Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Seeing 1-year "fellowships" offering $10-20K stipends to artists and writers and honestly not sure how organizations can continue to do this in good conscience in the face of inflation

Trying to figure out being an Oatmeal Guy, seeking recommendations for Doing Good Oatmeal

mastodon is, unsurprisingly, home to the most loyal and enthusiastic RIP Corp fans lol thanks for being so into our goofy little show everyone

shout out to @cstross for giving us more or less the original premise for the episode, which opens with clips from his 2018 CCC keynote!

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/little-paper-guys-an-overview-of-corporate-personhood new RIP Corp! This one is more of a high-level episode getting into the concept of corporate personhood.

Making a giant pot of chana masala for the week like I'm a broke vegan art student again

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-33/ this week in sentences: every stone dreams, pee bottle Snorlax, wake up, piano sounds, (itself and every thing), the sacred spirit of lucidity

So hypothetically if I made karaoke style subtitles for a movie so that viewers could do a live fan dub, would it be funnier to do this to Titanic or Goodfellas

They're playing CHVRCHES in Rite Aid???

https://observablehq.com/@lifewinning/cleaned-up-hillshade-generator sort of a hack but here is the cross-hatched hillshade map visualizations with cross-hatch bodies of water--because of the particular complexity of the river I'm using as an example I tesselate the water polygons but in theory you might not have to for a basic shoreline or something. Also yes, it loads super-slow sorry

Sat next to a sleepy little corgi on the subway home, NYC is back baby

Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!

Every time ProPublica drops a "Supreme Court justices being corrupt fools" story even if Justin Elliott didn't work on it I imagine him starting the day with a little smile

How do I phrase this for the gram? Like "some personal news instead of dying later this year from burnout and economic precariousness I will die later this year from burnout but I might leave like $500 in a savings account"

Oh no I got the grant, congratulations but also fuck fuck fuck