Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

generally "critical GIS" scholarship seems to fall into these camps:

- what is a point, really
- military industrial complex exist
- respect newbies, open source good

all perfectly interesting and valid observations, but also you're telling me nobody has tried to write a history of EPSG codes

been trying to find "critical GIS" writing that actually gets into the political economy and history of the technology--like more than repeating Esri's own hagiography and more than a generalized gesture at "maps are tools of empire" and not sure if this is a me problem or what

@d Federica Bianco!

just found out the physics professor I took a machine learning class with last year is on a NASA committee to study UFOs??? god she's so cool

sometimes I think about how when Proudhon wrote a book titled "The Philosophy of Poverty" Karl Marx wrote a book in response titled "The Poverty of Philosophy", RIP Marx you would have loved shitposting

@inevernu thanks! have been thinking a lot about other potential metrics to use now that Soylent's abandoned the bodega market. Maybe retail locations for DTC food products/"shoppy shops"? (see https://www.grubstreet.com/2023/01/why-every-shoppy-shop-looks-exactly-the-same.html)

a "fun" part of grad school is auditing undergrad classes that start at...8:40 in the morning? at least it's online

@vruba congratulations and sorry lol

I am regrettably good enough to do data science now but no one hires that freelance I think so I'm safe

I started to read the lemons blog post and once again feel good about the fact I have deliberately remained a competent enough web developer for personal projects but never actually became good enough to be a professional because wow this all sounds really dumb

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-06/ this week in perfect sentences: recursive zk-SNARKs, a map after the fact, Kate Berlant, sedentary nudists, Pothole Blasting for Wildlife, magic tricks, Port Authority

Hey I made a little zine for Valentine's Day of various dedication pages from books and you can buy it here: https://buy.stripe.com/eVacP2bUj7l25dS5ky

@kissane @TeamMidwest wait did I do this at the librarian conference? I don't even remember people asking questions I thought that talk tanked

it really fucks me up that Salinger dedicated The Catcher in the Rye to his mom, feels passive aggressive