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
The regulatory architecture gestures toward individual functionalities but stops short of situating them within a broader understanding of systemic behavioural manipulation . No coherent framework compels providers to interrogate how their design logic —the orchestrated configuration of friction, salience, and reward—may itself constitute a source... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
In the absence of a regulatory duty to assess how a service elicits and sustains interaction , oversight is reduced to procedural formalism, concerned more with what is visible than how visibility itself is engineered .
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
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
The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.... See more
For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do
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The conflict of womanhood that I’m forever grappling with