my 2024 highlights
- some of my friends had babies
- I worked with some artists to bully an art nonprofit into giving away a total of $60K to Palestinian artists and organizers
- the movie I Saw The TV Glow
- saw @kissane and fam IRL for the first time in 5 years
- Luigi Mangione happening
https://youtu.be/jnyyuxPBPeg?si=do8uDayAJ5Watf5a blown away that this was 13 years ago but as the year comes to a close and rousing anthems are needed here is one of my favorite performances of The Mountain Goats' "This Year", with guest vocals from Craig Finn. I was in the audience at this show, it was great.
It takes a lot for me to post anything about AI. This really must be stopped:
"the [Biden] White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of #AI #DataCenters along with power plants to fuel them. Environmental regulations would reportedly be eased to facilitate faster construction, and the power plants would be fueled by fossil gas"
https://truthout.org/articles/gas-exports-and-ai-boom-poised-to-spike-energy-prices-for-consumers-under-trump/
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-105/ this week in sentences: incomprehension, most sensual aunt, clarifying, regarding, nothing glamorous, so embarrassing, man-o’-war, avenue of research, proper amount
IRS goes after gig workers instead of billionaire tax dodgers https://boingboing.net/2024/12/27/irs-goes-after-gig-workers-instead-of-billionaire-tax-dodgers.html
sharing [www.miningartifacts.org](http://www.miningartifacts.org/) in case you enjoy lovingly crafted 1990s aesthetic websites for highly niche research interests
Absolutely wrecked because a friend's cat that has been in cat hospice mode for almost two months passed away today. it's not that I even knew the cat all that well, but it's the second friend whose pet died this year and I am so tired of people I love getting kicked in the teeth by the universe and I miss my dog so much and it reminds me of how much it hurts
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-104/ this week in sentences: the dogs of Venice, socialist-bloc cosmetics, teens and the insane, the hell of leisure, every toaster, a weed shop of the 2020s, nickel-and-diming, a pyre, flat dial tone