Notices by Ingrid Burrington (ingrid@everything.happens.horse)

Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at urbanomnibus.net, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to develop into commissions on any broadly-defined NYC architecture and/or urbanism topics!

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

once again I am annoyed at being asked to provide some gestures of hope or "fixes" for my dissertation topic BUT this one of the last times I will have to feel this because I am revising the conclusion!! finding the silver lining as best I can

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"

now i have to take a little walk to decompress from having to say that fear out loud, ugh

oh my god it sucks having to say something so vulnerable to a congressional staffer to be understood, but I think telling my congressman's office that I'm scared they'll do nothing if my Lebanese Muslim partner (also their constituent) is disappeared made the staffer more sympathetic

relieved that in a work call today when I asked "does everyone else feel completely insane?" the response was pretty uniformly yes

Went on a tangent about minerals in class and a student said "the professor yearns for the mines"

The egg is objectively both the funniest and the absolutely most devastating foodstuff to have its supply chain collapse in the first weeks of a fascist regime

Saw someone reading Chappell Roan's new song on SNL as a stealthy Kamala endorsement ("she gets the job done" chorus) and I don't totally know how anyone could hear that song as being about anything other than the fact lesbians are better at fucking, ie the premise of most Chappell Roan songs

phd exams update: once again I am explaining why the global financial crisis and the war on terror set the stage for so much bullshit we're still dealing with and it makes me feel so fucking old

like: i am not going to get the job i am writing this teaching statement for, and that's fine probably, but it's such a bummer to remember that after getting all excited writing about how cool it is to see students come out the other side of a research rabbit hole

no one told me the worst part of applying for academic jobs is having to admit that I really love teaching!! i want to make spaces for the youth to be brave and curious it's so fucking cool. and also it sucks that most universities are actively disinterested in teaching as the act of making spaces for courage and curiosity bc they are basically hedge funds with a veneer of intellectual credentials

Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline

I know why this happens but am nonetheless annoyed by an open call for artist residency program critiquing "individualism and binary thinking" in which collectives are not eligible to apply

I was looking for an article summarizing the Facebook emotional contagion story from 2014 and in an absolute parody of 2010s millennial house style the NPR writeup from that time opens with "So, that happened."

@molly0xfff @anildash this is incredible thank u for your service of reading this entire stupid book

@pettter while I respect the guy and like a lot of his work I've been burned enough by high profile tech critic types who are lowkey much more interested in ripping people off for their own gain than building stuff up that I'm wary

respectfully: Cory Doctorow's definition of "means of computation" is too focused on software and thereby an incomplete approach to addressing the challenges he outlines

Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!