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Ingrid Burrington

@lifewinning.com

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writer, artist, alleged geographer. had a beautiful dog for 5 1/2 years. https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. lifewinning.com is past work. wares.lifewinning.com for drawings. dissertation blog: placing.technology

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Madagascar military says it seizes power, suspends institutions

Colonel Michael Randrianirina says military taking charge of African island nation after president flees, is impeached.

www.aljazeera.com

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 4h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 4h

In 2014 I ran a daylong unconference on magic and technology and he just summarized it in one minute

Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 5h

There's actually a reason for that!

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 9h

Absolutely the funniest name for a food adjacent product imo

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 9h

Years of Lead Huel

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 9h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 9h

Pasting this thread into the conclusion of my dissertation lol

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 11h

My favorite part of NYC in autumn is all the impeccable fits, people breaking out absolutely terrific lightweight jacket looks today on the A train

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 11h

A trial program is testing if it’s better for disaster victims to receive cash assistance even before the emergency strikes: “If I get money from ‘GiveDirectly’ before the flood, I will be able to store food and arrange strengthening my house for my family and cow”

AI flood forecasting allows aid to reach farmers before disaster strikes

Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 12h

I think it's more "are we still doing the things GIS is mainly used for in the top down way we normally do it"

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 12h

to fix GIS, one must begin with the dictatorship of the proletariat (not really but lowkey I think in my utopian society GIS software as we know it doesn't exist so)

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 12h

frustrated with the feedback that my dissertation that documents bad things about the political economy of geospatial software doesn't propose a good alternative and debating just offering up Marxist-Leninism as a bit

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