Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

there's also this @brewsterkahle blog post from 2014: https://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/08/corporations-are-the-1st-generation-ais/

trying to figure out the origins/earliest reference to the clever observation that corporations are a form of "artificial intelligence"--the 2018 @cstross CCC talk comes up a lot in citations; I first heard it from @dymaxion in 2014 but years later she attributed it to Stross, so maybe he'd been working on it for a while before the 2018 CCC

happy may day everyone!!

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-18/ this week in sentences: brings love to bear, unrealistic expectations, magic potions, more than capable, nerds, bees

"do I want a bluesky invite or do I just want someone to tell me I'm cute"

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