Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

realizing i'm going to likely cross paths with my PhD advisor at AAG. we haven't meaningfully spoken in almost a year at this point. debating pretending to have no idea who she is as a kind of high-level gaslight

https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026 one of my studiomates does design and comms for CultureHub NYC and aside from these events looking cool and fun I just want everyone to appreciate what a good job they did on the branding here, I love my talented friends

In a more just timeline Polymarket would be a dating app for insufferable board game nerds

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-166/ this week in sentences: chess, industry, bereft, folk horror, terracotta, insurance, Seventies, mirror, shark, malevolent, inky

wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song

Thinking that I might continue to spread this misinformation because it's very funny

Was explaining the Sweet Valley Twins YA books to an early 20s person and they believed me when I said the series ended in 2003 "because of the Iraq War"

One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool

@grahamsleight graham i am sorry

I'm something of a supply chain risk myself

@beep stubmogged

now that I have (against my will!!) learned what "Clavicular" is I can say that I'm pretty sure he would be a minor villain in a William Gibson novel

William Gibson's concept of The Jackpotmaxxing

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-165/ this week in sentences: kevlar-swaddled, giraffes, computer, gum, 4.53billion, laughter, negotiation, celibate

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-164/ this week in sentences: blur, smoothie, competent, walls, seismometers, hypothesis, weird sled, pervy, cows, backstory, shipwreck, rectangle, night

I Who Have Never Known LLM Chatbots

have a good https://wernerherzogvalentines.com/ weekend everyone

@catalina there's just way less risk in doing cyber attacks and/or fiber cuts to achieve the same goal (stoppage)

also: the answer is pretty obvious, please don't try to blow up data centers, it's un-strategic and you'll probably just get entrapped by a fed