Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

it's not even that I think a) arts orgs are some kind of tipping point that will change the trajectory or b) I even believe that this org has a ton to offer but they've been fundraising using POC and specifically Arab Muslim (and an antizionist Israeli who has been putting himself on the line a lot!) alums as evidence of their social justice bona fides and it just feels really gross! and I was mad!

might have burned a bridge today (called the ED of an arts org I hold near and dear to my heart "a coward" after he hemmed and hawed about the org's non-position on the genocide in Gaza while not actually using the word "Palestine" for about an hour) but apparently after I left the call it got a lot more productive so maybe I just took one for the team

Told an acquaintance that I am teaching CS Ethics this semester and they were very excited to tell me they had recently decided to quit their tech job because it was giving them night terrors, honestly made my day I love when people quit jobs they hate it's so affirming

Just remembering how in 2020 people actually took the position "is it ok to deck Richard Spencer on camera?? Doesn't this make YOU the Nazi???" and meanwhile Chris Rufo is just getting to live a life not getting punched

Fun fact, the "ok so you're a rocket scientist" line in Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me Much" is about Werner von Braun

any recommendations for a nice mail client for Mac if I really liked Tempo? Because I really liked Tempo and have been using the now-unsupported version since they shut down but it's been increasingly laggy for me and I'm a little worried it's going to stop working soon.

always forget until it's actually new year's eve that new year's eve is also the day my grandma died. a fun joke to tell people disarmed by this is "yeah between that and my dad dying on christmas my family is so fucking dramatic, ugh"

love to sysadmin on new year's eve

embarrassed to admit I kept track of how many times I bothered to go exercise during this year and it was 264 times

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-53/ this week in sentences: hair, another Egypt, a baby's challenge,"marshmallows" and "batteries", deliberately unpracticed, a house out of sandwiches, Vulgar Arithmetick

End of year victory lap posts stress me out with compare and despair vibes but: I completed a master's degree and I didn't kill myself and I made it to my tenth year of sobriety so maybe that's enough for me.

Still thinking about how fun it would be to cast Barry Keoghan as a totally normal guy in a romantic comedy

https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/2024-plotter-postcard-quarterly now with international shipping options if you are not in the USA and want to buy plotter postcards

Ramsey is trying to explain Docker Hub to me and I just said "so it's like NeoPets"

current additions include excerpts from @beep's You Deserve A Tech Union, Malcolm Harris' Palo Alto, @Mer__edith's Logic(s) essay on Babbage and plantation economics, and Josh Dzieza's LLM labor long read in The Verge earlier this year.

I'm teaching ethics of computer science to engineering students again this spring and while I'm probably keeping a lot of the format I used in 2019, I'm updating some of the readings. What are ppls recs for recent critical texts that undergrad engineers will be able to handle?

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2023-corporate-in-memoriam end of year RIP Corp dropped today, we did a little year in corporate death roundup with Tim Hwang!

Gotta say though seeing stuff about the TV show they definitely picked the wrong Skarsgård brother, give us creepy Bill as SecUnit

the murderbot books as audiobooks is my current self soothe listen and I think part of it is a lot of the book is just someone being really competent at their job and then some of it is an utterly relatable existential crisis