aditi rao

systems & services & research & design. classical & jazz pianist; erstwhile urban designer; was once a math major; always asking why. she/they.

[aditi rao @aditirao]

no one:
absolutely no one:
me: let’s understand that in context

[Alison Horn @AlisonPHorn]

Today, 48 people were arrested and brought to DC Superior Court for arraignments.

46 were Black (96%)
1 was white (2%)
1 was Latinx (2%)

DC’s population is 46% Black.

#Juneteenth

[Chris Gaarder @chrisgaarder]

It should be as easy to permit and build mid-rise housing as it is to build these commercial buildings

[DoktorGracoHasLeftTheBuilding @doktorgraco]

So this wonderful poem by @MiriamWritesEtc emanates from a quote by myself, which emanates from the #decolonizemars concept, so thanks to @Wolven newsletter, https://t.co/AXMJgyOAQc for teaching us the ways to dispel the tech glamour.

[Drew Tuma @DrewTumaABC7]

Our air quality is not changing Wednesday.
Tomorrow will be a record 23rd straight Spare the Air day.

[Jesús Vera Zorita @verazorita]

The outcome of design is a compromise.

[NWS Bay Area 🌉 @NWSBayArea]

GOES17 geocolor depicts California submerged in a sea of smoke this morning. Marine stratus along the coast compliments the milky view over the Pacific.

#cawx

[Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven]

I want y'all to look at how many Black science communicators are verified on Twitter. Then see how many White science communicators are verified. @That_Astro_Chic and others had to beg @Twitter to verify the first Black woman to go to space @maejemison. THIS YEAR. 1/

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A very troubling message I just got from a friend of our family

[Raghav Agrawal @impactology]

Any systems thinking practitioner, media theorist, sts, philtech tried applying buddhist concept of dependent origination - pratityasamutpada to their work? A relational processual doctrine stating nothing exists in isolation, defining everything with relation to other things

[aditi rao @aditirao]

it me, in multiple ways

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

The Postal Workers Union is done fucking around.

[Kale Williams @sfkale]

Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it.

https://t.co/FNAz3padYc

[Jennifer Brea🦒 @jenbrea]

When @edyong209 interviewed me for this piece, he asked (I paraphrase) “What do journalists get wrong when writing about your community?” I’ve done 100+ interviews. I can’t recall ever being asked that question. You should *always* ask that question. https://t.co/g4S0i4suZr

[Jennifer Brea🦒 @jenbrea]

Ask the question whenever you are talking to a member of a community of which you are not a part, especially if it is one that is frequently marginalized. And I don’t mean only the most talked about categories. There are marginalizations within marginalizations.