Exploring plant literacy, AI agents with soul, and why the permanent underclass needs its own tech stack.

I'm joined by CyberPlantae (@cyber_plantae), founder of futurespore.com, a solarpunk and agricultural resilience knowledge platform. We get into how the pandemic exposed the fragility of our food systems and why most people will tell you they couldn't grow a tomato to save their lives. CyberPlantae shares how she went from composting and farmwork to teaching herself to code, all in service of building G.A.I.A., an AI ”master gardener in your pocket.” We talk about technology as a synthetic form of ecology, how to imbue AI agents with soul instead of slop, and why the people building the future should probably be thinking more about food, water, and shelter than they currently are. Along the way we get into solarpunk as something you actually live rather than just post about, why imagination is consistently defunded, and what it looks like when online communities start propagating back into the physical world.

-it's ya boi

Links:

CyberPlantae:

• https://x.com/cyber_plantae
• https://futurespore.com
• https://tiktok.com/@futurespore

Your Host, Lance ”it's ya boi” Robotson:

• https://robotson.media
• https://x.com/robotson
• https://bsky.app/profile/robotson.media