Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html "Katie McRobert, general manager at the Australia Farm Institute, said Australian farmers sourced their GPS signal from one satellite, which was a critical risk to rural industries."

why do people keep laughing when I tell them I'm doing a PhD because it's not like I have anything better to do

@corintxt excited for the new lows we're about to see from substack

"K-means Kardashian"

the crimes I would commit to just make it so that nobody ever again used the term "journos"

@luis_in_brief i just finished Economic Poisoning by Adam Romero, which does not make the explicit connection to ML etc but is really rich re: industrial waste feeding into industrial ag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520381568/economic-poisoning

if massive compute at scale is "the new oil" might be good to spend more time learning about all the insane poisons and shit that were commercialized (with minimal research into health/environmental effects) to justify the waste production that went into refining oil for gasoline

Victorian gentlemen would just huff weird distillates they made in a lab and be like "huh, guess this is chloroform now" and sell it to dentists a couple of days later, AI has the same energy to me

learning the deeply "fuck around and find out"-based history of organic chemistry makes a lot of what's happening with AI make sense to me

@brendannyhan big Immortan Joe vibes

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-17/ the week in sentences: the blood of cream cheese, america's biggest export, the celestial hierarchy, a moral lecture, grammatical flexibility

@ranjit @kissane also I learned how to do pixel art from those message boards

@ranjit @kissane ok thanks for a very fun flash game and also for message boards where as a teenager I was taken seriously by adults in a way that really meant a lot at a tender age

me, having been awake since 5:30am and gone to Delaware and back in a day: why am I so sleepy

@ranjit @kissane (also, second this, the sissyfight forums were amazing)

@ranjit @kissane wait ranjit you were there too????

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog

update: the Atlantic and Court Walgreens put cash on the card for me!