Bluer Skies, Printing a Pool, and Ruler Club 🙆‍♂️

Imagine a building made from 3D material instead of brick and cement. A real life-size building, not a doll-house or bouncy castle. 

Texas is going to be home to the world's first 3D-printed hotel, set to open this year. That’s right! An entire resort down to every last carpet and chair, made out of a printing machine.

What’s it going to look like? 

A sprawling 62-acre desert oasis complete with a massive infinity pool, stylish guest dwellings, and all the amenities you need for a truly unforgettable vacation. See the images below.

This innovative project is a collaboration between hospitality guru Liz Lambert, 3D construction start-up Icon, and Danish design firm BIG. The new hotel will be located in Marfa, on the same grounds as El Cosmico, the camping site founded by Lambert. 

How will they make it happen? Icon's home-sized 3D printer, the Vulcan printer, will be the star of the show. The printer will use Lavacrete, a cutting-edge building material developed by Icon's material science team and thoroughly tested for durability, to create these thralling structures.

But that's not all. 

According to reports, the collective is planning to create physical spaces like churches or temples where members can gather to celebrate AI masters with rituals and chants drawn from existing spiritual movements and occult traditions.

As strange as this all may sound, Theta Noir isn’t the first religious movement to have sprung up around AI. 

There’s the Turing Church, which evolved from The Order of Cosmic Engineers, and there’s groups like The Church of the Singularity. Then there’s The Way of the Future, a now-defunct church founded in 2017 by former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski.

You’ve surely heard of Bluesky before.

The platform is essentially just Twitter but decentralized. And it’s backed by Jack Dorsey. The platform still has only a few users, probably a few ten thousands, but they’ve maintained a more chill and happy environment that Twitter.

For some, Bluesky resembles the simpler times of the internet. People mostly post selfies from their couch, pictures of their pets, or random jokes. Feeds aren’t littered with violent complains, personal remarks, or angry posts about HBO Max’s change to Max. Instead, users seem invested in maintaining Bluesky’s currently positive culture.

And that’s the standout point of this platform. Even though aesthetically its a replica of Twitter, it’s trying to keep the general social media toxicity out of its community.

Not just this, but its also got a pretty neat moderation and user verification system. New joiners can simply tie their domain to their Bluesky account to prove their identity. Its current setup is still in development, but it aims to develop a system that provides decentralized social networking, algorithmic choice, and positive environment.