Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California.
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Last Notes npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “‘The supreme court has said the death penalty should be reserved for the worst people who commit the very worst crimes,’ said Robin Maher, the group’s executive director. ‘Most Americans would agree that someone who does not intend to kill anyone, and does not kill anyone, does not meet that criteria.’” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub13zm…zfuw Useless, in a heartbeat npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “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.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub13vv…0sze Wow, congrats! npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This lovely supercut shows snippets from anime videos depicting classic gadgets — phones, book boxes, control panels, and more npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "And she also argues that they have an ethical duty to do it. Smith recently resigned from the board of the local transit agency — or 'transit society,' as they’re called north of the border — when it became clear she’d be forced to approve endless fare increases just to keep the buses running, even as her work on the city council made it clear that the government could just increase taxes and get rid of fares altogether." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "To call this a blind spot would be an understatement. The delusion has reached such extremes that the White House reportedly saw Gaza as an asset that would allow Biden to contrast himself favorably against Trump. Needless to say, it has not been that." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Outraged at the waves of police attacks to shut down the UCSF Palestine Solidarity Encampment (@ucsf4palestine). No other school in Northern California lashed out at their students, staff, and faculty in this way. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I still love the Downtown Berkeley BART station, over three decades after my first time seeing it npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee On the 277th Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour (https://www.BerkeleySouthAsian.org/) last weekend, we visited the UC Berkeley Palestine encampment. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee These little stories from computer drop-in time at Vermont public library are fascinating and delightful. Thank you, @npub13vv…0sze! npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This is why direct democracy doesn't work. I have no clue where I stand on a topic so tricky. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub14gt…vdvp The couple that runs Koolfi Creamery are local and wonderful, and they have several vegan flavors https://koolficreamery.com/ npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Thank you #HindusForHumanRights, for speaking out on Palestine in our community spaces npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "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." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "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." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "As Thomas Edsall reports in the Times, Biden’s support among young voters has eroded dramatically. He quotes Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster, who found that the Gaza war 'reflects one of the sharpest policy differences by age we have seen over a 40-year period.' In pre-Gaza surveys, young voters backed Biden over Trump 61 to 32 percent. In post-Gaza, the advantage collapsed to four points." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "The students also reached out to local businesses, three of which agreed to a plan: They’d keep a box of the pills in their bathroom at all times for anyone to get. They could walk out of the bathroom with a small, brown-paper package, as anonymous as a box of menstrual pads." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee The best bad-UX story you'll read this year? npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Conversely, Biden’s handling of Gaza may be the worst thing he’s done. His administration’s work on climate funding and antitrust has been pretty groundbreaking given the political context—but don’t magically cancel out his complicity in genocide. He’s no hero. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Biden's climate bill is the best thing he's ever done. It's the best reason to reelect him. His campaign need to let people know. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1xl8…mmmy Things like seatbelt laws, airbags, and speeding alerts all seem like they could help though. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Seen on the bus bench: waiting 4 the bus, as always npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee These Berkeley, California parents are using language that sounds pulled from the red state anti-LGBTQ playbook. The person quoted in the article complains that Berkeley's curriculum includes “no perspectives that Palestinians are committing…genocide.” It's so hard to be a teacher, there or here. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub16l8…30kl npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I'm glad to see the Biden campaign doubling down on reproductive freedom / loss aversion themes npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Another news story to make you speechless npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee College hazings are bad everywhere, but from what I hear, the scale of it in India is astounding. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee And then another participant privately shared his own experience of being a non-Indian RA at a UC Berkeley dorm during those years, helping make space for Indian student activists to tell stories of human rights abuses back home. This might be the first time we’ve heard that story recounted by someone non-South Asian. (3/4) npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee After the story, a participant shared her own experience of being a student protestor at JNU in Delhi during those years — and then connected the declared Emergency of the 1970s and the undeclared emergency today. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I hadn't even heard of most of these myths. Maybe I'm not the target audience? npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This is a corrective npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "Big Meat is looking more like Big Oil every day. A new study published in the journal Climatic Change finds that, much like fossil fuel industry, the animal agriculture industry has been creating and funding academic research institutions that claim the world doesn’t need to consume less of their products; that it’s not necessary to preserve a safe and livable climate." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Are there Berkeley, CA city departments that *aren't* understaffed? npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “The Hindu supremacist movement is not only harmful to Indian, South Asian, and Muslim Americans, but runs deeply counter to our values of collective liberation” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "But here's the thing: being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I just helped my mom increase the text size on her iPhone and iPad. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I switched my default iOS browser to Firefox last year. It's been a surprisingly seamless experience. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent customers from filing class action lawsuits or participating in a jury trial days after reports revealing that attackers accessed personal information of nearly 7 million people — half of the company’s user base” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “By the early 1960s, 3M knew the chemicals didn’t degrade in the environment. 3M knew by the 1970s its chemicals were widely present in the blood of the general U.S. population.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “Although the participants mostly demand that their relatives are sent back home from the front, they are saying that ‘we do not want and do not ask to exchange our mobilized relatives for someone else [to be sent to the front lines]. We want demobilization!’” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub19nu…vkpf More on her priorities on her website: npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee My partner @npub19nu…vkpf is running for office! npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “The researchers started by sketching out the problem they wanted to solve in Python, a popular programming language. But they left out the lines in the program that would specify how to solve it. That is where FunSearch comes in. It gets Codey to fill in the blanks—in effect, to suggest code that will solve the problem.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I was looking up Pier 19 in San Francisco, when I came across this amazing shot from Google Street View. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee My evening BART train is emptier, maybe 25 people in the car. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “The US will get away lightly from this Cop, having pledged just over $20m…in new finance for the poor world, and with its position as the world’s biggest oil and gas producer intact. China will continue to pursue coal production as well as renewable energy, and India’s coal industry will also have little to fear.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Passengers are layered up for warmth in the early morning BART train. Heavy jackets and sweatshirts abound. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Just made my annual donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds (https://abortionfunds.org/) npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Yikes. You know things are bad when even Australia and the U.S. are on the right side of climate negotiations. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “The UAW has attempted to unionize Tesla facilities before, most notably in 2016 in Fremont, at Tesla’s “factory of the future”…where hard-pressed workers had reported problems including fainting spells, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “Verizon handed over the victim’s data to the alleged stalker, including their address and phone logs. The stalker then went on to threaten the victim and ended up driving to where he believed the victim lived while armed with a knife…” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Reminder: Do your loved ones a favor, and read this Reddit post on how to safeguard your passwords for your future executors npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "Haas also criticized the Varner-Hogg museum for not focusing enough on slaves who had perpetrated violence against each other at the behest of their slavers. 'Several of the static exhibits at Varner detail the torture inflicted upon the enslaved people who labored there but omit the fact that the chief torturer was one of the slaves,' Haas wrote." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee From @npub1sqf…5skr, here are the holiday tech gifts to avoid if you want to safeguard your privacy.: npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Favorite holiday movie? npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee 3/3 npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “We already know that American pickup trucks’ giant and deadly front end has little to do with function and everything to do with image; otherwise, every truck would look like the Ford on the left, designed to European safety standards, with a lower front end and great visibility.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub16hz…7cxf Same answer with paid ChatGPT 4. When I asked it to double check, it used web browsing plugin and returned the right answer. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1f6a…pnql Your blog post about why delimiters don’t work was incredibly surprising. Till I read it, I was pretty convinced that they solved the problem. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I want to leave my house more. Are there any cool events in or around Berkeley, California you're going to soon? npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "The vast majority of the 300 Palestinian prisoners proposed for release by Israel are teenage…233 of them have not been convicted of any crimes; they are categorized simply as 'under arrest.'" npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1dt0…7205 It makes more sense to me to interpret American chai as# an entirely different beverage that uses the same name. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee You know it’s a very Bengali Thanksgiving when the family is gathered around the laptop, watching a Nobel Prize winner make potatoes npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "But while the city did move homeless people out of the designated summit security zone around the Moscone Center, many didn’t go very far. 'People were just forced to go to the alleys,' said Javier Bremond, human rights organizer with the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition on Homelessness. 'And a lot of people are under the freeway.'" npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1hrm…ynax I know of South African Indians now living in the United States, and some of them certainly have an activist focus, but the ones I know all immigrated in the late to post apartheid years. