Imran Maskatia

My favorite person in the world just started a Substack: The Inner Ascent 🌱 After losing both parents in back-to-back years — her mother to cancer in 2024 and her father in a tragic accident in 2025 — she discovered that three “roots” held her through the devastation: faith, community, and purpose. Drawing on her medical training, neuroscience, and her own lived experience, she’ll write weekly about building the inner infrastructure that helps people not just survive hardship, but grow through it. Subscribe 👇 open.substack.com/pub/draaliyamd…

@AskRobinhood I hope this goes somewhere! If it helps, I can do the software engineering work to make it happen.

@imranm Hey Imran, thanks for reaching out. While this currently isn’t a feature we offer, we are always looking to make improvements to the experience and really appreciate the feedback. We’ll pass along your suggestion. Thank you! twitter.com/messages/compo…

@AskRobinhood Hey Robinhood, I'm a longtime customer and generally very happy. When will you allow us to gift stock and other assets to charity, ideally with no fees (since it's a charitable donation)? All other major brokerages have this feature.

@joshelman Have fun and enjoy the game!

My Waymo greeted me with Happy GameDay! Didn’t imagine this future - self driving to a Super Bowl On the way to Levi’s. Go Seahawks!!!

OPINION: Trump’s attempts to redefine terrorism to fit his agenda are the outgrowth of a selective concept that political actors have been carrying out for decades, Shirin Sinnar writes. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

🎙️NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "In Edward Said's Shadow" Said famously wrote most of "Orientalism" at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows @asdillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth & @ShirinSinnar discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book 🎧 #edward-said" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#edward…

@atifkhan31 It's awesome. So much fun to watch.

Flag football is absolutely on fire at schools all over the country.

@davezatz Well, if you want a standalone stb, I know a guy...

@imranm We have a new television coming this week. Just checked. No tuner at all. So I guess we’ll never know. 🤣

My days of OTA are truly done and over. 😢 I can’t get it reliably going elevated outside in various temporary positions, so it ain’t happening inside and I’m not messing with a massive roof mast. (Depending on orientation, I can get NBC *or* ABC and CBS.)

@RichLightShed I mean, in the zombie apocalypse, streaming services will be the first to go. You can always power a disc player with a propane generator.

Who buys DVDs and Blu-ray?

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Today is the first #StanfordDayofGiving. Please support the valuable work at the Markaz Resource Center by donating at dayofgiving.stanford.edu/campaigns/the-…. All gifts up to $5000 will be matched for the next 24 hours.

This #Ramadan, we're excited to announce the addition of $HLAL & $SPUS to our investment options on Daffy☪️✨ Generosity is a core value shared across faiths, and by adding these Halal ETFs, we're fulfilling our mission of helping people be more generous more often.

Today's @StanfordDaily op-ed by @ShirinSinnar: stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/fro…

@tconrad Awesome! I'm looking forward to what you and the team have cooking!

Very excited to step into the interim CEO job at Sonos. Shared a note with the team this morning about why I'm here and the path forward... theverge.com/2025/1/13/2434…

Anti-Irish 1840s–1850s Portrayed as drunkards and troublemakers and racially inferior. “No Irish Need Apply.” Anti-Chinese 1870s–1880s Viewed as job-stealers and blamed for economic woes, called a “Yellow Peril” “Not a Chinaman’s chance.” Anti-Jewish Late 19th to mid-20th century Stereotyped as greedy, controlling finance "Gentiles only." Anti-Italian 1900s–1920s Dismissed as anarchists, criminals, or racially “unfit” “Wops, go home!” Anti-German 1917–1918 Suspected of espionage and branded as enemies “Don’t speak the Hun’s tongue!” Anti-Mexican 1930s–1950, 2020s Blamed for economic competition and social unrest “Go back to Mexico” Anti-Japanese 1940s Deemed disloyal "A Jap's a Jap" Anti-Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc.) 1970s–1980s Derided as dirty and burdens on society "No more boat people!" Anti-Arab 2001–2002 Cast as potential terrorists or extremists "Go back to the Middle East where you belong.” Anti-Indian 2024-2025 Portrayed as third world invaders, job stealers [check twitter]

Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-vi-…

Anyone else see a dragon to the northwest? #MeteorologicalObservations #CAwx

@imranm Amazing! Which part did you visit? I wonder if we passed on the trails!

Glad to have a National Park within day trip distance from the Bay Area. Quite a hike with caves, cliffs, and condors