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
Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must
... See moreJulie Phillips • The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
Techniques such as friction asymmetry (e.g., seamless opt-ins but complex opt-outs), visual priming , confirmation bias exploitation , time scarcity cues , and gamified compulsion loops are not ancillary features; they are the core infrastructure of monetised digital interaction
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
Regulation that fails to interrogate the manipulative logics of interface design does not merely risk incompleteness; it risks legitimising exploitation. To prevent this, the framework must evolve from content-centric mitigation to design-centric accountability , embedding architectural manipulation into the core of risk assessment and requiring... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
Manifesto for a Humane Web
humanewebmanifesto.com
And I do think there is this way in which I would love the thing where I can kind of pay for the algorithm I want. And it does feel like we’ve backed into an internet now that is corroding. And I wonder how long that is actually sustainable for. It’s hard and it’s frustrating. And you’re a little bit locked in because you’ve built a million... See more
‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • How to Discover Your Own Taste
quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People
... See moreAmbition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in the world around you. It's about finding the place in The Current where your heart, mind, and gut resonate with creation. Ambition is about living life as an art of devotion to the Process and Pattern, making reality more beautiful with your participation than it would be without it.