Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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listening to the new Roomful of Teeth album on a phone speaker, as it was definitely meant to be heard
work, dog, pol
I was feeling bad for not getting enough work done today and only just realized that in addition to my dog recovering from an injury I'm also just depressed about the world and maybe it's not my work ethic!! hahaha this sucks but good to not feel like a total shit lol
your company can have midjourney or email but it can't have both
it has been pretty easy to convince people that proof of work crypto's resource use is A Problem because it concentrates wealth toward a legible discrete group of people w/o broader benefit but I think tech that 1) mostly is killing creative jobs and 2) at best diffuses profits to CEOs and shareholders is not really that different!
still testing this out/trying to figure out how to phrase it: maybe we should just focus on the electricity and water use of computation instead of extrapolating to carbon because 1) companies flimflam with offsets/power purchase agreements and 2) a future of net zero carbon electricity sources will necessarily be constrained
it is truly astonishing how hard it is to get any work done when an anxious german shepherd is barking at you because she's stressed out by changes to her routine and requires frequent reassurance that she is not in fact in trouble
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State of the mesh presentation from yesterday- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3nR-kI0Xs
to the tune of Mr Brightside
I have claws and compound eyes / cause I'm Mr Carcinized
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Join us this Saturday, 5/27 at 8 p.m. for a screening of 'Machines in Flames' (2022, 50min), a film about a clandestine group of French computer workers in the 1980s. We'll have a virtual Q&A with the filmmakers afterward. Presented by the South Philly Autonomous Cinema Association. https://iffybooks.net/event/machines-in-flames/
climate pol
earlier today I was in a conversation about how tech could support climate justice movements and I believe I deserve a little treat for showing restraint and not saying "cyberattacks on oil and gas infrastructure for sure"
academic/tech gripe
you do not, under any circumstances, gotta make kin with the large language model
academic/tech gripe
I know it is very rude and not cool of me to hold this position and yet I will never be able to take people trying to make "feminist AI" a thing seriously
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Google really fired Timnit Gebru only for its CEO to recycle her warnings as talking points every two weeks a few years later.
pol feels
feels pretty dumb to be working on my silly little research into supply chains and climate change stuff when states are trying to legislate people I care about out of existence!!
academia shitpost
a provost implies the existence of a convost
can't tell if my continued annoyance and feet-dragging on this grant proposal reflects how much I don't actually want to do a PhD or just how much I hate writing grant proposals
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-21/ this week in sentences: underwear and a cowboy hat, a kiss between brothers, bowls or thrones, staph seeks
pol, software, industry goss kinda
old enough to remember when Mapbox did demo blog posts about mapping drone strikes and now one of their top customers is Palantir
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“Oh, you want to ‘participate in society’? Take it indoors! I wish I could!” https://hellgatenyc.com/parking-spots-are-historic-nyc-outdoor-dining
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The Moon is New 🌚
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