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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

moderation is hard, but i’m much more sympathetic when moderators err (i think) in the direction of being overly permissive than when they err (i think) by banning someone.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2d

Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not only have I never seen Star Wars, I've also never heard of it.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 3d

Damn, the cropping is misleading here. I'd prefer that quoting a quote post would show the quoted quote as well.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 3d

bsky.app/profile/haya...

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 3d

dumb assholes like this are why the world sucks shit

Fortune @fortune.com · 3d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 4d

I turned my thread on Ai from earlier this eevning into a blogpost. jwmason.org/slackwire/ac...

Actual Intelligence – J. W. Mason

jwmason.org

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 4d

I wish it weren't so. I hope Bluesky gets bigger. I wish Elon hadn't ruined Twitter, yet nothing has recreated what it was and perhaps nothing will. The world wants TikTok slop. The short text form is moribund. It was a fluke that it ever got big in the first place, but it only did so at Twitter.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 4d

This part of the audience is annoying, and increasingly a problem, but it remains the case that there is a much larger joke-receptive audience there than I find here.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 4d

The audience for my jokes remains much larger there than here.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 4d

Twitter in 2025.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

The essence of being a normie liberal with Trump Derangement Syndrome is being dismissed as unserious by people like me for being correct too quickly.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

I'm bad with names. In my head, I refer to everyone by a unique numeric ID. That unique numeric ID is 27844.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

Not that it's done much good anyway. No one in power cares about atrocities regardless.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle, but one consequence of the rise of generative AI will be that, as people come to realize that video can no longer be trusted as proof, we will lose the ability to document atrocities in an indisputable manner.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall is survived by one son. Paternity testing has revealed he shares 98% of his DNA with a chimpanzee.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

I understand pushing back against, say, someone who feels Boolean algebra is the be-all, end-all and no one should ever consider Heyting algebra. That would be misguided of them. I don't think one makes strong headway in this pushback by suggesting it is a matter of communism vs. anti-communism.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

It makes me think of Lysenko calling genetics bourgeois. (Though it's not quite as bad as all that, because it's not like Heyting algebra is wrong and Boolean algebra is correct or vice versa.They are just different things one can think about. There are even other things one can think about too.)

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

To call Boolean algebra bourgeois is as silly as calling abelian group theory bourgeois. It's a thing one can think about, that imposes a further familiar axiom on top of another more general thing one can also fruitfully think about. Tying revolutionary politics to these things is silly.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

*do _with_ being

Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

But I don't think you're an asshole. I feel a disagreement with the things you are saying, but it is not of that kind.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

Be, uphold, whatever. I do not consider Boolean logic bourgeois, in itself. Come on now. It's just another part of logic/mathematics.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

You can call this my refusing to engage, but I might call it my engaging by disagreeing with your perspective. You are giving your perspective, and I am giving mine.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

And I particularly don't think the bigotries in political power are significantly driven by whether mathematicians or analytic philosophers spend more time studying Heyting algebras or Boolean algebras.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not quite sure what you're saying, but I agree as a point about the philosophy of logic that, e.g., mathematical truths are not externally determined for us to discover a la Platonism. I just don't think this has much to do being bourgeois.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

I'm politically aligned with leftists and mathematically I most frequently work within intuitionistic logic, but this kind of talk makes me roll my eyes.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 5d

The essence of being a normie liberal with Trump Derangement Syndrome is being dismissed as unserious by people like me for being correct too quickly.

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