Vineeth Surendranath
@vineeth.bsky.social
i think i do science. leukemia diagnostics at the DKMS Life Science Lab in dresden. fruitfly transcriptomics in a previous life. photography in a previous life. i used to run a cafe in dresden, germany, also in a previous life. 🌈🏳️⚧️
Idk why everyone is so shocked - more people should read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People - A Story Of Where I Used To Work
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Idk why everyone is so shocked - more people should read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People - A Story Of Where I Used To Work
In today’s @nytimes.com Flashback 🥹
This is one of my favorite things to do every Sunday - www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fl...
This is one of my favorite things to do every Sunday - www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fl...
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
In today’s @nytimes.com Flashback 🥹
This is one of my favorite things to do every Sunday - www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fl...
This is one of my favorite things to do every Sunday - www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fl...
All these against/at AI saber rattling people are a tad reminiscent of The Gods Must Be Crazy, no ?
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
All these against/at AI saber rattling people are a tad reminiscent of The Gods Must Be Crazy, no ?
A delightful 4+ hours riot of an interview through the *history* of computers
And with this delicious line “And what's his name, Stallman?” 😁, also where he pours cold water over tying the origin of open source to *nix
The repartees at many places are so giving - lovely
And with this delicious line “And what's his name, Stallman?” 😁, also where he pours cold water over tying the origin of open source to *nix
The repartees at many places are so giving - lovely
My oral history interview with Ken Thompson -- of Unix, C, Go, computer chess, and other fame -- for the Computer History Museum and the ACM is now online!
computerhistory.org/blog/a-compu...
computerhistory.org/blog/a-compu...
A Computing Legend Speaks
Ken Thompson, one of the foremost programmers and computer scientists of the last 50 years, shares stories about his life and career in a newly released oral history.
computerhistory.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A delightful 4+ hours riot of an interview through the *history* of computers
And with this delicious line “And what's his name, Stallman?” 😁, also where he pours cold water over tying the origin of open source to *nix
The repartees at many places are so giving - lovely
And with this delicious line “And what's his name, Stallman?” 😁, also where he pours cold water over tying the origin of open source to *nix
The repartees at many places are so giving - lovely
Strands #503
“Hot enough for ya?”
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It must have been the excruciating weather that I lived through this last week in Kolkata that had me find all the words in a flash (pun intended) 🐒🌚
“Hot enough for ya?”
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It must have been the excruciating weather that I lived through this last week in Kolkata that had me find all the words in a flash (pun intended) 🐒🌚
July 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Strands #503
“Hot enough for ya?”
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It must have been the excruciating weather that I lived through this last week in Kolkata that had me find all the words in a flash (pun intended) 🐒🌚
“Hot enough for ya?”
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It must have been the excruciating weather that I lived through this last week in Kolkata that had me find all the words in a flash (pun intended) 🐒🌚
Strands #470
“Key notes”
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wasn’t hard, but i am chuffed about this
“Key notes”
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wasn’t hard, but i am chuffed about this
June 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Strands #470
“Key notes”
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wasn’t hard, but i am chuffed about this
“Key notes”
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wasn’t hard, but i am chuffed about this
What a devastatingly brilliant book this is - more once I am done
It goes on the list of things I insufferably thrust on people I like
It goes on the list of things I insufferably thrust on people I like
June 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What a devastatingly brilliant book this is - more once I am done
It goes on the list of things I insufferably thrust on people I like
It goes on the list of things I insufferably thrust on people I like
“LLMs and LRMs are fundamentally probabilistic models—not deterministic reasoning systems.” 🤦🏾♂️
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.” / “The world is everything, that is the case” 🤪
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.” / “The world is everything, that is the case” 🤪
June 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“LLMs and LRMs are fundamentally probabilistic models—not deterministic reasoning systems.” 🤦🏾♂️
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.” / “The world is everything, that is the case” 🤪
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.” / “The world is everything, that is the case” 🤪
Reposted by Vineeth Surendranath
Why couldn't basil plants have the tenacity of mint?
June 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Why couldn't basil plants have the tenacity of mint?
if you were a fan of the danish The Killing and Sofie Gråbøl, I’d highly recommend Matthew Goode in Dept. Q on @netflix.com - masterful, and so well written - damn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hK...
Dept. Q | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
if you were a fan of the danish The Killing and Sofie Gråbøl, I’d highly recommend Matthew Goode in Dept. Q on @netflix.com - masterful, and so well written - damn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hK...
So I am watching Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino - (the fantafabulous color palette aside), this feels like the love child of Derek Jarman and Carlos Reygadas; And such brilliant acting
Like the opening scenes are so yankingly reminiscent of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94d2u6
Like the opening scenes are so yankingly reminiscent of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94d2u6
Motel Destino - Trailer (English Subs) HD
Dailymotion video by Moviepilot
www.dailymotion.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
So I am watching Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino - (the fantafabulous color palette aside), this feels like the love child of Derek Jarman and Carlos Reygadas; And such brilliant acting
Like the opening scenes are so yankingly reminiscent of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94d2u6
Like the opening scenes are so yankingly reminiscent of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94d2u6
A good read for anyone doing academic or academic adjacent writing and not just in philosophy
Nonfiction and Narrative Popular Philosophy via @hiphination.bsky.social #philsky
Nonfiction and Narrative Popular Philosophy (guest post by Barry Lam) - Daily Nous
"The design features that make for good academic philosophy might make for terrible public philosophy..." The following guest post* is by Barry Lam, associate professor and chair of philosophy at Vass...
