Sid Srivatsan
@sidsrivatsan.bsky.social
Finance bro and aspiring journalist writing about global politics, history, and business
Swarthmore '20
Swarthmore '20
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One of the worst massacres of protestors in probably a century and Europe can't be bothered to do anything except tell the US to intervene and the US can't even effectively intervene because half of the God damn navy is off the coast of Venezuela. Just unbelievable
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
One of the worst massacres of protestors in probably a century and Europe can't be bothered to do anything except tell the US to intervene and the US can't even effectively intervene because half of the God damn navy is off the coast of Venezuela. Just unbelievable
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If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots
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A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
(Unlocked article below)
At Middlebury, She Hoped to Start Fresh. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
(Unlocked article below)
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At this point, I just kinda assume the status quo will hold, and that this entire episode will ultimately amount to little more than content production and performative posting
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
At this point, I just kinda assume the status quo will hold, and that this entire episode will ultimately amount to little more than content production and performative posting
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Trumpism is the worst of the last 50 years of Republican politics, amped up, legally unbound, and garnished with some noise and nonsense about tariffs. That's all it is and all it's ever been.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Trumpism is the worst of the last 50 years of Republican politics, amped up, legally unbound, and garnished with some noise and nonsense about tariffs. That's all it is and all it's ever been.
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What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
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“Network” premieres today in ‘76
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Network” premieres today in ‘76
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
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while the headline indices have barely moved off the highs, the carnage in the low quality hype stuff like quantum computing, nuclear energy etc is quite something just month to date:
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
while the headline indices have barely moved off the highs, the carnage in the low quality hype stuff like quantum computing, nuclear energy etc is quite something just month to date:
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"you will recognize here precisely the same clipped, decontextualized, link-free, moronically breathless style of tweeting deployed by “financial news for low-trust illiterates” accounts like Unusual Whales or ZeroHedge (or, for that matter, in a slightly different arena, PopCrave)"
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"you will recognize here precisely the same clipped, decontextualized, link-free, moronically breathless style of tweeting deployed by “financial news for low-trust illiterates” accounts like Unusual Whales or ZeroHedge (or, for that matter, in a slightly different arena, PopCrave)"
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I spoke with Nobel prize winner Fred Ramsdell about conducting basic research in biotech, cell therapy for autoimmune disease, and more
(I also learned he was briefly a theater major)
Read our conversation in @endpts.com:
endpoints.news/qa-nobel-win...
(I also learned he was briefly a theater major)
Read our conversation in @endpts.com:
endpoints.news/qa-nobel-win...
Q&A with Nobel winner Fred Ramsdell on basic research in biotech, and the future of cell therapy
Fred Ramsdell, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi, spoke with Endpoints on Monday about the 'surreal' honor, cell therapy for autoimmune diseases,...
endpoints.news
October 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I spoke with Nobel prize winner Fred Ramsdell about conducting basic research in biotech, cell therapy for autoimmune disease, and more
(I also learned he was briefly a theater major)
Read our conversation in @endpts.com:
endpoints.news/qa-nobel-win...
(I also learned he was briefly a theater major)
Read our conversation in @endpts.com:
endpoints.news/qa-nobel-win...
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wow she is bringing a new kind of energy and vision to the news business
a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative
could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there
a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative
could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there
New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.
Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).
Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).
October 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
wow she is bringing a new kind of energy and vision to the news business
a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative
could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there
a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative
could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there
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I spoke recently with @sidsrivatsan.bsky.social about scientific integrity.
Sid did a fantastic job putting these problems in their historical and societal context. I hope you give the podcast episode a listen!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/the-con-me...
Sid did a fantastic job putting these problems in their historical and societal context. I hope you give the podcast episode a listen!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/the-con-me...
The Con Men of Science: A Conversation with Dr. Reese Richardson
Paper mills, scientific fraud, and the decline of public trust in scientific institutions
faultlinesessays.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I spoke recently with @sidsrivatsan.bsky.social about scientific integrity.
Sid did a fantastic job putting these problems in their historical and societal context. I hope you give the podcast episode a listen!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/the-con-me...
Sid did a fantastic job putting these problems in their historical and societal context. I hope you give the podcast episode a listen!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/the-con-me...
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As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.
September 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.
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As much as American media would like to pretend otherwise, the biggest and most consequential news story of the week is Trump voluntarily blowing up our relationship with our most pivotal ally in East Asia
Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
As much as American media would like to pretend otherwise, the biggest and most consequential news story of the week is Trump voluntarily blowing up our relationship with our most pivotal ally in East Asia
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The first actually insightful thing I’ve read about Kirk:
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The first actually insightful thing I’ve read about Kirk:
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What (and I cannot overemphasize this) the fuck
September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What (and I cannot overemphasize this) the fuck
I wrote about rooftop solar, the climate crisis, and why it’s just another case of our economic system failing and breaking down. Check it out!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/rooftop-so...
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/rooftop-so...
Rooftop Solar and the Failed Promise of Financialization
A uniquely American story of how greed turned the climate crisis into a crumbling debt machine.
faultlinesessays.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I wrote about rooftop solar, the climate crisis, and why it’s just another case of our economic system failing and breaking down. Check it out!
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/rooftop-so...
faultlinesessays.substack.com/p/rooftop-so...
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Thinking a bit more broadly, one thing that comes out pretty clearly in the beating the Iranian regime has taken over the past two years that one hopes many countries are watching is how much better it is to be a friend of America than, say, Russia or China.
June 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thinking a bit more broadly, one thing that comes out pretty clearly in the beating the Iranian regime has taken over the past two years that one hopes many countries are watching is how much better it is to be a friend of America than, say, Russia or China.
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Could everyone stop with the Iraq War analogies?
This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.
This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.
June 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Could everyone stop with the Iraq War analogies?
This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.
This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.
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This is a distraction [dies in nuclear war].
June 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is a distraction [dies in nuclear war].
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A bunch of people have been doing the American campist version of this tweet since the first Israeli strikes
June 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A bunch of people have been doing the American campist version of this tweet since the first Israeli strikes
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People seem to be under the impression that if you just bomb other people enough you can just get their government to implode with no further steps.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
June 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People seem to be under the impression that if you just bomb other people enough you can just get their government to implode with no further steps.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.