iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Gautam Kambhampati

ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 20h

If you are a popular politician and you just announce things people will support them because they are confident you are acting in their best interests.

2415

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 20h

Chicken tikka masala is a _British_ dish!

2243

Reposted by Gautam Kambhampati

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 21h

You can just do things

211115

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

This is the way. Personally I don’t generate an opinion until i take hours going through my unsorted notes again. That’s how you get the best hot takes

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Patenting is as much about stopping other people from doing something (or at least getting them to pay you for doing it) as it is about wanting to do something yourself

030

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Cannot believe this is a hot take in anno domini two thousand and twenty six

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

The Prime Directive and the Juridical Role of Starfleet Commanders in Maintaining Federation Hegemony

031

Reposted by Gautam Kambhampati

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

1154261

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

I would actually go so far as to say we’re not even really competing with the US. The US has such a massive domestic market that most US service providers aren’t that interested in export Which means the UK have (close to) a global monopoly on English-language professional services exports

130

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

another massive W for the DVD hoarders (me)

020

Reposted by Gautam Kambhampati

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.

622948

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 15/09/2026

Excited for London to have both a Lord Mayor and a Lord, Mayor

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 10/09/2026

This is an insane statement. They *were* foreign nationals leaving a coach! The mob was not actually wrong! The councillor is implying that the issue is they got the wrong kind of foreign national. If it has been a bus full of tourists? Would have have been fair game? What about intl students?

031

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 07/09/2026

Lying on the floor screaming “beard” at the TV is not very dignified it turns out (Only Connect…)

001

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 31/08/2026

Very happy that the latest issue of Tamarind is now out! It’s a fab read (even though I do say so myself…)

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/08/2026

The same wooly thinking that leads to them dreaming up incoherent ethical standards instead of using the laws the actually exist in the country (cf. plagiarism vs copyright infringement)

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/08/2026

Insane behaviour from The Public™️ “It’s not Alton Towers” well, quite!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In May a pair of charity hikers were met with jeers from a queue at the summit as they tapped the trig point to complete a charity challenge.
Jamie Richardson, 32, and Richard Thiedeman,
34, from Lincolnshire, were climbing Yr Wyddfa as part of the Three Peaks challenge to raise money for their friend who has motor neurone disease (MND).
"I was getting booed and then there was a gentleman who was at the top, who had just had his photo taken and he physically tried to stop me," Richardson said.
He said he had just touched the summit point and heard someone say "you should be ashamed of yourself".
Richardson added: "There's no policing of it at all, it is purely free will, if you want to queue you can.
"The queuing, that is just purely down to British culture traditions."

100

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 20/08/2026

Seems like this was about as terrible as expected.

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 18/08/2026

Glad to see the CPS is pursuing this using all available charges (cf. bsky.app/profile/gaut...)

120

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 17/08/2026

I do think academia has a real problem both with plagiarism and with what plagiarism actually is. There’s a reason copyright law stops where it does, and it’s the same reason why plagiarism is as a concept is incoherent to the extent it goes beyond that

100

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 14/08/2026

Well that scared the shit out of me

020

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 13/08/2026

This is fantastic, by @suscrockford.bsky.social I was - personally - particularly interested in the analysis of how society views scientists, vs how scientists view themselves, and how those conceptions interact with the sources of science’s legitimacy

A photograph of the cover of:

Crockford, Susannah (2026) A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World. Chicago University Press.

120

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 12/08/2026

Well that was fun 🔭 Loads of people in the park enjoying a Science Thing, what a great day

030

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 12/08/2026

Turns out total internal reflection inside the iPhone camera makes for a perfect eclipse viewer… (That crescent above the Sun is the Sun)

142

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 12/08/2026

ngl, @standupmaths.bsky.social being an official count agent for @countbinface.bsky.social was absolutely not something I had on my 2026 bingo card

054

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 11/08/2026

… vast and legless trunk of bronze?

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 11/08/2026

Perhaps if the Green Party stopped blocking solar farm developments that would help, thanks.

121

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 08/08/2026

Oh, so the over-leveraging of our higher ed sector on intl students is also to blame for the inflation of entry tariffs & all the undue pressure on 6th Formers? You mean it wasn’t just “grade inflation”?? It wasn’t just unis compensating for schools “dumbing down”??? Wha…?! Colour me shocked.

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 07/08/2026

Russia successfully attacked our prime minister’s private residence less than two years ago

130

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 06/08/2026

Finally migrated my PDS, now running self-hosted woooo 🥳

100

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 06/08/2026

This is going to eventually be an issue in any city region made up of multiple councils where the central/business area is run by a different council from the residential areas. Most of the people using council services are commuters or tourists but the voters are the handful of remaining residents

120

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 02/08/2026

Fucking finally someone in a position to do something has said the obvious. Now he just has to actually do it… 🤞

110

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 31/07/2026

“Not crisis is uncommunicable” Yep

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 29/07/2026

Really enjoying this new more relaxed and open style of government comms from Andy Burnham Such a big change that it must be a direction coming from the top - even Cooper and Baroness Casey speaking without any notes

130

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 28/07/2026

Exactly - which means the characters’ worldview (updated to make them “good”) doesn’t match their actions. This is the fundamental problem at the core of Nolan’s film Still a great film, 4/5 stars, but the *text* is fundamentally flawed

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 28/07/2026

This whole discourse has been Film People don’t understand character and Literature People don’t understand acting. The core of her critique is that changes made for the film mean characters’ motivations are incoherent with their actions. That is a good critique, and it’s also true

100

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 25/07/2026

The film was “what if the Odyssey, but Arthurian” Because Odysseus the chivalric knight would not have made the same decisions as Homer’s, Nolan had to strip him of agency, so we got none of his cleverness Instead shit just happens to him as a kind of purgatory for the “sins” he committed in Troy

110

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney truly speaking for the nation here

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 15/07/2026

If we had played like we did for the last 5 mins for the previous 20 mins we would have scored at least once more

030

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 15/07/2026

This is unbearable. Please, England

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 15/07/2026

Oooo fun Ed Davy dig at the SNP in PMQs lol “can I join the whole nation [England] and hopefully every nation [turns to look at SNP MPs] in wishing England well against Argentina tonight…”

010

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 15/07/2026

An official Binface endorsement from Starmer: “my advice is to put your vote in the Bin” 😂

000

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 13/07/2026

Obviously I am supporting Imperial in University Challenge, BUT Bristol did say 'entropy' didn't they??

130

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 10/07/2026

Lot of criticism of the typography of the writ, which is all valid But this is essentially just a boring bureaucratic document it’s quite endearing that we treat it with the same typographic care as any boring bureaucratic document (ie none) but also haven’t updated the language since the 1700s

100

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 08/07/2026

love our stupid country so much

010