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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.

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"He was evicted and his home was later listed on Airbnb. Meanwhile, his landlord hosted a charity event to end homelessness"

headline from Toronto but could be a headline from SF

https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/he-was-evicted-and-his-home-was-later-listed-on-airbnb-meanwhile-his-landlord-hosted/article_72c86bde-e162-11ee-b6d0-e3e7190ad965.html

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I had wondered how many children were killed in the Israeli invasion of Gaza vs Hamas invasion of Israel. There is a website that counts that number.

https://countingthekids.org

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"First U.S. moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown"

If this is not a perfect metaphor for private enterprises trying to fulfill social needs, I don't know what is.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-01/first-us-moon-lander-in-half-a-century-stops-working-a-week-after-tipping-over-at-touchdown

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Reading the PFAS bombshell from ProPublica. I know this has nothing to do with nuclear power generation but this is exactly the story of workplace violence found in nuclear power plants like GE's. This is also why I am anti-nuclear power plants.

". They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers."

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

divya,
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Congrats to everyone wanting "development"

"Then they ran an overnight test on blood that had been collected in rural China during the ’80s and ’90s. If any place were PFOS-free, she figured, it would be somewhere remote, where 3M products weren’t in widespread use.
The next morning, anxious to see the results, Hansen arrived at the lab before anyone else. For the first time since she had begun testing blood, some of the samples showed no trace of PFOS."

divya,
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Some proof Academia never did want to rock the boat of capitalism

“I’m sort of kicking myself for not having followed up on this more, but I didn’t have any research money,” Guy told me. He eventually became a dentist to support his wife and family. (He died this year at 81.) Taves, too, left the field, to become a psychiatrist, and the trail ended there.

divya,
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The villain here is still alive and in his 80s and claims to have a faulty memory. I really want to make a wall of climate villains who look like "average" white person but whose decisions echo through the walls of history

divya,
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John Oliver is a white man who is 100% going to heaven

"Then, in 2021, John Oliver did a segment on his comedy news show, “Last Week Tonight,” about forever chemicals. The segment, which mentioned my reporting, said that they could cause cancer, immune-system issues and other problems. “The world is basically soaked in the Devil’s piss right now,” Oliver said. “And not in a remotely hot way.” One of Hansen’s former professors sent her the segment, and Hansen watched it at her kitchen table — a moment that would eventually lead her to me."

divya,
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A team of New York University researchers estimated in 2018 that the costs of just two forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS — in terms of disease burden, disability and health-care expenses — amounted to as much as $62 billion in a single year. This exceeds the current market value of 3M.

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

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Wish we had a longer profile of this Chinese ethnicity man who was driving to White House to kill the President and had no plans of returning alive. What drove him? What economic and cultural context led to this? Did he know of Asian American discrimination that has existed in California since its creation?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-29/merced-man-arrested-on-way-to-white-house-with-rifle-hit-list-compiled-from-tiktok

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Imagine being a billionaire and then using your influence to change the law so people dont see how polluting you are. Some folks think Billionaires are harmless but in fact they are the most harmful people on earth.

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In 2015, Kaibab band of Paiute Indians became the first Dark-sky nation

https://darksky.org/news/the-worlds-first-ida-dark-sky-nation/

"The Kaibab Paiute believe they have a special responsibility to protect and manage their lands, and have come to recognize the value of the dark skies over their lands. They consider their dark skies a threatened resource worthy of conservation and protection. Thunder Mountain is a landform that dominates the reservation landscape. The new Dark Sky Community will be officially known as Thunder Mountain Pootsee Nightsky, recognizing the status of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians as a sovereign nation. This designation also recognizes the importance of Thunder Mountain and the night sky in Kaibab Paiute culture as well as the unique language spoken by Southern Paiutes, who speak a Uto-Aztecan native language in addition to English."

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This is why I will never live in Portland. It's not safe to be brown there.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/10/conference-attendee-shot-in-downtown-portland-im-in-good-hands-im-recovering.html

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Given how many lawsuits are emerging almost at the end of the New York's Adult Survivors Act, it makes it more vital we make this a nation wide law to not have statue of limitations for sexual assaults.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/wave-high-profile-sexual-assault-lawsuits-filed-ahead-key-deadline-1235675740/

(originally via https://mstdn.social/@brosandprose/111466411249291396)

divya, to random
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wow, apparently you can create a "hidden" work account if you use google workspaces by adding "+" followed by some characters to your main work account. This new account will be invisible to the email administrators and hence cannot be deleted giving potential disgruntled employees access to your workspace forever including google sheets, pages etc.

If you want to fix it, follow instructions here!

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-oauth-is-broken-sort-of/

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I am in a small town off Coimbatore and I saw Greater Coucal, Indian robin, black drongo, lots of egrets, purple sunbirds, yellow billed babblers, red vented bulbuls, pied cuckoos, countless peacocks and peahens.

Still not seen a paradise fly catcher!

Some of these birds can be seen here: https://ebird.org/region/IN-TN-CO

divya, to random
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OMG instagram tells me the word "Cash" is from Tamil word *Kaasu *https://www.etymonline.com/word/cash

divya, to random
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While Israel bombs Gaza, Pakistan has been using the cover to try and deport Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan for no reason.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/01/pakistan-starts-mass-deportation-of-undocumented-afghans

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Oh you thought colonialism ended?

"More French police arrive in New Caledonia amid riots
French High Commissioner Louis Le Franc said reinforcements had been deployed to "regain control of all the areas of the urban area that we have lost".

The unrest erupted this week after lawmakers in Paris backed and approved changes to voting rolls that the indigenous population say will dilute their political influence."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyj348wwggzo

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How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

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Timeline of events leading up to the killing of thousands of tamils in Sri Lanka this month in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army (and some Indian Peace Keeping Forces). Eerie to read about it right in the middle of another genocide occurring right now.

https://www.remembermay2009.com/timeline

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wow a great story on the people who got us COVID vaccines

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/operation-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccine?utm_source=pocket_saves

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HAHAHAHAHAHAH

"Miracle in Solano: California Forever unites Democrats and Republicans"

"**The point: **The California Forever project appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got a sneak peak at more detailed polling data. In all of my years in politics, I've rarely seen anything poll this badly (besides Mayor London Breed, who has a 71 percent disapproval rating)."

https://www.parallelmirror.com/solano-county-poll-republicans-democrats-california-forever/

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OH GOODIE, it's the first of the month and my print edition is here. 🤓 📖 ☕

A magazine open to a two page spread. It's a set of infographics, illustrations of cars, trucks and pedestrians (one of whom is fleeing for their life), with a headline reading "highways of hazard".
Another page of the magazine. On the left is text surrounded by lots of white space and the headline "faces like mirrors." On the right is a portrait of a gray haired, multi-racial lesbian couple gently embracing.
Another page of the magazine, almost wall to wall text but with an illustration around the edges showing a seed sprouting and a wildflower stalk with a stack of purple buds. The headline says "Regeneration underground"

divya,
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@Toastie thanks for showcasing all these articles! Just subscribed to High Country News!

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Marc Benioff who seems to have a lot to say about SF politics & its crime rate has bought over 600 acres of land in Hawaii.

"Salesforce also paid $0 in federal taxes from 2018 to 2020, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. "

"His artwork includes the famous anti-capitalist Liquidated Google print by French graffiti artist Zevs and a wall-size painting by the Brazilian graffiti duo OSGEMEOS."

'During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.'

"His employee seemed to think we were "snooping," and he says he's escalating the incident to NPR CEO John Lansing."

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce

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