Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-145/ this week in sentences: tallest ghost, reification, merely, whaler, this level, WHO CARES, nostrils, live frogs, rice of the future, distinct, soybean, enchanting, the nothing they have, flesh, trash stratum, acceptable recuperation, surveymonkey

1679 today / 5870 words on chapter 2, halfway point wooo

Sure seems like there is no bottom to All This, huh

Also / I have submitted my revisions on chapter 4 / current word count for three chapters plus in progress is 40,918 which is much more manageable than nearly 40K words in just two chapters tbh

Today in the dissertation knowledge mines, found a 1993 article about using GPS for agriculture with the headline "From Desert Shield to soybean fields"

2166 / 4191 on this last chapter, hoping I can just crank it out over the next few days

I like that the Australian ISO country code used for their TLD is au because I can remember it by thinking "au naur"

1015 / starting the last full chapter, then it's just intro/conclusion, aieeee

thinking about making swag for frequent Perfect Sentences submitters, hope "perfect sentence sicko" is understood as a term of affection and appreciation

@scruss wow! that's amazing

@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