The Kardashev Scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

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getting very into vertical farms & automated agtech🥬

Opollo Farms is the world’s 1st fully automated vertical farming system: they use robots + AI + hydroponics to rapidly grow plants in dense, indoor, modular cube like structures

In Arizona you can already find their leafy greens (brand Willo) in whole foods!

the Kardashev scale is always going to be a joke until this is in every house 

https://photonicsentry.com

i genuinely believe i could build a house w the right youtube links

Bitcoin

Illegal Bitcoin mining has become mobile. In Russia, miners put a farm on the truck...

Specialists in Buryatia found an illegal mining farm in a truck: the intruders unauthorizedly connected to a 10-kilovolt power line.

Inside the truck they found 95 mining devices and a transformer substation capable of supplying power to a small village.

Just… wow 😯

When internet outages like this happen, I have the sudden urge to go solar/cypher punk. 

Self host everything, all solar powered.
Own hard copies of all your entertainment. 
Grow your own food, build robots and use AI to help. 
P2P and E2EE everything

space photography has a certain quality of transcendence, but it is also very much grounded to our species realizing its coexistence to something unreachable with contemporary means.

this is one X account that I wouldn't mind double-casting.
https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1915503689357283367

Memes

Quilibrium

Still only ~1% of the population gets it (most are just unaware of aaronsw and how important this issue is and its effect on _everything_), but in time I think he will be looked back on as perhaps the biggest hero of the 2000's.

You cannot overstate the importance of liberating information.

It's absolutely essential to get humans to the next era.

📖
liberated information is the penultimate good.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-webb-probe-surprisingly-smooth-disk-around-vega/
@askgina.eth what are the tell-tale signs of a megastructure?

Your new onchain assistant | Gina Knows Best | askgina.ai

https://x.com/palladiummag/status/1847303965446488276

Space

EthFinance

The potential for a nascent bot-to-bot economy to drastically boost the future block space demand is underrated IMHO. The future lies in networks and swarms of autonomous agents, not in them existing in isolation of each other.

By 2030, estimates are of 60M industrial robots, 1B AI agents, 50M self-driving cars, several millions of delivery drones, hundreds of thousands of decentralized power plants, unmanned fab shops and 3D printers, on-demand creative and professional services powered by next-gen LLMs, etc. Many, if not most, of which will need to collaborate, and thus transact, among themselves.

To do that, they will need their identity on chain (just like we do with our own FIDs on Optimism), smart contracts with easy API access not designed for humans, maybe a dedicated L2 optimized for sub-dollar payments, and a trusted settlement L1 with Lindy effect and commensurate security budget (Ethereum's is $85B and growing)

e/acc

Batteries are a nice example of things that become cheaper *and* better over time.

I suspect the yellow part in the bar chart and the growth it's been having is still flying under most people's radar.

Charts are from here:
https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/