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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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radhika, to random
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Does Sugar have any violence? Don't want to see another woman being struck across the face (like when I switched on the TV just now, lazy ass screenwriters).

divya,
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@radhika sadly yes.

divya, to random
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Turns out one of the evictors of the flower lady is an artist

https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/bernal-heights-flower-lady-evicted-last-year-into-near-homelessness-is-back-on-her-feet/

https://www.thetintgallery.com/artists/blanca-estela-rodriguez

divya, to random
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I just realized why I hate sitting under a man-made covering in hot sun and prefer sitting under a tree. It is so much cooler under a tree!!

jessamyn, to random
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A dispiriting drop-in time today.

  • a non-stop talker (asked a question, I started to answer, she interrupted, repeat)
  • a person who was probably drunk
  • An improbable ipad problem described but not shown to me (HOW)
  • a couple who brought in three badly broken pieces of tech, called their daughter to ask about one of the things, all I heard was screaming on the speakerphone ("Everyone ok there?" "Yeah, sure"). Like... look at this.

There was a cookie party downstairs which I missed.

But!

4 second video of an iphone screen which is blinking and showing a bunch of flickering items moving on a screen which should not be moving. Also there are 9500 unread emails.

divya,
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@jessamyn WHOAAA NOIIIS plate!

divya, to random
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Sequoia never learned their lesson huh.

"New: Sequoia and Bedrock led $85M investments into Mach Industries, a defense tech startup led by a teenager with a vision to make hydrogen weapons for the military."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/05/23/sequoia-bedrock-defense-tech-mach-industries/?sh=49361a0c6585

be, to random
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Conduct yourself in a disorderly fashion.

divya,
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@be omg I was wondering where you were haha. I totally couldn’t find you at all! Glad to see this toot!

divya, to random
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Once again, in India, if you are rich or a conglomerate, you can get away with any crime.

"On the night of May 18, the teenager and a dozen friends were at a pub called Cosie in Mundhwa. They arrived at about 10.40 pm and ordered drinks and food, racking up a bill of Rs 48,000 in 90 minutes. Cosie has now been sealed for serving drinks to a minor and its owner arrested.
The group left at 12.10 am and headed to Blak, a club at Marriott Suites in Koregaon Park Annexe."

Notice how this Marriott Suites club didn't get closed despite serving drinks to a minor

Two software engineers were killed by a drunk teen driving a Porsche

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/05/23/porsche-pizza-police-politics-the-midnight-deaths-of-two-techies-in-pune

divya,
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these rich people always blame their driver. Here is Salman Khan who spent barely any time behind bars for killing people through drunken driving

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32603596

divya, to random
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Glad jaywalking is no longer a crime in California because I saw an SFPD officer jaywalk on Tuesday and remembered when another one threatened me with citing me for jaywalking 7 years ago.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/22/on-the-bias-nypds-walking-while-black-ticketing-continues

divya, to random
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"Since last year, Synapse, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that serves as a middle man between customer-facing fintech brands and FDIC-backed banks, has had disagreements with several of its partners about how much in customer balances it owed."

Never trust startups claiming to be the next bank or whatever nonsense. Absolutely not.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/synapse-bankruptcy-customer-funds.html

divya,
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'Another customer, Joseph Dominguez of Sacramento, California, told the bankruptcy court on May 20 that he had more than $20,000 held up in his Yotta fintech account.
“We are scared that money will be lost if Synapse can not provide ledgers and documents to Evolve or Yotta to prove we are the legitimate owners,” Dominguez wrote. “We don’t know where our direct deposit has gone, we don’t know where our pending withdrawals are currently held.”'

divya, to random
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Why did Mozilla fire 250 people and then now trying to hire people?? (I know why). I dearly wish we had a union.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/5979676?gh_src=a037ef5f1us

divya,
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BTW they have 145-ish jobs open. They fired 250 people. Mozilla CEO gets paid at least $1 million for this amazing math.

skinnylatte, to random
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Colin Farrell’s ‘Sugar’ is one of the more interesting TV shows in a while

divya,
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@skinnylatte I told you lol

divya, to random
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ok so what I am learning from all the Sam Altman fiasco is that he has never shipped anything successfully and OpenAI is the only one that shows a chance of success. Did I get that right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

divya, to random
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Employers who install this deserve this hacking

"pcTattletale is sold under the guise of child and employee monitoring software, but the company also promotes its app for use against “spouses who worry that their partner might be cheating.” "

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

divya, to random
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It's really frustrating how this relentless focus on profitability has killed innovation. Look at this AMAZING BED FRAME. Why is there nothing like this today???

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvdpVklMIW7/

ai6yr, to MIjazz

Amused to see our local Indian restaurant sells pan fried Chinese noodles. (India is Asia, but Indian food is not Chinese food, nor vice versa).

divya,
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@ai6yr There are many generations of Chinese people in India and the fusion cuisine is staple of many Indian restaurants.

divya,
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@ai6yr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine

divya, to random
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wow just got a demo for this new feature by the AIML team "Listen for Atypical speech" that was announced recently. Mind blowing!! It's gonna be so impactful!

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

divya,
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'Listen for Atypical Speech uses on-device machine learning to recognize user speech patterns. Designed for users with acquired or progressive conditions that affect speech, such as cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or stroke, these features provide a new level of customization and control, building on features introduced in iOS 17 for users who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak."

seachanger, to Meditation
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a few weeks in to reviving my #meditation practice, feels like front row tickets for a daily tour of personal discomforts and dormant grievances. ironically watching this dismal show buys me a little lightness throughout the day

divya,
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@seachanger OMG you are so right and you should write a book!!!! Your words are such bangers!! I will read!!

divya, to random
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my god (old news but new to me). Hows this woman still married to him??

"Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s new foreign secretary, has made an awkward debut in China when he sought to curry favour with his hosts by mentioning his Chinese wife, but accidentally referred to her as “Japanese”."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/30/jeremy-hunt-makes-terrible-gaffe-about-his-wife-in-china

divya, to random
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LMAO perfect news for the UK elections.

"Labour MP David Lammy rebrands himself as a CONSERVATIVE in his American speaking tour not realising the event is being live streamed😱😱😱"

https://x.com/StevePowers_/status/1792892178567413893

divya, to random
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I have got to say of the two John Wick clone movies/series – Sugar / Monkey man, my 100% biased view is Monkey man is the best and better than John Wick.

Ingredients for a John Wick clone:

  • Man in a suit
  • Rescued dog
  • Lots of action

What other clones exist?

divya,
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@kotarokashima Aha there is no SUIT tho!! But very close!

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