Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

If I hear a yoga teacher use the word "abs" I know we're in trouble

"core" is not great either but we'll allow it

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-19/ this week in sentences: macrame owl, hammer brigade, Dan Flavin nightmare, relatively inarticulate, lobotomization, false plateau

"History roils. Its waves are cumulative, one rolling into another, amplifying their thunder. Or they become attenuated via energies pushing in orthogonal or opposite directions. Or they swirl into directionless eddies, with the ocean’s surface appearance as often as not obscuring grander currents just below." https://thebaffler.com/salvos/time-bandits-perlstein

I wonder/would not be that surprised if it's easier for most doctors to prescribed oxy than weed for pain relief even in places where it's legal

anyway excited to watch my mom blaze it lol

feeling grateful that a friend in DC offered to bring my mom weed because she doesn't want to take the oxycodone that her doctor prescribed her for post-spinal surgery (turns out she also took oxy after her knee replacement and it gave her insane vivid nightmares, which is a thing?)

Honestly my only disagreement here is when Chiang writes that "it’s not the job of A.I. to strengthen capitalism...yet that is what it currently does." I think by the time of the Dartmouth conference John McCarthy had pretty explicitly renounced the Communist beliefs his organizer parents raised him on and IMO McCarthy's (and Minsky's, and the other guys)' political beliefs are part of the story of AI's intellectual history

I do not love that in 2023 a totally smart writer still has to include a disclaimer that "whenever I criticize capitalism, I’m not criticizing the idea of selling things" in the goddamn New Yorker

"Note that you cannot simply say that you will build A.I. that only offers pro-social solutions to the problems you ask it to solve. That’s the equivalent of saying that you can defuse the threat of McKinsey by starting a consulting firm that only offers such solutions." get their asses Ted https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

OMG this seller is also selling random old soviet hardware, help

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155121908850?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=hBb6LJJcS9C&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=s45yvgRWQCy&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY oh no a giant roll of tiny graph paper in LATVIA do...do I need this?

turning to my preferred coping strategy for stress, buying deadstock stationery on ebay

just got mom home from the hospital, now the part where I try to maintain calm while being hella triggered by having to parent my parent like I'm 16 years old again!!

went to yoga at 6:15 IN THE MORNING, feeling like a real sicko