anirvan

anirvan, 2 hours ago to random

"Traditionally, middle-grade book discovery happens via parents, librarians, and—most crucially—peers. At recess, your best friend tells you that you have got to read the Baby-Sitters Club, and boom, you’re hooked. That avenue for discovery evaporated during the pandemic, and it hasn’t come back.…'Kids are back in school, so why aren’t they sharing recommendations with each other? Why aren’t they as enthusiastic about books as they were prepandemic?'"

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html

anirvan, 4 hours ago to random

"After the procedure, the physician noted that the patient 'bleeds from everywhere.' She lived, but feared legal retribution. 'She asks me: could she or I go to jail for this? Or did this count as life threatening yet?'"

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-bans-pregnancy-treatment/

anirvan, 9 hours ago to random

FYI, here's the directory of 174 student encampments across the U.S.

https://students4gaza.directory/

anirvan, 12 hours ago to random

"The music industry has been silent on Palestine. Star athletes, so central to the Black Lives Matter movement, have largely been too scared to speak. Most of Hollywood has kept quiet. I know artists and athletes who want to speak up for Palestine but are correctly concerned that they would be putting their careers in danger."

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/macklemore-hinds-hall-palestine/

anirvan, 1 day ago to random

"My children spent their entire school careers in the Berkeley schools—successfully, I should add. I am also Jewish…the hearing marks an expansion of conservative and far-right critiques of public schools, which have already become battlegrounds over an array of controversies, from critical race theory and ethnic studies to LGBTQ rights and gender identity. However well-prepared Morthel…might be, it would seem to be a no-win situation"

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/05/07/opinion-combating-antisemitism-schools-education-interrogation-congressional-committee

#BerkeleyCA

anirvan, 1 day ago to random

Yup, it's about as bad as we expected

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/berkeley-schools-superintendent-testifies-before-congress-on-antisemitism

anirvan, 1 day ago to random

"As Thomas Edsall reports in the Times, Biden’s support among young voters has eroded dramatically. He quotes Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster, who found that the Gaza war 'reflects one of the sharpest policy differences by age we have seen over a 40-year period.' In pre-Gaza surveys, young voters backed Biden over Trump 61 to 32 percent. In post-Gaza, the advantage collapsed to four points."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-student-protests-divestment-palestine/

anirvan, 1 day ago to missouri

"The students also reached out to local businesses, three of which agreed to a plan: They’d keep a box of the pills in their bathroom at all times for anyone to get. They could walk out of the bathroom with a small, brown-paper package, as anonymous as a box of menstrual pads."

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/07/funding-abortion-its-a-good-idea-right/

#Missouri

anirvan, 2 days ago to random

The best bad-UX story you'll read this year?

https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

anirvan, 2 days ago to random

"All of the arrested were fully prepared for this eventuality (the Israelis were veterans at protest arrests and had briefed us on protocol). They were taken to two detention centers and interrogated for eight to nine hours. The Americans were told, bluntly, that they were being held for 'attempting to bring food into Gaza.'"

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rabbis-arrested-for-bringing-food-gaza/

anirvan, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Biden's climate bill is the best thing he's ever done. It's the best reason to reelect him. His campaign needs to let people know.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-07/biden-climate-bill-young-voters

anirvan, 3 days ago to random

“‘Could it be, I asked, that he focuses on conspiracy fictions because he can’t face the real horrors we confront? He threw his shoulders back, exasperated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/youre-going-to-call-me-a-holocaust-denier-now-are-you-george-monbiot-comes-face-to-face-with-his-local-conspiracy-theorist

anirvan, 4 days ago to random

"White families have a median wealth of $284,310, more than four times that of Latinos ($62,120). Additionally, the analysis found that the wealth gap widens with age — on average, white families accumulate more wealth over their lives than Latino families in the same age group."

https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-04-30/latino-wealth-gap-million-white-families-urban-institute

anirvan, 4 days ago to random

"Everyone I spoke to connected to these Turkish series and embraced the cultural differences as a way of learning. None of them was deterred from watching by language barriers, subtitles or accessibility — many had to track down episodes on YouTube or small streamers."

https://www.latimes.com/delos/newsletter/2024-05-02/latinx-files-tizi-turkish-dramas-latinos-latinx-files

anirvan, 4 days ago to random

Unsolicited plug:

I just watched my second Fleetwood Macramé show in Berkeley last night, and it was absolutely the most fun I’ve had at a show in ages.

They’re a ridiculously talented, slightly queer-of-center, Fleetwood Mac tribute band. I never thought I’d be into cover groups but maybe I just needed to meet the right one? Total recommend for friends in the Bay Area.

More:
https://www.fleetwoodmacrame.com/
https://www.kqed.org/news/11748586/crystal-visions-and-a-sprinkle-of-gold-dust-fleetwood-macrame-brings-70s-rock-to-the-bay-area
https://youtube.com/@fleetwoodmacrame

#FleetwoodMacrame #FleetwoodMac

anirvan, 4 days ago to random

Adopting curriculum through ballot measures is a terrible idea. Please stop.

https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/05/personal-finance-class/

anirvan, 4 days ago to random

"Alfredo Camacho, who lives in Guadalupe, California, told CalMatters that because he is no longer able to afford home internet service, he’s started taking his daughters to the parking lot outside a local library so the family can use the free wifi to do homework and look for jobs. 'This takes away grocery money,' said Camacho, who is one of around three million Golden State residents losing access to the subsidy. 'Being a single father, $30 goes a long way.'"

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/05/internet-connectivity/

anirvan, 5 days ago to random

"…the UMC has come to its senses way too late. If a key argument for religion is that it gives you a sense of morals, the treatment of gay people within the UMC is proof that everyone else found their moral footing while the UMC was held back by its own faith-based bigotry. The people who couldn’t tell right from wrong on the simplest moral issue of our time have no business asking people to attend their churches in order to learn right from wrong."

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-united-methodist-church-reversed

anirvan, 5 days ago to random

“That puts a wheelchair user’s risk of dying on the road at roughly 36 percent higher than a pedestrian on foot. That’s how scary it is out there.”

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/19/disabled-people-are-dying-in-americas-crosswalks-but-were-not-counting-them

dev, 5 days ago to random

Things that BART announces that are generally not very useful:

1. Platform number
2. How many cars the train has
3. How many doors the train cars have

anirvan, 5 days ago to random

"Not every administration has reacted to the Gaza solidarity protests in the same way. Students at Brown University agreed to willingly disband their encampment after the university pledged to hold a vote in the fall on divestment from companies affiliated with Israel. 'On the same day that Columbia University called in the NYPD to arrest dozens of pro-Palestine protesters, the encampment at Brown University ended peacefully,' wrote Owen Dahlkamp."

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-solidarity-encampments-student-protests/

anirvan, 5 days ago to random

This article is pure rage bait:

“The men also chanted their own versions of Sanskrit mantras, loosely translated to ‘Salutations to Elon Musk,’ ‘Salutations to Twitter,’ and ‘Salutations to evicting feminists from the platform.’”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/india-mens-rights-activists-siff-worship-elon-musk

anirvan, 6 days ago to random

2,000 American students arrested—and growing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/university-protests-arrests-ucla-dartmouth