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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 19h

A student called using AI for coding "gambling with coins made of cognitive debt". The kids are alright!

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 19h

Sometimes all it takes is a change of font on the terminal to feel wonderful and light - this time it is just the default font "SF Mono Terminal Regular" - the default terminal font on macos tahoe. Not sure how long this flirt will last, but am surely enjoying the moment.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 21h

"That which does not kill us, makes us stranger." - Trevor Goodchild

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MANJUL @manjultoons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instagram has restricted this cartoon in India. I am posting the cartoon again, along with the notice I received from Instagram. According to the notice, access has been restricted in India “pursuant to a notice from the Government of India / Law Enforcement” and based on local laws.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 28/09/2026

Scratching a curiosity itch about Daniel Hillis' work on evolving a 16-sorter using a genetic algorithm with co-evolving " "parasites" .. and the resultant "not understandable" program. (initial post) sriku.org/posts/16-sor...

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16 Sorting | Codaholic

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 27/09/2026

To believe you have to be evil in order to exercise "competence" is an utter failure of imagination.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 27/09/2026

I admit it. I'm here for great-cycling-infra-porn. Bring it on. Hopefully #Chennai will have an opportunity to move in that direction once the metro works start wrapping up and clearing up our roadways. In a couple of years, hopefully. Then I say we push for cycling and walking infra!

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 25/09/2026

CJP perhaps needs to be smarter about its ask for a resignation 'cos whoever replaces could be worse.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 25/09/2026

WNBA clips have been so fun to watch. Recently caught some MNBA clips and thought - "why is the video in slow motion?". Anyone else think so? The women's game just seems more brisk.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 24/09/2026

Currently it is just Useless Nations. The ones who left should form their own org.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Aha. The distinction between prophets and priests is one I've been obsessed with for decades. This is very, very preliminary sketch... wattstuff.wordpress.com/prophets-and...

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Prophets and Priests

Foreword: Jason Arday “Great and Unfortunate Things”My thoughts here were triggered by the book – Jason Arday was a prophet and the priests wouldn’t let him be. I’ll t…

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 24/09/2026

A new issue of Neon & Smoke is out, and one of my body horror story (cw) is part of it! Check out the issue and my story! The Arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar neonandsmoke.com/september-sm... #WritingCommunity #NewStory #Horror #BookSky #Horror

A story card with my photograph on top half (black and white photo of a bearded man wearing glasses)

And below is details.

Neon & Smoke
In this issue
Suvajeet Duttagupta
"The arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar" — fiction
September Smoke
Half genre • Always lit

Read it at neonandsmoke.com

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 24/09/2026

Deep rot: On the Election Commission of India’s functioning during its SIR www.thehindu.com/opinion/edit... "(EC) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected on record at least 14 times between [Oct] 2025 and [Aug] 2026 to decisions, many of which, they said, were taken without their knowledge."

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Deep rot: On the Election Commission of India’s functioning during its SIR

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar must resign and the Supreme Court must halt further deletions until the roll database is audited

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 23/09/2026

It's pretty neat that claude code works rather well with fossil-scm and uses its ticket system as memory and TODO list quite well. Now if the ticket content can be semantically indexed so they can be RAGged in, that could keep context requirements low throughout.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 23/09/2026

"How long before it dawns on us that the world we see no longer reflects the world we inhabit, that we are blind?" p193, Blindsight, by Peter Watts

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 23/09/2026

Awesome .. and 3% of NYC are DoorDash workers? wow! Something like about 1 DD worker for every 10 families? Swiggy apparently has ~50k workers across India. That's < 1/10th of NYC even if you assume they're all in one city like Chennai.

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 22/09/2026

“It tells every Muslim professional, every Muslim in uniform, that your identity is a liability & can get your career derailed overnight” IPS officer Bushra Bano's transfer for saying "Inshallah" is petty vindictiveness & malice, meant to terrorise @betwasharma.bsky.social writes Link 👇

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 19/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLA... In part 2 - "I only wish you look at me ... the way you look at goats" 😆

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Star Trek but it's an Unhinged Foreign Film (Bad Subtitles)

YouTube video by Picard Looking

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 18/09/2026

Category theory folks - what materials did you use to learn category theory in the first place? I ask because I've had serious trouble gaining proficiency with it, with many starts under my belt. It feels like the payoff per vocabulary item internalized is really low. At what point does it ignite?

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 18/09/2026

Designing a "new" programming language now comes with the additional burden of having to also train a language model on it for coding? Just saw bend-lang.com .

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Bend

Bend: a fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 16/09/2026

got woken up by kid's alarm in the middle of a scrary dystopian scifi dresm. Details went poof.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 16/09/2026

reminded me of this time when kid latched on to Bjork's "Joga" without lyrics (then not yet at reading level) and confidently sang "endotional lunch games" for "emotional landscapes", thanks to Bjork's unique voice and pronunciation. (we love Bjork)

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 15/09/2026

There seems to be an epidemic of Indian right going "give credit where credit is due" .. sounding almost like an acknowledgement that much of credit taken didnt really accrue to them. (ykwita)

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 15/09/2026

yoga teacher instructing relaxation - relax your legs relax your hips relax your back relax your shoulders your neck ... now ask yourself why all of those were tense. :)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super excited to share "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". How differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what *is* "structured concurrency"? Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper: cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven mo...

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 10/09/2026

Is spending $22.5m to win a $1m prize representative of the business sense of the "AI" companies?

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 09/09/2026

Somebody please make a font named after her so she can finally play herself as well! Legend!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

All the plastic humanity has ever produced is ~10 billion tonnes. Humans emitted ~10 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere in the first three months of 2026. When we appreciate orders of magnitude, we see how intractable the CO₂ problem becomes once we dump it into the atmosphere.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this essay is so good and definitely several lines from it could describe either techbro “stoics” or MAHA acolytes—and the roots of all these things strikingly related in the power systems they reinforce

Cover of audiobook for Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through ancient literature by Emily Wilson. Chapter titled Chill Out With The Stoics

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 07/09/2026

#Chennai #cycling enthus - you can take your cycle on our suburban trains in the vendor cabin by buying an "extra fare ticket" for the journey from the ticket checker at the venue. The staff were themselves ambiguous about this, but the station master's office at Central station helped me with it.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 07/09/2026

Some time ago, Apple put out a non-AI ad with Hitchcock inspired visuals regarding browser privacy - youtube.com/watch?v=jom8...

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Apple - Flock (Case Study) | Campaign

YouTube video by Campaign Unpacked

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 07/09/2026

IEEE 2030 technology megatrends - futuredirections.ieee.org/wp-content/u...

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New draft regulations would require all ground solar and onshore wind facilities in India to be paired with two-hour co-located storage at 10% of the installed capacity, for all plants commissioned after 1 July 2027, increasing to 20% and four hours from 1 July 2029. Out for comment now.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 04/09/2026

going whee! that's it!

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