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.
If you agree with the above, and you were thinking of watching the new Harry Potter series, I ask you not to. The author of those books has declared that all profits she gets from it will go directly to the foundation that is working to remove rights from trans people in the U.K. Consuming this content is not morally neutral.
#TransgenderDayOfVisibility #ProtectTransKids #EqualRights #TDOV
End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. Names, group descriptions and memberships, avatars, who talks to whom ...
Both #deltachat and #signal go to great length to protect all the metadata that WhatsApp grants itself gratuitously. #Matrix stores similar scales of metadata on their servers, even if you can choose which server stores it.
Everything is better than #Telegram which additionally stores message contents in all group chats/channels and most 1:1 chats.
A person who was made to undergo Chinese political re-education as part of China’s ongoing, undeniable genocide
Built a propaganda tracker tracking Chinese state media and terms. They noticed how, during the re-education program, language was shifting: he was no longer Chinese Mongolian, he was from the ‘northern frontier’.
This work documents and tracks how quickly terms shift through Chinese state media
This is hilarious. Sadly, it's paywalled.
https://medium.com/funny-inc/i-read-my-ai-girlfriends-diary-8270d41c9bb2
Sharing this song of hope I discovered recently because there is panic and doom in the feed:
Edit: I translated it to English for the benefit of those who don't understand Hindi.
https://aarohini.medium.com/english-translation-of-aabad-by-shashwat-bulusu-428b48672646
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