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Editorial board calls for Biden to gracefully die in his sleep in one of those funny long sleeping caps while going "zzz-awoo"

@mcc happy to send a copy, but yeah I meant rhetorically the suffering in extractive industries sorry for confusion

I realize this paper topic is so so tiny, the epitome of a niche academic question, but it truly blows my mind that everyone knows about the rocks full of blood in computers today and there's so little record or acknowledgement of the rocks full of blood that made computers possible. I wanted to fix that!

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doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3378 the preprint has been out for a couple months but my first peer reviewed journal article is out today in its finished polished form and I am still pretty happy with it

Took Kitty to get a grooming at a place that also does dog daycare and Ramsey said it looked more like a dog co-working space and now I can't stop thinking about all the dog startups

phd exam reading stats for the week 

11 books, 3 journal articles, 1 book chapter

probably should stop shorthanding "the annihilation of space by time" as "time space go squish!!"

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: owlish, langourously, easy bedfellows, spreadsheets, the crystal of non-knowledge, its ancient tyranny, whiggishness, chicken broth

To be clear I mean no shade on Luke here, I met him and the rest of that art project in 2016 at a symposium thing in Boulder, seemed like a decent enough guy. Just, what a weird life to be leading

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Wait wait wait, the guy who was briefly in an art collective with Shia Labeouf in the 2010s is the one who brought down Nina Power holy shit

uspol, election, bluesky 

the amount of "freaking out about Biden being too old is a psyop"/"vote blue no matter who" shit I'm seeing on Bluesky makes me feel like maybe it is a viable alternative to Twitter lol

Life update that has been about a year in the making 

@tripofmice amazing!! Congratulations

Today in comp exam reading: Geoffrey Bowker's Science on the Run absolutely slaps IMO??

Southland Tales 

"we are a bisexual nation, living in denial, all because of a bunch of nerds"

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"Fuck the 4th (of July, US Independence Day)"
Painted on a right-wing auto shop in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Saw a lady on the street today wearing an Nvidia shirt that said "I am AI", that's going to be haunting me for a while

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Horsin' Around

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