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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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nwchapman, to climate
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Scientists have warned of increased turbulence, particularly “clear air turbulence” which is harder to detect or forecast, as global heating warms air at higher altitudes and makes weather more unpredictable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

divya,
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@nwchapman ooooof. Something I never thought of but makes sense

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A timely post by someone who used to work in Forest Service:

"The industries that take our public resources, often paying next to nothing for them, run the agencies. The hiring criteria and reward/promotion incentives elevate the sons and daughters of ranchers and rancher wannabee’s along with those from the oil and gas and mining industries because ‘getting out the cut’ is what gets you promoted and doing anything that gets in the way of ‘getting out the cut’ gets you sidelined and/or demoted."

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/05/19/a-window-into-the-corruption-of-our-public-lands-management-agencies/

divya, to random
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An alleged coup in Congo has connections to IDF and it is unclear if it is was a real coup or not. Twitter thread from a Congolese person.

https://twitter.com/kambale/status/1792694030578627003

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IMHO we should stop using Latin names for birds, plants and use the names used for them where they were found to exist first. What has latin got to do with anything?

divya,
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@williampietri I dont know man, we should be interrogating this whole classification system in my opinion since it was invented by people who were responsible for the destruction of the very species they named around the world.

divya,
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@williampietri They also use the very same classification system to destroy species. I have read news items about hunters claiming to have killed a non-endangered wolf vs an endangered one. I personally feel there needs to be a rigorous committee of indigenous people from around the world who can look into what their ancestors use to classify living beings and kinda come up with a standardization if necessary.

divya,
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@williampietri We dont need a standardization to tell us what to "protect" when the key is to keep things in "balance". I also feel this way about sex and gender, we have short hands of Masculine / Feminine for a grouping of features and I dont quite like that there are only two and we assume non-binary means a short hand mix of either.

divya,
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@williampietri I didnt say we shouldn't be able to distinguish species! I said we should interrogate the current system we have that was invented and used specifically for the destruction of half of the world's living beings.

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Random people I follow on instagram are all helping rescue families from Gaza. It’s pretty wild how off the US government is with the majority sentiment.

divya, to random
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Btw Green Apple Books has a few copies @jomc amazing paperback Lurking about the early days of the internet for a STEAL of $8 upstairs. GO GET EM before they vanish.

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Cate Blanchett still got it. Excellent femme costume. No notes. That green reveal!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1cwkmrm/cate_blanchett_at_the_premiere_of_the_apprentice/

divya, to random
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Did not know Amal Clooney's mother is Palestinian https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1cwfdnb/amal_clooney_plays_key_role_in_icc_arrest/

divya, (edited ) to random
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19,800 people have been laid off from tech companies in the Bay Area just this year. https://layoffs.fyi

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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/

divya,
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@dbaron I didn't know! This creates such bad incentives!

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My top-performing post on LinkedIn:

divya,
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@meganL OMG

divya, to random
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Amal Clooney dropping the mic

"Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza From Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC"

https://www.ft.com/content/aa2089c5-6388-437d-bf5c-9268f3a788ce

divya, to random
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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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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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Congrats to the toothless EPA

"In 2006, after the EPA accused 3M of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act, in part by repeatedly ­failing to disclose the harms of fluorochemicals promptly, the company agreed to pay a small penalty of $1.5 million, without admitting wrongdoing."

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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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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This is actually a really good movie with Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell and a good watch to understand why nuclear plants are dangerous.

"In the 1983 film “Silkwood,” which is based on real events, Karen Silkwood, a worker at a plutonium plant, assembles a thick folder documenting her employer’s shoddy safety practices; while driving to share them with a reporter, she dies in a mysterious one-car crash."

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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