Ingrid Burrington
@lifewinning.com
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
the animal hospital gave my dog fentanyl when she had major surgery
President Trump announces that he is declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
the animal hospital gave my dog fentanyl when she had major surgery
Good news, my dissertation manuscript was deemed "defensible" and I can notify the department of my defense date
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Good news, my dissertation manuscript was deemed "defensible" and I can notify the department of my defense date
once again it is "telling people my dad died on Christmas so no I don't really have holiday plans" season
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
once again it is "telling people my dad died on Christmas so no I don't really have holiday plans" season
Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at @urbanomnibus.bsky.social, 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!
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at @urbanomnibus.bsky.social, 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!
Watching The Big Short, which for a week Ramsey has been calling "the money movie"
December 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Watching The Big Short, which for a week Ramsey has been calling "the money movie"
Having a lot of conversations that bottom out in "unfortunately and as you may know, capitalism" lately
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Having a lot of conversations that bottom out in "unfortunately and as you may know, capitalism" lately
It's the most wonderful time of the year (time to remember A People's History Of Tatooine)
Although I do laugh out loud every time I think about @dansinker.com tweeting “That’s just how they walk, man!” about Obi-Wan saying it’s sinister the Tusken people walk in single file
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year (time to remember A People's History Of Tatooine)
buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: credibility, cough, soil, wallpaper, golf, annoying, sisterhood, daisy
December 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: credibility, cough, soil, wallpaper, golf, annoying, sisterhood, daisy
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Devastating realization that the rapidly increasing retirement age means I may never have someone attempt to recruit me for one last job
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Devastating realization that the rapidly increasing retirement age means I may never have someone attempt to recruit me for one last job
me: hey man how's it going
scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war
scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
me: hey man how's it going
scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war
scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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a newly murdered thing of the sea
December 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
a newly murdered thing of the sea
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Doesn't seem like corruption at all, I'm sure this is okay.
Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine - High Country News
Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation sold water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
www.hcn.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Doesn't seem like corruption at all, I'm sure this is okay.
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“If the complexity makes measuring the water use of a given data center difficult and contingent, isolating the effects at the level of a single user or prompt is nearly impossible.”
new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“If the complexity makes measuring the water use of a given data center difficult and contingent, isolating the effects at the level of a single user or prompt is nearly impossible.”
Was reminded of a Gen Z media artist trend I love which is using Google Sheets as a personal website or CV when I hit a Gemini popup like "get deeper insights from this spreadsheet" man these are cells of mostly GIFS
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Was reminded of a Gen Z media artist trend I love which is using Google Sheets as a personal website or CV when I hit a Gemini popup like "get deeper insights from this spreadsheet" man these are cells of mostly GIFS
Going to be so pedantically mad if the dumb "Pax Silica" international critical minerals supply chain agreement doesn't actually include silica or high purity quartz in its priority minerals
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Going to be so pedantically mad if the dumb "Pax Silica" international critical minerals supply chain agreement doesn't actually include silica or high purity quartz in its priority minerals
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just taking this opportunity to re-up this post ali-alkhatib.com/blog/destroy...
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
just taking this opportunity to re-up this post ali-alkhatib.com/blog/destroy...
Just saw a TikTok of Martin Shkreli, George Santos, and Anna Delvey at a party together and honestly if you told me it was a nightmare AI prompt I'd believe you
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Just saw a TikTok of Martin Shkreli, George Santos, and Anna Delvey at a party together and honestly if you told me it was a nightmare AI prompt I'd believe you
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Going to boost this one again. This CYOA ending to the Cave of Time slaps ever harder in this age of 18% Gray AI slop
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Going to boost this one again. This CYOA ending to the Cave of Time slaps ever harder in this age of 18% Gray AI slop
Old enough to remember when the Time person of the year was You and the cover had a shitty little mirror
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Old enough to remember when the Time person of the year was You and the cover had a shitty little mirror
Every time they add a new celebrity to Fortnite their soul actually gets trapped in the game, at which point the body of the celeb in the real world is remotely piloted by teams at CAA
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Every time they add a new celebrity to Fortnite their soul actually gets trapped in the game, at which point the body of the celeb in the real world is remotely piloted by teams at CAA
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: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :
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Anyway, back in September, Media Justice produced a great report about data center refusal efforts in the South, historically one of the biggest targets of environmental racism in the U.S. The AI boom is the latest chapter in that history
The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South - MediaJustice
Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as...
mediajustice.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Anyway, back in September, Media Justice produced a great report about data center refusal efforts in the South, historically one of the biggest targets of environmental racism in the U.S. The AI boom is the latest chapter in that history
Last night I went to the opening of a little show of final projects from a data visualization class taught by someone who was in my CS Ethics class in 2019 and I highly recommend getting to see your students become educators!! Extremely cool
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Last night I went to the opening of a little show of final projects from a data visualization class taught by someone who was in my CS Ethics class in 2019 and I highly recommend getting to see your students become educators!! Extremely cool
Didn't really do much to commemorate it but as of today I haven't had a drink in 12 years, pretty cool
December 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Didn't really do much to commemorate it but as of today I haven't had a drink in 12 years, pretty cool