Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@jamesbridle I didn't consent to BEING BORN and you're upset bc you didn't consent to your data being used for ads, we are not the same

@mjd basically all of the "value" of data in the digital ad system and the promise of data as this commodity that turns money into money (financialization) is based on vibes (speculation). The more that the means of making money happens via these abstract vibey processes, the wider the gap between the super rich and everyone else gets bc their wealth isn't tethered to everyday life economy stuff.

@mjd yeah, just a lot of revision which is harder to track word count on and is often more like having a big think than typing

@jamesbridle what about the soul, james, what will this do to the human soul lol

maybe this is a sign I am just a grouch but I am more interested in the fact surveillance capitalism is based on speculative financialization and financialization furthers inequality than the vibe of personal offense and impropriety re: "how dare you monetize my quotidian experiences" that grounds the Zuboff analysis

current big dissertation feedback gripe is the committee member who really thinks that I should be writing a dissertation about surveillance capitalism despite me stating in my proposal and defense that surveillance capitalism will be lightly touched upon but is not the central focus here

Going through 2000s-2010s lit on open source for the dissertation and around 2015 a pivot starts where the notion of the "commons" is abandoned in favor of "infrastructure" and that discursive shift seems important

Update: probably Javier https://open.substack.com/pub/gargoladigital/p/mi-amigo-javier-arce

also like 30 people subscribed in the last 24 hours, who sent you

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-144/ this week in sentences: crows, exhausting, teeny-weeny, Star Wars, rhythm of, personal weather, surface, idol factory, Algol, sweet bigotries, slightly more, navy blue, Nero, demons, needs to shout, dance, chlorinated, fire, percolation

@cstross if you do actually take the piss they might just scrap the episode so it kind of depends on if you want to waste their time or if that feels like a waste of your time. (IMO wasting the time of bad people is time they are not doing worse things in a sort of bureaucracy as sabotage sense, but your mileage my vary)

I appreciated a committee member telling me that they thought my advisor's comments on my chapter drafts were kind of mid/phoned in but now I just want to ignore all her comments and I can't because I do need to finish the PhD LOL

Still thinking about Julio Torres calling the Flatiron neighborhood "the Eataly district"

2224 / but this was also revising and cutting things from a chapter so I actually also removed like 3000 words (this is good, we wanted this)

Feel like Julio Torres' show at Performance Space really buried the lede by not emphasizing that BIBO the robot from Fantasmas is in it

1158 / getting somewhere with the revisions thank god

"more funnier" Jesus I'm tired how embarrassing

This brought to you by me having to explain crown copyright in the dissertation

"The King owns all the swans": weird, gross, who does that

"The Queen owns all the swans": bold, assume they obey her commands, what a weird accident of history