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Troy Benjegerdes

@technomagik.bsky.social
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Agronomic Artist and Holistic Engineer 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 · 31/05/2026
I'm just waiting for the fun that will happen when AI generated videos start including AMC trailers clips
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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.
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Chris the Possum 🇪🇺 @volteer95.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why is LinkedIn showing me vore
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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
filmsforaction.org
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way | Richard Wolff
There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism? Really? We are to believe, with Margaret Thatcher, that an economic system with endlessly repeated cycles, costly bailouts for financiers and now auster...
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Star Trek distraction for the day: hardfutures.substack.com/p/starfleet-...
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Starfleet Wasn’t Weak — You’re Just Addicted to War Fleets
Understanding Pre-Wolf 359 Starfleet
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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...
en.wikipedia.org
The Day of the Doctor - Wikipedia
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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?
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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.
theregister.com
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'
: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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)
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
icosahedron.website/@halcy/11606... This is like setting up a fediverse instance or a snapcraft snap...
icosahedron.website
halcy​ :icosahedron: (@halcy@icosahedron.website)
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 ...
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I want to see one of these that runs inference on llama.cpp
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"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
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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.
andrewmccalip.com
Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
First rule of autonomous farm equipment: Include a manual override. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
missionlocal.org
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Hello St Louis and #SC25
View of the St Louis gateway arch
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Who else is dreaming with me of Dessa at the Sante Fe Opera on the Solstice?
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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?
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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.
Electron microscope image of nanoscale 3D printed metal structure
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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.
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List of U.S. states by renewable electricity production - Wikipedia
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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Who chose the training dataset motherfucker…?
The angry goose meme, without text. First panel is a closeup of a goose, looking suspiciously at something out of frame, mouth slightly open. The second panel is the goose with their head down, chasing a person who is running away off the left edge of the panel.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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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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
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Jeff Layton @jefflayton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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...
tomshardware.com
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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...
oregonlive.com
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.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 12/07/2025
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I guess Andreesen didn't buy enough midwest senators yet.. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts
Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Tech might eventually replace migrants, if you can afford to pay the extra ROI for tech investors. www.npr.org/sections/the...
npr.org
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.
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The Register @theregister.com · 12/07/2025
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
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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.…
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
About 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the summer solstice the sunset lines up with 7th Street in Minneapolis
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/06/2025
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.
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Bill Capehart @billcapehart.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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...
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
newsweek.com
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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?
yahoo.com
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 ...
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/05/2025
saving this one down in the pics folder
a young man saying 'bro, i have a brain man' - as a subtitled screenshot. he is surrounded by other young men listening
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a WOKE MARXIST POPE Textual repost of bsky.app/profile/donm... Let us pray for our new Chicago-style leader of the free world.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Troy Benjegerdes @technomagik.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin voted in this election, what would the colors look like? Would the greens take South Minneapolis? Would rural NE Iowa go liberal? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
theguardian.com
Canada election 2025: latest results as Liberal party wins federal election
Canadians voted on Monday in a general election pitting Mark Carney’s Liberals against the Conservatives of Pierre Poilievre. With most votes now counted Carney will return as PM, but the Liberals may...
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