Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

asking grad students to contribute money to a fund that helps pay for undergrad internship stipends when my cohort includes new parents trying to make a $35K stipend work is a bold fucking move is all I am saying

my university has a "day of giving" (ie fundraising for the school) today and it''s very weird to be getting emails about how every bit helps while texting with a fellow grad student who has been waiting almost eight months for reimbursements from travel for grant-supported research

I don't understand whether the implication is Fox fired him for being racist and saying "white people fight honorably" etc or because he expressed an iota of sympathy for someone allegedly associated with antifa, can someone please clarify

the patient's procedure is still in progress 🤗

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"