Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

realizing i'm going to likely cross paths with my PhD advisor at AAG. we haven't meaningfully spoken in almost a year at this point. debating pretending to have no idea who she is as a kind of high-level gaslight

https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026 one of my studiomates does design and comms for CultureHub NYC and aside from these events looking cool and fun I just want everyone to appreciate what a good job they did on the branding here, I love my talented friends

In a more just timeline Polymarket would be a dating app for insufferable board game nerds

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-166/ this week in sentences: chess, industry, bereft, folk horror, terracotta, insurance, Seventies, mirror, shark, malevolent, inky

wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song

Thinking that I might continue to spread this misinformation because it's very funny

Was explaining the Sweet Valley Twins YA books to an early 20s person and they believed me when I said the series ended in 2003 "because of the Iraq War"

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