Anirvan Chatterjee
@anirvan
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Curating the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour. Trying to read a book a week. @[email protected] and https://t.co/PIsSq40Bfn
California, USA
Joined June 2007
I cross-post to X, but it's not where I'm most active. Find me on Mastodon: https://t.co/I6jlkbYcK4 Find me on BlueSky: https://t.co/8YNJlxv4Wh Find me on Threads: https://t.co/Py2vIyAq3t (Mastodon is my favorite of these, because of the community. Reach out if you have q's.)
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A flight from US to India. People boarded the flight. Found out about the H1B news. Immediately disembarked fearing they won’t be allowed re-entry. Crazy
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If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.
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.@SenAlexPadilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.
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I have known Rümeysa for ten years, my student, my TA & RA, my colleague. I can vouch for her ethics, her respect for human rights and her care in human relations, her kindness and honesty. Never carries hatred towards anyone in her heart! #freerumeysa
Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by masked U.S. ICE agents yesterday while heading to an Iftar dinner in Massachusetts. Ozturk, who held a valid F-1 visa and studied at Tufts University, was reportedly being watched for two days before her arrest. She was on the
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🚨URGENT: MPAC demands the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student and F-1 visa holder abducted by DHS agents with no charges—on her way to an Iftar. This is a chilling violation of civil liberties during Ramadan. 📢 Speak out. Call your Reps. #freerumeysa
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The horrific moment that Tufts grad student and anti-war activist Rumeysa Ozturk was detained (kidnapped) by Trump’s ICE thugs. Somerville, MA #FreePalestine #FreeRemeysa
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Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil. https://t.co/BIBm1nsP3t
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help us grow the alternatives to the big three https://t.co/HeTp5nvq4S
404media.co
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
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Q: Are there any photo walk groups or meetups in Bangalore / Bengaluru, India? Asking for a friend. #Bangalore #Bengaluru #MastIndia
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As you can see, I've been writing about @DrJBhattacharya being a deplorable member of the #DesiHallofShame since 2021. His being in charge of NIH is scary. Elon has ruined Twitter search, so I can't even find all the times I've pointed out, in detail, Dr. Bhattacharya's issues.
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These are the stories of nine health care workers at UCSF who dealt with censorship and punishment after speaking out about human rights for Palestinians.
theintercept.com
Nine health care workers at UCSF report punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians, or simply wearing a pin.
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- wrote a script to prep the metadata (date, length, URL, desc, title, format), and put it into the right format - looked at Library of Congress digital preservation guidelines, and realized I picked the wrong video format - redownloaded everything - uploaded, handed off! 2/2
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digital archiving accomplishment of the week: - confirmed legal issues - researched yt-dlp and related tools, used LLM to understand some of the options - retrieved 85 videos associated with South Asian American civil rights - prepped thumbnails, SRT subtitle data 1/2
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We’re all looking for a silver bullet. But what we did in the 2010s didn’t sustain in the way we hoped. https://t.co/brm2aVBDFJ
theguardian.com
Some features of mass protests in the 2010s also held them back – but years of study have made journalist Vincent Bevins believe solidarity and structure can effect change
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“Safeguarding Californians’ access to abortion is personal for Bonta. In 2022, she revealed she had an abortion at the age of 21. ‘I chose to own my body,’ she said at the time. It’s a decision that helped her break the ‘cycle of poverty in my family’” https://t.co/pmsGBedJMw
theguardian.com
Lawmaker Mia Bonta outlines new bills package to protect reproductive rights in interview with the Guardian
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Ever dealt with a nitpicky boss? Check out this design review from a senior graphic designer for ISIS https://t.co/EFWnIw9CCa
404media.co
"The text on the top needs effects as well … shining … blood spots or a line surrounding it, etc."
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TLDR: 21 red states sued the Biden administration to avoid disclosing their transportation emissions stats. Here are some of the numbers they were trying to avoid reporting. https://t.co/2PrUyNB7HK
usa.streetsblog.org
We are going in the wrong direction.
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This is so real, and why it’s so important that we pay electeds a living wage. Only a small proportion of Bay Area mayors and city council members are renters. https://t.co/5K9gaAU76d
eedition.sfchronicle.com
When local politicians can’t afford to live here
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This deep dive into the “MomBoard” is the best tech story you’ll read this week https://t.co/dFaRJTPBJw
jan.miksovsky.com
Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
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