Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

me: talks about how recent financial precariousness has been really stressful for most of therapy

also me: goes to a bookstore and buys a novel after therapy

@xor @ryan this is the best use of the name Ingrid for software I love it

@Wolven <3

the console log on H&R Block's tax software is really something else

doing my taxes

"feel like we really need to be more cautious about widespread use of capitalism until we can make sure the capitalism doesn't have bias"

@Wolven could use a little more reverb but close!

convinced myself there's a music genre called "murder surf"

@bourgwick among my favorite manhole covers!! see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleport_(Staten_Island)

@drewda I assume it is pronounced eye-yay-yay-oh-tee

why is looking at a screen still such a pain post-thesis, this is so annoying

a play based on the events of the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop) with a chorus of screaming rocks

It's wild to think like ten years ago the energy consumption of data centers was basically treated as a non-issue and now it's used in weird propaganda framings where (implicitly usesless, bad) "cat videos" hinder (implicitly good, important) ammunition manufacture. If it were any other tech company's data center or an IX or even crypto I think this framing would be very, very different.

https://www.ft.com/content/f85aa254-d453-4542-a50e-fa1171971ab0?accessToken=zwAAAYcktBEVkdP4WqJU1FNFQtOlDvoRcZcasA.MEUCIQCqf3Jmi3vb4tnC7RiwjAv2iDF323ebYfaGkgQRUoBdHwIgEqmdrSqjc_0Z1j1FQaS_9XChbRUCByirY6MJ1auWMv4&sharetype=gift&token=20762223-abf7-49d9-ac15-cc4d255bf0d1

Infrastructure!! Is!! Political!!

(via @robinsonmeyer on the twetes dot edu)

remembering the time I ruined @nasser's day when I told him people call it "scrollytelling"

I don't want to come across as a smug "why are you shocked" guy and also I am still having a hard time with "oh no must protect democracy in the apartheid enforcing ethno-state"

@vruba eventually someone jumps in with "yes, but does software fuck"