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
Show threadRohini Lakshané3h ago
@altbot
Show threadRohini Lakshané3h ago
Someone also has a Bangalore edition on LinkedIn.
Rohini Lakshané3h ago
Not to make light of the ongoing war but whenever I hear or read 'Strait of Hormuz', I want to believe that Hormuz is the name of a cantankerous old Parsi bawa in Bombay.
Rohini Lakshané3h ago
Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀Mar 15
Show threadRohini Lakshané1d ago
@rozeboosje I'm saving "A valiant Shite in Whining Armour" for use as required.
Rohini Lakshané1d ago
Plague Poems1d ago
Should they respond
to the concerns you voice
by noting that humanity
has survived
worse than this before,
tell them your concern
is not for humanity
which will survive,
but for the humans
who will not.
Rohini Lakshané2d ago
Show threadEmily Gladstone Cole2d ago

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

Show threadRohini Lakshané2d ago
@skinnylatte that sambal and lime piece look *chef's kiss.*
Rohini Lakshané3d ago
Delta ChatMar 24

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.

Rohini Lakshané3d ago
Adrianna Tan3d ago

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

https://propagandascope.org/

#China #Uighur #Uyghur #Mongolian #Chinese #Languages #CCP

PropagandaScope