Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:

- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia

- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production

- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil

@rowmyboat lots of love to you and trashpanda and oh goodness the dog

@Cathy_McM what a lovely video! thank you for sharing it

thinking about which numbers are funny and why. not the numbers that are funny signifiers like 69 or 420 but like why is 22 funny and 20 isn't funny. is it a prime number adjacency thing or something else

today's dumbest embarrassment was probably me explaining the character actor Richard Kind to a stranger at the dog park

@kissane I did figure out how to do a pay what you want setting btw: https://unraveling.systems/pwyw/

I'm having a lot of fun with the new newsletter but wow, Buttondown sure is buggy huh

@kissane Erin I can't deny perfection sorry

@kissane perfect sentences are separate from unraveling.systems mostly bc Ghost's multi-newsletter support isn't great but I can also just manually add you if you want

This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-02/

@jonty Nas Ultra

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either

It's a-me, Gramsci

I'm so excited about the sentences I get to send out tomorrow for the newsletter!!

I'm finally going through my National Archives materials from my first trip so I did a little blog about a particularly prickly letter that I found: https://rocks.guide/quartz-part-1/

I also had to explain what Howl's castle looked like so that probably didn't help as the teacher also had no reference for baba yaga??