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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As much as I find the verbosity of Lacan-adjacent writing abhorrent, I think there is something true he identified with the division into self/other. Self from a perceived lack generates desire to seek itself in the material realm: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacania...

Screenshot of first four paras of overview section of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacanianism#Overview

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The idea of God as the immanentization of human urge to create a surveillance panopticon hits hard. x.com/GamerGirlRez...

Reze (@GamerGirlReze) on X

I really need to play the original Deus Ex.

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I find buying into the narrative and playing a part in the AI accelerated progress to be counter to human flourishing overall, but that does not mean that something cool would not come out of this stream and it is to be aggressively thwarted / sabotaged.

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"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

While I love and admire their work into reconfiguring the basics of computing, I find their idea of sabotaging progress in things you don't agree with a bit problematic as there could be certain contexts in which AI could bring things unachievable before: www.youtube.com/watch?t=504&...

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YouTube video by Strange Loop Conference

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100R — permacomputing 101

In case you do not know about the work of 100Rabbits, they are a couple on a sailing boat attempting to change the face of computing as we know it: 100r.co/site/permaco...

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Find it based that HundredRabbits want to sabotage agents and reclaim human agency. Especially when many among us are trying to mimic the opinions around and attempting to do the easy thing of fitting in by looking at what our peers are doing.

Image from: https://100r.co/media/content/blog/per101_039.png

Screenshot from https://100r.co/site/2025.html excerpting “In the recent onslaught of slop, we are continually impressed and inspired by artists and developers who fight back against the machine learning spear that is pointed toward them. Choose human agency, sabotage agents! See you in 2026!”

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This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful accou…

I am continuing my excursion to understand the structure of the Buddhist teachings better and is almost nearing the completion of Walpola Rahulaʼs work which I think I will review soon: www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

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What the Buddha Taught

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Amazon.com: Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels): 9789381182291: Moore, Kieron, Nagulakonda, Rajesh: Books

Overall, I thought it was a really good effort and the part where Buddha uphold his Dhamma and continues his preaching to heal the world despite things going south in the kingdom towards the end was oddly uplifting!

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There are certain bits I donʼt agree with in the book like the gimmicks / magic tricks that Buddha performs to impress others. In my understanding he was more of a psychologist than a miracle worker. There are also some supernatural deities which could have been done away with.

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished reading Buddha: The Enlightened Life by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda. Thought it was a pretty decent read to understand the life of Buddha. It has got some super nice illustration style like this panel on his enlightenment. Itʼs on Amazon here: amzn.to/47lEnCc

Illustration from: https://x.com/rajeshcolors/status/757974377908604932

Cover art of Buddha: An Enlightened Life from: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fN2Zr6FhL._SL1500_.jpg

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Add to this, the perspective of Alan Kay on why he thinks LLM/ML techniques are counterproductive: x.com/prathyvsh/st...

Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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In his email reply to an article on latent space exploration of typefaces, he gives a deeply resonant response to how he sees AI as taking away human agency: dynamicland.org/archive/2017...

Screenshot of https://dynamicland.org/archived-emails/2017/11/email-DL2017-11-5be8be.html excerpting “I would argue that a tool … understood less.”

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it hasnʼt reached many in the Tools for Thought adjacent interface design / engineering circles but @worrydream.com thoughts on how reliance on AI is counter to human growth is well worth reading: dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#Wh...

Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why do you think AI can never become comparable to humans?

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to a Physics talk today and was surprised to find a total blackhole around Carrollian physics and geometry (inspired from Lewis Carroll). There is not even a Wikipedia page on it for a lay physics enthusiast even though the idea was unearthed as early as 1965!

Alice and Red Queen image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race#/media/File:Alice_queen2.jpg

Figure 2 from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.14812

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The authors show perspicacity in understanding the advantages of such craft practices despite this bias of seeing them only as instrumental. They identify two prominent concepts featuring in such practices: 1/ Untidy Data and 2/ Rich Tables.

