Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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second set of riddles (phd exam questions) complete
phd exams update: once again I am explaining why the global financial crisis and the war on terror set the stage for so much bullshit we're still dealing with and it makes me feel so fucking old
But doctor, I am Lexapro
received my second set of wizard riddles (qualifying exam questions), wish me luck
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-95/ this week in sentences: ghosts, born and born and born, tempts, boxed in
quals update: working on an essay section titled "The poverty of economics in understanding the economics of poverty" this must be how Karl Marx felt after putting a sick burn on Proudhon
Wizard riddles update: I requested questions from my most annoying committee member first and they are pretty goofy but not actually hard?
Today the council of wizards (my committee) will send me my first set of riddles (exam questions), please send vibes
i understand why a pet insurance company would make their hold messaging emphasize working with you to avoid canceling the plan, but for the recently bereaved it is a bit harsh
it feels sort of insane that I'm doing my quals the same week my fucking dog died but realistically I won't be less devastated in a week and it's more tiresome to have it hanging over me. but god, what a bleak time.
Kitty passed away suddenly last night. We think it was a stroke. We were with her, at least. I loved sharing her on here and I'm glad so many people loved her. She was a very special dog and my world feels dimmer without her.
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"I couldn’t accept the moral calculus that prioritized the academic freedom of some U.S. and Israeli faculty over every other moral consideration, including the rights of the Palestinian people to be free from illegal occupation, free from violence, free from apartheid—and no less free to pursue research, scholarship, and learning than their Israeli counterparts"
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-94/ this week in sentences: gravity forgot itself, enhanced by the chancy, over a poem, pious disciplines, basically disreputable
https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ this came up a lot in interviews when I did fieldwork in Taiwan in 2022. Glad to see it getting more coverage
Feel like I'm flickering between wavelengths of reality most days
two of my fellow PhD students have been making a schematic of metals used both in building missiles and in renewable energy tech and they used a gradient background that I definitely called "bisexual lighting" on a zoom call just now, and no one got the joke
please respect my privacy in this time
Ingrid Burrington
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A source in Lebanon tells me that there have been two mass roundups of Syrian refugees at Beirut's Martyrs' Square since Saturday. The Syrians had been displaced by Israeli airstrikes & were on the streets with scores of other IDPs. The source tells me she is certain that Syrians were targeted, because police went around asking people for identifying documents, presumably to avoid arresting Lebanese.
The Saturday arrests began late, around 22h00, just after journalists had left for the night.
phd stuff
sent out my exam memo!!! it's happening!!
Ingrid Burrington
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Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
I like our side.
Ingrid Burrington
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Phosphogypsum, a solid waste byproduct from processing phosphate ore to make chemical fertilizer, contains #radium, which decays to form #radongas. Both radium and radon are radioactive and can cause cancer. #Phosphogypsum can contain toxic #heavymetals and other carcinogens, such as #arsenic, #cadmium, #chromium, #lead, #mercury and #nickel
Photo: Polluted waste from Florida's fertilizer industry is in the path of Hurricane Milton
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law
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