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a nice academia update 

my advisor was like "I want you to focus on your book this summer because there's too much uncertainty and writing books is the thing you came here to do" bless

I have read @debcha’s book and it is remarkably researched, clear-eyed, and passionate about how infrastructure can function as care at scale. A long-needed history and future of the systems we build and the systems that shape us. You should preorder it today. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/

@kdawson I had coffee with Andrew just before I went down what became like three years of my creative practice lol, he's delightful

we need a trash developers conference, where people give excited presentations about running useful, exciting new software on computers they found in the trash.

another great thing about the blackberry movie 

the soundtrack, honestly, it's got some sick needle drops

tech news 

@essaygames i mean i use the 2007 iPhone keynote in classes but beyond that? yeah

another apple shitpost 

i'm more of a vision amateur (wears glasses)

academia gripe 

@ashley probably less, but like I rewrote an entire section today and it's due Thursday--bad sign!

academia gripe 

look, getting a funded MA was pretty sweet and at this point if I want to try for a PhD somewhere else I will, but going into academia was always a means to the end of "getting paid to write and make cool shit", not the end in itself. mostly the bummer is I do really like my advisor and enjoy working with her!

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academia gripe 

my advisor told me she hoped I had plans to "decompress" tonight as I (mostly) wrapped up my stupid grant proposal and like, I am entirely certain that I'm not going to get this grant?? So instead of "decompressing" I think I am "looking for a job because there are no other avenues for funding my PhD so I'm dropping out" hahahaha

language shitpost 

@ranjit @nasser is it not called "several" because it is adjacent to "seven"

oh so *that’s* what betting on the next pandemic looks like.

apple shitpost 

@nasser in brooklyn that's more like "a couple of months", with roommates

apple shitpost 

a great time to double down on headset technology that has consistently failed to obtain widespread adoption is definitely during a recession

everyone enraptured, watching an apple, the same apple, begging for crumbs

I am going to probably be posting about the BlackBerry movie a lot so I apologize in advance but did we all know that Glenn Howerton aka Dennis from It's Always Sunny went to JUILLIARD

there is a kind of skinny guy character actor who will always and forever have my heart, and I have simply made my peace with that

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This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.