Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

there's also this @brewsterkahle blog post from 2014: https://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/08/corporations-are-the-1st-generation-ais/

trying to figure out the origins/earliest reference to the clever observation that corporations are a form of "artificial intelligence"--the 2018 @cstross CCC talk comes up a lot in citations; I first heard it from @dymaxion in 2014 but years later she attributed it to Stross, so maybe he'd been working on it for a while before the 2018 CCC

happy may day everyone!!

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-18/ this week in sentences: brings love to bear, unrealistic expectations, magic potions, more than capable, nerds, bees

@TeamMidwest ooof for sure!! feel like in general a lotta academics fear the vulnerability that comes with being humble enough to admit to not knowing everything

@TeamMidwest also depending on the subject matter a lot of adults are pretty fucking bad on historical context, signed someone who explained internet infrastructure to a Financial Times columnist once

"do I want a bluesky invite or do I just want someone to tell me I'm cute"

@cour13r5 just stuff I've read in the past week

This week has been low on perfect sentence finds so if anyone's got submissions please share them!!

I understand why but it still feels weird that people really keep wanting to find the One Website to slot into what was twitter

working on the script for the next episode (Fairchild Semiconductor!!) and hoo boy it is PUNCHY because I am just so pleased to not be writing academic prose

"why am I struggling so hard to hit this deadline right before my mom has major spinal surgery" ha ha ha, good one me

calling open source software "digital infrastructure" is a scam to justify maintaining an unsustainable model of software development

oh I forgot, also the original version of a song I only know from this TikTok mashup: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamlimusic/video/7046678554544786694

- "Against the Odds" by Phil Collins
- That Moby song with Gwen Stefani
- That song from the 90s about not being aware of too many things

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."