Philip Borenstein

@pborenstein
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🍸 a person familiar with the matter

mining my lousy childhood for art


webhttps://pborenstein.com
techhttps://pborenstein.dev
homeManchester, NH
It's a minority view, but I think the Star Wars franchise should've stopped after Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Preparing to move house means culling the shelves of books I meant to read but haven't for over 20 years. All of Pynchon gone. Anything that's on Project Gutenberg gone. 99% of my O'Reilly books gone (that one hurts).

I'm giving Infinite Jest another 10 years though.

"That’s one thing that’s the same in all timelines. People are afraid to be honestly afraid with each other." https://reactormag.com/this-is-not-my-timeline-j-r-dawson/
This Is Not My Timeline - Reactor

A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.

Reactor

welp, I got laid off.

if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey" #GetFediHired #NLProc #NLP