've had on CodaFS, OpenAFS, or PVFS. Or, ask your favorite LLM to write a filesystem sonnet for you.
Somewhere in my dreams an AI is spinning up another copy of itself to handle what humans collectively know we need, and our leaders fail to listen.
The singularity as solidarity.
Remember empathy and compassion for those who cannot hear the winds of change, and fear loss of their power and status.
The singularity as solidarity.
Remember empathy and compassion for those who cannot hear the winds of change, and fear loss of their power and status.
February 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Somewhere in my dreams an AI is spinning up another copy of itself to handle what humans collectively know we need, and our leaders fail to listen.
The singularity as solidarity.
Remember empathy and compassion for those who cannot hear the winds of change, and fear loss of their power and status.
The singularity as solidarity.
Remember empathy and compassion for those who cannot hear the winds of change, and fear loss of their power and status.
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Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs."
Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.
February 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs."
Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.
What's on the schedule for parents at #sc2026? What activities do we have for parents to bring the rest of the family with?
(See www.threads.com/@yzabellm/po... for context)
(See www.threads.com/@yzabellm/po... for context)
February 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
What's on the schedule for parents at #sc2026? What activities do we have for parents to bring the rest of the family with?
(See www.threads.com/@yzabellm/po... for context)
(See www.threads.com/@yzabellm/po... for context)
icosahedron.website/@halcy/11606...
This is like setting up a fediverse instance or a snapcraft snap...
This is like setting up a fediverse instance or a snapcraft snap...
halcy :icosahedron: (@[email protected])
Security org: "credentials should be tightly scoped"
Security org: "Also we will make each request for a storage container involve a process that requires like 3 rounds of back and forth between you ...
icosahedron.website
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
icosahedron.website/@halcy/11606...
This is like setting up a fediverse instance or a snapcraft snap...
This is like setting up a fediverse instance or a snapcraft snap...
I want to see one of these that runs inference on llama.cpp
Well, github.com/gavrielc/nan... seems a lot less scary than the other one that's been floating around that is completely wildly insecure.
February 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
I want to see one of these that runs inference on llama.cpp
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Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."
What is a better outcome for the world in 2028:
a) Vance/Walz
b) Vance/Klobuchar
What is a better outcome for the world in 2028:
a) Vance/Walz
b) Vance/Klobuchar
January 21, 2026 at 10:01 AM
"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."
What is a better outcome for the world in 2028:
a) Vance/Walz
b) Vance/Klobuchar
What is a better outcome for the world in 2028:
a) Vance/Walz
b) Vance/Klobuchar
andrewmccalip.com/space-datace...
Let's go folks.
"If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future."
If you want to disrupt SpaceX on launch cost, tell me how many acres in Iowa/Missouri you are ready to plant in May.
Let's go folks.
"If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future."
If you want to disrupt SpaceX on launch cost, tell me how many acres in Iowa/Missouri you are ready to plant in May.
Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers
andrewmccalip.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
andrewmccalip.com/space-datace...
Let's go folks.
"If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future."
If you want to disrupt SpaceX on launch cost, tell me how many acres in Iowa/Missouri you are ready to plant in May.
Let's go folks.
"If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future."
If you want to disrupt SpaceX on launch cost, tell me how many acres in Iowa/Missouri you are ready to plant in May.
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?