Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

one of those "spend two hours writing one email" kind of days

Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer looks just enough like David Byrne that I have been trying to rewrite Talking Heads songs accordingly ("Making Bobby Oppy", "Burning Down Japan", "Life During Wartime" just works)

@jomc listen, there's an out of print book from a university press that costs $700. it won a prize from an academic association, once. Obviously our work is done

@jomc IDK! not sure if they read my critique as being too "no one is talking about this" or something (feel like I did an ok job citing examples of good critical work?) but it felt weird amidst otherwise totally valid points

@darius @beep the arc of history bends toward Large Adult Sons

@Wolven yeah I don't think any of the historians who have countered that narrative and like, won awards for their work would say that it's no longer necessary? a handful of SHOT book prizes does not a social sea change make sorry

it's very petty of me but one of the comments on my grant proposal was that critiquing the tendency toward Great Man narratives of computer history is "overdrawn and out of date" and I'm sorry, in a world where people think Elon Musk is smart there is definitely still value in critiquing Great Men narratives imo??

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-29/ this week in sentences: gum, a secret opinion, a new name, subsumption by the great enzyme, chatting away to a tortoise

I started crying tonight because I love my dog so much?? she's fine I just felt overwhelmed by the vulnerability of loving

Found this web page about Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest living land animal, and it is a delight http://sainthelenaisland.info/jonathan.htm

Related, feel like we should be talking more about the fact Ron Perlman's IG handle is "perlmutations"

@tim what a mess it all is!

My favorite part of academia is spending a lot of time developing comprehensive and detailed grant proposals that demonstrate I'm doing groundbreaking work but also the grant cannot pay me a stipend of more than thirty thousand dollars

For years we thought Kitty was afraid of/physically unable to get into the bathtub and last night during the thunderstorm she just got into the tub like it was no big deal??

Feel like an important but often unsaid aspect of critiques of decentralized protocol stuff is that centralization better facilitates celebrity/visibility and that some people want that. I say this as someone who achieved niche visibility on Twitter for a specialization and benefitted, I appreciate why people want it--often I want it! But there's shame about admitting to wanting celebrity that makes people go in circles w arguments against decentralization.

Thrown out of brunch for calling marriage "a throuple with the state"