Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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@cour13r5 just stuff I've read in the past week
This week has been low on perfect sentence finds so if anyone's got submissions please share them!!
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platforms talk
I understand why but it still feels weird that people really keep wanting to find the One Website to slot into what was twitter
RIP Corp
working on the script for the next episode (Fairchild Semiconductor!!) and hoo boy it is PUNCHY because I am just so pleased to not be writing academic prose
medical (not me, but)
"why am I struggling so hard to hit this deadline right before my mom has major spinal surgery" ha ha ha, good one me
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among my more annoying hot takes
calling open source software "digital infrastructure" is a scam to justify maintaining an unsustainable model of software development
today in deranged yoga playlists
oh I forgot, also the original version of a song I only know from this TikTok mashup: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamlimusic/video/7046678554544786694
today in deranged yoga playlists
- "Against the Odds" by Phil Collins
- That Moby song with Gwen Stefani
- That song from the 90s about not being aware of too many things
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It's a huge bummer that Code for American leadership is using aggressive union-busting tactics against the CfA unionization effort, but there are a bunch of ways in the below thread to support the workers as they pursue their collective bargaining agreement:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html "Katie McRobert, general manager at the Australia Farm Institute, said Australian farmers sourced their GPS signal from one satellite, which was a critical risk to rural industries."
@platypus ah, sure, though I mostly mean it in the context of my repeated failure to get a real job
why do people keep laughing when I tell them I'm doing a PhD because it's not like I have anything better to do
@corintxt excited for the new lows we're about to see from substack
"K-means Kardashian"
the crimes I would commit to just make it so that nobody ever again used the term "journos"
@luis_in_brief i just finished Economic Poisoning by Adam Romero, which does not make the explicit connection to ML etc but is really rich re: industrial waste feeding into industrial ag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520381568/economic-poisoning
if massive compute at scale is "the new oil" might be good to spend more time learning about all the insane poisons and shit that were commercialized (with minimal research into health/environmental effects) to justify the waste production that went into refining oil for gasoline
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