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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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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

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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

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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."

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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

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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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Biden fist bumped the King of this land:

"A new filing in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges that al-Qaeda had significant, indeed decisive, state support for its attacks. Officials of the Saudi government, the plaintiffs’ attorneys contend, formed and operated a network inside the United States that provided crucial assistance to the first cohort of 9/11 hijackers to enter the country."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/

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"The FBI found evidence that when the Saudi consul general in Los Angeles sought to fire a member of the support network, who had been storing jihadist literature at the consulate, Thumairy was able to use his influence to save his job."

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"Curiously, agents continued investigating until at least 2021 and, to judge by the 2021 document, knew about the Saudis’ indispensable support for the hijackers. But their work was shut down by the Justice Department."

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Next monument on CNPS list to be designated for protection from mining etc is Chuckwalla

"Chuckwalla is the missing link that connects six wilderness areas, Joshua Tree National Park, the Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range, and the Salton Sea. Situated on the ancestral homelands of the Iviatim, Nüwü, Pipa Aha Macav, Kwatsáan, and Maara’yam peoples, the proposed monument is home to numerous sites with cultural, natural, and spiritual significance for Indigenous peoples today."

https://www.cnps.org/uncategorized/after-celebrating-bidens-protection-of-molok-luyuk-whats-next-for-conservation-at-cnps-38509

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The benefit of live A/B testing and continuous integration and deployment seeping into every team is that on any given day you as the user will encounter software that's broken in novel ways, and you'll never get good at any user interface. Tools that you depend on to get shit done keep shapeshifting? Praise the A/B CI/CD baby!

divya,
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@harshad this.

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When people say "why don't you move to lower cost of living states" you show them this:

People are being charged with felonies in Ohio for wearing masks. There is a bill to expand involuntary psychiatric admission requirements. You can assume where this is going for people who are still covid cautious and who do not look like a friend of the police or cis people.

https://twitter.com/ohsheb/status/1792275474535579686

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UAW sadly didnt win the Mercedes Benz unionization drive but it was very narrow! Only fell shot by ~600 votes

"Workers at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant in Vance, Alabama came up short in their first union election on Friday, May 17, with 2,045 votes to join the United Auto Workers and 2,642 against. "

https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-mercedes-benz-alabama-volkswagen-uaw-union

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I am so happy I got to Scrap when they announced they have a lot of frames and I immediately found the perfect identical 15 frames for photos & art work I have long wanted to frame.

divya,
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I also cut myself on the very sharp tape measure that they were selling for $1 and this is where the bandaid I put in my purse – so I don't have to embarrass myself with my clumsiness in public again – came in handy.

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A watercolor I made while I was in Singapore in the late 2000s which is the only painting from that time that seems to have survived, now framed!

seachanger, to random
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if I don’t make my art who else will ?? 😱

divya,
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@seachanger Amazing work!!

divya, to random
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wow the monkey man villain is clearly a brahmin. Amazing

divya,
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there is a bird watching angle to this movie though the bird being mentioned is a very common one.

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/interviews/Modi-has-been-bashed-unjustly-for-years-and-years-Sri-Sri-Ravi-Shankar/articleshow/35737557.cms

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/sri-ravi-shankar-says-land-2497855

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the funniest part of this movie is it could apply to so many godmen in India

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/the-billionaire-yogi-behind-modis-rise.html

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and https://scroll.in/article/804153/first-andaman-island-now-600-acres-in-maharashtra-for-baba-ramdev

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

divya,
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@carlmalamud oh yeah, I was on the west bound and "only" had to deal with 1 hour of traffic :((

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