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@ianchanges.bsky.social
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looking for mushrooms, old stonework hire me for your dry stone walling and masonry projects. based in the Hudson Valley, will travel.

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.404media.co/hackers-stol... … something about this detail: “At the same time, about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, ‘Who’s a good boy?!’”
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
misuse is instructive… a few of the generalized findings from Anthropic’s self-reported safeguards report that stuck out to me… www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
enjoyed this interview with Anicka Yi where she talks about folding together ecology and art for her 2026 Storm King Art Center installation ‘Message from the Mud’ bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
bombmagazine.org
BOMB Magazine | Anicka Yi by Eana Kim
An outdoor sculpture grows living organisms.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the viscid violet cort — a favorite mushroom #🍄
two purple-blue mushrooms with stipe and glistening cap emerge from a mossy log
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
into this acid house deep cut from a 1988 Sade b-side … youtu.be/uzBHMiw-R8c?...
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Sade - Make Some Room (Netherlands, 1988)
YouTube video by RVBD : Rare Herb Bearers
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Mushroom-spotting update 🍄 I know this is a milk cap — maybe volemus? It’s shaping up to be a very shroomy year in the Catskills
up-close shot at moss height of a milkcap mushroom with textured stipe, gills, and partial view of the cap
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this doesn’t have to be complicated
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
lilac-brown bolete or burger bun? (sutorius eximius) #🍄 #fungi
a lilac-brown bolete emerging from the soil beside ferns and other understory plants
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
a fresh and enormous hemlock varnish shelf (ganoderma tsugae) from a short trip to Vermont #🍄 #VT #fungi #📷
a vertical photograph with a large, glistening hemlock varnish shelf mushroom in the middle third of the frame; there are three big horizontal sections protruding from a tree trunk
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wildfire smoke settling in the Catskills afternoon #hudsonvalley
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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...
statnews.com
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.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"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...
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Blond Ambition
One hundred years of Marilyn Monroe – Moira Donegan
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“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...
emergencemagazine.org
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...
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“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
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
an insightful read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Screenshot of an article that reads: “This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-zoth century. Symbolic political gestures are now commonplace, but paid membership of organisations and parties has plummeted. The left has failed to find a replacement for trade unions as a basis for collective action in civil society. Political movements are easy to join, and just as easy to leave. The chasm between politics and policy widens, as the former becomes a fruitless stream of outrage with little or no practical consequence.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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
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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...
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’ve been going to the gym where I’m staying & thought ‘I have to take a #gay #selfie and say hi to the #humpday guys’ so, hi 👋
a man in glasses and a tank top, shorts, and sneakers takes a mirror selfie in the gym while holding the camera at chest height with his left hand and flexing his right bicep with the hand clenched into a fist
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
hello from this wet & sticky brooklyn blizzard here’s a #gay little #selfie for you
a selfie of guy wearing a winter coat with glasses, hat, and coat called in snow as a blizzard swirls behind
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I wish there were a great dance remix of Natalia Lafourcade’s ‘Cocos en la playa’ ok goodnight
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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...
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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?
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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...
newyorker.com
A Landscape Artist in Winter
In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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/...
latimes.com
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.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“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
defector.com
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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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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
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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.”
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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
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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?
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
and as a little treat here is me as a happy #gayguy taking a selfie with an amanita in the warmer times. what do you see ? #gay #selfie #lol #🍄
a smiling gay guy with a mustache takes a selfie from the ground up also capturing nearly the entire underside of the cap of an amanita mushroom on a warm and sunny day
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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
a cartoonishly plump brown bolete springs from the ground with a two tiny additional fruitings including one popping out seemingly from underneath the large main subject
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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
a flush of three plump grey-green colored russula sprouting from soil near elka park, new york.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
chronicled the cow of the moment defector.com/veronika-the...
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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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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social happy 2026 out there
e-flux.com
Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159
McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
great essay about #gaza and #art #nangoldin #berlin and the #artworld www.equator.org/articles/how...
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How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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
lrb.co.uk
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...
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
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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...
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
great essay about #cruising and #plainclothes
thebaffler.com
Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson
“Plainclothes” reinforces many of the tired and moralizing claims about cruising that queer artists and activists have worked hard to counter.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 01/12/2025
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
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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.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“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
theverge.com
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
i see mental images, non-linguistic thoughts. how about you?
newyorker.com
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.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
bloomberg.com
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
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/11/2025
I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both
theringer.com
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
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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
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Catherine Brookman - Montreal
YouTube video by Catherine Brookman
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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-...
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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.”
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
among the best things I’ve read in a while harpers.org/archive/2025... #pervert #art #writing
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The Good Pervert, by David Velasco
A friend’s life, a brutal death
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
did not expect reading this piece about toxicology and frog sex to be as riveting as it was ! #climate #🐸 #queer #biology
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
The Queer Lives of Frogs
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
*while driving through krumville*
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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. #🐍
an eastern copperhead wrapped in a tight coil just off a trail and tucked into a thicket of poison ivy
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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 ?
two white mushrooms with pale yellowish gills poking out of a deciduous forest floor
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🧵 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)
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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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 #🍄
a large black-staining polypore pokes out of grass at the base of a huge old oak tree - a puffy tangle of whitish bands
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