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There is a prominent view in the scientific community that such data layouts are rather primitive and transient that are to be cleaned up and made conformant to formal standards. They only see the informal data work conducted in spreadsheets as a means to other ends.

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The objective of the paper is to understand the benefits of informal patterns of organization that is often seen in spreadsheet environments.

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Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables

Did a review of Untidy data paper by Lyn Bartram, Michael Correll, and Melanie Tory. The objective of the paper is to understand the benefits of informal/untidy patterns of organization that are frequently present in spreadsheet environments: prabros.com/bean/blog/un...

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Captures the salient features of informal data work that is conducted in spreadsheets. The authors outline the significance of untidy data and rich tables which is typically given a short shrift commo...

Recalled that I had curated this idea over here: x.com/prathyvsh/st...

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Another example proving P→(Q → R), (P ∧ Q) ⊢ R. Think mixing this with semantic zoom would be a fun exercise: bsky.app/profile/prat...

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Interactive Logic Prover
https://prabros.com/eris

Graph proving P→(Q → R), (P ∧ Q) ⊢ R

Textual representation
1 | P → (Q → R) | Assumption
2 | (P ∧ Q) | Assumption
3 | P | ∧ Elimination (Left)
4 | Q | ∧ Elimination (Right)
5 | (Q → R) | → Elimination (1, 3)
6 | R | → Elimination (5, 4)

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Same for me. I am from India. Hard work to keep up as the language shifts form and imbibe the proper idioms+stresses.

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Modus Ponens in the house. Now, I think I have a decent smattering of operators, introducers, and eliminators for this environment with which I can prove conjunctions, disjunctions, and implications.

Eris
Interactive Logic Prover
https://prabros.com/eris

Shows graph of the proof for (P∨Q)→R, P ⊢ R

Textual Representation
1 | (P∨Q)→R | Assumption
2 | P | Assumption
3 | (P∨Q) | ∨ Introduction (2,Q)
4 | R | → Elimination (1, 3)

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The double whammy is this loss of roots has a palliative in the form of social media spectacles of the rituals done performatively for the likes/shares/subscriptions metric. No need for the audience to touch grass and trees to get to the village to witness the events.

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I feel a major component of this loneliness epidemic and the ambient malaise of doom that people voice in social media stems from severance of roots to community with the tech moving us towards a global village where everyone is connected but no one has a grounded community.

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I am in one of those places in India with jagged gentrification. It is a big religious festival today, and it is odd to see only the lower economic strata have communal celebrations and rituals while the gentrified crowd is isolated in their apartments scrolling Insta reels.

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yeah, and as a paradigm and precedent, SF growth driven companies exert a disproportionate influence on our economic thinking by citing the innovation and influence of Jobs / Musk / Bezos / what have you.

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I agree that GDP is a poor measure, but in my understanding, that is what almost all major nations fly by and a great clincher as underlying assumption for many (most?) business deals. But especially so with Silicon Valley startups, for them growth is canon. For example: paulgraham.com/growth.html

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Startup = Growth

Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Isnʼt growth in GDP (or optimization of some numeric proxies) equated with progress in mainstream economics? Accelerating that is how technologists (who are largely aligned with this) propose to solve worldʼs ailments. Circular economy and degrowth are antithetical to this.

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interesting diagram on how the five aggregates (pañcakkhandha) that form the ontological basis for Buddhist thought interact. Feel there is an interesting structural schematic that can be built up on how the various concepts of Buddhist philosophy interact. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_...

Screenshot of the diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PancaKhandha

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

More oddly, I think all of this got birthed as we started tracking time and let go of the cyclical nature of time which the indigenous and South Eastern / Latin American cultures were intimate with. I think the rupture with nature came with linear conception of time.

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is this idea I am thinking about right now that the whole Western narrative of progress is counterposed with this idea of circular economy because to progress, it needs accelerating growth and this has to be powered by unscrupulous extraction of resources.

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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Did you see an attempt at a rebuttal here? x.com/BenShindel/s...