Roopa Unnikrishnan

This past month, I've been in conversations with peers and leaders on AI, geopolitics and socio-economic evolution...and came away convinced that we are in clear need of a new kind of leadership role in organizations - The Chief Disruption Officer. Am excited that @TIME magazine in collaboration with Charter published my essay. I'd love to hear your thoughts, team! hashtag#innovation hashtag#strategy hashtag#disruption hashtag#leadership hashtag#AgeofAI charterworks.com/why-your-compa…

Honored to have co-hosted a mango brunch and celebration of #bungalowny 2nd anniversary chez @TheVikasKhanna Always amazed by his grace, generosity and kindness. Presented him with #TheJasmineMurders (@AlephBookCo and @Rupa_Books ) and look forward to hearing his review. #bookstagrammer #AuthorsOfX #booksofX

Bears all day long….. 🐻

What the actual fuck is wrong with yall? The idea of keeping brain dead women alive just to use their bodies as incubators is beyond DYSTOPIAN. Women are NOT breeding machines, NOT spare wombs, NOT some biological resource you can harvest once their brain stops working. The fact that anyone in medicine can even say this out loud shows how deeply misogynistic this thinking is. It's dehumanizing, grotesque, and straight out of The Handmaid's Tale. Can all of you just leave us the fuck alone already? Ew.

Why doesn't the media talk about the peacekeepers killed by Israel in Lebanon? Israel deliberately killed three UN Indonesian peacekeeper and wounded others in Lebanon. Israel cannot continue to be treated as a full member of the UN. Attacking UN peacekeepers is an abomination which was in the past perpetrated by terrorists, but never by members of the UN. Some of you pretended to care what the UN had to say in 1948. Do you care that the UN of today has had more UN personnel killed in the last 2 years than in its history. This is the moment we can salvage what remains of the UN and international law. I call on everyone to unite for the sake of our humanity and to end impunity for violating international law.

There are corrections and there are CORRECTIONS.

Pune flooding should be studied as a masterclass in destroying a hill city’s natural hydrology. A city sitting ~560m above sea level shouldn’t flood, unless you obliterate its rivers, hills, and drainage for real estate. The real estate lobby has systematically destroyed Pune, once known as the Oxford of the East and even considered a potential capital of India before Delhi.

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

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1960s India. A shocking death. Secrets everywhere. Can you unravel the mystery before it’s too late? 🕵️‍♀️✨ #books #1960sIndiaVibes #WhodunitChallenge #SuspenseReads #mystery @roopaonline

🚨BREAKING: The CEO of the most valuable private company in history is being sued by his own sister for s*xual abuse. A judge just allowed the case to move forward. Annie Altman filed an amended lawsuit on April 1, 2026 in St. Louis federal court accusing her brother Sam Altman of sexually abusing and raping her between 1997 and 2006. She says the abuse started when she was 3 years old and he was 12. A judge dismissed the original claims because the statute of limitations expired in 2008. But he allowed her to refile under Missouri's Childhood Sexual Abuse law. She did. The case is now active. Sam Altman denied everything. Called it extortion. Filed a defamation countersuit against his own sister based on social media posts she made between 2021 and 2024. His family says she has mental health challenges. Annie posted videos saying she was "touched by older siblings" and that "an almost tech billionaire" molested her. The judge said those statements make it reasonable to infer she meant Sam Altman. This is the same man whose own board of directors fired him in 2023. Former board member Helen Toner said two senior executives came forward with screenshots and documentation. They used the words "psychological abuse." Said he was lying and manipulating people. Said they had no belief he could change. The board fired him secretly because they knew he'd try to undermine them. He came back five days later. Employees were told either Sam comes back or the company dies. This wasn't his first time. The management team at his first startup Loopt went to the board twice asking to fire him for "deceptive and chaotic behavior." He was reportedly pushed out of Y Combinator too. Every safety leader who clashed with him left. Musk. Sutskever. Amodei. When Jan Leike resigned he said "safety culture has taken a backseat to shiny products." OpenAI was forcing departing employees to sign agreements saying if they ever criticize the company they lose all their equity. Millions of dollars. When it leaked Altman said he didn't know. The CEO didn't know what was in his own exit contracts. He asked Scarlett Johansson to voice ChatGPT. She said no. Twice. They made a voice that sounded just like her anyway. Altman tweeted "her" on launch day. She had to hire lawyers to get them to stop. Forbes says he's worth $3.3 billion. The Musk trial starts April 27. His sister's case is now active. His own board fired him for lying. His own executives called it psychological abuse. And this is the guy the world is trusting with AI.

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Thanks @UNCANews and sponsoring org unstaffonepercentfundny.org - you do such important work!!

It identifies corporations, organizations, or government entities that NCOSE argues are facilitating, enabling, or profiting from sexual abuse, exploitation, or sex trafficking endsexualexploitation.org/articles/mark-…

Amazing and sad to hear about all the work @RuchiraAGupta and @apneaap do to save victims of sex trafficking. Thanks @UN and UN correspondents association for hosting the #author event!