Dvij Mankad

Why is every other app advertising itself as "Duolingo but for X"? Has anyone had a positive experience with Duolingo?!

Anyone interested in gleaning true information from the internet is going to have to cultivate a trusted collection of sources rather than relying on search or social media. Dare we hope for a renaissance of the RSS reader?

People really need to stop being weird about AI. Like criticize but be cool about it? I think that's possible?

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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It'd be a perfect way to remind the world of what Gandhi was about: yes, non-violence, but also excellent PR.

Tavistock Square: Gandhi statue defaced in London days before his birthday Officials in London have said that they are looking into the reports but haven't identified anyone responsible yet.

As an almost Gandhian, I think Gandhians in London should clean up the statue before offering treats and additional paint to the vandalizers, and repeat. share.google/IV3vG5EL6kx0...

Can we not use "AI" as a replacement for "video games" or "computers" or "smart phones" to cry about how a new generation is different from ours?!

My prior credence in any statement strongly violating the "kids are alright" conjecture is very low. Very much like the kids, the conjecture has proved to be quite resilient.

Why are there so many brosphere podcasters copying Rogan's studio aesthetics but not enough particle physicists wearing all black?!

Journalism.

Too soon.

Yeah, I was thinking the same but there is nonetheless a broader trend of steady decline in crimes -- including those for which there is no alternative method that opened up since the 90s, e.g., the knife attacks that the quoted post is talking about.

Does the Catholic church support the inclusion of gay and queer people in the institution of marriage? Most religions are inherently right wing! I'm glad there are liberalizing forces within religions, but the whitewashing is a bit hard to swallow.

I think the title should have been "AI is not another abstraction because God does (should?) not play dice."!

Next up. Kittens are cute to people everywhere. 😒

Psychologists can finally take solace in the fact that someone is using even more dubious statistical methods. @verybadwizards.bsky.social.

People who used to complain that Twitter is bad for mental health (before 2022), how's the lack of it working out for your mental health? 😒

Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025) Even with everything happening in the Middle East right now, even with (relatedly) everything happening in my own family (my wife and son sheltering in Tel Aviv as Iranian missiles rained down), ev…

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We're supposed to believe that the company that can't get an auto-complete extension right is going to give us fault tolerant quantum computing?

The need to break up the tech companies has never been so catastrophically urgent.

Wow.

Why is Google force-feeding me the AI slop *across the board*? 😭😭😭 I don't need an AI answer when I am trying to look up an address or the working hours of a shop!

2FA is literal trolling. I need to go somewhere and you're blocking me unless I solve your stupid riddles!

People who say consciousness is needed to collapse wave function should roll out the theoretically unbeatable captcha based on their brilliant idea or shut the fuck up!

Fair enough. Maybe he could've been a progressive hero despite being a Pope, but yeah, he's certainly being caricatured.

Do we have to pretend that Pope Francis was some progressive hero? He was, and I can't emphasize this enough, the literal Pope!

If your company shows me "external" ads on YouTube, I'll never buy whatever you're selling even if I need it to save my life.

Just buy the ad-reads from the content creators themselves, it's significantly less annoying and presumably targets the demographics much more precisely.

Bayesians have the most severe case of victim complex. Look around, almost everyone is a Bayesian, you won. Stop crying.

YouTube video by SiliconNews Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You!

Also, it hurts the worst actors in tech: Microsoft and Nvidia. So: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWz...

YouTube video by Computerphile DeepSeek is a Game Changer for AI - Computerphile

This genuinely sounds great! youtu.be/gY4Z-9QlZ64?...