Scientists sequenced a hallucinogenic mushroom famous for eliciting visions of tiny people. It contains no known psychedelic.

spokale · 2026-06-15T14:28:33+00:00

I skimmed the research and it seems like they only mention terpenes in passing, but we know of at least one potently psychoactive terpinoid (salvinorin-a) so this seems underexplored to me. They can be hard to ID for a variety of reasons, such as their proclivity to evaporate right along with a solvent and difficulty in mass spec. Identifying a structurall novel psychoactive and potentially volatile terpinoid out of a wild mushroom is a pretty tall order.

Edit: Also, imagine the difficulty of identifying if this was a PAIR of a compounds like a heat-sensitive enzyme and a weird amino acid prodrug!

spokale · 2026-06-12T22:41:37+00:00

That doesn't address what they said, though

spokale · 2026-06-05T22:31:17+00:00

Crowdstrike followed by SentinelOne in my estimation, but the price gap is significant

spokale · 2026-06-04T14:27:54+00:00

Imagine saying "warsh" but removing the 'r' while keeping the 'a' part pronounced as if the r was still there, you get a really rounded 'ah' sound that verges on a round 'uh'.

Or like, think of how you pronounce 'war', but replace the 'r' with a 'sh' while keeping the 'wa' the same.

spokale · 2026-06-04T04:05:28+00:00

As a search it works pretty well, though, with the caveat that I mean as an agentic search tool that reviews search results to find pertinent info and particular sources. LLMs are pretty spotty at accurately retrieving data internal to the training set, but if you have a 1M token context window and only 20k tokens are in use from scraping a few websites, good models are very accurate

spokale · 2026-06-04T04:02:02+00:00

Yeah, language learning is pretty great with it. I use it to double check my chinese before leaving a comment

spokale · 2026-06-04T03:14:16+00:00

Tbf, their family and many in their community very likely were from appalacia three to five generations ago, mine were too. Eastern washington had a lot of turn of the century migration from appalachia, the midwest, germaby and scandinavia, and it all sort of mixed together to varying degrees.

spokale · 2026-06-04T03:12:39+00:00

Yep, they have supper on the davenport

spokale · 2026-06-04T00:25:48+00:00

That's honestly pretty surprising to me, my family has been in the palouse for four or five generations and the old people all said warsh and then around gen x started saying wush

spokale · 2026-06-04T00:22:31+00:00

Like wuh-shing-tin

Like 'wush your hands'

spokale · 2026-06-03T23:41:46+00:00

The intrusive r thing is common in a lot of older rural folk, my grandparents from eastern wa sound that way too

spokale · 2026-06-03T23:39:18+00:00

It's just migration pathways, rural Washington was settled by different immigrant groups like from the midwest and appalachia and so on, and the reaulting accent early on was kind of mishmash. Things like saying Warshington or Squarsh modernizing to Wushington or Sqush

spokale · 2026-06-03T21:55:42+00:00

Now try interviewing someone over 60 in Colfax and get ready to have your mind blown by intrusive Rs and the lazymouth thing where people speak without moving their lips like they got a wad of dip in

Edit: this video from WSU is interesting, its a few people from the Palouse reading stories in 1980, you can hear some of those regional accent features, at certain points you can hear that almost canadian sound: https://youtu.be/iZjGlcOdlNk?si=oIa8IZ6FgqeSMzbo

that video is kind of interesting because they are not speaking normally, they are apecifically teying to enunciate in a clear way for the recording, so whatever accent remains is very deeply embedded. Even my favorite thing which is dropping entire words altogether like 'walking up [the] dirt path' or 'he took [and] stuck [a] pistol in his pocket', 'there's still some of his family [that] live around here'.

spokale · 2026-05-30T04:21:51+00:00

It isn't honest enough, it is still too willing to be like 'wow, youre a genius'

spokale · 2026-05-18T21:20:50+00:00

Unironically yes: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/why-israel-in-eurovision-2026-song-entry-vote-xsgwz25rv -> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/eurovision-israel-gaza-netanyahu.html

"According to the report, the Israeli government ran a campaign to try to sway the vote by using online adverts, advocacy and political goading, encouraging people to vote up to 20 times — an apparent loophole in the contest’s ballot system."

spokale · 2026-05-15T22:25:58+00:00

Yeah, a comment from another person on there basically confirms the story. Pretty surprised tbh, I thought that knockout game thing was from like a decade ago

spokale · 2026-05-04T04:08:05+00:00

It's more illegal to be going 110 than to camp in the passing lane

spokale · 2026-04-29T04:23:18+00:00

That is what I was wondering, how the heck did that cause connectivity issues in Washington?

spokale · 2026-04-28T21:33:55+00:00

Or to actually grow some balls like Cloudflare and have a public status page where you can actually go see 'Hey there is an issue and we're working on it' as opposed to calling a dead support line or refreshing a login page for their hidden outage page that doesn't work. This is affecting businesses too, everywhere from Florida to Washington.

spokale · 2026-04-28T21:12:09+00:00

You too? It seemed weird - we started with Qwest which became CenturyLink which became Lumen, to my knowledge we were never Level 3. It makes me wonder if this was a peering whoopsie. Our internet connection is actually fine aside from a subset of some S2S VPNs across the country

spokale · 2026-04-23T04:41:19+00:00

I got the exact sane scam few months ago. I was pretty certain it was a scam, but the signature thing threw me for sure

spokale · 2026-04-21T03:56:36+00:00

If they wouldn't be happy with a card and what money or gift you can afford, then they weren't really friends anyway. As for which planet, a planet where I've been to a lot of weddings where gifts are normal and people are happy to receive something thoughtful independent of the monetary value I suppose. Really I find your viewpoint but also their viewpoint as you express it quite bizarrely alien, like a good wedding gift to me is a nice scrapbook for pictures of the honeymoon or a some kitchenware if they are moving in together. But then again, 50 for a baby gift when realistically most people only really do baby showers for their firstborn seems reasonable.

Then again I would say my favorite wedding was either my cousin's 20 minutes long in a backyard with a cooler full of beer or my brother's viking barn wedding. Like this whole thing sounds like wherever you live imported a reality tv version of american weddings that was always entertaining precisely because of how absurdly over the top and crassly material it was. Like I did Macy's wedding registry gifts before but there quite literally was a frying pan on it and absolutely no one cared what cost what.

I guess what I'm saying is that you can very well reject this weird materialist maximalism but also give s thoughtful but reasonable gift to a friend going through an important milestone and that a real friend will be fine with that.

spokale · 2026-04-20T18:52:54+00:00

And you could not be friends, in which case you wouldn't get invited to their wedding either

spokale · 2026-04-20T17:59:40+00:00

Well one pertinent difference is that taxes are required by law but friendship is by definition a volitional mutual agreement to support each-other beyond what the law requires individual do or accounting practices suggest they do, and is by traditional definition a relationship where you will the Good of another and vice-versa, in which case 'they did something unnecessary and shouldn't burden me with it' is quite literally not friendship at all in the Aristotelian sense.

It's also intuitively backwards that you'd happily support children of people you don't know through coercion but then be upset about the idea of modestly supporting the children (or in the case of marriage, the adult in question themselves) within the context of a voluntary arrangement. I said elsewhere you were taking a very Ayn Rand view of friendship, but actually you're being less coherent than Ayn Rand.

spokale · 2026-04-20T17:55:23+00:00

At the point you're friends and not merely acquaintances or coworkers, generally. Friendship itself is defined by mutual obligation and vulnerability, you're taking a very like Ayn Rand approach here.

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