Tashmia Ismail
@TashmiaI
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Innovation for a better world.
Toronto
Joined April 2015
Lithium mining began in Pasali a decade ago, transforming a remote and slumbering community into a bustling site for small-scale illegal mining.
fastcompany.com
The growing demand for lithium has created a new frontier for mining in mineral-rich Nigeria.
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Doing a startup is kind of like riding a mountain bike downhill, which you’ve got to spend 95 percent of your time staring five to 10 feet in front of you. But every so often, you’ve got to look up and see where you’re going.
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For many years, Bill Gates used to fly Economy, not because he couldn’t afford First Class, but because he didn’t consider it good value. It’s five or six times more expensive, but only marginally better (and you all get to your destination at the same time). In the same vein, I
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I’m Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix & 6 other companies. This is my definition of success:
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This is a massive media scandal. @SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam. It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism. They then deleted it. This is the original. https://t.co/RsdN9ULiKQ
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“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” @KeeangaYamahtta at @PalFest today.
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There is so much riding on the election in November. We need a leader who will stand up for reproductive freedom. A leader who understands that supporting caregivers leads to healthier families and a stronger economy. A leader who knows that when women have their full power in
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Melinda Gates says she is supporting Kamala Harris. Gates is planning on investing millions in campaigns during this election based on her mission to help protect reproductive rights.
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Republican leaders urge colleagues to steer clear of racist and sexist attacks on Harris
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Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris as they and former President Donald Trump’s campaign scramble to...
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California may procure two gigawatts of long duration energy storage, including 1 GW of multi-day storage and 1 GW of 12+ hour duration. This would be a major demand pull to help catalyze emerging storage technologies.
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The CPUC in California has determined that the state needs 10.6GW of new long lead-time resources, including 2GW of LDES.
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: last week: 99.3% RE last 152 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/4)
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Kamala Harris has graduated from limbo, @dstfelix writes. “Everyone is braced for the natural litigator to reëmerge, for the split-screen jouissance of a future debate—the prosecutor versus the felon.” https://t.co/srnE6lWV1d
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The Vice-President, who is set to win the Democratic nomination, has graduated from limbo.
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You have to watch this immensely revealing and horrifying testimony by Jewish-American humanitarian surgeon Mark Perlmutter who spent 2 weeks in Gaza: https://t.co/2vG1688HK1 "All of the disaster zones I've seen combined - combined - 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero,
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What a day! Three major bills signed by 🇿🇦 President @CyrilRamaphosa today: - Climate Change Bill, - Public Procurement Bill and - National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill. Link to PRs below 👇
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#NewProfilePic Proud to have graduated with my 6th degree, a PhD from @witsbschool My thesis on digital agriculture explores how digital transformation helps small scale farmers improve viability & increase profitability We're now mentoring farmers based on the research finding
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You are not your job. You are not your parents. You are not your credit score. You are not your school diploma. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the size of your network. You are not your house or neighborhood. You are the sum of your words, choices and actions.
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📑The results of the world's largest independent public opinion poll on climate change are available. Check out Peoples' Climate Vote 2024 today: https://t.co/jbOPrxecSx
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