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Timothy Pereira
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cofounder, managing director @ AI accelerator and education non profit, AI advisory board member, he/him. @timopg @ threads, twitter, mastodon
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alonsonichols.bsky.social
Worth your time - heartbreaking and infuriating. Real people living in the reality of our politics. Jaime, brought to the US as a child, has tried to do it all right - and it may not be enough. (Gift Link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
Screenshot of article “The Alienation of Jaime Cachua” At the top are a pair of hands touching a pile of family photos of Jaime Cachua, an undocumented immigrant brought to the USA as a 1-year-old and now facing the possibility of deportation even with his DACA status allowing him to work and reside in the US. His wife’s family and his community in Rome, Georgia voted for Trump. Now he and his wife are scrambling to prepare for his possible deportation Highlighted text: “He had done whatever he could to pass as American ever since he was about 5, when his grandfather first taught him some of the rules of assimilation in the Deep South: no baggy clothes, no bandannas, no lowrider cars, no accent, no speaking Spanish outside the home when he could help it. Instead, he became conversant in the language of salvation and hunting rifles and Georgia Bulldogs football. He asked his teachers and later his bosses to say his name not as hi-MAY, the typical Spanish pronunciation, but as JAY-me.”
December 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, thru my spouse‘s job we have “ good” insurance. 5yrs ago, I had knee replacement &they made me jump thru 1 million hoops ofc (& we were out of pocket $$$$ too). 1 month later, they sent me a 5-figure bill for the full amount. They *retroactively* unapproved it & demanded I pay up
December 6, 2024 at 12:52 AM