Anirvan Chatterjee
@chatterjee.net
Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California.
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 12th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
https://www.chatterjee.net/
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 12th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
https://www.chatterjee.net/
Reposted by Anirvan Chatterjee
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
"The historical record of women and their accomplishments is also under attack. Across government databases, museum displays, and archival holdings, information about women has been systematically deleted."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump’s War on Women Somehow Got Worse
The commander in chief and his allies have deemed women the enemy.
www.thenation.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 AM
"The historical record of women and their accomplishments is also under attack. Across government databases, museum displays, and archival holdings, information about women has been systematically deleted."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This is my #1 message to friends and mentees:
"the vast majority of technology doesn’t happen…in the 'tech industry'. Startups are only a tiny fraction of the entire realm of companies that create or use technology, and the giant tech companies are only a small percentage of all jobs or hiring"
"the vast majority of technology doesn’t happen…in the 'tech industry'. Startups are only a tiny fraction of the entire realm of companies that create or use technology, and the giant tech companies are only a small percentage of all jobs or hiring"
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
This is my #1 message to friends and mentees:
"the vast majority of technology doesn’t happen…in the 'tech industry'. Startups are only a tiny fraction of the entire realm of companies that create or use technology, and the giant tech companies are only a small percentage of all jobs or hiring"
"the vast majority of technology doesn’t happen…in the 'tech industry'. Startups are only a tiny fraction of the entire realm of companies that create or use technology, and the giant tech companies are only a small percentage of all jobs or hiring"
"The Minnesota slaughter is not so much a first, but a particularly shocking example for being captured on video from more than one angle."
theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last
ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.
theintercept.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
"The Minnesota slaughter is not so much a first, but a particularly shocking example for being captured on video from more than one angle."
theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
"Trump didn’t tell Congress about the Venezuela attack before it happened. But he did claim to tell oil executives…So who does the government work for, exactly?"
It's time to embrace climate conspiracy
Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
heated.world
January 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"Trump didn’t tell Congress about the Venezuela attack before it happened. But he did claim to tell oil executives…So who does the government work for, exactly?"
"…People could be un-…out of abusive targeting for political reasons…the Trump Administration moved 6,000 immigrants who legally possessed social security numbers into the SSA’s 'dead file,' cutting off their ability to work, receive benefits, use banks, and carry out other parts of normal life."
How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps | ACLU
States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked
www.aclu.org
January 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
"…People could be un-…out of abusive targeting for political reasons…the Trump Administration moved 6,000 immigrants who legally possessed social security numbers into the SSA’s 'dead file,' cutting off their ability to work, receive benefits, use banks, and carry out other parts of normal life."
"For the most part, hospitality giants have gone out of their way to accommodate ICE agents, even permitting the use of hotel rooms as temporary holding cells to detain immigrant families prior to deportation."
theintercept.com/2026/01/06/h...
theintercept.com/2026/01/06/h...
Three Cheers for Hilton Hotel Workers Who Banned ICE — Until Their Corporate Bosses Stomped Them Out
Big businesses like Hilton will always side with fascistic forces like ICE, so we need to stand up for the workers who push back.
theintercept.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
"For the most part, hospitality giants have gone out of their way to accommodate ICE agents, even permitting the use of hotel rooms as temporary holding cells to detain immigrant families prior to deportation."
theintercept.com/2026/01/06/h...
theintercept.com/2026/01/06/h...
" now has veto power over any material his son may come across that merely suggests LGBTQ people are a part of society…Forget celebration. Forget civil rights. If there’s a book with a gay character in it…Alan needs to be warned in advance so he can take steps to make sure his son never sees it."
Judge says school must shield kindergartner from all things LGBTQ at Christian dad's demand
A federal ruling has forced a public school to accommodate one Christian parent’s faith-based hostility
www.friendlyatheist.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
" now has veto power over any material his son may come across that merely suggests LGBTQ people are a part of society…Forget celebration. Forget civil rights. If there’s a book with a gay character in it…Alan needs to be warned in advance so he can take steps to make sure his son never sees it."
