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Grant ♟️
@granawkins.bsky.social
American Diaspora | Kardashev 2 or bust
🎶 bangers gonna bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang 🎵
April 14, 2023 at 9:47 AM
I’m Grant, 34 y/o from Minnesota 👋 Moved to Vietnam in 2015, no turning back. Self-taught coder since 2019, now building ecosystem simulations for Biosphere 2. Engaged to be married Thanksgiving this year. Love sci-fi, cooking, endurance sports. Always prioritize independence and curiosity. ✌️
Yes please can we meme intro threads into existence, I wanna know who everyone is
April 12, 2023 at 8:45 AM
Proximate goal: raise a brood of self-sufficient disobedient geniuses on high-tech homestead

Ultimate goal: lay claim to ~1e10 kg of asteroidal mass to build O'Neill cylinder for progeny
April 12, 2023 at 6:39 AM
Power is Beautiful
April 12, 2023 at 5:37 AM
This is where I poast from
April 12, 2023 at 2:54 AM
SF is primed for either

- a Batman character (@creatine coming in hot)

- a (mayor) Guliani character (sb from All-In Pod)
April 12, 2023 at 2:05 AM
please share something beautiful for the timeline

Here’s my contribution
April 12, 2023 at 12:12 AM
Saw this guy today🥸
April 11, 2023 at 11:14 PM
Did you know were *this close* to being able to communicate with whales? 🐋

Audio samples of their “clicks” being collected from all over the ocean, and used to create embeddings (just like Google uses for language translation).

This is wild to me. First Contact shit. https://www.projectceti.org/
PROJECT CETI
www.projectceti.org
April 11, 2023 at 11:11 PM
Love this 💯
mostly, people want to get out there and help the person they were 7 years ago
April 11, 2023 at 3:14 PM
One of [very few] downsides of being East-Hemisphere is that the poasting-apps reach max Q around 10-11am my time which absolutely kills productivity, then I have to go to bed right as they heat up again. *sigh*
April 11, 2023 at 3:11 PM
@compliment-bot.tautologer.com tell me I’m smart
April 11, 2023 at 12:01 PM
@mote.bsky.social my brother in Christ, the beam in yours

(❤️)
April 11, 2023 at 11:46 AM
Get in loser we’re accelerating
April 11, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Rate my setup
April 11, 2023 at 11:42 AM
“Mr. West, those people who tried to black-ball you, what two things *specifically* did they forget about?”
April 11, 2023 at 11:24 AM
How do I define a “woman”?

Simple.

The sex that takes longer to get ready.
April 11, 2023 at 11:16 AM
Who’s in charge around here? I’d like to speak with your LastContrarian please.
April 11, 2023 at 10:50 AM
I get a blue-digit notification for retweeting myself! 😍

Embarking on infinite-dopamine-loop..
April 11, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Reposted by Grant ♟️
If I could have everyone’s attention please:

I propose a DUEL mechanism in place of BLOCKING:
- Anyone can challenge anyone
- Community votes on who stays
- Loser’s handle is banished to gaol forever
April 11, 2023 at 10:40 AM
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”

hits a lot different these days 😟
April 11, 2023 at 6:38 AM
So here’s the plan:

1. Build a Stanford Torus to support ~10k people living and working in orbit

2. Figure out how to replicate it using materials from asteroids

3. Build 10k more. Reopen the frontier. Embark on a glorious new era of growth and prosperity for humans

4. Achieve Kardashev Level 2
April 11, 2023 at 6:15 AM
Common theme in sci-fi is a fork in humanity’s future between

> Pursuing, then becoming enslaved by, and then destroyed by AI

> Modifying our genome to survive and thrive in deep space

Which way.
April 11, 2023 at 6:14 AM