Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

On the one hand I remain adamant that computers should try new shapes because there are too many rectangles. On the other hand, we all seem to agree that computer orb is bad. Must find a new computer shape that pleases the people

@tripleman we live in a society

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-152/ this week in sentences: money, glacier, sphere, scooter, cabinets, surely, always too many, purple, brainworms, grooved, chocolate chip cookie, canned tomato soup, slender means, actuality

revised conclusion in, now time for the full manuscript review

word count for total MS: 62,257

once again I am annoyed at being asked to provide some gestures of hope or "fixes" for my dissertation topic BUT this one of the last times I will have to feel this because I am revising the conclusion!! finding the silver lining as best I can

The past me of a few hours ago who thought a cold brew was a good idea has a lot to answer for

@gray17 thanks!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-151/ this week in sentences: unknown gods, creature, monopolist, instead, punch, stone-green, hat, mouthfeel, succumb, anti-rat, whales, lighted panels, perverse

Introduction revisions in and we're at 57,285 words without the conclusion, assuming I'm not adding too much more to the conclusion we're looking at 61-62K total which is technically on the shorter side for a dissertation but I'm fine with shorter because that's easier to repurpose for journal articles.

Not proud that my first thought hearing a song lyric about turning trees into "toothpicks and twenty dollar bills" was "American currency is a cotton rag paper blend"

Karl Marx failed to predict brain worms

I don't really have it in me to explain dhh to academics but wow, Rails is an amazing example of how corporate adoption/absorption of FOSS is so much messier than simplistic enclosure metaphors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-10/ai-s-5-trillion-data-center-boom-will-dip-into-every-debt-market-jpmorgan-says it's giving "don't worry they're triple A mortgages"

Bummer that the closest anyone gets to a prize for posting is something as diminutive-sounding as a "Webby"