Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Word on the storm impact from Helene in west North Carolina is that Internet just doesn't exist there. Every fiber path impacted, miles of fiber path gone, access roads to even start damage assessment are no longer there.
Network Engineers are saying days of work to get satellite trailers and basic e911 service restored. Weeks of work for Internet connectivity that even resembles normal.
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-92/ this week in sentences: like a piano, instanbul, horrible ruthless love, too crazy and alive, Or worse: Western scientists, the only system, that fragile boundary, at odds with the palace
aw my advisor said I can't lovingly refer to David Harvey as the beloved Marxist grandpa of geography in this cover letter
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"My #editors ask what the features are used for. A variety of purposes, I say, thinking carefully — hunting, storage, cooking. I’m leaving information out...
Write one too-specific #article, & #tribal historic preservation officers might find themselves fighting off #NewAge gatherings of non-Natives appropriating #Indigenous #worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropological “research.”"
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/indigenous-community-cultural-coverage-journalism
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Navajo uranium mine survivors demand action on stalled compensation program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/092624_reca_rally/navajo-uranium-mine-survivors-demand-action-stalled-compensation-program/
People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied at the U.S. Capitol – along with tribal leaders – to demand action on a stalled compensation program.
#Tucson #Arizona
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@aoife tonight the haters eat like kings at the table of success
God I love living in New York when we all come together to hate the mayor
Just saw an Italian grandpa in my neighborhood in a brat baseball cap
working on this episode of RIP Corp is fucking up my blood pressure so bad
@kit I deeply admire your commitment to the bit
got in an argument with someone about degrowth where I said that living in an era of widening wealth inequality is basically de facto degrowth via a downwardly mobile middle class, why not just degrow billionaires instead
Another year another round of social justice and technology fellowships awarded to a cohort with a significant number of people in tenure track jobs who really don't need the money
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-91/ this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt
Working on some plotter drawings on vintage tracing paper and oh no do I have to make light boxes for these it looks really cool
A friend's baby is arriving today and I haven't had time to fix the world so it looks ok when they get here, fuck
my pretty damn gentrified neighborhood in brooklyn can be a bit much but an ice cream place down the street has been having a live jazz band outside on wednesday nights for...reasons? and it's nice to get to hear live music out my window
was reminded just now that they made a special beanie baby to commemorate when Princess Diana died, the 90s were such a weird time
worldpol bad
look i don't want to make this about me here but it really fucking sucks waiting to hear if my Lebanese in-laws are ok (they are) and worrying about how much worse this is all about to get
Philadelphia nerds and some subset of fedi nerds: Anna Tsing (!!) is giving a lecture at Penn tonight (!!) that will also be live streamed (!!) and is about a new body of work she's doing on CONCRETE (!!!!!!!)
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