Button idlis liberally slathered with moringa podi (drumstick powder) were had with raw mango panaka (juice) sweetened with stevia and spiced with a sprinkling of chaat masala. 😋
Moringa podi idlis are >>> kara podi idlis.
Interdisciplinary research, tech policy, gender, access to knowledge, writing, and teaching. Engineer, Wikimedian, polyglot. Gaia is god.
Personal views. "The personal is political."
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IPA transcription of my name: roːɦiɳiː ləkʂəɳeː
My name in the Devanagari script: रोहिणी लक्षणे
Pronouns: she/ her
Display picture: Illustration created by Upasana Agarwal for the book 31 Fantastic Adventures in Science.
Button idlis liberally slathered with moringa podi (drumstick powder) were had with raw mango panaka (juice) sweetened with stevia and spiced with a sprinkling of chaat masala. 😋
Moringa podi idlis are >>> kara podi idlis.
Somebody tell men's rights activists that 'going commando' does not mean what they think it means.
(Screenshots from my work: https://www.genderit.org/index.php/feminist-talk/challenging-gendered-disinformation-indias-manosphere-requires-systemic-change)
One of the sessions where I was supposed to speak at Rightscon this month is scheduled as a webinar on 20 May.
It just occurred to me that I have been blogging for 19 long years in fits and starts. This was on my blogiversary last year: https://aarohini.medium.com/milestone-c1b0387336ee
Offered without comment:
https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
Looks like hackers/scammers/asshats are abusing Microsoft's systems to send out crude phishing messages as two-factor emails.
Emails are sent from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline[.]com, which is a legitimate Microsoft email used to send out about account notifications, and look like this.
While translating some of my writing to Marathi, I figured that there is no word for 'data.' The closest is आकडेवारी (ākadevārī) meaning 'statistics.' Hence, the loanword डेटा (ḍeṭā) is used in Marathi.
https://aarohini.medium.com/tfgbv-incident-data-in-india-8ad91c579559
For comic relief: the charming bureaucracy of India Post.
https://medium.com/@aarohini/india-post-in-mysore-528bf0f7544d
#humour #humor #bureaucracy #Indianbureaucracy #Mysore #IndiaPost