divya

divya, 3 days ago to random

2.6 billion dollars laundered through US real estate

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/report-flags-over-2-6b-laundered-through-us-commercial-real-estate/

divya, 3 days ago to random

Is Sympathizer the first time Vietnamese have been front and center of their own Hollywood story?? that is W I L D

divya, 4 days ago to random

"So when I noticed that Evan Prodromou, co-editor of ActivityPub (and vocal advocate for Meta's adoption of the protocol), has had a full-time position at a non-profit called the OpenEarth Foundation since May 2022, I was curious to know what it was all about. Plus, based on the name, I genuinely worried that I might have misjudged him. So I decided to take a look - and risk feeling the discomfort you get when you realize you've been (loudly) wrong about someone. Because hey, humble pie is ultimately nutritious, even if it's kind of hard to swallow.

But after digging deeper and deeper into this organization, I've come to see the OpenEarth Foundation's approach to environmental issues as being at best misguided and ineffective, and at worst, actively harmful, not only when it comes to climate change mitigation efforts, but also to social progress more generally."

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/open-earth-foundation-part-1-funding.html

divya, 6 days ago to random

Damn USA defeated Pakistan in T20 WORLD CUP???? Pakistanis can’t catch a break!! RIP.

divya, 7 days ago to random

wow Amazon, 3M, Wendys, McDonalds all have such high harm scores in context of them working with immigration and prison labor https://data.worthrises.org

divya, 8 days ago to random

Yes this is exactly the kind of person who should "protect & serve" us. Definitely

"City Watchdog: Over 1,200 NYPD Officers Looking for a Promotion Cheated on the Sergeant’s Exam"

https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-cheating-exam

divya, 8 days ago to random

Some AMAZING results coming in from India's elections!!

• #1, the disgusting misogynist man part of the hindu majoritarian party who was representing my parent's new constituency has MAJORLY lost.
• #2, in Ayodhya – where hindu terrorists installed a new temple upon a mosque they demolished in the 90s ushering in the era of hindu supremacy – a Dalit candidate won against two brahmins.
• #3, a former model who claimed women must not wear scandalous clothes etc and was responsible for all of the horrendous incompetent handling of sexual abuse cases has lost her seat.
• #4, A nebo baby of a giant politician in Karnataka who had aligned himself with the hindu supremacy parties was found to have taken thousands of videos of his assault of women and posted them. He lost his seat while he is in jail

divya, 8 days ago to random

On Twitter, some Black people I follow are discussing how racist US publications are. Variety asking "will moviegoers see Will Smith after the Slap" while not saying a word about the actual human who Alec Baldwin killed in the headlines for his new tv series.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/alec-baldwin-hilaria-reality-series-tlc-the-baldwins-1236024828/

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-bad-boys-4-opening-weekend-projections-will-smith-martin-lawrence-1236024500/

divya, 8 days ago to random

YIKES lots of transphobic hatred described in this article but also

"She also described the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club as “Cow Demons and Snake Spirits,” a Cultural Revolution-era term."

This is the person that SF moderates are embracing.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/josephine-zhao-who-earlier-fought-against-trans-rights-is-embraced-by-san-francisco-establishment-once-again/

divya, 8 days ago to random

So excited to hear what Hindu majority representative in Hollywood - Priyanka Chopra (narendra modi attended her wedding)- has to say.

divya, 8 days ago to random

Some patterns through which I knew the results were going to be different in Indian elections:

• The young Chief Justice of India – hand-picked by Modi – threatening to jail the enablers of Modi – Baba Ramdev for not being present in person for a case against the court.

• Rajdeep Sardesai the man who mainstreamed hindu supremacy in mainstream media when he was one of the most influential political voice on cable tv suddenly finding a spine and asking strict questions of hindu influencers on TV

I will say I was discombobulated by the exit polls when people I trust started saying they were probably true but I am glad my pattern matching did not fail!

divya, 9 days ago to random

You should do a threat model for how much you are gonna piss off your former employees when you do a layoff.

"Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and security issues obtained by 404 Media."

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

divya, 9 days ago to random

HOLY SHIT, update on the San Jose Police union employee / alleged drug dealer grandma:

"Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl."

https://www.kqed.org/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august

divya, 10 days ago to random

Thanks to some of the ADHD mitigation strategies I have been doing, it only took me 4 months to install the Indigenous art work I purchased in India (i wouldn’t have done it without that)

divya, 10 days ago to random

I was so peeved Alameda Antique fair had port-a-potties — PORT-A-POTTIES — that were gendered. WHY?? I pointedly used a men's one.

divya, 10 days ago to random

The history of trans panic is the history of nazism.

