Prabhath Sirisena

Co-founder & CPO, @hiveage (

[Alexandra Elbakyan @ringo_ring]

nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

The objective world appears to be a matter of common sense until you try to escape the subjective prison of your own senses.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The Store of Value Generation is Kicking Your Ass and You Don't Even Know it Yet !
https://t.co/7YQ7ueXFLr

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

In moments of uncertainty, when courage and strength are required, you find out who the true corporatist scumbags are.

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

@laktek Congratulations mate! Best wishes from your old clan :)

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

“Then he bowled one at the wickets and you should have heard the sound. The off stump went flying. Kumar aiya was laughing to himself on the way back because he didn't even see that ball. That was the start. That was Lasi's first leather-ball wicket.”
https://t.co/5mtTmYkdhx

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

“It feels kinetically uncool; it’s the posture of conspicuous tourists and safety-vested traffic cops. Third, the personal-injury lawsuits over these things are going to be spectacularly lit.

And yet I couldn’t quit the scooters.”
https://t.co/ocoIXT5VOI

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

more lines crossing…

[EFF @EFF]

Aadhaar, the world's largest biometric scheme, allows government and private companies to access and store Indian citizens' biometric data without their consent. The Supreme Court of India should shut it down. https://t.co/yVDMiq3LNr

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

@yudhanjaya It’s happening. (No, hadn’t seen this before).

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

This sounds like early user research for the Inequality Update in @yudhanjaya’s Numbercaste:
https://t.co/jEDoo4A2Sm

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

“The revelations about sexual abuse and misconduct – long overdue – have prompted a depressing combination of tropical neurasthenia and faux moral outrage.”
https://t.co/rV8EWbKFRX

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

Just brilliant, from @PriyamvadaGopal, responding to @wmarybeard:
“Your blogpost is . . . a series of postures of innocence and a continued refusal to analyse a problem in all its thorny difficulty.”
— https://t.co/NajuAMw4Zj

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

Of all things that could be said to salvage @Oxfam, comparisons with murdering babies in their cots should be the last thing in anyone’s mind. Incredible how such a veteran could be so tone-deaf—perhaps part of the problem!
https://t.co/AOGJEt9uob

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

Interesting interview with @jordanbpeterson by @GeenStijlTV: https://t.co/G3AVUSrO3l

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

Rare to see a Physicist (or anyone, for that matter) have such a strong grasp of Buddhist epistemology: https://t.co/pS701SxH9R

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

Fascinating exchange: https://t.co/CZWnF7i0iC

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

“It is time that we listened, a little more carefully, to what the real Adam Smith had to say.”
— https://t.co/PWlkS6LMki

[Prabhath Sirisena @seylonese]

@NalakaG The WHO claim on asbestos, including Chrysotile, is unequivocal. They advocate a total ban on all six types: https://t.co/2BxL541WYN