divya

divya, 7 months ago to random

I had wondered how many children were killed in the Israeli invasion of Gaza vs Hamas invasion of Israel. There is a website that counts that number.

https://countingthekids.org

divya, 10 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

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, 3 months ago to random

"First U.S. moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown"

If this is not a perfect metaphor for private enterprises trying to fulfill social needs, I don't know what is.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-01/first-us-moon-lander-in-half-a-century-stops-working-a-week-after-tipping-over-at-touchdown

divya, 4 months ago to random

Wish we had a longer profile of this Chinese ethnicity man who was driving to White House to kill the President and had no plans of returning alive. What drove him? What economic and cultural context led to this? Did he know of Asian American discrimination that has existed in California since its creation?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-29/merced-man-arrested-on-way-to-white-house-with-rifle-hit-list-compiled-from-tiktok

divya, 3 days ago (edited 6 hours ago) to random

I first heard of Asha Putli because in the “middle class” old Bollywood movie of Golmaal, the “bad” twin abandons his mother for Asha’s concert. She is on tour now at 79! LA is sold out but she is in Paris, London etc finally getting the global recognition she deserves.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C77AUBBptTK/

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, 4 months ago to Birds

I am in a small town off Coimbatore and I saw Greater Coucal, Indian robin, black drongo, lots of egrets, purple sunbirds, yellow billed babblers, red vented bulbuls, pied cuckoos, countless peacocks and peahens. #birds

Still not seen a paradise fly catcher!

Some of these birds can be seen here: https://ebird.org/region/IN-TN-CO

divya, 3 months ago to random

Marc Benioff who seems to have a lot to say about SF politics & its crime rate has bought over 600 acres of land in Hawaii.

"Salesforce also paid $0 in federal taxes from 2018 to 2020, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. "

"His artwork includes the famous anti-capitalist Liquidated Google print by French graffiti artist Zevs and a wall-size painting by the Brazilian graffiti duo OSGEMEOS."

'During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.'

"His employee seemed to think we were "snooping," and he says he's escalating the incident to NPR CEO John Lansing."

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce

Toastie, 3 months ago to random

OH GOODIE, it's the first of the month and my print edition is here. 🤓 📖 ☕

A magazine open to a two page spread. It's a set of infographics, illustrations of cars, trucks and pedestrians (one of whom is fleeing for their life), with a headline reading "highways of hazard".
Another page of the magazine. On the left is text surrounded by lots of white space and the headline "faces like mirrors." On the right is a portrait of a gray haired, multi-racial lesbian couple gently embracing.
Another page of the magazine, almost wall to wall text but with an illustration around the edges showing a seed sprouting and a wildflower stalk with a stack of purple buds. The headline says "Regeneration underground"

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, 9 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, 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, 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, 13 days ago to random

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

divya, 6 months ago to random

Given how many lawsuits are emerging almost at the end of the New York's Adult Survivors Act, it makes it more vital we make this a nation wide law to not have statue of limitations for sexual assaults.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/wave-high-profile-sexual-assault-lawsuits-filed-ahead-key-deadline-1235675740/

(originally via https://mstdn.social/@brosandprose/111466411249291396)

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, 5 months ago to random

wow, apparently you can create a "hidden" work account if you use google workspaces by adding "+" followed by some characters to your main work account. This new account will be invisible to the email administrators and hence cannot be deleted giving potential disgruntled employees access to your workspace forever including google sheets, pages etc.

If you want to fix it, follow instructions here!

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-oauth-is-broken-sort-of/

divya, 16 days ago to random

another reason to prevent billionaires, so their nepo kids can stop stealing art works from the global south and pretend to be experts on the said stolen art.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-repatriation-news-1234654313/

divya, 23 days ago to random

How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

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