
Here we go again: Bengaluru’s app downtime highlights why transport data should be open data, and third-party apps should be welcome. The winner-take-all approach invites failure.
Xitter @DeccanHerald
Hello #Bangalore!
I’ll be in Bengaluru, India in late December, and would love to connect with Mastodonians who work on history, digital humanities, climate, tech, walking tours, or activism.
More about me at https://www.chatterjee.net/
DMs open! Thank you for amplifying
Bengaluru, India, is fast running out of water, and a long, scorching summer still looms.
AP reports the city formerly known as Bangalore "has received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change."
India: #Bengaluru metro Purple Line extension opens http://bit.ly/3KuDFIu
My #firstpost on #Mastodon:
I am an Earth/climate scientist at the University of Arizona in #Tucson (southwestern US) focusing on the areas of #climate change, #paleoclimates, and #paleoceanography, with an emphasis on #ENSO, #monsoons, & #variability.
Our group uses #inorganic #geochemistry incl. measurements of #stableisotopes & #tracemetals in #carbonate rocks & #fossils (e.g., #foraminifera, #mollusks, & #speleothems) alongside climate #observations as well as #simulations to advance understanding of how the Earth's #climate & #oceans have changed in the past and can change in the future.
Some of my hobbies include:
#music: I am a fan of #metal and heavy music of all sorts, but tend to migrate towards #black, #death, #doom, #drone, #sludge, & #thrash. I also have a soft spot for #carnatic/#hindustani #ragas, #darkambient, oldschool-ish #hiphop, #triphop, and various forms of #electronicmusic.
#birds & #birding #photography bring me joy. Right now, I feel v lucky to be briefly back in my hometown of #Bengaluru, southern India, after three long years being able to see #oldworld birds I grew up with.
#GTD, #mindfulness, #organization, and (vs?) #producivity are things that I enjoy thinking about. Of late, I've been using #Things3, #Streaks, #Hobonichi w a #Lamy Safari, #Obsidian, #Overleaf, & #Bookends to get things done.
Thanks for reading!
#Introduction #MastIndia #Bengaluru
Few bullets about myself.
* At work my current focus area is software systems for industrial process automation.
* I have interests in wide variety of topics as mentioned in my profile https://mas.to/@srijit.
* My preferred languages are English, Bengali, Kannada and Hindi.
* I favour free and open source application software.
* I expect Mastodon fediverse to be the digital town square which rewards moderate and rational talk that promotes consensus.