Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

so are we just all loading in the Pantone color books from old versions of CC or did everyone move to a different color vendor

LMAO I haven't done print production with non-CMYK spot colors since Adobe and Pantone broke up, what a goofy nightmare

@pete yeah i got the copyright back and ten year anniversary seemed like a nice touchstone

Trying out some things for the 2026 Networks of New York layout

Not sure if it's just me being very self conscious about it but I feel like singing is a more embarrassing hobby than just playing an instrument as a hobby, like my downstairs neighbor playing cello is fine but if I'm learning to sing a song for fun I'm like "ugh no one likes a show off"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-178/ this week in sentences: compliant, sand, forever, disappointment, quests, doppler, procured, witchcraft, outlier, honks, spite, elastic

Sitting in on final crits at RISD because I'm an external committee member for a student here and it's just so cool to see students making their extremely specific weird beautiful projects!! This is what we live for

(I am not at the gala because I am in Providence so I can go bright and early to a RISD grad student's final thesis review because I am a diligent external committee member)

glad I made choices in my life such that a colleague just sent me an email that reads "WHY AREN'T YOU AT THE GALA?!?"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-177/ this week in sentences: working, pebbles, prophecy, heart, tradition, dare, underpass, 'butthole', doubtless, grease-surfing, scurry, exhaustion, pertinent

humanity dot ai was probably parked and expensive, but just do humanity ai dot com or even a dot network or dot tech would be better than humanity ai dot ai

why did the philanthropists doing "what if AI was good for people" funding under the header Humanity AI make the website domain humanityai dot ai

it's of course not the whole picture but have been thinking about LLMs as dissociative coping strategy in a time of profound and widespread grief—like, there is a part of me that 100% gets wanting to turn your brain off for a while and check out but unfortunately my hard-won sobriety says no

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-176/ this week in sentences: vulgarity, futuristic, custard, town, flattering, strategy, third wave, exhaustive, contingent, waffling, branded, servants, divorce, necromancy, shark

@clhenrick thanks! it's in philanthropy not academia but still grateful to have it

@clhenrick thanks! it was anticlimactic but grateful to have made it through

https://placing.technology/belatedly-yes-i-finished finally did a post on the dissertation blog about finishing the dissertation and maybe using the blog for other internet-is-real-place work I'm up to rn

as kindly as possible it is hard for me to get stoked on "people's data center" and public compute discourse when there are people living adjacent to data centers who actually just need inhalers for their kids