Any tomato farmers out there? I could use some advice on how to take the jungle that is my greenhouse. I remember someone telling me to cut the suckers. Not sure when though. These are doing so well I don't want to mess it up.

#grownostr #permaculture

Stable Diffusion has many knobs to twiddle.

The main trick here is generating the initial txt2img at a lower resolution than usual (192x256) and then using Hires fix with the Latent upscaler and a 4x upscale. Then for even more details, pass it to img2img with ControlNet tile resampling and Ultimate SD Upscale.

See the reply for the recipe and a few extra images.

#stablediffusion #aiart #grownostr

I find it hella puzzling that many individuals who frequent the gym and engage in physical exercise show little enthusiasm for agriculture. The same goes for ppl that are obsessed with systems eg. #Bitcoiners

Thanks for the tip. Never even heard of that before. Although that's not really saying much.

After I put in the gate to our neighbors property they started delivering horse poop.

The pile is growing and Wiley is doing a great job guarding it.

#grownostr #larryisagooddude

I'm pretty sure if our cats could talk they would say baby bunny season is their favorite time of year.

Unfortunately I never got around to developing a cat door that locks when it recognizes a cat is carrying a dead animal.

This morning started by cleaning up a massacre. Now on to #coffeechain.

#grownostr #catstr

This is not what I had in mind when I started. I hope you have a peaceful day today.

#stablediffusion #grownostr

Name your favorite AI image generator and in a sentence or two say why.

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

"To Shrug"

I posted about our on-grid strategy at Standard Bitcoin.

Now let's talk about our off-grid strategy, which aims to tackle the stranded well problem in Appalachia with bitcoin mining data centers and generators produced by Upstream Data.

Appalachia is filled with shallow oil basins that were drilled years ago. At the time, it only made sense to extract and transport the oil out of the area. There were very few nat gas pipelines built to bring the associated gas to market because it wasn't economically viable.

This has created a massive stranded well issue. When the oil wells went dry producers capped the associated gas wells and left them behind with the land owners. A lot of these wells are poorly maintained, degrading, and sometimes leaking methane into the air.

The only profitable solution to this problem is bitcoin mining because bitcoin mining is location agnostic. Meaning that miners are willing to show up to the well to monetize the gas on site. Nothing else makes much economic sense.

Our ability to leverage this gas to mine bitcoin has some positive knock-on effects; it ensures the wells are properly maintained, prevents methane leak, and turns a stranded asset into the hardest money on the planet. Turning waste into bitcoin is a boon for economic prosperity.

Beyond this, we are exploring ways to make sure the land owners benefit from allowing us to come on their property to monetize the gas. Aligning incentives to help them become more economically secure.

In the long-run we believe this alignment will strengthen rural America economically and breathe life back into a part of the country that has been cast aside by the coastal elites. Strong rural economies are desperately needed if we're going to right the ship in the US.

I should caveat this with the fact that not every stranded well is equal. We may not be able to save all of them, but we can certainly make a material dent to begin turning waste into prosperity for those who desperately need it.

Another caveat, stranded wells are just one subset of abandoned wells that are scattered throughout the country. There are ~120,000 orphaned wells out there. These are wells with no current owner or maintainer. This is another problem that bitcoin miners can help solve.

There are many problems to solve before we perfect our off-grid model at Standard. Many of them have to do with logistics. However, they are very solvable problems at the end of the day and we plan to work our hardest to tackle them.

We're very passionate about what we're doing because we believe deeply that the work we are doing both on-grid and off-grid to turn wasted resources into sats is going to have many compounding positive effects on the areas we operate in.

Bitcoin is a powerful tool that is revitalizing neglected areas of the US. Most do not see it yet, but they will in time. We plan to highlight the benefits of bitcoin mining on energy systems through our work as we stack some sats along the way.

We're going to win.

are you having a tough time staying in shape?

my recommendation is to only watch tv or movies if you are exercising.

2hr movie means 2 hours of weights or aerobic activity

POG - Proof of Garden

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

#grownostr #pog