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1 month ago | 
es.wired.com | Raksha Vasudevan
Amadou Sow se despertó con el chirrido de los detectores de humo. Eran poco más de las 2:30 de la madrugada del 5 de agosto de 2020, y su casa, en los suburbios de Denver, Colorado, estaba en llamas. El hombre, de 46 años, corrió hacia la puerta de su dormitorio, pero una columna de humo y calor lo obligó a retroceder. Presa del pánico, Sow corrió hacia la ventana trasera, rompió la mosquitera con la mano y saltó. La caída de dos pisos le fracturó el pie izquierdo.
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1 month ago | 
wired.com | Raksha Vasudevan
Social media bots. Deepfake scams. The rising tide of AI-generated content. We’ve long known not to believe everything we read online—but with generative AI bringing fake news to audio and video at a startling pace, it’s increasingly difficult to know what to trust. According to research by the UK’s Alan Turing Institute, more than 90 percent of us have encountered online misinformation.
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1 month ago | 
technewstube.com | Raksha Vasudevan
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1 month ago | 
wired.com | Raksha Vasudevan
Amadou Sow woke to the shrieking of smoke detectors. It was a little after 2:30 am on August 5, 2020, and his house in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, was ablaze. The 46-year-old rushed to his bedroom door, but a column of smoke and heat forced him back. Panicked, Sow ran to the rear window, broke the screen with his hand, and jumped. The two-story drop fractured his left foot. Sow’s wife Hawa Ka woke their daughter Adama, who shared their room.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
tandfonline.com | Magdalena Novoa |Raksha Vasudevan
AbstractPlanning has a long history of community-based scholarship, mainly drawing from the Global North, but emerging work from southern and southeastern contexts advocates for new paradigms in both theory and practice. Drawing from interviews and discussions with early, mid-career, and senior scholars, this article builds on our concept of ‘pluriversal planning scholarship,’ highlighting the importance of relationships and embodied practices with participants as key methodological approaches.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
strangerties.substack.com | Raksha Vasudevan
Dear friends,For those in the US, I hope your holiday weekend was nourishing. It snowed again in Denver the morning before Thanksgiving - just a light sprinkling that had already melted by dusk. But as I wrote in my last post, any snow appears like a small miracle these days. I’m grateful. It’s that time of year when many people are contemplating - whether by choice or compulsion - the meaning and value of family, be it biological or chosen.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
strangerties.substack.com | Raksha Vasudevan
Hello friends,I’m writing to you from Denver, where we finally got our first big snowfall a couple of weeks ago. Like many immigrants from the non-Western world, I have a strange relationship to snow. As a child, first in India and then Oman, I spent years yearning for snow and everything American TV shows had taught me to associate with it: carrot-nosed snowmen, hot chocolate before a fire, Xmas trees with shiny presents underneath.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
hcn.org | Raksha Vasudevan
This story was originally published by Civil Eats and is republished here by permission. With her silver rings and turquoise bracelets, Mercedes Ortiz Gutierrez cuts a stylish figure. Her black cane with golden finishes could be mistaken for another accessory if she didn’t lean so heavily on it. Gingerly, she shuffles to the gray couch in her one-bedroom apartment in Thornton, Colorado, just outside Denver and five miles from the slaughterhouse where her life irrevocably changed.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Raksha Vasudevan
With her silver rings and turquoise bracelets, Mercedes Ortiz Gutierrez cuts a stylish figure. Her black cane with golden finishes could be mistaken for another accessory if she didn’t lean so heavily on it. Gingerly, she shuffles to the gray couch in her one-bedroom apartment in Thornton, Colorado, just outside Denver and five miles from the slaughterhouse where her life irrevocably changed.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Raksha Vasudevan |Lisa Elaine Held |Jaya Saxena
With her silver rings and turquoise bracelets, Mercedes Ortiz Gutierrez cuts a stylish figure. Her black cane with golden finishes could be mistaken for another accessory if she didn’t lean so heavily on it. Gingerly, she shuffles to the gray couch in her one-bedroom apartment in Thornton, Colorado, just outside Denver and five miles from the slaughterhouse where her life irrevocably changed.
