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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Documentaries like Poisoned expose a fact we already know — open-field agriculture isn’t just fragile to weather, it’s fragile to microbes. Indoor farming + closed-loop water = food safety as infrastructure, not luxury. Time to rethink how we grow.
#AgTech #CEA #FoodSecurity #PublicHealth
Watch Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food | Netflix Official Site
Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines the problem of deadly foodborne illness in the US.
www.netflix.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Controlled-environment systems are becoming essential for producing consistent medicinal plant compounds. Cannabis was an early case study, but the broader opportunity lies across many species. Precision photobiology and molecular farming will define the next chapter.
#molecularfarming #CEA
The GRIN2A Paradigm: Monogenic Psychiatry and the Precision Phytochemical Revolution
A Mechanistic Framework for Targeted Intervention in Single-Gene Mental Illness
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Strong overview of what controlled-environment labs need to get right: stable climate, spectral control, data quality, and efficient use of resources. These foundations support food security, health, and sovereign supply—CEA's real value.

#AgriLab #FoodSecurity #WaterEfficiency #PlantScience #CEA
Designing Controlled Environments for Agrilabs and Research Facilities
Discover essential strategies for designing controlled environments in agrilabs. Ensure data integrity and plant health with precision environmental control.
www.labmanager.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Food conspiracies aren’t new — from ‘pink slime’ to GMOs to today’s Campbell’s clip. Every era invents its own villains when the system stays opaque. If we want to retire this cycle, transparency has to outrun the rumour mill.”
#AgTech #FoodIntegrity #CEA #Sustainability
In the Dark About Food? Conspiracy Fills the Gaps—Just Ask Campbell’s
The less consumers understand about how food is made, the more fertile the ground becomes for fear, fiction, and full-blown conspiracy—and Campbell’s is only the latest case in point.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Fully agree with this. Proud of the work we’re doing at Intravision, and there’s a lot more coming.

#agtech #futureofag #innovation
The future of agriculture isn’t just about growing more—it’s about growing smarter. 🌱💡

At Intravision, we’re blending science, technology, and sustainability to rethink how food and medicinal plants are produced.

Discover our journey and vision for the future:
Intravision: Rethinking Agriculture for a Resource-Limited World
From space research to global food solutions, our journey is rooted in science, innovation, and the belief that we can build a more sustainable future.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
How much environmental pressure can the global food system apply before the Earth stops being stable enough to sustain us?
Article: Food systems are the single biggest cause of planetary boundary transgressions. In line with the EAT Lancet report, this study estimates food systems boundaries as a share of planetary boundaries, across 9 key indicators.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Identifying the safe operating space for food systems - Nature Food
Consensus exists on the urgent need for food systems to be more sustainable, but defining their environmentally safe operating space is challenging. This study proposes food system boundaries as a sha...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"Collapse today won’t come from ignorance — the signs are everywhere — but from refusing to act on what we already know."
The Ethics of Decision in an Age of Data
What sustainability taught me about data, and what AI is teaching us now
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Harvest walls in Dutch playgrounds aren’t just cute urban design — they’re a reminder that food doesn’t have to be hidden in supply chains or pushed to the edge of cities. When kids can snack straight from the wall, you’re teaching sovereignty early.
#AgTech #CEA #FoodSecurity
The Brainypedia (@thebrainypedia)
In the Netherlands, some playgrounds are being fitted with “harvest walls,” vertical gardens filled with edible plants that children can snack from while they play. The goal is to blend play, nature, ...
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Canada sits on 20% of the world’s freshwater, yet we still treat water like an afterthought. In agriculture we already see how fragile security becomes when supply chains stretch thin. Water will be no different. Efficiency is sovereignty.

Good thought piece by @lenispooner.bsky.social
The New Scramble for Canada’s Water and Minerals
Why geography can no longer shield Canada, and how water, critical minerals, and foreign interests are reshaping our sovereignty in the twenty-first century.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hard not to notice how foreign opportunism meets local opportunism in moments like this. One calls it strategy, the other calls it patriotism. Feels like Canada ends up carrying the cost either way. Eh, @charlieangus104.bsky.social

@meidascanada.ca #WeAreAllTeamCanada
Charlie Angus / The Resistance (@charlieangus)
MAGA Pete Hoekstra is back at it. The idea of Canada working with the Swedes to build Gripen fighter jets is looking better all the time. BTW Pete, how about coming clean about the $500 mil slush fun...
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦 (@kieratkinson)
We do love duct tape…. ✌🏻❤️🇨🇦
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November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
An algorithm just found that a huge slice of the AI boom was built on circular money flows — companies funding each other and calling it revenue. Growth without customers. A very… generous interpretation of success.

