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divya

@divya@sfba.social

Formerly https://sfba.social/@divya on twitter. A transplant from #chennai via #singapore and #seattle in #sanfrancisco. தமிழ். Love bending the arc of Justice towards a more equitable world for all beings.

I cook often, take care of plants and a rescue dog. Love birding, sewing, woodworking. These interests are funded by my tech job in #cupertino.

Tech engineering manager by profession. Previously: project manager, web evangelist, web developer, sales executive, device driver engineer.

#nobridge

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molly0xfff, to random
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“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

GossiTheDog, to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

shekinahcancook, to sustainability
@shekinahcancook@babka.social avatar

These U.S. Cities Have More Parking Lots Than Housing - They paved paradise again and again and again.
by Frank Jacobs, Big Think May 17, 2024

"...On average, about one-fifth of all land in city centers is dedicated to parking. But what’s the actual harm being done by all that parking space? For one, city centers that are more “parkable” become less walkable. In other words, fewer things are casually accessible.

...Americans’ attitude toward driving is changing. The share of high school seniors with a driving license has dropped from 85.3% in 1996 to 71.5% in 2015. The rise of shared, multi-modal, and (soon, they keep promising us) autonomous mobility will further reduce the need for driver’s licenses, individual cars, and massive parking facilities in city centers.

Perhaps it’s time for American cities to become denser, more lived-in, more walkable—and less “parkable.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/parking-lots-in-cities-usa

ai6yr, to random

Thanks, no thanks! (And my name's not Peter!) #Random

ai6yr,

ps. Cruise ships are an environmental disaster. https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-cruise-ships-are-bad-for-the-environment/ #climate #cruiseships #cruising #tourism

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Since about 2014 I've been paying to subscribe to WaPo. I've never thought I was getting my money's worth, and now with the association with News Corp and this AI news (if true), has me just about convinced that my association with the paper is just about finished: The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI https://futurism.com/washington-post-pivot-ai

timrichards, to random
@timrichards@aus.social avatar

That's odd. The UK election is being held on the USA's Independence Day, while the US election is being held on the UK's Guy Fawkes Night.

Don’t know if we can draw anything from that, but it's curious...

Toastie, (edited ) to random
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Funniest thing I've read all day:

"the United States is committed to serving as a model in the international community in promoting and protecting the collective rights of #indigenous peoples as well as the human rights of all individuals."

https://www.achp.gov/sites/default/files/whitepapers/2018-09/AnnouncementofUSSupportfortheUNDRIP.pdf

Toastie,
@Toastie@journa.host avatar

Imagine a foreign power said they were gonna bulldoze Gettysburg or Arlington Nat'l Cemetary to extract minerals for their economy back home. Told, not asked.

Say the US objected, and the foreign power invited the US to fill out a complaint form explaining why these are traditionally considered "sacred" lands to the local people.

Then the foreign power bulldozed them anyway, offering Americans bulldozing jobs as "mitigation."

This is what the US does to people. TODAY. Every day.

ashleyspencer, to ADHD
@ashleyspencer@autistics.life avatar

The Awkward Yeti comic.

Sounds very 😄

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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listening to the new serial pod season about Guantanamo and learning many things, including how one of the prisoners they profile was kind of a regular guy until he became incensed by Israel’s occupation of gaza, joined Al Qaeda and reported to the guy who planned 9/11. I mean y’all it really is this straightforward

https://pca.st/episode/c3a020e8-f8c9-4e16-b203-01c2b93e6b25

sarahtaber, to random
@sarahtaber@mastodon.online avatar

Fun fact: for every cow there's an equal & opposite bean.

Photo of a bowl of black-eyed peas

sarahtaber,
@sarahtaber@mastodon.online avatar

Last but not least: for the Scottish highland cattle, we have the trailing fuzzy bean. Yes it's got luscious locks and YES it's edible.

Photo of trailing fuzzy bean specimens on a notepad of graph paper. The pods are dried and starting to twist open, and have dropped a few beans out that are now lying next to the pods on the graph paper. Each bean is slightly cylindrical, dark brown, and has a fuzzy coating of light brown hair.

carnage4life, to random
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$60 million well spent licensing that Reddit data for AI use.

nwchapman, to random
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Yes, it was a Boeing https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/united-boeing-737-diverted-19474460.php

zackwhittaker, to random
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NEW, by me: The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a consumer-grade spyware app called pcTattletale.

pcTattletale was seen stealthily and continually capturing screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest information and reservation details.

