Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

*watching The Holy Mountain with my boyfriend when the mountain appears* that's the mountain

Fucking off today and reading a novel just to feel something

Me taking care of important emails in the morning: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me getting responses to those emails a few hours later which I now have to act on: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

a semi secret project I have been attached to since January is now implicated in some kind of institutional shitshow that I only have a partial view into and it's very frustrating!!

Realizing my version of the "30 to 40 olives" meme is "buying two entire pies"

Thrown out of the bakery for saying to a family celebrating Father's Day with their baby "Something of a father to a daughter (person with a dog) myself"

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-77/ this week in sentences: cocaine, valedictory of grievances, ink, a giddy mass, the current direction, the pigeon decided, bruises, castles of cards, Swede-American

Maybe someone already pointed this out but the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Internet Observatory is/was Jeff Hancock, who I guess failed upward from Cornell where he co-authored the infamous Facebook emotional contagion study.

In 2015 he gave a talk at D&S defending the paper and himself w/"wow ppl didn't know FB manipulates things, how strange"

I don't mention this as a conspiratorial accusation re: SIO's closure, just a funny overlap

@thisisaaronland the museum is looking nice today (in town for a few days for a conference at Stanford)

For tax reasons I'm leaning more towards a Warhammer IRA

No one has proven that Glen Powell isn't something an LLM spat out after being asked to make a "leading man"

Mystery solved, it was stacy-marie! https://newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/i-heard-the-sea-and-asked-what-language-is-that/

also I just noticed a bunch of new subscribers in the last week, cool and welcome new readers but who did that

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-76/ this week in sentences: the bottom of the sea, we hate it, proximity of normcore, bond of guilt, today's foible, less hassle, Billy5000

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Oh no I just got mad at a podcast because someone called bauxite a "rare earth mineral"

Have we considered making Kathy Hochul try to ride a fixie through Manhattan traffic to scare her straight

does she...you know...See the TV Glow

An imperfect comparison but hiring software engineers to solve coding puzzles to train AI reminds me of the clones in Never Let Me Go who get a few extra years of life by basically being hospice nurses for other clones getting their organs harvested