"What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
Reposted by Anirvan Chatterjee
The silence from many media-hyped 2028 contenders today is shocking.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
January 4, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The silence from many media-hyped 2028 contenders today is shocking.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
"Californians deserve to understand why their tracked movements are queried so often, and many times by officers hundreds of miles from where they live in databases in the other half of the state."
oaklandprivacy.org/automated-li...
oaklandprivacy.org/automated-li...
Automated License Plate Reader Use Doesn’t Add Up
by Tracy Rosenberg In June of 2025, Oakland Privacy received a Flock audit log from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office detailing the activity in their cloud database of license plate reader scans…
oaklandprivacy.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
"Californians deserve to understand why their tracked movements are queried so often, and many times by officers hundreds of miles from where they live in databases in the other half of the state."
oaklandprivacy.org/automated-li...
oaklandprivacy.org/automated-li...
"Amazon has granted a temporary exception until March 2, to its in-office policy for employees stranded in India due to prolonged U.S. visa processing delays."
indiawest.com/amazon-allow...
indiawest.com/amazon-allow...
Amazon Allows Remote Work With Restrictions For Visa Stranded Employees In India - IndiaWest News
Amazon Allows Remote Work With Restrictions For Visa Stranded Employees In India.
indiawest.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 AM
"Amazon has granted a temporary exception until March 2, to its in-office policy for employees stranded in India due to prolonged U.S. visa processing delays."
indiawest.com/amazon-allow...
indiawest.com/amazon-allow...
I’m surprised American conservatives haven’t tried applying sin taxes to contraception
www.wired.com/story/china-...
www.wired.com/story/china-...
China Will Tax Contraceptives in a Bid to Improve Birth Rates
Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.
www.wired.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’m surprised American conservatives haven’t tried applying sin taxes to contraception
www.wired.com/story/china-...
www.wired.com/story/china-...
“When you have a real judge and a real jury looking at the evidence, it just falls apart.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...
theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...
The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing
Prosecutors for the Trump administration have been quick to bring charges against ICE protesters. They've also been quick to lose the cases.
theintercept.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“When you have a real judge and a real jury looking at the evidence, it just falls apart.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...
theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...
this upsurge in anti-Indian racism and new structural barriers to entry have very real impacts on our communities
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
Amid an astonishing wave of anti-Indian animus, Indian Americans are questioning their place in the country.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
this upsurge in anti-Indian racism and new structural barriers to entry have very real impacts on our communities
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
“She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.”
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who…
www.wired.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.”
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
“When Austin let its Flock pilot expire on July 1, the decision reflected a political judgment: constituents rejected a nationwide network used for immigration enforcement. It wasn't a debate about retention rates; it was a refusal to renew.”
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Procurement Power—When Cities Realized They Can Just Say No: 2025 in Review
In 2025, elected officials across the country began treating surveillance technology purchases differently: not as inevitable administrative procurements handled by police departments, but as…
www.eff.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“When Austin let its Flock pilot expire on July 1, the decision reflected a political judgment: constituents rejected a nationwide network used for immigration enforcement. It wasn't a debate about retention rates; it was a refusal to renew.”
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
You’re not imagining it:
“The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You’re not imagining it:
“The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Yikes. I feel personally attacked by this argument, as someone who always listens to podcasts and audiobooks at higher-than-default speeds
www.raptitude.com/2025/12/mayb...
www.raptitude.com/2025/12/mayb...
Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High
I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most ...
www.raptitude.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yikes. I feel personally attacked by this argument, as someone who always listens to podcasts and audiobooks at higher-than-default speeds
www.raptitude.com/2025/12/mayb...
www.raptitude.com/2025/12/mayb...
“The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said: ‘The peoples of Europe are free and sovereign and cannot let the rules governing their digital space be imposed by others upon them.’”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
European leaders condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates
Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five leading figures behind digital safety law campaign targeted
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said: ‘The peoples of Europe are free and sovereign and cannot let the rules governing their digital space be imposed by others upon them.’”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Another reminder of the everyday global struggles unfolding around us
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one
From the Indigenous doctor balancing traditional and western medicine to a father risking death to provide for his family in Gaza, these are some of the people whose determination and bravery stood…
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another reminder of the everyday global struggles unfolding around us
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