This was discovered because a security researcher found a flaw in the spyware is exposing these screenshots to the internet, not just the spyware's intended users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers/

blaft, to sciencefiction
@blaft@mastodon.social avatar

A favourite at Indie Comix Fests: PORTALPETTAI by Avakkai & Chukka is a portrait of a diverse South Indian community and its resilience in the face of an alien life force intrusion. In the sequel TROUBLE IN PORTALPETTAI, the gang goes to visit the Geargleplex! And in SAMUDRA RANI & THE MAA-LEES, a group of gardener robots are marooned on a distant asteroid, centuries in the future...

#Quirk #ScienceFiction #Zines #Dinosaurs #AndhraMeals #Robots #Vines #GiantLeeches

https://www.blaft.com/products/portalpettai

yanone, to random German
@yanone@typo.social avatar

In green: Countries that recognize Palestine.
In gray: The “international community”.

ifnotnowboston, to random
@ifnotnowboston@mastodon.social avatar

The Harvard protestors bravely stood up for freedom and justice for all.

The Harvard faculty steadfastly stood up for freedom of expression.

The Harvard Corporation stands for genocide.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/harvard-corporation-overrides-faculty-vote-disciplined-seniors/

cydonian, to random
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“When you put all of these stories together, a clear picture emerges. The Indian government has developed a repertoire of tactics for repressing criticism abroad, and is currently deploying all of them as part of a campaign of intimidation in the United States. Human rights activists, experts, and Indian American community organizers are aware of India’s efforts and speak of its campaign as an everyday concern for themselves and people they know.

Which means it’s probably working.” https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

timnitGebru, to random
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social avatar

1954: “we have machines which, if they were for the first time discovered by animal psychologists, would be said to think in the way animals do.”

1958: machines that “will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself & be conscious of its existence.”

2024 👇

kottke, to random
@kottke@mastodon.social avatar

A Massachusetts “millionaire’s tax” (extra 4% tax on $1M+ incomes) has earned the state more than $1.8 billion in income for fiscal 2023. That’s about double the estimates and the funds will be spent on education and transportation. https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-05-21/millionaires-tax-revenue-reaches-1-8-billion-on-pace-to-double-estimates

PlinyTheOlder, to random
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Christina Cauterucci spent six months digging into the archives in SF and elsewhere to put together a podcast series for Slate’s Slow Burn. It’s about the Briggs Initiative in 1970s California, an anti-gay ballot initiative that would have forced Californians to ban out gay & lesbian teachers from public schools, and fired any pro-gay teachers as well.

Gwenn Craig and Harvey Milk were major players in the anti-Briggs movement, which ended up causing a generation of queers to come out to their friends and families. The Briggs Initiative ended up failing. Three weeks after that election, Dan White assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone in City Hall.

This article by Cauterucci is a pretty good explanation of why she felt it was important to tell this story 45 years later.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/slow-burn-season-9-gays-against-briggs-launch.html

taniel, to random
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NEW: Minnesota has ended prison gerrymandering.

Dems have passed the reform after years of trying.

The practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located has long distorted power. But Minnesota is the latest in a wave of reforms. https://boltsmag.org/minnesota-ends-prison-gerrymandering/

ianRobinson, to cricket
@ianRobinson@mastodon.social avatar

The first game of the T20 Cricket World Cup is:

Sunday June 2

USA vs Canada - Grand Prairie, Texas (1.30am UK Time)

erictopol, to random
@erictopol@mstdn.social avatar

An authoritative, comprehensive 5★ review on masks for reducing respiratory infections, by
Prof @trish.greenhalgh and colleagues
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

shrinkthinks, to random
@shrinkthinks@spore.social avatar

I love working through thought puzzles. Seeing where systems of thought overlap, intersect, amplify each other.

Not a lot of people like to play such games with me, but I’m grateful when I meet them

This is a puzzle I’m in the middle of. I’m working on it tonight if you want to join in

https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/community-discussions

peachfront, to Birds
@peachfront@toot.community avatar

109 frickin' degrees on this beach, my toes have learned to levitate

Black-headed Weaver, Djoudj, Senegal

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