Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

also I haven't written the acknowledgments because that seems like bad luck to take the victory lap prematurely

sorry, 256 pages for the actual dissertation, the whole document is 335 pages

265 pages, word count around 65K (I've added the bibliography etc so the document word count is much, much longer), tempted to just turn it in early by sending tonight but should probably do one last round of spellcheck etc.

1 ) why is my retired mom on LinkedIn

2) why is my mom asking to connect with me on LinkedIn

Someone told me their birthday is the winter solstice and I said "cool, you were born into darkness. Like Bane"

managed to write this whole chapter on desktop GIS without mentioning that the reason Esri only runs on Windows machines is they went all in on COM architecture and I guess they thought Apple was too niche, is this a thing anyone else will care about

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-153/ this week in sentences: styrofoam, kill-time, sci-fi prison, truth, Ross Perot, knives, extraordinary, apology, swanning, Marx!, Kochian night, feline, discomfitingly, footfalls

https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/africa-ip-addresses-china-3e543b9d this is a real niche "right into my veins" type article for probably a lot of the sickos that follow me

(I am reading Hess and Ostrom in 2007 on knowledge commons fwiw, they focus on common pool but cite Benkler on the free speech-y framing)

so if I'm reading the literature right in the 2000s people theorizing the concept of the "digital commons" kind of conflated common-pool resource sharing with like, free speech zones?? those are very different commonses, folks

Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

On the one hand I remain adamant that computers should try new shapes because there are too many rectangles. On the other hand, we all seem to agree that computer orb is bad. Must find a new computer shape that pleases the people

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-152/ this week in sentences: money, glacier, sphere, scooter, cabinets, surely, always too many, purple, brainworms, grooved, chocolate chip cookie, canned tomato soup, slender means, actuality

revised conclusion in, now time for the full manuscript review

word count for total MS: 62,257

once again I am annoyed at being asked to provide some gestures of hope or "fixes" for my dissertation topic BUT this one of the last times I will have to feel this because I am revising the conclusion!! finding the silver lining as best I can

The past me of a few hours ago who thought a cold brew was a good idea has a lot to answer for

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-151/ this week in sentences: unknown gods, creature, monopolist, instead, punch, stone-green, hat, mouthfeel, succumb, anti-rat, whales, lighted panels, perverse

Introduction revisions in and we're at 57,285 words without the conclusion, assuming I'm not adding too much more to the conclusion we're looking at 61-62K total which is technically on the shorter side for a dissertation but I'm fine with shorter because that's easier to repurpose for journal articles.