Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I hope Rian Johnson knows about the Glup Shitto meme

thinking more than is necessary about whether people trying to talk about AI art in terms of creativity and drawing inspiration to make something new are also people who violently hated The Last Jedi

I kind of left behind musing on influence and creativity and attribution after my freshman year of art school, but I realize that most of the people raising these questions are probably encountering them for the first time and think they are Very Interesting. Fine. Just feel like it's weird to talk about AI art stuff independent of like, power and money as though art exists somewhere magically unsullied by both.

I already muted the guy who prompted this reply over there, but cross posting this because realizing maybe I need to be more direct https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1615349937310400515

Freelance artists posting work online as a part of making a living aren't getting billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft to produce work. OpenAI is. None of those billions of dollars are going back to artists, who *will likely have less work bc of these tools.*

submitted a very late abstract for an academic journal article about rare earths as a plot device in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, am I doing academia right

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/skipped-showers-paper-plates-an-arizona-suburbs-water-is-cut-off.html I know it's a different part of Arizona AND ALSO feel like it's weird to not talk about all the industrial development underway in the state to expand US semiconductor manufacturing which is very water intensive!!

This week's best sentences: miscellany from the National Archives, an epigraph, an accordion, the conveyor belt of gentrification, soap: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-03/

https://rocks.guide/national-archives-notes-ii/ new NARA bloggé out, this time with weird photos

Thinking once again about the cold open of that one episode of the second season of The Purge TV show where the people who make Purge masks are pitching new designs for the next Purge and someone suggests LGBT Pride themed Purge masks

Can't stop telling people I'm so excited about my friend's book but also my friend's book is a very serious history of the Oakland Police so it's weird to be happy about it https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform

I guess no one would make a sticker that said "Communism" or "Anarchism" because those have cool symbols already? Weird of capitalism of all the ideologies to not really have a logo I guess

Katie Porter's comms team sending me so many emails right after I learned from a Congressional staffer gossip IG about what an awful boss she is has been a bit much, how do I make it stop

honestly still amazed that someone is out there making stickers that just say "Capitalism" in the Coca-Cola font and that sticker has an audience

just noticed that the guy sitting across from me in the NARA reading room has a sticker on his laptop that says "Socialism Sucks" and one that just says "Capitalism"

Hope he doesn't notice my antifa "Live Laugh Love" sticker oops

very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:

- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia

- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production

- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil