Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

This week has been low on perfect sentence finds so if anyone's got submissions please share them!!

I understand why but it still feels weird that people really keep wanting to find the One Website to slot into what was twitter

working on the script for the next episode (Fairchild Semiconductor!!) and hoo boy it is PUNCHY because I am just so pleased to not be writing academic prose

"why am I struggling so hard to hit this deadline right before my mom has major spinal surgery" ha ha ha, good one me

calling open source software "digital infrastructure" is a scam to justify maintaining an unsustainable model of software development

oh I forgot, also the original version of a song I only know from this TikTok mashup: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamlimusic/video/7046678554544786694

- "Against the Odds" by Phil Collins
- That Moby song with Gwen Stefani
- That song from the 90s about not being aware of too many things

https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html "Katie McRobert, general manager at the Australia Farm Institute, said Australian farmers sourced their GPS signal from one satellite, which was a critical risk to rural industries."

why do people keep laughing when I tell them I'm doing a PhD because it's not like I have anything better to do

"K-means Kardashian"

the crimes I would commit to just make it so that nobody ever again used the term "journos"

if massive compute at scale is "the new oil" might be good to spend more time learning about all the insane poisons and shit that were commercialized (with minimal research into health/environmental effects) to justify the waste production that went into refining oil for gasoline

Victorian gentlemen would just huff weird distillates they made in a lab and be like "huh, guess this is chloroform now" and sell it to dentists a couple of days later, AI has the same energy to me

learning the deeply "fuck around and find out"-based history of organic chemistry makes a lot of what's happening with AI make sense to me

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-17/ the week in sentences: the blood of cream cheese, america's biggest export, the celestial hierarchy, a moral lecture, grammatical flexibility

me, having been awake since 5:30am and gone to Delaware and back in a day: why am I so sleepy

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog