anirvan

anirvan, 6 days ago to random

“the Right to Contraception act fell short of garnering the 60 votes Senate Democrats needed to advance the bill…Democrats…were daring Republicans to go on the record opposing the right to something that almost all American women use”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/05/legal-right-contraception-senate-vote?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

anirvan, 7 days ago to india

"The INDIA coalition proved more resilient and successful than many analysts had expected, despite grappling with state agencies freezing party funds and jailing opposition leaders in the buildup to the polls. They were particularly boosted by regional parties who far outperformed the BJP, such as the Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh, the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in Tamil Nadu."

#India #IndiaElections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/india-election-results-narendra-modi-bjp

anirvan, 7 days ago to random

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender who helped launch the BDS movement:

"The current student-led uprising on campuses in the US, Europe and globally is a sign of Palestine’s South Africa moment, as the support for ending complicity in Israel’s genocide and underlying 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid is reaching a tipping point…the ‘B’ and ‘D’ in BDS have gone much more mainstream than before."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/bds-omar-barghouti-israel-campus-protests

anirvan, 7 days ago to random

This is incredible

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

anirvan, 9 days ago to random

A reminder for my Desi people: talk to your doctor about your heart health, because the numbers don't look good for us

https://redwhiteandbrown.substack.com/p/keeping-your-heart-healthy

anirvan, 9 days ago to random

"'Private jets are the single most polluting form of transport, causing about 10 times more CO2 emissions per passenger than a regular flight, and up to 100 times more than trains. About two thirds of such flights are done for leisure over short stretches on which a lower-emitting alternative exists'"

https://stay-grounded.org/farnborough-action-week-may-2024-private-jets/

anirvan, 11 days ago to california

"A stunning 95.8 percent of all residential land in California is reserved for single-family housing, effectively barring denser housing options in those areas and creating an obstacle to racial and economic equality in the state, a new study released Wednesday from UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute shows."

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-study-staggering-96-california-residential-land-zoned-single-family-housing

#California

anirvan, 12 days ago to random

"In April 2022, a New Hampshire parent complained that Alison O’Brien, a high school social studies teacher, violated the divisive concepts law by showing two videos — 'Formation' by Beyoncé and 'This is America' by Childish Gambino — as part of a unit on the Harlem Renaissance. O'Brien said she showed the videos as part of a lesson where students 'listen to Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, read poetry, and study paintings by Harlem Renaissance artists.'"

https://popular.info/p/judge-defends-right-to-teach-beyonce

anirvan, 12 days ago to firefox

#Firefox is getting better, and without sacrificing privacy safeguards

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/

anirvan, 13 days ago to random

I’m helping a friend write an obituary for a family member, and I’m trying to figure out what a good obituary would even look like. I’d appreciate suggestions, advice, or starting points.

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

“A majority of those surveyed (54%) believe local news outlets are doing “somewhat well” financially. Another 17% said they are doing “very well,” meaning that in total, 71% of respondents don’t know the news business is in crisis.”

https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/shift-to-smartphones-from-tv-and-print-in-full-swing.html

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

California, 1992: “Meanwhile, Jones saw firsthand how teachers were heroically managing the fallout from Proposition 13. She wrote about English literature teacher Bob Davis, who would spend years scouring garage sales and used bookstores to buy enough copies of “Death of a Salesman” — then go back again for more when his class sizes increased by 25%.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/vault/article/undercover-reporter-high-school-18677915.php

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

"…the Netherlands—a country perhaps more at risk to sea level rise than any non-island nation—undertook a program at sharp odds with the U.S. approach…the Dutch have pulled their levees back along several urban rivers, requiring homes and businesses in the restored natural floodways to be relocated to higher ground. The compensation offered is generous…The Dutch do not enshrine for their citizens a right of return. What they do enshrine is a right of resilience. "

https://www.noemamag.com/climate-resilience-means-retreat/

anirvan, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

I'm following the Jan 6 style investigations of the mob that violently attacked the UCLA Palestine solidarity protest for hours on end. One down, hopefully more to come.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/ucla-protest-arrest-edan-on.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU0.eFI_.MHeNTAO3OP9g&smid=url-share

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html

anirvan, 20 days ago to random

Kindle? Kobo? Apple Books?

What’s the best, or maybe most ethical, ebook platform?

(I rarely reread books, so long-term ownership isn’t a factor for me)

anirvan, 20 days ago to random

This is cool: Firefox has started putting rough CO2 estimates inside the profiler

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbon-emissions-in-browser-devtools-firefox-profiler-and-co2-js/

anirvan, 21 days ago to random

"'At the beginning, I doubted whether microplastics could penetrate the reproductive system,' said Prof Xiaozhong Yu, at the University of New Mexico in the US. 'When I first received the results for dogs I was surprised. I was even more surprised when I received the results for humans.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

anirvan, 22 days ago to random

"Despite this, some agencies still choose to do whatever it takes to keep microtransit going — including cannibalizing funds from fixed route transit, accelerating a death spiral that’s already been spinning faster since the pandemic. The researchers say agencies like Sarasota, San Antonio and Green Bay have already 'eliminated directly operated bus service in favor of microtransit operated by independent contractors' — and they suspect more will follow suit."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/20/microtranist-is-taxpayer-funded-uber-advocates-warn-and-its-a-threat-to-real-transit

anirvan, 22 days ago to random

"Since then, the FDA has received further advanced trial data showing the efficacy of MDMA-assisted therapy in significantly reducing PTSD symptoms. The regulator will rule on whether the evidence is sufficient to grant approval in August. The FDA blessing would be a landmark moment for the psychedelics movement, and it would help provide safer settings for psychedelic therapies — with hundreds of veterans going abroad each year to unregulated centers."

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/20/va-veterans-mdma-ptsd/

anirvan, 24 days ago to random

Pakistan's heatwaves are coming again

https://www.dawn.com/news/1834203/sizzling-punjab-dreads-imminent-heatwave

anirvan, 25 days ago to random

On the 277th Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour (https://www.BerkeleySouthAsian.org/) last weekend, we visited the UC Berkeley Palestine encampment.

Halfway through a story about Indian student protestors in 1975, we stopped to point out the Palestine encampment behind us, and then welcomed our special guests: three students and faculty members active around the encampment. (1/4)

anirvan, 27 days ago to random

"Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sent a letter to the state’s 14 public universities alerting them that protesters could be charged with a felony under the state’s little-used anti-mask law, which carries penalties of between six to 18 months in prison. An Ohio legal expert, Rob Barnhart, observed that he’d never heard of the state’s law being applied previously, even to bank robbers wearing masks."

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/states-dust-off-obscure-anti-mask-laws-to-target-pro-palestine-protesters

anirvan, 27 days ago to random

I wouldn’t mind having more small cars on American streets:

“The weight savings add up, allowing the Seagull to travel farther per charge on a smaller battery. For example, the Seagull…weighs 2,734 pounds…about 900 pounds less than a Chevrolet Bolt”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/small-well-built-chinese-ev-called-the-seagull-poses-a-big-threat-to-the-us-auto-industry/ar-BB1mhr7o

anirvan, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to random

Sometimes I still pinch myself

#KalaBagaiWay #Berkeley #AAPIHeritageMonth #SouthAsianAmerican

anirvan, 1 month 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/