Ingrid Burrington

Sometimes I think about how Alan Tudyk went to Julliard and wonder about who at Julliard mentors the silly guys, like who prepared Alan Tudyk to voice act as a chicken

2024-11-10 02:35:38

Coping by watching Bottoms

2024-10-15 12:09:46

Kitty passed away suddenly last night. We think it was a stroke. We were with her, at least. I loved sharing her on here and I'm glad so many people loved her. She was a very special dog and my world feels dimmer without her.

2024-09-04 19:58:53

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

2024-08-31 19:32:56

once again remembering how Aaron Sorkin wrote in the big boy newspaper that the DNC should nominate Mitt Romney for president

2024-07-01 19:59:56

Dying empire summer really going off, I see

2024-05-13 19:08:49

making an AI that identifies everyone's emotion as "angry" and using Bruce Banner in the demo to trick investors

2024-04-30 00:42:36

One of my students did their final project for CS Ethics on decarbonizing the power grid and made a working model of a utility pole as part of their presentation, like the transformer worked and everything. I love teaching engineers

2024-03-09 16:50:43

Worried I'm going to get thrown out of the movie theater during Dune 2 for chanting "Worm! Worm! Worm!" every time a worm isn't on screen

2024-03-06 15:40:22

We need new metrics for AI electricity use, like a ChatGPT exchange equals how many minutes of rendering The Bee Movie

2024-03-04 15:42:35

Wild times in the dying empire

2024-03-01 20:51:59

Remake all the Marx Brothers movies with the Skarsgård brothers, you cowards

2024-02-13 21:50:26

"CRISPR Baby would be a good rapper name"

2024-02-02 14:11:49

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@npub1ykg…g4jv the data center is still a Christmas tree farm it just does all the compute on LED Christmas lights, which is definitely technically feasible

2024-02-02 14:07:22

Hallmark Christmas movie where a tech executive comes from the big city to get an AI data center built on the town Christmas tree farm

2023-11-17 21:43:58

Countdown to Altman starting an Ethical AI think tank with a ten-month fellowship program

2023-11-16 16:21:33

Ever been so depressed the panhandler stops midway through the ask to check if you're okay because you just look so sad

2023-10-17 21:03:58

haha I called my congressman's office to ask him to join the call for a cease fire and nearly started crying! (Dan Goldman was literally in Israel the weekend of 10/7 and has posted his extremely uh anti-cease fire position online, so didn't have much hope of persuading but fuck's sake man)

2023-09-09 15:10:50

You know how people always say "you can't really know what's going on with someone just based on social media" that's not true for me, a depressed person

2023-09-02 21:58:38

Maybe learning about the "science wars" of the 1990s just feels weird because as a millennial I grew up with constant reminders of the socially constructed conditions of technical knowledge in the form of authority figures clearly pushing total horseshit? Like between the Iraq War UN hearings and the climate change "debates" it seemed hard to pretend otherwise

2023-08-16 16:57:07

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/little-paper-guys-an-overview-of-corporate-personhood new RIP Corp! This one is more of a high-level episode getting into the concept of corporate personhood.

2023-08-10 13:12:59

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!!

2023-07-16 19:26:54

it's very petty of me but one of the comments on my grant proposal was that critiquing the tendency toward Great Man narratives of computer history is "overdrawn and out of date" and I'm sorry, in a world where people think Elon Musk is smart there is definitely still value in critiquing Great Men narratives imo??

2023-07-15 15:14:44

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.

2023-07-15 14:55:26

Thrown out of brunch for calling marriage "a throuple with the state"

2023-07-13 13:37:40

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

2023-07-11 18:59:04

I've used them and all but honestly it is not clear to me that bookshop dot org is genuinely better on a warehouse labor conditions level than Amazon? But would be happy to be told they are actually good and fair employers or whatever

2023-07-09 16:01:14

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-28/ this week in sentences: gaping wounds, the only infirmity, scabrous, secret passages, methamphetamine armpit

2023-05-23 21:54:17

earlier today I was in a conversation about how tech could support climate justice movements and I believe I deserve a little treat for showing restraint and not saying "cyberattacks on oil and gas infrastructure for sure"