Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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drugs, fam
She has no history of abusing drugs and is being super agreeable about me managing her dosing yet knowing that my mom's coming home from this surgery with oxy has me extremely on edge?
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Antifascists organising to protect a DQSH in honour oak need donations. Details: https://twitter.com/adacable/status/1653386916627087363
will (the Hong Kong mafia movies) Infernal Affairs take your job
can Iowa read minds
what if Interior Architecture becomes too powerful
i'm staying with my mom to help her out while she recovers from a big surgery she's having tomorrow and she has now referred to artificial intelligence as "IA" four times
there's also this @brewsterkahle blog post from 2014: https://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/08/corporations-are-the-1st-generation-ais/
trying to figure out the origins/earliest reference to the clever observation that corporations are a form of "artificial intelligence"--the 2018 @cstross CCC talk comes up a lot in citations; I first heard it from @dymaxion in 2014 but years later she attributed it to Stross, so maybe he'd been working on it for a while before the 2018 CCC
happy may day everyone!!
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-18/ this week in sentences: brings love to bear, unrealistic expectations, magic potions, more than capable, nerds, bees
"do I want a bluesky invite or do I just want someone to tell me I'm cute"
This week has been low on perfect sentence finds so if anyone's got submissions please share them!!
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platforms talk
I understand why but it still feels weird that people really keep wanting to find the One Website to slot into what was twitter
RIP Corp
working on the script for the next episode (Fairchild Semiconductor!!) and hoo boy it is PUNCHY because I am just so pleased to not be writing academic prose
medical (not me, but)
"why am I struggling so hard to hit this deadline right before my mom has major spinal surgery" ha ha ha, good one me
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among my more annoying hot takes
calling open source software "digital infrastructure" is a scam to justify maintaining an unsustainable model of software development
today in deranged yoga playlists
oh I forgot, also the original version of a song I only know from this TikTok mashup: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamlimusic/video/7046678554544786694
today in deranged yoga playlists
- "Against the Odds" by Phil Collins
- That Moby song with Gwen Stefani
- That song from the 90s about not being aware of too many things
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It's a huge bummer that Code for American leadership is using aggressive union-busting tactics against the CfA unionization effort, but there are a bunch of ways in the below thread to support the workers as they pursue their collective bargaining agreement:
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