Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Alive internet theory blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...blog.codeberg.orgProtecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg NewsIn Brief: Two motions regarding 010
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025We serve the plant that wants to be propagated, not the bottom line of the garden center 000
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #fungifriends #inaturalist 0171
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #fungifriends #inaturalist 0140
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Fir-cone mushrooms www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #fungifriends #inaturalist 090
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s Mane) www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #foraging #fungifriends #inaturalist 050
Reposted by Myke WaltonNPR @npr.org · 19/09/2025The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.n.prFat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playfulThe famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter. 9635141
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Dyer’s Polypore found in Squaxin park www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #fungifriends #inaturalist 0251
Reposted by Myke WaltonDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025AI isn't 'normal technology' any more than our political moment is 'business as usual'. What's significant about AI is the way it both reveals and amplifies the underlying dynamics of a system in total crisis. 02710
Reposted by Myke WaltonMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 362918524
Reposted by Myke WaltonKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/09/2025the AI hype bubble is preparing to pop or as the analysts at Gartner call it, the coming "trough of disillusionment" 1221454
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Great thinking from Cat Ploehn et al. germane to this www.cathrynploehn.com/feraldataviz/cathrynploehn.comFERAL DATA VISUALIZATION 010
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025earth has a surplus of code. halt production until conditions improve 120
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025next we question: should we orient assessments of competence around tech-brained metrics like “can person code” at all 100
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025youtu.be/6y-AVYlCz4w?...youtu.beArm The QueersYouTube video by Trash Sound Conglomerate - Topic 000
Reposted by Myke WaltonBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2025This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs. 2933111455
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025“O snail, climb Mount Fuji, but slowly, slowly" - Kobayashi Issa 000
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025www.freeflightbirds.orgfreeflightbirds.orgFree Flight Exotic Bird SanctuaryFree Flight is a fun, hands-on bird sanctuary where exotic companion parrots interact with visitors of all ages in a small tropical oasis in Del Mar, CA. 000
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025thoughts on the horrors of a “lamentation economy” I wrote with a colleague mid-theory.com/2025/01/08/m...mid-theory.comMourning On-Demand: Digital Afterlife Services and Lamentation EconomicsWhen the dead become avatars for the living they are always present, but as on-demand services rather than messy intrusions, as applications to open or close. Last year your mother died–now, she’s… 181
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That’s what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. - Terry Pratchett 010
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Driving by chip fabs in the wastelands of Arizona, listening to Galaxy News Radio with Three Dog. Wild #LARP, highly recommend. Stay cool out there in apocalyptia kids. youtu.be/D02hHtnNc5A?...youtu.beGalaxy News Radio - Full Broadcast with Three DogYouTube video by Capital Wasteland Radio 000
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 05/08/2025unbothered. moisturized. in his lane. www.inaturalist.org/observations... #inat #naturephotography 000
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025"You are allowed (for now) to get on a pulpit and talk about fairness and representational harms [...] as long as it paints the institutions as “responsible corporations trying to do the right thing for society for which they should receive accolades” but never to critique the institution" 011
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025This resonated strongly with me, thank you for writing & sharing! 040
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 13/07/2025thecon.aithecon.aiTHE AI CONHow to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want 010
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Aspen leaf with leafminer trail 🐛 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #inat #naturephotography 020
Reposted by Myke WaltonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!! 191143202
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 03/07/2025www.inaturalist.org/observations... #naturephotography #photography 060
Reposted by Myke WaltonTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 12/06/2025To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs. This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_... 28534
Myke Walton @mwalton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Ganoderma is so alien looking, but beautiful #mycology #fungi 040
Reposted by Myke WaltonAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…" Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce. 1764294
Reposted by Myke WaltonJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/05/2025New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...404media.coA Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an AbortionThe sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state... 521272560
