Ian
@ianchanges.bsky.social
looking for a job, mushrooms, old stonework
“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.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“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?
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.
www.newyorker.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Ian
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
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I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both
The AI Bubble Is Not a Question. What Happens If It Bursts Is.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
two talented friends got together to make this beautiful music video for a beautiful song - give it three minutes ! #musicvideo #newmusic
Catherine Brookman - Montreal
YouTube video by Catherine Brookman
youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
two talented friends got together to make this beautiful music video for a beautiful song - give it three minutes ! #musicvideo #newmusic
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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-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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-...
“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
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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
The Good Pervert, by David Velasco
A friend’s life, a brutal death
harpers.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
did not expect reading this piece about toxicology and frog sex to be as riveting as it was ! #climate #🐸 #queer #biology
The Queer Lives of Frogs
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
*while driving through krumville*
personally, i love to leave just a few crumbs so everyone can tell that i ate
August 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
*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. #🐍
August 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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 ?
August 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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)
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🧵 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 #🍄
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
July 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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 #🍄
July 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
great read from from @chaykak.bsky.social #ai #chatgpt
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"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
great read from from @chaykak.bsky.social #ai #chatgpt
June 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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.
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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.
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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.
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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.
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
June 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
saw mushrooms on a menu in Barcelona as “champis” & i love it