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[–] lath@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Too late. It already clicked.

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago

One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can I have a link to the actual article/paper?

[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

This came from the New York Globe on April 1st, that's all I know.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago

University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory

The "unconventional computing laboratory" was definitely founded in partnership with Miskatonic U.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reading the introduction of the study (first link), they completely fail to explain why they call this language. Like, first they explain that fungi also have action potentials and that this seems to work like neurons and then they immediately jump to talk about how this could be a language. Am I missing something here? This seems like a legit paper, but why don't they even attempt to explain or discuss this?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It just is establishing something is happening that needs further investigation. Language is used because it's the closest possible parallel we have so far. Papers like this present ideas to legitimise further investigations. It's a starting place.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“That is not dead which can eternal lie…”

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Let it cook.

Humans need need some dread to take our mind off from all the other dread.

[–] kefalos@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago

“I am not the guy that gets you high. That’s my cousin

[–] match@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

did it tell them the name of god???

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

There is no god, only Cthulhu

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. And again, and again, and again…”

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago

So say we all!

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

“Humans did their job. Time to finish them.”

[–] nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just started watching Last Of Us, don't fuck with mushrooms

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fun fact, global climate change is actually changing the temperature ranges that many fungus can exist in. Last of Us probably won't come to pass because the cordyceps fungus evolved to zombify ants and other insects that it existed alongside with over millions of years, and we haven't had any kind of constant contact with a similar fungus strain, so the chances of it being able to interact with our physiology is really, really remote.

But we can absolutely get really harsh strains of Valley Fever in areas where the infectious fungus doesn't usually exist, and fungal infections are incredibly hard to treat.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11034633/

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

"Anyone got a lighter?"

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get your hand off my penis!

[–] graff@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see you know your fungi quite well

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is mycology manifest!

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent mycelium meal?

[–] derry@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

We've been trying to reach you about your car insurance

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

"Oh no. Not again."

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Bantha Poodoo

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago

I want to join the Mushroom collective amd trip for all eternity