dailynous.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A good read for anyone doing academic or academic adjacent writing and not just in philosophy
phew! brilliant brutal interview - kinda reminds me of Tim Sebastian’s Hard Talk days
really brutal chotinering right here www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.
www.newyorker.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
phew! brilliant brutal interview - kinda reminds me of Tim Sebastian’s Hard Talk days
Am absolute riot of a book - scary af; brilliantly written; affirms my choice of not being on facebook since a few years; and now i am thinking i should get off insta and whatsapp as well
And that acknowledgment of David Runciman from @ppfideas.bsky.social - very much in character
And that acknowledgment of David Runciman from @ppfideas.bsky.social - very much in character
April 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Am absolute riot of a book - scary af; brilliantly written; affirms my choice of not being on facebook since a few years; and now i am thinking i should get off insta and whatsapp as well
And that acknowledgment of David Runciman from @ppfideas.bsky.social - very much in character
And that acknowledgment of David Runciman from @ppfideas.bsky.social - very much in character
Idk- I am not a political or legal analyst - naive thought - El Salvador is signatory to the Rome Statute and subject to ICC jurisdiction, can some other signatories not file a case against it forcing it not to take Trump’s beastly exports ?
April 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Idk- I am not a political or legal analyst - naive thought - El Salvador is signatory to the Rome Statute and subject to ICC jurisdiction, can some other signatories not file a case against it forcing it not to take Trump’s beastly exports ?
This is a beautiful read in @parisreview.bsky.social
- memories of an unlived future, and being a vicarious fellow traveler in times past - even have a tea towel I was sent from one of these places; and despite the melancholy, it wraps me in a fuzzy warmth
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...
- memories of an unlived future, and being a vicarious fellow traveler in times past - even have a tea towel I was sent from one of these places; and despite the melancholy, it wraps me in a fuzzy warmth
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...
The End of Roadside Attractions - The Paris Review
“Is there a connection between dinosaurs and Jesus? When it comes to roadside attractions, the answer is yes!”
www.theparisreview.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is a beautiful read in @parisreview.bsky.social
- memories of an unlived future, and being a vicarious fellow traveler in times past - even have a tea towel I was sent from one of these places; and despite the melancholy, it wraps me in a fuzzy warmth
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...
- memories of an unlived future, and being a vicarious fellow traveler in times past - even have a tea towel I was sent from one of these places; and despite the melancholy, it wraps me in a fuzzy warmth
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...
Brilliant read in @nplusonemag.com by
Greg Afinogenov
“There is no humane border regime, just as there is no humane abortion ban.”
To be read in conjunction with Coetzee’s On The Origins Of The Nation State in his Diary Of A Bad Year
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-32/pol...
Greg Afinogenov
“There is no humane border regime, just as there is no humane abortion ban.”
To be read in conjunction with Coetzee’s On The Origins Of The Nation State in his Diary Of A Bad Year
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-32/pol...
Society as Checkpoint | Gregory Afinogenov
The constant document checks on buses and trains, whose racialized criteria are evident in cell phone videos, build on the methods of Joe Arpaio to paint crosshairs on people of color regardless of do...
www.nplusonemag.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Brilliant read in @nplusonemag.com by
Greg Afinogenov
“There is no humane border regime, just as there is no humane abortion ban.”
To be read in conjunction with Coetzee’s On The Origins Of The Nation State in his Diary Of A Bad Year
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-32/pol...
Greg Afinogenov
“There is no humane border regime, just as there is no humane abortion ban.”
To be read in conjunction with Coetzee’s On The Origins Of The Nation State in his Diary Of A Bad Year
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-32/pol...
Science is a very human enterprise - I used to shout myself hoarse back in the day when giving public outreach talks
Social mediaizing science is a subversion of the scientific process imo
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Social mediaizing science is a subversion of the scientific process imo
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Fraud, arrogance, and tragedy: the case of Doctored
Over the past few months, investigative journalist Charles Piller has published—eg,
in The Daily Mail, The New York Times, and Science—multiple reports of supposed historical
fraud in Alzheimer's dise...
www.thelancet.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Science is a very human enterprise - I used to shout myself hoarse back in the day when giving public outreach talks
Social mediaizing science is a subversion of the scientific process imo
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Social mediaizing science is a subversion of the scientific process imo
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
April 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
so good
On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge.
On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.
On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
so good
This is so good - @philipgoff.bsky.social being brilliant as ever
Why the mystery of consciousness is deeper than we thought via @philipgoff.bsky.social
The Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought
Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with “pain-pleasure” zombies i...
www.scientificamerican.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is so good - @philipgoff.bsky.social being brilliant as ever
they will erase your words
that is your curse
you can think your words
that is your gift
if you forget your words
that is your trial
that is your curse
you can think your words
that is your gift
if you forget your words
that is your trial
March 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
they will erase your words
that is your curse
you can think your words
that is your gift
if you forget your words
that is your trial
that is your curse
you can think your words
that is your gift
if you forget your words
that is your trial
Reposted by Vineeth Surendranath
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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I have never seen such a low % of people solving - 77
Wordle 1,370 6/6*
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