Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Grateful that my friend Ethan and I stay in touch almost exclusively via sending each other pictures of vanity plates when we spot them on the street
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Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful and visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... and The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now & dotes on her mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/
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OMFG KILL ME
this code which looks reasonable DOES NOT work because canPlayType DOES NOT return a boolean as one might expect but rather A STRING which is one of
- ""
- "maybe"
- "probably"
like were fucking FLIRTING or something
cant make this up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/canPlayType
please understand that every time I say "oh my god" I am doing an impression of H. Jon Benjamin on Bob's Burgers
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-50/ this week in sentences: distinguished imaginary, autograph about it, tennis bracelet diamonds, tannins and funkiness, except shyly, sawgrass and tule, decorated with kelp, impossible aspirations
Tomorrow I will have been sober for ten years
well the internet also has concert bootlegs of The Pixies so who's to say if it's good or bad
Me: things are bad and I want to die
Partner: let this radicalize you
Me: it's radicalized me to want to die
Partner: suicide isn't radical
Me: what if my dying words are "cowabunga cruel world"
Partner: ...fuck
Love the reviews of Wonka that are basically "it's good but it's not Paddington 2 good", cinema reached its apex with that little bear going to jail
My therapist asked me what's helped me get through my last bout of suicidal ideation and I gave some dumb answer about rest and self care but in all honesty Kissinger dying last week helped a lot
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Today is the day @darius and I finally get to announce that we're in the new @DigInfFund cohort of projects, researching fediverse governance, so I…wrote about trees
https://www.nfb.ca/film/data_for_decision/ obsessed with this educational film about the Canada Geographic Information System which features a special map scanner built by IBM for the Canadian government
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I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.
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https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-49/ this week in sentences: terrors of indeterminacy, Bad Guys, the earthworms, perhaps disappointingly, intellectual potatoes
probably shouldn't email my former employer, a certain tech and civil society think tank, with the message "noticed y'all haven't really said anything about Israel's murder AI" right
critical theory fighting words
buddy you better watch it or I'm gonna have to entangle your assemblage
Many people don't know that the book publisher FSG is an acronym for Fish, Salmon, Grouper
"I can fix him": MailChimp mascot Freddie defends relationship with Bored Ape
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If you are on Mastodon (all of you) and in New York (some of you), and free on Monday evening (hopefully some of that some) please come out to WONDERVILLE!!! 🚦
Dec 4, 7pm 🎈
Come say hi!! 💫
https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/wrong-way-by-joanne-mcneil-ny-book-launch
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