up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social happy 2026 out there

great essay about #gaza and #art #nangoldin #berlin and the #artworld www.equator.org/articles/how...

enjoyed this combo review that sketches two quick multi-decade profiles of Jensen Huang at #nvidia and Sam Altman at #openai in @lrb.co.uk all about #ai #machinelearning #neuralnets #tech

this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

great essay about #cruising and #plainclothes

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

“human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own.[…] We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.” #ai #llm

i see mental images, non-linguistic thoughts. how about you?

watch where your recipes come from out there … thought in particular this observation was notable that "Because the content isn’t an exact copy, traditional takedown tools like DMCA aren’t straightforward, leaving creators with almost no remedy even when the imitation is obvious.” #ai #food

Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

youtube.com/watch?v=x76Z... two talented friends got together to make this beautiful music video for a beautiful song - give it three minutes ! #musicvideo #newmusic

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

just ordered a copy of @kristiedegaris.bsky.social ’s memoir,‘Drystone' - I’ve been excited and curious to read this for a while, and it’s nice to order a book from an independent publisher, Birlinn, that I’m not familiar with

among the best things I’ve read in a while harpers.org/archive/2025... #pervert #art #writing

did not expect reading this piece about toxicology and frog sex to be as riveting as it was ! #climate #🐸 #queer #biology

*while driving through krumville*

my first time seeing a venomous eastern copperhead — it was coiled and not moving at all and definitely not a mushroom. spotted in the mohonk preserve a week ago. #🐍

a nice pair of lactifluus or lactarius of some kind. I’m still searching for a positive ID. any ideas? I think maybe L. piperatus or L. vellereus. Do you know these July-emerging #🍄 in a deciduous New York forest that ooze a whitish liquid from broken gills ?

🧵 a thread here about #nyc, the #subway, #surveillance, and #immigration … because I saw something and I want to say something about it, and ask if others have seen stuff like this, too. tl;dr is I wonder if I saw a tech test for a tool intended to accelerate and assist with deportations. (1/21)

saw @blackforager.bsky.social making a fab looking pate with a black-staining polypore right after seeing this GIANT specimen at the base of a big old oak tree. this was another new-to-me sighting this season. shaping up to be a wet and bountiful mushroom summer in the Hudson Valley #🍄

in other #🍄 finds recently, this singular long-stalked gray cup was a new mushroom for me - a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim

a friend asked about a favorite mushroom & my first thought was these red chanterelles, which fruit gregariously, are so smol & brilliantly carmine, a sign of summer starting to appear in july, and pack a kind of white peppery perfume on top of the typical stewed apricot chanterelle smell #🍄

"the results from the analysis showed a dramatic discrepancy: subjects who used ChatGPT demonstrated less brain activity than either of the other groups.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi... great read from from @chaykak.bsky.social #ai #chatgpt

for anyone who needs a #sunrise #landscape moment #📷

If people are overwhelmed by manipulation, confusion, and information engineered to mislead, they’re not free. They’re vulnerable. Disoriented. Easy to exploit. That’s not liberty, that’s abandonment.

And when debate collapses, power doesn’t disappear, it just becomes unaccountable. Truth becomes tribal. Institutions become hollow. People are left shouting across a void, each group certain the others are insane or evil. That’s not freedom, it’s fragmentation.

When this happens at scale, it’s not just bad information, it’s a breakdown in how society makes decisions. We lose the ability to deliberate, to find common ground, to hold anyone accountable. That’s what disordered discourse really is, a collapse in collective reasoning.

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

this thread is so sharp & insightful. (don’t bother with the Cato link imo!) going to repost a few parts.

saw mushrooms on a menu in Barcelona as “champis” & i love it

hi ! just a shamelessly #thirsty little sunday night post for #pride . i love being #gay — what’s going on my gaysky guys ? plz follow & send mail #🏳️‍🌈

cute pair of boletes popping out of some moss #🍄‍🟫 #fungi #boletes #mushrooms

two years ago a stranger on @inaturalist.bsky.social told me that most North American coral fungi — like this beauty — are undescribed to science most info about the genus comes from european specimens & DNA typing reveals many in North America to be discrete, novel species #🍄 #fungi #mycology #🧬

a gregarious little cluster of collared parachutes / marasmius rotula #🍄 #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

nicely fanned out hemlock varnish shelf / ganoderma tsugae. i know this guy is a relative of what’s called reishi or lingzhi & I’ve often wondered about whether this has used similar to other ganoderma species if anyone has places to point me or info to share #🍄 #fungi #reishi

lately noticing exidia saccharina / pine jelly on branches knocked out of the canopy during windy days #🍄 #fungi

me & some kind of solo bolete

this piece by @ericajberry.bsky.social is the first braided essay I’ve read in a while that has me appreciating the conceptual power of that form thanks to her just-pulled-back-enough weaving of the story's threads — foraging, dating, toxicity, heartbreak, love #🍄 orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

thrilled to discover that @orionmagazine.bsky.social has a summer issue dedicated to fungi ! orionmagazine.org/issue/summer... #🍄 #mycology #fungi

a photo of pink camellias from april using a#nikonfe2 on #35mm #kodak #portra160

No one asked but my review of ‘The Last of Us’ is the mushrooms get a bad rap.

This is a wild read about cordyceps fungi. It was reminding me a little bit of this book about a different mushroom: bsky.app/profile/ianc... #🍄 & a great quote from a biodiversity specialist: “It’s like fashion… If everyone says it has value and everyone wants it, you will, too.”

a thread about books #booksky 📚💙

happy friday from me, a fun gay guy who lives in the woods

some clustered bonnets / Mycena inclinata #🍄 (that’s my best guess anyways)

this emerging amanita mushroom looks like a scoop of ice cream #🍄

Despite almost a foot of rain last week, it’s still pretty quiet out there… these were so small I thought they were a slime mold. But no, gills underneath. I’m not sure what they are… possibly juvenile oyster mushrooms? This was in Ulster county, New York & I welcome guesses ! #🍄

Hi Bluesky! Ian here. I’m on a long bus ride and it feels like a great time to start posting. This is me holding an eastern jack-o’-lantern mushroom (omphalatus illudens), aka the false chanterelle. This is the fifth year/season of my mycology obsession, so sometimes I’ll post about that. #🍄