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

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!!

This book I'm supposed to be reviewing is really attached to framing stuff as what "we" take for granted or "our" way of life and I am having flashbacks to teaching industrial designers with @sparks bc we used to drive the students insane by insisting they be specific w/r/t the "we" language

truly incredible to be more afraid of a potential AI superintelligence than of actually existing ExxonMobil

Feel like an important but often unsaid aspect of critiques of decentralized protocol stuff is that centralization better facilitates celebrity/visibility and that some people want that. I say this as someone who achieved niche visibility on Twitter for a specialization and benefitted, I appreciate why people want it--often I want it! But there's shame about admitting to wanting celebrity that makes people go in circles w arguments against decentralization.

Joining the Unicode Consortium exclusively to advocate that the poop emoji be modified to give every option in the Bristol Stool Chart

"Note that you cannot simply say that you will build A.I. that only offers pro-social solutions to the problems you ask it to solve. That’s the equivalent of saying that you can defuse the threat of McKinsey by starting a consulting firm that only offers such solutions." get their asses Ted https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

@pettter Fisher is much more doomy; Graeber really approached life as a carnival most of the time

Love that feeling when my advisor tells me to read a bunch of Marxist theory and then instead I find something by David Graeber that explains it perfectly

like, oh THAT's structural Marxism, OK thanks

The Bandcamp app can do playlists now!!!