Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

just committing crimes as my limited liabilitysona

anyone have recommendations on the historical emergence of the corporation and the concept of property? legal theory tends to assume both as givens

having a normal one where I'm stressed out about Pope Innocent IV's role in the history of corporate personhood

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-25/ this week in sentences: dignity, ebb and flow, a brief pause, the greedy appetite of my mind, heckles, multibillion-dollar faith

obligatory "ChatGPT does not actually provide a correct answer for a question concerning my particular niche field of inquiry" screenshot

really not handling the coexistence of a Baby Gronk and a Baby Groot well

re-reading The Overstory because I realized that if I am trying to write from the perspective of minerals that it is probably the thing I'll get compared to the most and GODDAMN there are so many bangers in that novel!!

*to the tune of boygenius' "Not Strong Enough"

I don't know why I am / the way I am / ten thousand tiny spiders, man

A year late to this but I'm so sad that the mayor reorganized and rebranded the NYC office of IT stuff from Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications ("DoITT") to the "Office of Technology and Innovation", DoITT was such a cute acronym and vibe

live in such a way that the NY Post will make a stupid pun headline about your death

looks like cormac mccarthy reached the end of...the road

https://www.britannica.com/video/185632/formation-sand-quartz-role-processes-weathering-grains highlights of this weird video on how quartz becomes sand:

- the "everyday examples" of using sand are making sand castles (sure), keeping time with an hourglass (I guess if you're literally Jafar), and fracking (???)

- comparing quartz chemical bonds (strong) to orthoclase and olivine (weaker): "kind of like how a relationship forged in the heat of passion might not be as stable as deep bond developed over time" did...did something happen to this narrator?

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-24/ this week in sentences: uncanny allure, the big news, expectations, not insane, all that math, phosphorescent steel

help I'm being haunted by the ghosts of cringemas past present and future