Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

a "Godfather of AI" implies a Fredo of AI

the hospital is sending me very dry automated text message updates—"the patient's procedure has begun", "the patient is doing well". Imagining someone trying to program this to be "nicer", eg "the patient is doing well!!" plus some emojis

taking my mom to her big spinal surgery this morning, please send good vibes

this extremely stupid little joke had me thinking about how good the infernal affairs movies were and I happened to be browsing criterion and they're all there!! amazing!!

just renewed grimoire.computer which I still think was a pretty cool project and will always be glad it introduced me to @Mer__edith

"NEPA rules don’t apply to space" is so cursed https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-environment-cell-towers-failures

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?

will (the Hong Kong mafia movies) Infernal Affairs take your job

can Iowa read minds

what if Interior Architecture becomes too powerful

I will not be correcting her, no

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!!

I understand why but it still feels weird that people really keep wanting to find the One Website to slot into what was twitter

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