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  • The 2026 Midterms

    The 2026 Midterms

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    The Democrats don’t have a known good strategy to limit Trump’s authoritarian power grab, irrational wars, or even to deliver a coherent anti-fascist message. Despite this, they keep trying. Here are some key issues. SoCal Midterm Battleground Races See Ballotpedia Battlegrounds I’m including only well funded rivals in these lists, compiled from the Ballotpedia information.…

  • Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot

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    Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…

  • LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance

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    I had an obvious idea to deal with the Flock security cameras: an anonymous drone that would fly to the camera, and then spray paint the lens, rendering the camera useless. a small autonomous drone that will fly to surveillance cameras and spray paint the lens Grok won: The image on the right is pretty…

  • How to Use Craigslist and Facebook to Get Rid of Stuff for Free

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    Once the rainy seasons is past, you can take a lot of stuff out and give it away or sell it. Here’s a photo of some stuff I’ve given away. This is a small fraction of what I’ve donated to the junk pickers. It’ll soon be time to purge again. In the winter time, I…

  • This War Does Not Exist

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    https://websim.com/@certaincoin/this-war-does-not-exist These scenarios did not happen. They were made up by an LLM. The first set of scenarios were set up by me, in a single paragraph. The LLM wrote the stories. Japanese Civil War The Japanese Civil War (1951-1957) was a major internal conflict in Japan that emerged from the social, economic, and political…

  • Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest

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    (This was written in 2022.) A recent report came out about disinformation in the Asian media sphere, and it was weird to me. It mentioned Asians With Attitudes as one of the disinformation sources. r/aznidentity was also mentioned. These were under the umbrella of “MRAsians”. The MRAsians thing happened back around 2018, but got a…

  • Computer Programmers Labor Union

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    I had a page on here with that title, and it got a little traffic. This was back in the 2000s. Times have changed a bit, and there are now a lot of programmers with union contracts. Here’s a blast from the past, 2010: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/9481/are-there-any-unions-for-software-developers Here’s a brief outline of what I recall reading that…

  • Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie

    Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie

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    I’ve marked some of the links on this page with Trigger Warnings for Extreme Racism (TW:EXR) and Racism (TW:R). Reading these can be emotionally disturbing. Take breaks if you’re reading the links. This past month, I stumbled into a weird corner of the internet where people have fully internalized the racial hierarchy, and white supremacy’s…

  • ACP and MAGA Communism

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    Connects ACP, Haz, Duginism, LaRouche. Quite entertaining.

  • Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles

    Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles

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    I started this a month ago, intending to fill it up, but the actual labor of learning to spot ICE, and how to react, and rearranging society to contend with this war, has diverted me. So, first, a message to those of us privileged enough to be doomers, a post from Teka: https://www.facebook.com/brickbatrevue/posts/pfbid02z9MZL2Tr6mqhLJAUWrBATwJEn5dM9oKUtdZd6uaqJHFoetCu7aDJ4fidTSJTnXphl The post:…