Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Not proud that my first thought hearing a song lyric about turning trees into "toothpicks and twenty dollar bills" was "American currency is a cotton rag paper blend"

Karl Marx failed to predict brain worms

I don't really have it in me to explain dhh to academics but wow, Rails is an amazing example of how corporate adoption/absorption of FOSS is so much messier than simplistic enclosure metaphors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-10/ai-s-5-trillion-data-center-boom-will-dip-into-every-debt-market-jpmorgan-says it's giving "don't worry they're triple A mortgages"

Bummer that the closest anyone gets to a prize for posting is something as diminutive-sounding as a "Webby"

"Sage grouse" is such a good name for a bird and also how I imagine being described by others, wise but also complaining pettily now and then

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-150/ this week in sentences: stray dogs, shining, mustard, bovine noises, salt, faith, ghosts, marrow, objectively, adversaries, private life, subjective, riled up

Never understand the news headline structure of "X is quietly doing Y", I mean they're not doing it quietly anymore if you're posting about it like that

I think encouraging more museum heists would solve the male loneliness crisis

Conclusion submitted!! It is very short (3975 words) because I am running out of brain cells and also one of my committee members said that 3-5K was totally fine

Still waiting on comments from my advisor on the introduction but like...almost all of the pieces exist in some form, ahhhhh!!

We are dogsitting for the week and overhearing Ramsey talking to the dog reminds me how much I miss having one

Guy at the corner store said he sold out of the "Red Apple" NY Post in an hour, people are obsessed

Oh my god I'm so relieved

I'm so afraid to hope for a good outcome!! Big millennial vibe I suspect

the author could sign the newsletter "xy xy geo gossip girl"

A good name for a gossip newsletter about geospatial tech scene stuff stuff would be GeoGossipr

https://overturemaps.org/announcements/2025/overture-maps-foundation-names-william-mortenson-as-new-executive-director/ sorry to geo/dissertation post and also uh, pretty interesting that a former geoint guy is the new ED of the "all the big tech companies that aren't Google maintaining a business-friendly version of OpenStreetMap" project

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-149/ this week in sentences: rings, fossilized, violin, devout, by means of, metaverse, Mr. Bean, but/and, money hole, raccoons, penguins, sieve, more or less, bacteria, expertly, amoeba

I've been struggling with the conclusion partly bc I'm worried my advisor is going to veto my dead white guy pick for a theory grounding (Polanyi, with some assists from the very much alive Keller Easterling and Anna Tsing) which is maybe paranoid of me but we'll get there