Cynthia Gayton

One of the scariest things about the AI bubble is that we've never had a stock-market bubble burst when the stock market has played as dominant a role in the U.S. economy as it does today. Let's drill down on that. (Link to @m-m-j.bsky.social's and my full report on this below 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)

Me: Thanks so much for finding [something very rare]! Research librarian: No problem. Here are [ridiculous number of even more rare resources] for a deeper dive, #librariansareawesome

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

Autumn Slug Bunk Shroom #fungifriends

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

"Just as our museums have a responsibility to the public, the public has a responsibility to our museums. Members of the public should take an active part in their museums....They are ours to shape."

The Kennedy Center will eventually have to be demolished unless President Trump is allowed to save it, Justice Dept. lawyers representing it said in a court filing, marking the first time Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect of demolishment.

Sunset ground cloud #fungifriends

Beauty in bronze and cream. Mushroom rosette #fungifriends

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Hoyle Hat Co. Pioneer Square #Jimothy

Step 1: Quietly put face recognition code on millions of phones Step 2: Insist that you could not possibly answer any questions about that face recognition feature because it "doesn't exist" Step 3: Have your CTO describe the face recognition in great detail on a podcast. from @couts.bsky.social

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

To this day, Harpers Ferry, John Brown and his men are living in many heads rent free. #harpersferry #shenandoah #potomac #johnbrown

I am going to call this a Shenandoah Mud Violet. I figure this is a small way to confound the algorithm. 🌱

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

Embronzed now Caged - Music and Harvest

Life changing #booksky

Useful read.

Fungi Fringe #fungifriends #lichen #sycamore

www.justice.gov/d9/2026-05/u... Lawyers in their 40s who graduated from Yale and Columbia Law and worked for Latham & Watkins, Gotschal Weil, Sidley Austin & Goodwin Procter, now facing insider trading charges for tens of thousands in trades.

Haven't written a blog post in a while - do these flowers help? Comments on the US v. Heppner case. gaytonlaw.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/p...

Flowers for Friday 🌱 chocolate scented phlox.

It’s about to get wild this Saturday.

Witness the engineering marvel of Mercedes-Benz Stadium as its retractable roof closes like a blooming flower, overcoming unique challenges along the way.

NEW: The French government has disclosed a data breach at the agency that manages national IDs and passports. Stolen data could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers. The number of affected individuals is unclear.

Morel trying to blend in. #fungifriends

Flowers 🌱

TODAY @ 4 -- Rick Atkinson on the revolution as war. Friends would you share? This series is meant as a resource for teachers, journalists, non-specialists/ specialists alike-- and folks who always want to learn more. Last week @rezekjoe.bsky.social kicked off this series and I learned a lot!

Listening to Meghna Chakrabarti & Anand Giridharadas on 88.5 about Epstein Class series - thinking this class has profound similarities to the international enslaver class circa late 1500s - ? not dependent on place but rather funded by wealthy people around the world & complicit institutions

A nice thing yesterday. I received a call from a human regarding a reservation and was NOT directed to an online reservation service. #personaltouch

The American Revolution was global. 🇫🇷 In Ep 432: We explore how France and Spain tipped the balance 🇫🇷 Next Week: The Marquis de Lafayette returns in a special Revisited episode 🇭🇹 In 2 weeks: The Chasseurs-Volontaires of Saint-Domingue Start the series now: benfranklinsworld.com/432

Donald Trump is erasing American history. And as @kwistent.bsky.social explains in our new issue, we’ve only just begun to reckon with what the U.S. government did to Native children.

The photo of the camera flying through the air is such a powerful symbol of the efforts to document the atrocities. I usually am dim on sofa activism. But when you share people's efforts to document the Minneapolis situation, you are helping. Share. Widely.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

It was in the rider.

Color coordinated fungi #fungifriends

Shoutout to small venues & promoters, small studios & pressing plants, small labels/publishers, small booking/ management firms, small publicists, small record shops, small instrument/gear shops & manufacturers, LPFM stations, and small music publications. Small is beautiful! #SmallBusinessSaturday

Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.

Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Two federal judges admitted that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants, prompting a call for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.