Algorithmotrophic fungus

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Wildwood Ecology Labs. Loves: cognitive science, mycology, complexity, design, farming. Bread and roses - nothing less, no one left out. He/him.

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Hats off to the Narwhal and to every reporter with the stomach to show us, over and over again, that we're being governed by criminal cabals (and to detail which criminals govern where)

Guess Who BigOil Captured! thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...

Behind The Narwhal’s reporting on a leaked TC Energy recordingthenarwhal.ca Here’s how we went about investigating claims made by an executive working for Coastal GasLink’s parent company

Some of the best/silliest flowers I have (Matilija Poppies)

I corralled 4 kids (9-13) into building a geodesic dome - I believe that qualifies me for a master's degree in management

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OMG, this is hilarious. Tempted to finally join Tumblr but also feeling I would not fit in with all these creative people.

Look, I’m guessing you need this as much as I did—the tumblr heritage post about native fauna of hardware stores has been updated for craft stores: “Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing” #crafters #homedepot 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.tumblr.com/brandyschill...

Brandy Schillacewww.tumblr.com *releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

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Good morning to everyone who doesn't want to get up yet

Your honor, with all do respect, here we are now, entertain us

Your honor, with all due respect, I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy

Things got vigorously cute this afternoon

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I love this silly, phallic, passion flower

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Really great essay about what went into producing that piece and how hard it is - and dangerous in more than a few ways - to try and work towards justice once injustice is printed and the ink is dry. Solidarity.

One of our co-authors of the STAT piece on Richard Lynn’s national IQ data, @dsamorod.bsky.social, has some reflections on Lynn, racism, fascism, and science over at his new science magazine, Sequencer www.sequencermag.com/call-a-spade...

Call a spade a spadewww.sequencermag.com Trying to do something, anything, about racism and fascism in the 21st century

I love this silly, phallic, passion flower

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the internet is mostly bad. but you also can use it to order a tree

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Can anyone even can? I used to think I can can but now I can’t even

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Not sure if your all ready for this fire, but I'm going to risk it and drop a hot selfie from a few years ago

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kinda mad how the so called godfathers of AI managed to convince seemingly smart people within AI field & many regulators to buy into the absurd idea that a sophisticated curve fitting (to a dataset) machine can have the urge to exterminate humans

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Phonagnosia is an interesting agnosia. You cannot identify or discriminate voices, but you can identify and process speech. You can hear a sentence, understand it, but have absolutely no idea if it was spoken by yourself, Barry White, or a 5 year old.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

My dog is making sure we notice that he is moping MOPING about the grass being wet

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So many people see this and get a moment of amusement and surprise but never think more about it: This is all of ancient history and archaeology: All of the fatty nooks and crannies lost to the decay of time until we take what remains and reimagine it as a leaner, purpose-built, brutal existence.

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I just built a Yarn Database profile for Scarlet Rabbit. Check out this choker pattern. Depending on the outfit and color, this could go any direction from bridal to Steampunk to Goth. www.yarndatabase.com/design/scarl... 🧶

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Oh you want me to touch grass? Do you know how bad grass is for the environment? Why are you cheerleading excessive water use and chemical runoff? How about you stop touching grass and go touch some native wildflowers and pollinator habitats you monster.

Had a dream I got a job in TV news on Sesame Street. But everyone else goes on holiday so I have to manage on my own, ok. GW Bush comes on as guest, I anguish over how to handle it. But turns out, he's using the network appearance to hide an illegal arm's deal. Ok brain, that's enough - fuck you

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This is solidarity!

An anime concert made its flyer art with generative AI, which led to Evangelion singer Yoko Takahashi pulling out of her planned guest performance:

Anime Concert's AI Flyer Art Leads to Evangelion Singer Yoko Takahashi Bowing Outwww.animenewsnetwork.com Orchestra released flyers with new art, with July 10 performance moving forward as planned

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It is incredibly infuriating that all the complaining about cancel culture paved a path to this, where state officials are saying that they are allowed to censor any faculty speech that contradicts them. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...

CAN'T EAT ENEMIES YOU HAVEN'T CRUSHED! IT TAKES FOOD TO MAKE FOOD!

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Reviewing for exams today. Got halfway through a lecture on ADHD pharmacology before I realized I haven't taken meds today 😞

Shout out to my norepinefriends, I love you all so much

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It’s in our national DNA starting from a fear of being attacked by the native people we were genociding and accelerating into a fear of an uprising by the people we kidnapped and enslaved. Zombie apocalypse fantasy fills a zombie apocalypse-shaped hole we created for ourselves 400 years ago

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I warned you about it’s ever widening gyre bro!!!! I told you about the falcon dude!

This should be a crime

An analysis of 8 months of ShotSpotter alerts found that 87% of the time NYPD officers were dispatched to a scene, there was no evidence of a shooting. The latest ShotSpotter contract is worth $22 million and is up for renewal in December. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYC Surveillance Tech on Shootings Gives False Alarms 87% of Time, Audit Findswww.bloomberg.com A constellation of microphones around the city for almost a decade has monitored for audio clues of neighborhood shootings.

Oh damn, I could really go for some salty protein and carbs cooked in hot lipids