Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-165/ this week in sentences: kevlar-swaddled, giraffes, computer, gum, 4.53billion, laughter, negotiation, celibate

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-164/ this week in sentences: blur, smoothie, competent, walls, seismometers, hypothesis, weird sled, pervy, cows, backstory, shipwreck, rectangle, night

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have a good https://wernerherzogvalentines.com/ weekend everyone

@catalina there's just way less risk in doing cyber attacks and/or fiber cuts to achieve the same goal (stoppage)

also: the answer is pretty obvious, please don't try to blow up data centers, it's un-strategic and you'll probably just get entrapped by a fed

thinking about the choices I've made that lead to me being the person editors contact with the question "why aren't people blowing up data centers"

just asked my mom who is recovering from a partial knee replacement how her pain levels are and she said "my pain is only existential" in case anyone wondered why I'm like this

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b?st=nN851D&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink I am a sucker for fiber cable manufacturing content and also "corning's stock hasn't risen like this since the dot com bubble" isn't reassuring

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-163/ this week in sentences: disclosure, beware, spreadsheet, radar, abyss, bedewed, pleasures

Ramsey just found out that the song "Midnight at the Oasis" was not written for Waiting for Guffman

ah the classic "forgot to eat until 4pm and eating somehow makes you more sleepy"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-162/ this week in sentences: menace, chaos, loop, onesie, worm, thus, understood, before reality, potato, dissolved

still slaps

found out one of my colleagues at the new job is a Brad Neely fan, big breakthrough in building rapport

@distractal the rationale is that basically since the 2008 crash tech has been in a race to see who can become too big to fail and they know governments will let them get away with it and/or bail them out (which sucks, to be clear, but seems to be what's happening)

I understand the rationale but it's still really disappointing to hear so many people just take the "AI isn't going to go away so you should just learn and adapt to it" position, like man animal cruelty at scale hasn't gone away and people are still vegetarians

the only body cams I want democrats to support are the ones used by sex workers

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-161/ this week in sentences: slapstick, context, cones, potato, wisdom, Toyota Camry, chewing, synthetic, super-cow, very online, sharpest, fog