Photo from last week when I spotted these tiny perfect mushrooms growing out of a leaf.
#fungi #mushtodon
I guess I never did an intro..
Hey, I'm Tim, a Scottish Fractal/3D artist with a love of the outdoors & photographing what I find there.
Keen gardener & grower of veg, trees & shrubs.
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I have what I think is a good example of how useless ‘AI’ is for understanding. I am tagging widely. I searched “how to identify mushrooms” on DuckDuckGo, which then so helpfully spammed my screen with this lovely advice (see image with alt text). The source of much of my knowledge is mushroomexpert.com, managed by Michael Kuo.
“A mushroom is identified by its characteristics”. I could get semantic here too about the definition of a mushroom, but talk about a pretty useless statement. Fine though. That’s well enough and good if you want an explanation that is super entry level. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though I don’t remember telling the ‘AI’ that I wanted only entry level information.
Then it talks about the danger in attempting to ID mushrooms because of the potential for poisoning. It tacitly assumes that my wanting to ID a mushroom means I want to eat it. I don’t. I just like mushrooms. I have a problem with the whole ‘some are poisonous’ throw-in, like its something their lawyers required them to include. How many are poisonous? 90%? 5%? We have no idea, and that’s OK. I didn’t tell the ‘AI’ that I wanted information on whether or not they were poisonous. But, as I’ll get to, the fact that this is included is not my problem. My problem is what they don’t include.
I think mushrooms are awesome. I think the fact that some of them are poisonous is relevant only based on the human-centric assumptions ‘AI’ is so obsessed with and what it’s dataset is built on. I don’t see the value in a mushroom based on whether or not I can eat it, and it chaffs me that they don’t also include any information about their ecological roles. You know what is a great way to identify a mushroom (including if I want to eat it)?!?!?! Their ecology (essentially, their ‘behavior’)!!! Let’s be sure to not mention that, #TechBros.
Ok let’s keep going, cause we’ve made it this far. It suggests talking to a #mycologist. It turns out that I don’t have any experienced mycologists on call. Mycologists are helpful but busy people. And I’m more likely than most of the population to know mycologists. You might as well say, ‘don’t bother trying to ID the mushroom’. Way to kill my interest immediately in something I’m trying to get into. If you really want to learn to ID mushrooms for foraging, there are sources you can look up to help you.
I’ll get to my main point. Identification of certain mushroom forming fungi to species is essentially impossible. Look up Amanitas or Russulas on mushroomexpert.com (phenomenal source, old school blogging). There is no clear delineating of what a mushroom forming species even is. Scientists argue over and reclassify bird subspecies all the time. Imagine the black box that is mushroom forming fungi, which most of the time is a web of single-cell wide threads hidden in the soil. Some mushrooms historically were ‘IDed’ (scientifically) by taste or color, which as you all know everyone experiences these things the same, all the time. And, darnit, I happened to leave my DNA sequencing kit at home (as if there aren’t issues with classifying mushroom forming fungi on their DNA alone).
If ‘AI’ were functional, to me, it would include the suggestion that one option is, instead of focusing on species, focus on species groupings (this also applies to foraging for mushrooms if done thoughtfully). Species groupings can be more useful, as is sometimes saying: “I don’t need to know exactly what this is. I’ll just focus on it’s ecology instead of obsessing over an arbitrary definition”. This nuance is not something that can be corrected with better algorithms or more training data (in fact, its going to get worse), because #LLM s are designed to spit out the lowest common denominator.
In the end, given all the questions I brought up, the biggest problems I have with ‘AI’ is that it falsely assumes something gigantic about the question I am asking and gives a simplified and highly misleading perception of how much we actually know. I think it makes a big mistake assuming that I am uncurious and want a bare-minimum answer. And when it comes to the grand total of all there is to know about mushroom forming fungi, we know next to nothing. Of course, 'AI' cannot say that because 'AI' doesn't know what it doesn't know.
You know who can identify and communicate all of these nuances? Humans.
#nature #mushrooms #fungi #AI #technology #artificialIntelligence #ecology #solarPunk #EcologicalReciprocity
Timelapse video of hair ice growing, 5 hours in 21sec
#Washington #PNW #HairIce #Fungus #Fungi #Nature #NatureLover #Timelapse #Video #Sunday #SilentSunday #Winter #WaWx
I’ve been fascinated with these rare ice formations, called HAIR ICE for some time. Today finally I found some on our hike in a hilly wooded area, inaccessible on foot, so I zoomed in with my telephoto…
#Washington #PNW #Nature #HairIce #Photography #Outdoors #GetOutside #Forest #Woods #Fungus #Fungi #Environment
Flush de #hongos #boletus con los dias de calor reciente aqui en la tierra de nuestros nietos en #Uruguay.
Con las pocas lluvias que hubo en este otoño en general nos parecio que hubo muy pocos hongos. Si bien pudimos cosechar algunos #lactariosDeliciosus no parecio comparable con la cosecha del año anterior y en el caso de #boletusEdulis o #boletusGranulatus, no hemos definido cual de los dos es, hasta el momento solo hemos podido cosechar de ves en cuando alguno que marchaba directo al sarten.
Esta cosecha de hoy si estaria como para ponernos a secar este hongo apreciado aunque no parece que el tiempo acompañara para tal fin.
.. veremos ..
I work at the intersection of #microbiology , #engineering , #risk and the #environment . Lots of work in #drinkingwater , #indoorairquality ( #IAQ ), #wastewaterreuse
organisms of current interest include:
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#Mycobacterium
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I waited specifically for today's #FungiFriday to show you the calendar. As I wrote a few sentences that wouldn't fit here I invite you to visit my blog: https://tomaszsusul.pl/mushroom-calendar/
There are two versions: Monday to Sunday and Sunday to Saturday.
