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

The delivery was flawless.

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

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.

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

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

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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

A variant of this also plays out here - where people post something sans context, assuming their audience knows what they're talking about. No link, no post ref, nothing. Its a way of excluding some audience I suppose, but it saddens me nevertheless.

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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 · 26/09/2026

There was even a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger played a pregnant man.

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

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we have an analogy today perhaps - LLMs are useful not because we have one for math, one for python, one for english poetry, one for chemistry etc. It's all mushed into one with varying levels of competence and that mushing is what's of value. We can't get such independent things to be as useful.

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Who is T.N.Seshan's protégé? We need them asap on the seat.

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.

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

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

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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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This is a lot of "he said she said" but what's the point being made?

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

Ted Chiang's metaphor of an LLM as a "blurry jpeg of the internet" sort of captured it for me. The picture needs to evolve with human input for it to be useful, somewhat like the internet itself, except now there is another corporation inserted in between.

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

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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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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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.

"Now I think the opposite: they can put new languages to work, and they have demonstrated more than ever the need for rich PLs" kind of like google translate perhaps enabling coexistence of spoken languages rather than their extinction through uniformity.

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"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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A factor is that not all of those being compensated are perhaps *currently* DD workers.

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

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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“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 · 22/09/2026

Wondering if this makes it more opaque (as in making human examination harder).

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 22/09/2026

Not yet poked around it, but looking forward.

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 21/09/2026

plussed to the list

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 19/09/2026

What gives me heart is kids' reaction to ai gen content in public spaces - saw a restaurant ad billboard (static) that was obviously generated and kid went "that is aaai".

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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.