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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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Honestly surprised that NVDIA is appointing professors to its board (along with the usual suspects).

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As someone who plays video games and who also thinks about investing, I’ve long found memestock culture fascinating.. in a toe-curling kind of way. (Seriously do not go to /r/BBBY unless you want to see delusional people believe they’re going to become billionaires from hoarding stocks of a bankrupt business)

Someone here recommended this video and it made so much sense. Basically these folks believe it’s all a video game. You gotta grind to get rich.

https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=CFr6MVwzgi_X07y-

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@skinnylatte I worked with someone like that which was…interesting

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Today's links courtesy of the newsletter from Project Brazen

https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com

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A wild story of a white socialite who killed a Belizean police office & who had kids out of wedlock with a UK conservative billionaire's son

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-hartin-henry-jemmott-fatal-shooting-48-hours/

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I hope everyone who is not rich and marrying into a billionaire family reads about this story and understands what consequences await when you do stuff the billionaires dont like.

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@darius OMFG I didnt even notice the autocorrect!!!!!!!! Thank you for letting me know hahahaha

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A wild story about how a newly minted Chinese millionaire bought a rundown lodge in the alps which has a great view of the parking lot for the newly purchased F-35s by Switzerland which will only be delivered in 2028.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/mystery-in-the-alps-a-chinese-family-a-swiss-inn-and-the-world-s-most-expensive-weapon/ar-BB1mtsMC

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What is data colonialism?

divya,
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@jalcine When the oppressed have to look up to US/UK based leadership who have no historical context to their countries to prevent digital atrocities from occurring (e.g. Rohingya in Myanmar / Tamils in Sri Lanka / Uyghurs in China)

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@jalcine Also, remember how Russia lost access to Microsoft Office thanks to US sanctions after Russia invaded Ukraine?

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@jalcine No clearer example of data colonialism in my mind

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/russian-businesses-get-shut-out-from-microsoft-cloud-services-at-the-end-of-this-month-new-eu-sanctions-come-into-effect

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Not me getting caught in the wild fire traffic on bay bridge 😭😭😭😭

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OMG Cornell Labs has a "Similar species" website for birds!! This is so cool

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bobolink/species-compare

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Yes police really need billions of dollars to do more of this amirite

"US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes."

https://www.cbsnews.com/police-selling-guns/

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This is why people call for defunding the police

"Scot Thomasson, a former ATF division chief who is now a consultant for SafeGunLock, a District of Columbia-based company, believes police departments that resell weapons are violating their obligation to protect the public. "Taxpayers are buying firearms that are then resold for pennies on the dollar and ultimately ending up in criminals' hands," Thomasson said. "It is absolutely ridiculous."

Many police departments resold their weapons while holding buyback events, which they say are important to pull guns off the street."

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'The Philadelphia City Council boasts on its website of having collected 825 guns in buybacks since 2021. But records show that the Philadelphia Police resold at least 886 guns over the past two decades, including 85 firearms between 2021 and 2022.

In some cases, departments added more guns to the marketplace than they removed.'

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Someone in San Francisco has a car license plate called MATUNGA

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I am now working with teams who dont have a lot of experience working cross functionally and turns out the biggest blindspot for them is assuming people are going to work on things if they didn't loudly say no to them. As someone who knows how XF team collaboration works, teams will only work on things that they are loudly saying YES to.

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A person in my mentions saying you are supporting an Oppressed population that is getting support from an Oppressor elsewhere, you are a bad person!

Cool story bro

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@shantini right?? I was like WTF???

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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

divya,
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@humanhorseshoes Where do you think New Caledonia is?

divya,
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@humanhorseshoes What has that got to do with Russia or Azerbaijan?

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@humanhorseshoes LMAO

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white golfer given the non-white treatment by the police??? you don't say

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An ex-Indian soldier working for the UN was killed by Israel. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-says-israeli-tank-attack-killed-staff-member-in-gaza/ar-BB1mqAZu

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