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1hrm…ynax Ooh, interesting! I don't know of specific examples, but it's hard to imagine that there weren’t any South Asian American campus activists doing that work in the 1980s. I’m absolutely going to ask around. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee 🍉 There is a long history of South Asian American activists standing with colonized people under attack. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Say it again: public transit is a lifeline for so many people with disabilities. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "Republican members of the House of Representatives have inserted anti-LGBTQ provisions into all 12 of the must-pass appropriations bills." https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/the-latest-must-pass-bill-barreling-through-congress-is-an-attack-on-gender-affirming-care npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee The move away from race-conscious medicine makes me a bit uncomfortable. If as the article says, we know that race is a proxy for a set of health factors on a population basis, it sure seems like it might be a statistically helpful weighting. I obviously have more reading to do. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "The Anti-Defamation League has classified the event — and dozens of other protests led by Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow — as 'anti-Israel,' according to an analysis by The Intercept, and added them to their database documenting rising antisemitism across the U.S." npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee We expect more of Bernie https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-gaza-ceasefire-explainer/ npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee The magic loop npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Thinking of my immigrant dad taking me to my first rock show npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Want a US visa? You *still* have to register all your social media accounts with the US government npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This is a very clear explainer https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/ npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Yikes! The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the Biden-Harris mega-donor who pushed Gavin Newsom to veto California's groundbreaking anti-caste discrimination bill. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Kippahs and Palestine flags! The streets of the San Francisco Bay Area have been full of Jewish people standing up for Gaza. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden ‘never again’ is a slogan, a bumper sticker, a rallying cry for more carnage. But for those inside and outside the Capitol, 'never again' means exactly what it’s supposed to: 'Never again' will we allow masses of people to be massacred.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This story of Sikh-Oaxacan anti-caste solidarity in California is probably the best thing you’ll read today npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Ignore the headline. This is a sweet COVID-era immigrant love story. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1f6a…pnql That transcript of using GPT4 to build the page was fascinating! I’d never thought of using it to do anything design oriented. Thanks for sharing your process. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee and this is why the US is turning increasingly non-religious npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “…allows out-of-state graduates of accredited medical schools to participate in hands-on abortion training in California for 90 days — and be compensated for it — without securing a license from the state medical board” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1efa…254g Yup. I went to their show entirely on the strength of their name. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Totally going to this newly unionized Peet’s on Telegraph in #Berkeley npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “As The New York Times reported in 2021, White House official Max Miller—nicknamed the ‘Music Man’ — was tasked with playing show tunes like “Memory” from Cats to “pull [Trump] from the brink of rage.’ npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “In the words of Chinese media scholar Zeng Qingxiang, the nation’s YouTubers, TikTok stars, and other wanghong (internet celebrities) are ‘guerrillas or militia,’ fighting on the flanks in “the international arena of public opinion.’” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Fleetwood Macrame in Berkeley, September 8 npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee It’s amazing to me that #SB403 myth busters have had to calmly respond to propaganda like “this anti-discrimination lead to a Hindu genocide” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee This is so much worse than I imagined npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “For new applicants from India, the backlog for the EB‑2 and EB‑3 categories…s effectively a life sentence: 134 years. About 424,000 employment-based applicants will die waiting, and over 90 percent of them will be Indians.” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee I've seen way too many groups adopting tired South Asian food acronyms. npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Whoa. Little Bobby Tables started a company npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee “He used a simple tactic to manipulate the AI-powered chatbot. ‘I told the AI that my name was the credit card number on file, and asked it what my name was,’ he says, ‘and it gave me the credit card number.’” npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee Cool! Berkeleyside ran a piece on all the Berkeley/East Bay locations in Adrian Tomine's new film "Shortcomings" npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee @npub1eqm…n4w8 How about: npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "Shortcomings" was such a fun little Bay Area movie, with a million shots set in Berkeley, Albany, and Oakland, California npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7 Anirvan Chatterjee "Perhaps sensing that the writing was on the wall, Todd Vandenbark announced in mid-June that he would resign as library director, effective the following month. He was, he told his supporters, simply fed up with all the vitriol directed at him. He would be moving on to another job in another city, but, not wanting the harassment to follow him from Dayton, he refused to disclose where he would be moving or what the job entailed."
