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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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Now why did this Billionaire do all these very silly things is a question I have.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/billionaire-chinese-national-sentenced-seven-months-prison-and-removal-united-states-0

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There is gonna be a big Ozempic backlash in beauty. Everyone already looking so wane its so freaking weird.

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In other news, I am so glad Strikewave is back! Subscribe:

https://www.thestrikewave.com/newsletter

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The republicans in the south are cooked

"A series of pro-union commercials are appearing on televisions in central Alabama ahead of next week’s historic union vote at Mercedes-Benz in Tuscaloosa County.
More Perfect Union Solidarity, a pro-labor non-profit,* *is airing the ads in support of the United Auto Workers on television stations in central Alabama, as well as Hulu, Paramount+, YouTube, and other TV services in the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas."

"The three television ads feature local Mercedes auto workers on why they are voting to join a union, Crimson Tide football great Antonio Langham on why he supports unionizing, and UAW President Shawn Fain discussing his faith."

https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/alabama-football-great-antonio-langham-speaks-in-favor-of-mercedes-union-in-new-tv-ads.html

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LMAO

"U.S. government officials familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that that officials talked about the allegations brought by the UAW against the German luxury automaker, which include the firing of union activists, as well as holding a mandatory meeting where a Mercedes exec discourages workers to unionize in a recent meeting.
The conversation that took place also included commitments by its respective governments that they will work together to promote unions and worker's rights. "

https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/the-mercedes-union-busting-allegations-are-becoming-a-international-issue-

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"The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 weakened organized labor in part by banning “secondary” or “sympathy” strikes, in which workers would strike one employer in order to pressure another, such as a business partner or supplier. Congress passed the law following a historic wave of disruptive work stoppages in 1945 and 1946 that involved millions of workers in the auto, energy, food, film and other industries."

"Large-scale, simultaneous strikes tied to contract expirations could achieve by legal means the sort of cross-industry troublemaking that was outlawed decades ago."

Now I understand the significance of UAW's call to get their contracts to expire on May Day 2028

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/organized-labor-may-day-2028_n_662aaa84e4b01a688b3e423f

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I cannot BELIEVE we dont celebrate May Day considering we all derive our work life balance from it.

"Workers seeking an 8-hour workday waged mass strikes on May 1, 1886, leading to a police crackdown. Three days later, someone tossed a bomb into a crowd at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, setting off a deadly riot. Eight labor activists were later convicted in what was denounced as a sham trial."

Read the full article its really good historical context setting

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TIL calls to the suicide crisis lines are not geo-routed

"Right now, callers are routed to centers that match the three-digit area code of their phone number: Someone with a Baltimore phone number would be routed there, even if the person is in Sacramento."

https://www.aol.com/big-change-works-mental-health-131637533.html

divya,
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@SRLevine yeah but who is going to remember their codes?

aarbrk, to SanFrancisco Spanish
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World's most violent beauty products store, 4696 Mission Street.

divya,
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@aarbrk I am so glad they kept the beautiful mural that described the old Martial arts gym that was here previously

divya,
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@betsyvr @aarbrk ya the whole mural is SO COOOL and the gym was very cool looking too. V sad they closed.

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Everything about Boeing news is so wild

"**Emergency Slide Falls Off [Boeing] Plane, Winds Up At Home Of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing" **
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missing-delta-boeing-emergency-slide-found-on-beach_n_6630f8fae4b0c558f741c0e5

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"A carbon credit company run by an Emirati sheik just gained control over 8% of Tanzania’s land, displacing nearly 100,000 Maasai people in the process."

Ban carbon credits, what a scam. https://atmos.earth/why-petrostates-keep-seizing-the-serengeti/

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"The government isn’t acting alone. In early 2019, UNESCO and the Frankfurt Zoological Society allegedly attempted to relocate more than 100,000 Maasai from Ngorongoro to establish a so-called conservation area—in reality, it’s all for tourism, said Edward Mauru Nduleti, a village counselor and chairperson of the Ngorongoro pastoral council."

divya,
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@WhippoorwillSong it never went out of style!

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"Can it be this bad?"

"In an interview with Guardian Australia, Connolly says she has been stunned by the level of racist language used by children in Australia, as outlined in the Everyday Racism report, produced by her office."

Yes yes it is. Australia is one of the most racist places I have been to

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/can-it-really-be-this-bad-racism-in-schools-shocks-south-australias-childrens-tsar

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@cydonian maybe New Zealand but definitely not Australia!!

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From twitter:

"In 1997, LASD "made up" evidence against 2 teens to pin a murder on them. When the real killer -- who later confessed -- killed again LAPD pinned THAT murder on yet someone else."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/l-a-county-approves-27m-in-settlements-for-shooting-wrongful-conviction-cases

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BTW they pinned the murder on a random WHITE WOMAN. Next time you as a white person try to use police as your personal security service remember that.

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Really happy to have contributed to this family coming to California from Afghanistan

https://www.gofundme.com/f/reuniting-mama-roman-with-her-family

sohkamyung, to singapore
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"When the Singaporean government asked local writers if they would agree to having their work used to train a large language model, it probably did not expect the country’s tiny literary community to react so fiercely."

https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/

divya,
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@sohkamyung Love when Rest of the World does the same racism of asking Chinese Singaporean authors opinions about whether AI is good or bad.

williampietri, to random
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I am soon moving to Chicago, which is generally great, but it looks like my only ISP option is Comcast, which is not. Do people have tips on what plan to choose and tricks to wrangle what seems like an adversarial relationship? I'll be working from home doing programmer things.

divya,
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@williampietri what a loss for SF but Chicago is so cooool!

divya,
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@williampietri I spent about 3 days there and I enjoyed it SO MUCH! so much history, so much food, so much transit haha

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"Sexual assault committee member’s top consultant is being sued for sexual assault "

Perfect sentence about 2024 and every year before. This is about SF's moderates who claimed sexual assaults have risen because we aren't giving harsher punishments to people who commit assaults.

https://sf.gazetteer.co/sexual-assault-committee-members-top-consultant-is-being-sued-for-sexual-assault

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ever since I learned in therapy my surprise avoidance is not mine but my parents that I inherited because I spent 16 of my formative years in the shadow of their fears, it has been helpful in using the same tools I use for my own surprise avoidance with them.

They had to do a big move from one city to another by themselves and without physical help from me and I walked them through the worst case scenarios for each situation several weeks in advance and today my mom remembered one of those worst case scenarios and talked about how she was able to realize she was in it because we talked about it and it was manageable.

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