Sid R.
Sid R.
@sid-ram.bsky.social
Just another transplant in NY.

All opinions/posts are personal and solely reflect my thoughts.
Reposted by Sid R.
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Tip for Bsky - mute anyone who exclusively discusses politics, and block anyone who posts something ghoulish or dehumanizing.

Politics don't count, but policy does. And anyone cheering human suffering or animal cruelty needs psychiatric help, not your attention.
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Sid R.
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Thread of books I've read recently:
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM