Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Kitty passed away suddenly last night. We think it was a stroke. We were with her, at least. I loved sharing her on here and I'm glad so many people loved her. She was a very special dog and my world feels dimmer without her.
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"I couldn’t accept the moral calculus that prioritized the academic freedom of some U.S. and Israeli faculty over every other moral consideration, including the rights of the Palestinian people to be free from illegal occupation, free from violence, free from apartheid—and no less free to pursue research, scholarship, and learning than their Israeli counterparts"
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-94/ this week in sentences: gravity forgot itself, enhanced by the chancy, over a poem, pious disciplines, basically disreputable
https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ this came up a lot in interviews when I did fieldwork in Taiwan in 2022. Glad to see it getting more coverage
Feel like I'm flickering between wavelengths of reality most days
two of my fellow PhD students have been making a schematic of metals used both in building missiles and in renewable energy tech and they used a gradient background that I definitely called "bisexual lighting" on a zoom call just now, and no one got the joke
please respect my privacy in this time
@stephen_cornford Miranda July did an email project https://wethinkalone.com/about.html and idk if the Sheila Heti thing counts but https://lithub.com/sheila-heti-turned-her-diaries-into-alphabetized-autofiction-now-theyre-a-newsletter/
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A source in Lebanon tells me that there have been two mass roundups of Syrian refugees at Beirut's Martyrs' Square since Saturday. The Syrians had been displaced by Israeli airstrikes & were on the streets with scores of other IDPs. The source tells me she is certain that Syrians were targeted, because police went around asking people for identifying documents, presumably to avoid arresting Lebanese.
The Saturday arrests began late, around 22h00, just after journalists had left for the night.
@beebalm all can see her gentle soul yes, occasionally they see the goof that lies beneath
phd stuff
sent out my exam memo!!! it's happening!!
@beebalm people often compare Kitty's appearance to a coyote which usually means they haven't ever seen a coyote but "incompetent wolf" feels about her speed
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Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
I like our side.
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Phosphogypsum, a solid waste byproduct from processing phosphate ore to make chemical fertilizer, contains #radium, which decays to form #radongas. Both radium and radon are radioactive and can cause cancer. #Phosphogypsum can contain toxic #heavymetals and other carcinogens, such as #arsenic, #cadmium, #chromium, #lead, #mercury and #nickel
Photo: Polluted waste from Florida's fertilizer industry is in the path of Hurricane Milton
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law
complaining about phd exams
@philnelson like I shouldn't make them have to think too hard so I need to leave some obvious gaps/places to elaborate. I guess? This is all very silly.
complaining about phd exams
my advisor's main concern is that my memo is too comprehensive and my committee won't be able to come up with questions for me
this is not helping with my assessment that this shit is hazing pure and simple
my mom said "I'm 69" on the phone and I didn't immediately say "nice", maybe I'm not a born poster after all
I was a frankly pretty tough reviewer 1 on a paper a few months ago and the authors did a substantial revision that responded to most of my concerns!! Feelin like a real contributor to the project of scholarship lol
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Love this plot by @ingrid - “Matewan, West Virginia (the region depicted in this drawing), is best known for the Battle of Matewan, a shootout between members and supporters of the local coal miner's union and agents hired by the local coal company to break up a strike. 20% of sale will be donated to Matewan's West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.”
https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/matewan-a3-plotter-drawing
@platypus "I'm pretty tall so I'm going to die young like a big dog" destroyed me
https://youtu.be/NUrz5s-7Tdc?si=rM3YKqpwUf-VxbzC it is a minor thing but: SNL cast one of my favorite gen z TikTok comedians this season and she got to do a bit last night and I feel like a proud parent for no good reason
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