Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying tech law and policy, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
This comic speaks to my soul right now.
Second-order regulatory maturity entails more than extending existing duties—it requires reimagining platforms not as passive hosts of content, but as engineered environments whose very structure determines the distribution of risk, attention, and agency. Absent this evolution, the regulatory model risks collapsing into performative governance : ad... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
It means that if you yearn to be free of a particular relationship and you feel that yearning lodged within you more firmly than any of the other competing and contrary yearnings are lodged, your desire to leave is not only valid, but probably the right thing to do. Even if someone you love is hurt by that.
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Maybe it’s not the achieving stuff that makes us happy, but rather the act of chasing after achievements. Most people need to feel that they are contributing to society. At least for me, when I try to picture my ideal days, it doesn’t matter if I’ve accomplished anything in the past. But my visions always involve working towards some kind of goal i... See more
dynomight • Nobody optimizes happiness
It’s almost like boredom doesn’t exist, like difficulty doesn’t exist, scarcity doesn’t exist. And a feeling I’ve been having a lot lately is that scarcity is often what creates meaning. When you’re surrounded by infinite possibilities, when you know around the next corner is another video that might be funnier, you’re never going to sit with the t
... See moreSo that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they becom... See more