Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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academia gripe
look, getting a funded MA was pretty sweet and at this point if I want to try for a PhD somewhere else I will, but going into academia was always a means to the end of "getting paid to write and make cool shit", not the end in itself. mostly the bummer is I do really like my advisor and enjoy working with her!
academia gripe
my advisor told me she hoped I had plans to "decompress" tonight as I (mostly) wrapped up my stupid grant proposal and like, I am entirely certain that I'm not going to get this grant?? So instead of "decompressing" I think I am "looking for a job because there are no other avenues for funding my PhD so I'm dropping out" hahahaha
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oh so *that’s* what betting on the next pandemic looks like.
apple shitpost
a great time to double down on headset technology that has consistently failed to obtain widespread adoption is definitely during a recession
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everyone enraptured, watching an apple, the same apple, begging for crumbs
OK I'll bite: what's a "personality"
I am going to probably be posting about the BlackBerry movie a lot so I apologize in advance but did we all know that Glenn Howerton aka Dennis from It's Always Sunny went to JUILLIARD
there is a kind of skinny guy character actor who will always and forever have my heart, and I have simply made my peace with that
"Jay Baruchel is the Harry Dean Stanton of Ottowa" does not sound like a compliment but I most assuredly mean it as one
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-23/ this week in sentences: saltwater taffy store, bruises, all interconnected, moon, where the vampires hang out
the Phoenix metro area limiting housing construction because of water supplies being reported without any mention of the giant new TSMC fab being built there annoys me on a visceral level
look I know it was just his last name but "Kelvin" sounds like MidJourney trying to draw a Kevin
making Ramsey watch the original Clone High so we can watch the reboot and man, that show is a very rich time capsule of 2002 vibes (a personal favorite reference: "say hello to the next Bubba Sparxxx")
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today i learned the NLRB reversed a ruling in which union reps could be disciplined if they used ✌🏻uncivil language✌🏻 during discussions with management
which means today i learned there was apparently a ruling in which union reps could be disciplined if they used ✌🏻uncivil language✌🏻 during discussions with management https://labornotes.org/2023/05/biden-labor-board-restores-right-use-heated-language
Ryan Gosling was actually saying "Hegel" in all those memes, it's a common misunderstanding
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Eating disorders, union busting
Hey, remember last week when it came out that NEDA was starting to use an AI chatbot to replace humans that provided advice to people with eating disorders?
Two things: First, they had to roll that back because (shock!) the bot was giving actively harmful advice, including directly encouraging disordered eating: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff
But… it gets worse: (1/2)
working on the methods section of this research grant and I know I can't keep this but 1) I laughed and 2) it's true, this has worked with students
embarrassing realization, work
I think I need to talk to a career coach
AI discourse shitpost
I'm sorry are the computer boys just finding out about the extinction event we're already living through or
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