#nvidia
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
People write some funny sh*t and this is a bute.

"She’s a pathologically lying, old-man-f*cking, fascist-fondling ventriloquist dummy with a Bible in one hand and a flamethrower in the other."

Is it almost over south of the border? 🙏
Mother Mary Full of Shit
I so hope Karoline will appreciate MY frankness.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Can I get a round of MRIs for the table please?"

😂 @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Be righteous. Be moral. Be better than him; not just in rhetoric, but in conduct."
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
From the days when kings and captains of industry operated above the rules, history shows that power often shields abuse. The Epstein scandal isn’t an exception—it’s the modern face of an old pattern we’ve been reluctant to confront.

@thomhartmann.bsky.social
Is the Epstein Scandal an Outlier or America’s Oldest Crusade Laid Bare?
How a single predator exposed a centuries-old system built to shield wealthy white men from accountability and forced the country to confront a truth its institutions have long concealed...
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
But why would former Canadian generals oppose strengthing Canadian independence and capabilities? I don't see that side if the argument? Anyone?
Canadian Generals Are Losing It: Sweden's Offer Exposes the F-35 as a Trump-Proofing Trap
Hard Pass: The $42,000/hour F-35 is a budget black hole. The Gripen is a Canadian-made escape route.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mature capitalism creates a strange tension in ag: any new idea must outperform the old system on the old system’s terms. Match the price, match the workflow, disturb nothing. It’s a quiet way of ensuring the future never quite arrives.

AgFunder got me thinking...
#AgTech #ClimateResilience
Guest article: Making the business case for sustainable agriculture through ag biologicals
Most investors classify ag biologicals within the broader agtech basket. It's time to frame them within more suitable contexts.
agfundernews.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Funny sh*t I heard... And the prize for Most Improved Beauty Contestant goes to… 👀

It'd be hilarious if anybody actually knew what I'm talking about. Any guesses? Happy to drop bread crumbs in a thread if anyone is interested in playing along.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Josh Siteman 🇨🇦
Climate volatility is disrupting the very plants our medicines rely on. Controlled environments offer a path from fragile supply chains to local, high-purity medicinal production.
Our latest piece explores this shift:

#Agritech #Biotech #ControlledEnvironment #MedicinalPlants #PhytoPharma
Cultivating Health: Why the Future of Medicine Will Be Grown Indoors
When Climate Becomes the Variable, Control Becomes the Cure
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
$66M for an ag/food-tech park is headline news. But what I watch most: who builds the skills, who defines the metrics, and who sustains the ecosystem once the ribbon is cut. That’s where CEA and resilience meet reality.
@ceaalys.bsky.social @agricology.bsky.social

#AgTech #CEA #FoodSecurity
Newberry announces $66 million investment in AgFoodTech park
First of two industrial hydroponic greenhouses from Harvest Singularity to open in 2027.
www.mainstreetdailynews.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Everyone celebrates ‘models for indoor ag,’ but the real question is: what mechanisms actually move the field forward? Long-term R&D, water-efficient design, and transparent performance data—not regional hype—determine what scales.
#AgTech #CEA #WaterScarcity #ClimateResilience
Does Virginia’s indoor ag success provide a model for the future?
Virginia’s indoor agriculture sector is taking root thanks to a three-pronged strategy to attract talent into the state
www.agtechnavigator.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Ag tech isn’t bottlenecked by innovation—it’s bottlenecked by adoption. California’s new $15M, 9-hub network is a reminder that tools aren’t enough. Farmers need proof, training, and trust. If we’re not solving for deployment, we’re not solving the problem.
#agtech
Breaking the Ag Tech Bottleneck - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST
California is sowing the seeds of innovation with a new statewide partnership called the California AgTech Alliance, a $15 million initiative designed to fast-track agricultural technology from lab to...
www.aginfo.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain - why he did not instantly disappear.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM