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revision complaining 

@mhedney thank you for this reality check

revision complaining 

@raphaelp at this point i'm too close to the finish line to really fight about it and certainly there were some CYA revisions that made sense (eg an "allegedly" here and there) but if this becomes A Thing that drags out the process I will be very annoyed

revision complaining 

@raphaelp lowkey maybe? hadn't considered that possibility

revision complaining 

kill the imaginary hiring committee in your mind / also I know they mean well but wondering if they fully don't know that US higher ed is cooked and the odds of me getting a job in it (even with the most sanitized dissertation copy) are...not great

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revision complaining 

my committee told me to remove voice-y stuff that might be deemed "unserious" by a hypothetical hiring committee but then did not actually give me a list of things to change and would you believe I don't have a good internal gauge of where my voice is too much because it is _my voice_

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: splintering, threefold, extinguishing, television, sincerely, soul-sucking, upheaval, library, minor, ornament, quasi-government, gentler, virtually, peculiar

PhD update 

@beep I'm keeping it but removed the quotations because a committee member was like, "is this a quote or what", it's hard to do air quotes in proses lol

PhD update 

a footnote in a section on Sam Altman's find-my-friends startup Loopt: "Arguably, ChatGPT could also be framed as a product to prevent people from never having to eat lunch alone, although I don’t know if “lunch with a sycophantic imaginary friend who might encourage you to commit suicide or start a cult” is an improvement."

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PhD update 

I passed my defense with some minor revision requests from my committee that I'm working through today; it is very funny coming back to my punchier commentary and seeing them be like "hmm rethink this"

still thinking about the store that sells bone broth and slop bowls near my work that has a sign outside that says "drink your bones"

why would you say it like that

annoyed that it's been easier to find archival media of geo software stuff from the early 1990s than find decent documentation of geo conferences in like 2007

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: gloves, decorum, ejected, stone, special, techno-monsters, grinding, little packets, civilized, most French, insanely surpassed, oozing, interface, jellybeans

gathering media to use in my defense presentation, please enjoy this 1990 promotional video by Esri: youtu.be/TL_HN1zSQx4?si=K6jHgn

2025 in exercise 

I remembered to go to yoga 288 times this year

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2025-corp the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

Sent to my office for self reflection after saying I didn't really do much in 2025 and having to be reminded I wrote a dissertation

Ramsey just said that Marty Supreme really sounds like none of his business, that he's crossed a line just knowing about it

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