Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

look I understand why Web Mercator is the standard projection for all the maps on the internet I just think it's funny there's so many wild ass projections we never use, it's like if the entire Met Costume Collection was your closet and you just wore the same outfit every day

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-22/ this week in sentences: two watches, no power, gator-based, acutely aware

specifically though: every sea critter (and waterfowl??) can be conscripted into impromptu musical performances by this one crab. it's like that one scene in season 4 of westworld where tessa thompson makes the humans trapped in host-world perform an elaborate dance for her

feel like Sebastian the crab has a weird amount of power and influence for a royal court composer

@kawaiipunk well your mom 3D printed them but I guess you were involved

@kawaiipunk the color of the globules in your skull, it's nice

you ever think about how complimenting someone's cheekbones is kind of just saying "I like how your skull fits inside your flesh"

Also like: gotta feel bad for people who actively maintain their LinkedIn profile, even if they make about 10 times more money than me

Climbing the corporate ladder? How embarrassing for you, congratulations

LinkedIn lurking on enemies has way more schadenfreude than Insta lurking because at least I can take comfort in knowing people I dislike still have to have jobs and jobs famously are the worst

what are we using for rss readers these days

listening to the new Roomful of Teeth album on a phone speaker, as it was definitely meant to be heard

@sy like on a theoretical level, totally with you. on a harm reduction level of trying to strategize in a collapsing empire full of deeply unserious people with too many guns I'm just thinking through potential organizing angles.

@sy I guess to me it's more about setting boundaries for which actors you're targeting with various tactics? like I don't think Microsoft can be made to concede to a grand accounting of their entire consumption apparatus, (however more precise that may be). Could they be made to concede that ChatGPT is a waste of resources, maybe?? Whereas putting a dent in what's fucked in mining to me is a matter of land reparations and dismantling the global military industrial complex more than Apple.

@sy totally, though in this case I'm specifically thinking about how to target the ongoing dodge of large (ostensibly) software companies who I think can probably be more effectively held to account for data center consumption than other parts of the supply chain

your company can have midjourney or email but it can't have both

it has been pretty easy to convince people that proof of work crypto's resource use is A Problem because it concentrates wealth toward a legible discrete group of people w/o broader benefit but I think tech that 1) mostly is killing creative jobs and 2) at best diffuses profits to CEOs and shareholders is not really that different!