Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Thank God this is a book release party because I can literally hide in the back with a book
"oh fuck, right, I have social anxiety" --me five minutes before I show up to a party, every time
ph, work
Have to keep reminding myself that I was coughing up blood like, a week ago and even if I'm feeling much better I can't overdo it
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How metallurgists of West African origin in Jamaica (free, enslaved, Maroon) helped spark the industrial revolution. Their innovation to reuse iron was ripped off and patented by an embezzling Briton: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton
The original article by Jenny Bulstrode (UCL) is quite a read, deep historical and cultural detail at each point of the Atlantic triangle https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2023.2220991
#STS #Jamaica #History #Africa #colonialism #copyright #innovation
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1186550169/cellphone-exhibit ahhh I've been hearing about the development of this exhibit for years, so excited it's opened!!
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My friend Emily Drabinski is the incoming president of the American Library Association. She has been named by the Montana State Library Commission as the reason they are withdrawing Montana from the American Library Association. This is bullshit.
The ALA issued a statement about this which is all about ALA. Emily deserves our support. Please join me in signing this letter in solidarity with her and her work. Thank you.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/edit?usp=sharing
@doriantaylor understandable, same energy
@jordantcarlson oh yeah this is all just financials from the last year
@doriantaylor I don't think so?
not great watching deep sea mining discourse get louder and the tone basically being "perhaps this is the less harmful option because obviously we can't not make ten trillion cars"
@jordantcarlson a little of all three? Like vice owns a company called JT Leroy Holding LLC and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mommy vlogger and I can't figure out why. Also, the executive compensation stuff is pretty how the hell.
@doriantaylor just a mini episode not a deep dive
today I read the Vice bankruptcy documents and there is some weird stuff in there
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Exclusive: The Associated Press has reached a two-year deal with OpenAI to share access to select news content and technology.
It's one of the first official news-sharing deals between a major U.S. news company and an AI firm.
https://t.co/AFbIj2iTlu
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Lots of anti-bird posting on my TL today. Need I remind you that
• RAVENS will take pieces of bark and literally WIND-SURF on thermal updrafts in the mountains
• HONEYGUIDES are so named because they will guide humans to beehives containing DELICIOUS HONEY
• GREATER BLACK-BACKED GULLS can swallow a WHOLE RABBIT without chewing
All this (and more) just goes to show that birds are
• cool as hell
• helpful and friendly
• but most importantly, if YOU choose to mess with them, they CAN and WILL fuck you up
So please think twice before you disrespect birds on this federated verse! 🙏
shitposting
Joining the Unicode Consortium exclusively to advocate that the poop emoji be modified to give every option in the Bristol Stool Chart
Last night I went to a book talk for an online acquaintance's new book and hung out a little after and I hadn't had one of those nice "I know you from online so nice to meet" hangouts in many years, it's nice that can still happen sometimes
Just saw a lady on the street kill a spotted lantern fly and called out "good job"
@Aepasek I hope the exclamation points were not too much lol
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