Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

started looking at autoharps last night because I like the idea of an instrument that is so awkwardly shaped that I can basically hide behind it

why do people insist on talking about this stuff as though the companies building these tools aren't getting or trying to get obscenely rich

I am begging everyone who wants to tell me about photography and what-if scenarios with AI art to google "historical materialism", please, my family is dying

respectfully: even most of the people who think they agree with me are wrong!! lol

Sometimes at the dog park this guy with two tiny papillon dogs will come by. In my mind I call them The Little Lords, Launcelot and Fauntleroy, and they always skitter around the park as though they are encountering commoners for the first time. I love them and never want to learn their real names.

making a zine for Valentine's Day of just dedication pages from books I like

Feel like right now is a really horrible time for me to be realizing maybe I'm actually just a historian

A World Economic Forum? In this economy?

things I'm always amazed We're Still Doing when I'm reminded of them: CES, the World Economic Forum, the British monarchy

I hope Rian Johnson knows about the Glup Shitto meme

thinking more than is necessary about whether people trying to talk about AI art in terms of creativity and drawing inspiration to make something new are also people who violently hated The Last Jedi

I kind of left behind musing on influence and creativity and attribution after my freshman year of art school, but I realize that most of the people raising these questions are probably encountering them for the first time and think they are Very Interesting. Fine. Just feel like it's weird to talk about AI art stuff independent of like, power and money as though art exists somewhere magically unsullied by both.

I already muted the guy who prompted this reply over there, but cross posting this because realizing maybe I need to be more direct https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1615349937310400515

Freelance artists posting work online as a part of making a living aren't getting billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft to produce work. OpenAI is. None of those billions of dollars are going back to artists, who *will likely have less work bc of these tools.*

submitted a very late abstract for an academic journal article about rare earths as a plot device in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, am I doing academia right

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/skipped-showers-paper-plates-an-arizona-suburbs-water-is-cut-off.html I know it's a different part of Arizona AND ALSO feel like it's weird to not talk about all the industrial development underway in the state to expand US semiconductor manufacturing which is very water intensive!!

This week's best sentences: miscellany from the National Archives, an epigraph, an accordion, the conveyor belt of gentrification, soap: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-03/