Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool

I'm something of a supply chain risk myself

now that I have (against my will!!) learned what "Clavicular" is I can say that I'm pretty sure he would be a minor villain in a William Gibson novel

William Gibson's concept of The Jackpotmaxxing

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-165/ this week in sentences: kevlar-swaddled, giraffes, computer, gum, 4.53billion, laughter, negotiation, celibate

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-164/ this week in sentences: blur, smoothie, competent, walls, seismometers, hypothesis, weird sled, pervy, cows, backstory, shipwreck, rectangle, night

I Who Have Never Known LLM Chatbots

have a good https://wernerherzogvalentines.com/ weekend everyone

also: the answer is pretty obvious, please don't try to blow up data centers, it's un-strategic and you'll probably just get entrapped by a fed

thinking about the choices I've made that lead to me being the person editors contact with the question "why aren't people blowing up data centers"

just asked my mom who is recovering from a partial knee replacement how her pain levels are and she said "my pain is only existential" in case anyone wondered why I'm like this

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b?st=nN851D&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink I am a sucker for fiber cable manufacturing content and also "corning's stock hasn't risen like this since the dot com bubble" isn't reassuring

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-163/ this week in sentences: disclosure, beware, spreadsheet, radar, abyss, bedewed, pleasures

Ramsey just found out that the song "Midnight at the Oasis" was not written for Waiting for Guffman

ah the classic "forgot to eat until 4pm and eating somehow makes you more sleepy"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-162/ this week in sentences: menace, chaos, loop, onesie, worm, thus, understood, before reality, potato, dissolved

still slaps

found out one of my colleagues at the new job is a Brad Neely fan, big breakthrough in building rapport

I understand the rationale but it's still really disappointing to hear so many people just take the "AI isn't going to go away so you should just learn and adapt to it" position, like man animal cruelty at scale hasn't gone away and people are still vegetarians

the only body cams I want democrats to support are the ones used by sex workers