Ian
@ianchanges.bsky.social
looking for mushrooms, old stonework hire me for your dry stone walling and masonry projects. based in the Hudson Valley, will travel.
insightful opinion piece from an epidemiologist about the #cyclospora outbreak & what’s thwarting efforts to trace cases back to what’s causing them: www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/w...
Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak
“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.
statnews.com
"She was famous for her face and body; it must have been strange to remember, alone before the mirror, that they belonged to her.” this @moiradonegan.bsky.social essay on Marilyn Monroe is great. www.bookforum.com/print/3204/b...
Blond Ambition
One hundred years of Marilyn Monroe – Moira Donegan
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“Writing is a profoundly embodied act, as physical as climbing Mount Everest or making love.” I got mores sucked into this craft paean about writing from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social than I was expecting to. Step away from the LLM! emergencemagazine.org/essay/in-def...
In Defense of Generation(s) – Stephanie Krzywonos
Troubled by how the age-old process of writing is transforming in the hands of artificial intelligence, Stephanie Krzywonos calls us to participate in Earth's creativity and remember Her superintellig...
emergencemagazine.org
“I don’t know if the technologies that get people into the streets are so good at keeping them there.” Great quote from historian Paul Gilroy in 2020
putting this here — I’m looking for drystone walling projects for the 2026 season. patios, steps, stairs, walls, retaining walls, etc. working in the Hudson Valley and beyond where budget allows: www.ianchanges.com/seeking-ston... #drystone #drystonewalling #masonry #hudsonvalley #gardening #forhire
Seeking stonework projects for the 2026 season
This is my fourth season as a drystone waller, and with your help I am looking to make it my first taking on new projects. I want to help you transform your outdoor spaces with stonework. Maybe you ar...
ianchanges.com
I wish there were a great dance remix of Natalia Lafourcade’s ‘Cocos en la playa’ ok goodnight
this intrigued me. i am a bit skeptical of its claims to “cultural omnipresence” in the age of the filter bubble, the echo chamber; is that kind of presence even possible anymore? i’m not so convinced. conceptually energetic, young, a great #gay read www.tank.tv/magazine/iss...
High in the cloud by Matteo Pini — TANKtvHigh in the cloud
For TANK magazine's Risk issue, Matteo Pini investigates the contemporary politics of gay transgression, asking – What is lost when liberation outpaces the forms that once gave gay life meaning?
tank.tv
Andy Goldsworthy has been a lot more interesting to me since I got obsessed with dry stone walling so I was excited to read this profile. He say a number of insightful things … www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Landscape Artist in Winter
In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.
newyorker.com
good look at a tactic that used AI to astroturf public comment to prevent implementation of sound clean air policies in socal - www.latimes.com/environment/...
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
latimes.com
“The defining aspect of cinema is not just large-scale projection, not just seeing it in the dark with strangers. The defining aspect of the cinema is that you don't control the time at which it starts and stops.“ reading A. S. Hamrah makes me want to go to the movies
Where Is Cinema?: An Interview With A.S. Hamrah | Defector
As you may have heard, the twinned industries that produce art and criticism in this country are embattled. On every side, there is steady conglomeration, privatization, and the rapid uptake of labor-...
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Daniel Lefferts with a great short story in the @yalereview.bsky.social serving up a dose of scathing gay horror — too real, too close ! yalereview.org/article/dani... #gay #fiction
Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions”
A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”
yalereview.org
here are some reads I’ve enjoyed lately starting with Jennifer Kabat’s essay about knotweed in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/outbursts/th... #nature #naturewriting #recommendation
The Knotweed Factor | Jennifer Kabat
If we’ll never be able to undo the worst of our actions, can we can appreciate nature’s adaptations?
thebaffler.com
i mean, this was probably the most perfect bolete i have ever seen. what are some good resources for identifying american boletaceae? i would love to learn more about ways to identify boletaceae if anyone has good resources for that. #🍄 🍄🟫 #bolete #mushrooms
going through old photos - a grey-green russula from a few seasons ago - i know enough now to know russula can be a tough identification and there are definitely many species growing in the catskills. #🍄 #mushrooms #russula
chronicled the cow of the moment defector.com/veronika-the...
Veronika The Cow's Record Scratch | Defector
Veronika was 4 years old when she picked up her first tool: a tree branch, found in her pasture in the town of Nötsch im Gailtal in the Austrian alps. Veronika lives with Witgar Wiegele, an organic fa...
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up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social happy 2026 out there
Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159
McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.
e-flux.com
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
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
lrb.co.uk
this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
The Substrate of Mystery – with Merlin Sheldrake
How can we learn to build flexible ecological, social, or structural systems of exchange? In this conversation, acclaimed mycologist Merlin Sheldrake says a wild world of possibility opens when we beg...
emergencemagazine.org
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
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
brennancenter.org
“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
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
theverge.com
i see mental images, non-linguistic thoughts. how about you?
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
newyorker.com