Rohini Lakshané

@rohini
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Interdisciplinary research, tech policy, gender, access to knowledge, writing, and teaching. Engineer, Wikimedian, polyglot. Gaia is god.

Personal views. "The personal is political."

📍 India

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.

#NoBridge

About Mehttps://about.me/rohini
Personal bloghttps://aarohini.medium.com
Zenodohttps://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.name%3A%22Lakshan%C3%A9%2C%20Rohini%22&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0205-0696

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.

#gender #conflict #disinformation
#Rightscon #Rightscon2026

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

#blogging #blogiversary #blogversary

Milestone

On 18 years of blogging

Medium
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

WIRED
I love this account for putting cute capys on my timeline
https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/116559446296018085
CapibaraBot (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image #Capybara #Capibara #Carpincho 699

Lile

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.

Medium's font in the Devanagari script is bad, almost unreadably so.

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

#Marathi #data #translation #TIL

Tech-facilitated gender-based violence data in India

Qualitative and quantitative information on technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

Medium
India Post in Mysore

Compiled from my toots in 2023.

Medium