Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-178/ this week in sentences: compliant, sand, forever, disappointment, quests, doppler, procured, witchcraft, outlier, honks, spite, elastic

Sitting in on final crits at RISD because I'm an external committee member for a student here and it's just so cool to see students making their extremely specific weird beautiful projects!! This is what we live for

(I am not at the gala because I am in Providence so I can go bright and early to a RISD grad student's final thesis review because I am a diligent external committee member)

glad I made choices in my life such that a colleague just sent me an email that reads "WHY AREN'T YOU AT THE GALA?!?"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-177/ this week in sentences: working, pebbles, prophecy, heart, tradition, dare, underpass, 'butthole', doubtless, grease-surfing, scurry, exhaustion, pertinent

humanity dot ai was probably parked and expensive, but just do humanity ai dot com or even a dot network or dot tech would be better than humanity ai dot ai

why did the philanthropists doing "what if AI was good for people" funding under the header Humanity AI make the website domain humanityai dot ai

it's of course not the whole picture but have been thinking about LLMs as dissociative coping strategy in a time of profound and widespread grief—like, there is a part of me that 100% gets wanting to turn your brain off for a while and check out but unfortunately my hard-won sobriety says no

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-176/ this week in sentences: vulgarity, futuristic, custard, town, flattering, strategy, third wave, exhaustive, contingent, waffling, branded, servants, divorce, necromancy, shark

https://placing.technology/belatedly-yes-i-finished finally did a post on the dissertation blog about finishing the dissertation and maybe using the blog for other internet-is-real-place work I'm up to rn

as kindly as possible it is hard for me to get stoked on "people's data center" and public compute discourse when there are people living adjacent to data centers who actually just need inhalers for their kids

I am starting to think I need to make a formal process for Perfect Sentence submissions because I am having trouble keeping track of the many different channels they come through at this point, apologies to anyone who has felt slighted

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-175/ this week in sentences: tension, On Record, fish on cocaine, universe, safe, detergent, lugubrious, remains, days, change, peeing, marvel

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-174/ this week in sentences: becoming, properly, antipoem, malfunction, mujahedeen, periscope, sunless, legit, flattened, orb, velveteen rabbit-ass, Swedes, barracuda, Stamford

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-173/ this week in sentences: feeling, glacier, or cocaine, volley, future, nubiform, loftier, Dr Pepper, poetry, orb, machine

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/what-happened-to-pensions RIP Corp x @oddletters crossover event, this is not a drill

Just saw Stellan Skarsgard signed some petition about better protections for artists from AI and man, that should not be any of his business I'm sad Stellan knows about AI

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-172/ this week in sentences: violence, pre-credit-card, provincial, construction, mirror, mistakes, THE SUN, shrimp, earnest, concede