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Mushroom Colony
While out hiking in Yosemite heading up to Mirror Lake I spotted this Mushroom Colony off to the side of the trail.
I had to get down on my Belly so I could get low enough to capture this perspective. There had to be hundreds of mushrooms in this colony, but many of them were in some state of decay and rotting.
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🧬 Another MAJOR #COVERUP?? YOU BE THE JUDGE! "#POLIO #VACCINES were #CONTAMINATED," says #MMR #Vaccine_Developer #Maurice_Hilleman Leading #VACCINE #EXPERT. Chief of #MERCK Vaccine DIVISION by Dr. #Len_Horowitz.
⚕️ #Maurice_Hilleman went on to #Pioneer Vaccine Development (R&D) ..more than ANYONE in the #History of #AMERICAN_MEDICINE. (EG: #Mumps, #Rebella, Measles).
📢 WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR WAS #CUT FROM ALL #PUBLIC_DISCLOSURES??
😡 #Censored Interview of Merck Company Chief recorded for Boston's famed Public Broadcasting station, WGBH. Production Staff are heard in the Background
😡 c8 #All_Vaccines contain #foreign #DNA, #RNA, and #proteins that may #prompt_allergies and #autoimmune_diseases from #bacteria, #Viruses, #Fungi, #yeast, bovine #Fetal serum, #Monkey_Kidney_Tissues, #toxic_metals #mercury and #aluminum, #MSG, and corpse #Preservatives #formaldehyde and #formalin.
😡 c9 Hilleman #relized the discovery of these "#Vaculating_Viruses" by Bernince Eddy and Sarah Stwart #FORESHADOWED #PANDEMIC #CANCER..
😡 C11 #Initially millions of #Russians, later #Million of #Americans, were #infected with #CANCER_VIRUSES IN #POLIO_VACCINES.
😡 c16 40 different #viruses in these #Vaccines... NOT ALL #INACTIVATED???
😡 I HAVE #CONERNS THIS #VIRUS MAY HAVE #LONG_TER📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿
1. #VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Y4zyghCQEUY
2. #VIDEO: BONUS: 🏭 ( #TOXINS are in the #FOOD we eat, #Sunscreen, #Makeup, Intense #Stress, #Psychological_Problems, #FEAR and list goes on..) No one talks about a Cancer Cure. ONLY #Chemotherapy?? I have personally #witnessed a cancer cure (#Breast_Cancer) | Get into the SUN (Vitamin D) -not out of it. 🏭
Like Nature the #Body will #Heal_itself! But you will need to CHANGE EVERYTHING
Research: #LIVE_Food & Clean your #immune_system.
1. #Video: #CANCER is NOT a #DISEASE its a #Survival_Mechanism | What One Should Do In Order to Not to Get Cancer Again — Andreas Moritz
🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠
WHO is TastingTraffic.com? | The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌐 🌏 🌍 🌎 🗺️
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~Give a Man a Gun 🔫, HE Will Rob a Bank 🏦 ; Give a Man a Bank; HE Will Rob the World~ #JP_MORGAN
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* Founder of SEO (Search Engine Optimization, (1999)
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* Founder of HFT (High Frequency Trading 2001)
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Voici un excellent documentaire en français sur les psychédéliques et en particulier sur les champignons à psilocybine. À partager !
https://youtu.be/e0nhX2xZluE (18 min)
#psychedelics #psychédéliques #mushrooms #champignons #champis #fungi #psilocybin #depression #addictions #addiction #hippies #prohibition #drugs #drogue #alcohol #alcool #tobacco #tabac #nicotine #taboos #legalization #medicine #médecine #spirituality #wellness #bienêtre
Me: Ooh, it's Hallowe'en. I should make some scary fungi.
Also me: Oh. OK. Maybe scary isn't really my thing.
Side note, this is a composite image, and they are the same mushroom just a few days apart, so although they ended up looking a little silly, if you fancy a bit of existential angst about the impact of the passage of time I am TOTALLY here for you.
#sillyScribbles #photography #halloween #silly #fungi #nonsense
Zum #Fotomontag mal wieder ein Pilz 😎 irgendein Helmling mal wieder und Moos.
Gephotobombed door #Jip bij het maken van foto’s van de paddenstoelen die in een heksenkring staan in #mijntuin #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #fungi #moss #mosstodon
Tanya's mushroom article in the Washington Post is officially published! Her first major publication! Please Boost!
#mushrooms #photography #fungi #mycelium #business #sustainability
#Introduction
So here I am, someone who tried and failed Twitter numerous times, now attempting to get a handle on this 😂 I don't know if I'm on the right server, I guess time will tell!
I'm a #PhDStudent at #NewcastleUniversity using #animalBehaviour, #neuroscience, #physiology and #socialScience to improve #laboratory #animalWelfare (jeez that's a lotta hashtags!). 🐀
In my spare time I enjoy hunting, identifying, and sometimes even eating #fungi. I also like #photography and #baking vegan goodies 🍰
THEY'RE BACK!
*waves hello to the autumn mushie gang*
spotted right on the Amsterdam/Amstelveen border
Interests:
#Baltimore
#Maryland
#Appalachia
#FolkMusic
#ClassicalMusic
#OldTimeMusic
#Folklore
#Horror
#Mystery
#History
#Science
#Skepticism
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#Photography
#Nature
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#TTRPGs
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#Archaeology
#Fungi
#Owls
#pulps
#BluesMusic
#BLM
#ProChoice
#Antifa
#NewUrbanism
#Urbanism
(More to come as I think of it)
A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.
#FungiFriday #fungi #mushroom #pilz #nature #Mushtodon #hiking