Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

we're doing a mini explainer episode about corporate personhood for RIP Corp and returning to the Hobby Lobby case I feel totally brain wormed by the idea that a corporation *has a religion*

Some good news today, very happy for my friend Blunt https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/2023-just-tech-fellows/

@computerfact a computer byte

the arms of the South Sea Company are...a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

just committing crimes as my limited liabilitysona

@Chanders feel like I need something more Graeber-y--finding the "well the pope had this idea and then it became part of european common law and then" explanations I'm finding a bit too simple in the vein of "money happens because barter complicated"

anyone have recommendations on the historical emergence of the corporation and the concept of property? legal theory tends to assume both as givens

having a normal one where I'm stressed out about Pope Innocent IV's role in the history of corporate personhood

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-25/ this week in sentences: dignity, ebb and flow, a brief pause, the greedy appetite of my mind, heckles, multibillion-dollar faith

obligatory "ChatGPT does not actually provide a correct answer for a question concerning my particular niche field of inquiry" screenshot

@selfsame implies the boys could be back in town

really not handling the coexistence of a Baby Gronk and a Baby Groot well

re-reading The Overstory because I realized that if I am trying to write from the perspective of minerals that it is probably the thing I'll get compared to the most and GODDAMN there are so many bangers in that novel!!

*to the tune of boygenius' "Not Strong Enough"

I don't know why I am / the way I am / ten thousand tiny spiders, man