Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

there were two Fleetwood Mac songs on the class playlist today, one of them was "Silver Springs", worried for the instructor

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-78/ this week in sentences: monkey flowers, presumably adult, an ongoing war, more like weather, explain my passions, fancy and caprice, the skull hung over, button pushers

Radio story reflecting on 15 years since Michael Jackson's death means I graduated from college 15 years ago which means, I think, that time is broken

OpenAI admits ChatGPT just some kind of stupid ghosts in haunted data center

http://wares.lifewinning.com a gentle reminder that I make and sell plotter drawings, perhaps you would like one

(just got my monthly shopify bill so need to sell a couple items to justify continuing to have this online)

If there's one thing I've learned from years of struggling with suicidal ideation and depression it's to lie to everyone in your life about it

I don't have a problem with white yoga teachers who play contemporary pop music during class bc it's more honest than pretending there's anything "authentic" abt white people yoga, but they are being homophobic by not playing Chappell Roan this month

*watching The Holy Mountain with my boyfriend when the mountain appears* that's the mountain

Fucking off today and reading a novel just to feel something

Me taking care of important emails in the morning: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me getting responses to those emails a few hours later which I now have to act on: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

a semi secret project I have been attached to since January is now implicated in some kind of institutional shitshow that I only have a partial view into and it's very frustrating!!

Realizing my version of the "30 to 40 olives" meme is "buying two entire pies"

Thrown out of the bakery for saying to a family celebrating Father's Day with their baby "Something of a father to a daughter (person with a dog) myself"

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-77/ this week in sentences: cocaine, valedictory of grievances, ink, a giddy mass, the current direction, the pigeon decided, bruises, castles of cards, Swede-American

Maybe someone already pointed this out but the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Internet Observatory is/was Jeff Hancock, who I guess failed upward from Cornell where he co-authored the infamous Facebook emotional contagion study.

In 2015 he gave a talk at D&S defending the paper and himself w/"wow ppl didn't know FB manipulates things, how strange"

I don't mention this as a conspiratorial accusation re: SIO's closure, just a funny overlap

@thisisaaronland the museum is looking nice today (in town for a few days for a conference at Stanford)

For tax reasons I'm leaning more towards a Warhammer IRA

No one has proven that Glen Powell isn't something an LLM spat out after being asked to make a "leading man"

Mystery solved, it was stacy-marie! https://newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/i-heard-the-sea-and-asked-what-language-is-that/