Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-48/ this week in sentences: slippery customers, seemingly irreconcilable, glass between, gateway drug, advantage, imperialist drama, narrators, spring vegetable
Saying someone is "an economist" in the same tone you would use if someone was a eugenicist
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“Hundreds of strikers outside Amazon’s Coventry warehouse were joined on Black Friday by trade unionists from Europe and the US as part of a global campaign calling for better working conditions at the internet retailer.”
Don't cross the Amazon picket line, folks. Support the unions instead.
I respect and appreciate my PhD advisor very much and she is infinitely better than many of the horror stories I've heard about PhD advisors, but there is simply no way she or anyone else can persuade me that qualifying exams are anything other than a hazing ritual
When you're a bit too extra performing a Sondheim song that's Finishing the Hat on a Hat
We went to see The Boy and The Heron and when the boy showed up on screen I leaned over and told @nasser "that's the boy"
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Lots of mapmakers run small online shops that would welcome your support during the holidays. Here's a list featuring a bunch of gift options to explore: http://bit.ly/map-sellers
Please share!
(Also I'm still seeking a volunteer to make us a website that links to the various sellers. Preferably one that can shuffle the order sellers are seen in so that no one gets priority)
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And if you want to listen to scholars who aren't certain based on vibes while seeing footage & documentation, have written books, reports, or, get this, are Palestinians who live the surveillance her article is telling them is saving their lives, come to our #NoTechForApartheid event on Monday Nov 27 from 11:30am--2:30pm pacific.
today I learned the CEO of a deep sea mining company is on a listserv I'm on and through him replying to a thread about deep sea mining stuff I have his direct email address and phone number
lol, lmao
Extremely 2018 software joke
*le tigre voice* what's yr take on kubernetes
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Israeli police continue to detain students over social media posts in what critics say is a coordinated campaign to crush the Palestinian student movement.
If a filmmaker really wanted to do a plot twist they'd cast Barry Keoghan as a totally normal well adjusted guy who's been to therapy
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If even a small fraction of the $10b is in compute credits, that's a bonkers amount of compute.
Suggests that being among the renter class in this industry isn't the best place to be.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-47/ this week in sentences: the dead future, the size of poetry, pouncing, espejos, twelve years old, probability of storm
Countdown to Altman starting an Ethical AI think tank with a ten-month fellowship program
Mental health improvements
Staying in bed worked, I'm feeling a lot better
more mental health problems
Current coping strategy: if I don't get out of bed I can't take steps to kill myself so it's ok if I can't get out of bed
more mental health problems
this is probably why I get so aggro at the "there's no time for despair" scolds—motherfucker I'd love to not despair!! but I apparently cannot turn off this part of my brain that wants to fixate on getting enough painkillers to never wake up and the shame I feel about that only fuels the despair more
more mental health problems
starting to think of suicidal ideation as a kind of autoimmune disorder that I'll at best only ever be able to mitigate or manage, this sucks
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