"Wilhelm Knoll had a different response. He was the head of the International Federation of Sports Medicine, an influential group of sports doctors which advised the I.O.C. and the International Amateur Athletic Federation (I.A.A.F.), the organization that governed the international rules of track and field. He was also a member of the Nazi Party who gave lectures at the University of Hamburg dressed in a Brown Shirt uniform, with a swastika pinned to his shirt. His allegiance to Nazism and his views about competition went hand in hand: Knoll wrote of his desire to remove “unsuitable elements” from sports, a term that seemed to refer not only to Jewish people but also to racial and gender minorities. Knoll read the early news accounts of Koubek’s impending transition, and he was disgusted that the press largely championed the Czech athlete"

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/a-forgotten-athlete-a-nazi-official-and-the-origins-of-sex-testing-at-the-olympics

divya, 11 days ago to random

A more perfect encapsulation of the current liberal thinking around climate friendly policies could not be found.

" A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a sprawling solar project that will generate power for 180,000 homes in wealthier coastal neighborhoods."

Every time, the same goons capture the market for a new cleaner technology and engage in same practices that got us here to begin with.

This follows on the heels of this report by @Toastie on how wind farms are destroying tribal lands & wildlife habitat

https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildlife-habitat-and-tribal-cultures-threatened-by-washingtons-largest-wind-farm/

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-31/solar-project-to-destroy-thousands-of-joshua-trees

divya, 12 days ago to random

Next time you find someone asking Hamas to release hostages, show them this official statement from Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-wont-end-war-for-deal-to-free-all-hostages-pms-aide-said-to-tell-families/

divya, 13 days ago to random

Please submit a FCC comment and prevent this yet another abuse of tech innovation.

"AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite is the first direct-to-cell satellite in orbit, and due to its extremely large size, is one of the brightest objects in the night sky anytime it is sunlit. In addition to the irreparable harm they could do to radio astronomy, the huge surface areas required by direct-to-cell mean that these satellites will dramatically change the night sky for stargazers and research astronomers worldwide. BlueWalker 3 is so bright that it could actually damage sensitive cameras in research telescopes at its peak brightness, and with hundreds or thousands of such satellites in orbit, our ability to explore outer space through the science of astronomy will be severely limited."

https://www.kesslerrebellion.com/take-action

divya, 13 days ago to random

solitary for suspicion of stealing a backpack but driving under influence – THIRD CHARGE – is a $250 bail deposit???

Am I hearing this correctly?? In Portland? https://bikeportland.org/2024/05/20/driver-blasts-onto-springwater-corridor-as-bike-riders-narrowly-escape-speeding-car-386480

"At his first court appearance on Friday, May 17th — despite this being his third DUI charge — Krueger was given a bail amount of $2,500. With the required 10% deposit, he was released after paying $250 and is due back in court May 28th."

divya, 13 days ago to random

June 4th there is public feedback session on West Portal Station Safety & Community Space improvements. Apple employees, this is the time to speak up. Let's show up for our departed co-worker and there should not be a single future person who meets that fate.

https://www.sfmta.com/projects/west-portal-station-safety-and-community-space-improvements

divya, 13 days ago to random

Not at all surprised that US and UK bombed Yemen while the verdict was being celebrated

divya, 13 days ago to random

wow there is a PeerTube instance hosted by SFBA!!! SO COOOL https://sfba.video

via https://hub.sfba.social/2024/05/30/transparency-report-q1-2024/

divya, 13 days ago to random

A very US phenomenon is the fact that any teen could SWAT anyone and police would simply respond with the violent force. Nobody has done anything about this whole infrastructure that exists for annoying teens to take advantage of for their petty quibbles.

divya, 13 days ago to random

NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Now you have to wonder why the billionaire class loves crime rates sky rocketing.

"To study these relationships, Maclean and her coauthors examined crime rates in Tennessee before and after that state disenrolled some 200,000 people from Medicaid, with little warning, in 2005. That was and still remains one of the most sweeping state-level Medicaid drop-offs in U.S. history.

By 2007, the study finds, the crime rate in the median Tennessee county had increased by almost 17 percent, with large increases observed in both violent and non-violent crime; the study attributes this to the disenrollment through a series of causal analyses. “Losing Medicaid induced changes in economic standing, housing stability, healthcare use, and health, all of which are documented to be determinants of crime,” the authors write."

https://boltsmag.org/medicaid-coverage-public-safety-study/