https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/the-story-of-this-town-is-failure-fairchild-semiconductor-and-its-children new RIP Corp and it's a doozy IMO! we took on the history of Fairchild Semiconductor, which is usually told as one of triumph and innovation---which is part of it, but only like the first decade of the company. We get into the everything else of its 59-year history.
feel like there's gotta be people in my network who would be perfect for this? there are lots of other open jobs at Internet Archive too https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/78121-program-officer-archiving-and-data-services
@tealtan another day in the big apple in 1972
spider-verse
@klara if they don't have Spiders-Man in the third movie they are cowards
I have read @debcha’s book and it is remarkably researched, clear-eyed, and passionate about how infrastructure can function as care at scale. A long-needed history and future of the systems we build and the systems that shape us. You should preorder it today. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/
@kdawson I had coffee with Andrew just before I went down what became like three years of my creative practice lol, he's delightful
@aworkinglibrary no body, no score to keep 😎
@kdawson oh man, cruel world
tech news
@essaygames i mean i use the 2007 iPhone keynote in classes but beyond that? yeah
academia gripe
@ashley probably less, but like I rewrote an entire section today and it's due Thursday--bad sign!
academia gripe
look, getting a funded MA was pretty sweet and at this point if I want to try for a PhD somewhere else I will, but going into academia was always a means to the end of "getting paid to write and make cool shit", not the end in itself. mostly the bummer is I do really like my advisor and enjoy working with her!
academia gripe
my advisor told me she hoped I had plans to "decompress" tonight as I (mostly) wrapped up my stupid grant proposal and like, I am entirely certain that I'm not going to get this grant?? So instead of "decompressing" I think I am "looking for a job because there are no other avenues for funding my PhD so I'm dropping out" hahahaha