Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@LinuxAndYarn they make money, it's more I wonder are they profitable or sustainable.

https://placing.technology/how-does-google-maps-make-money-or-the-curious-case-of-vanessa-mayer I got mad at a paper and then I laid out why I lowkey don't think Google Maps is profitable

@liaizon I'm sort of assuming that I won't be able to speak directly to him given he's a fancy VC now

@jmeowmeow oooh very cool!

@jmeowmeow I am being a lil loosey goosey with political economy so Ostrom is probably worth a look!

honestly this is probably a boring blog post for most normal people who want to read about geo stuff but I am sharing it for personal accountability purposes and also maybe someone who's better at Latour than me can splain him a little

https://placing.technology/my-dead-white-guys-or-i-have-to-retcon-theory-into-the-dissertation I complained about having to think about theory for my dissertation because I'm approaching the "shut the hell up and actually write it" stage of work

Debating inviting another committee member to whatever meeting she wants to do just to deflate the tension but suspect she will get mad about that

Not sure why my advisor who I haven't spoken to in months because she financially screwed with me and multiple other students and wouldn't take responsibility for it thinks that I'm inclined to get on a zoom with her to discuss my dissertation, or get on a zoom with her for anything really

it's a "go to two yoga classes in one day because I can't stop grinding my teeth and need the little endorphins to fix me" kind of Monday

Just reminding everyone that there's a Mercury retrograde starting this week, good luck

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-133/ this week in sentences: bygone stairway, babies with guns, carapace, jerking off, dinosaur action, not on anyone's side, thalassophobia, Moog, linger on, picky about, not full of juice, alas

@Moore fair

it's actually Dr. Brightside, but it's in anthropology

@eldang I'm obviously not one to talk given my own instance lol

also that this listserv was 1) created by the guy who started https://del.icio.us and 2) hosted on the vanity domain https://burri.to, like come on guys

feels deeply dumbass-millennial coded that one of the most consequential listservs of people doing geospatial software stuff in the 2000s was called "geowanking" and now I have to explicate that name in a dissertation