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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.
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Government Takeover
The gang of young smart guys taking over, have been deleting their social media presence, because… I don’t know why. Why hide what you did last year? I think they’ve gone undercover to do nefarious things. Meanwhile, agency officials are bowing to Trump’s orders, even when they are told to do things that will undermine…
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Propaganda of the Deed was an ideology promoted by Mikhail Bakunin, during the mid to late 19th century, when labor…
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Why Kamala Lost
I have no clear idea, because I didn’t keep up on the campaign, but I am reading some long-winded arguments that don’t always hold water.
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
Generally, the law of supply and demand operates. Supply of something goes up, and there’s downward pressure on the price of it. However, ask any real estate agent about what determines value, and many will say “location, location, location”. Location obviously matters. Beverly Hills apartments will cost more than East LA apartments, because the location…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and Cryptpad.fr. This document describes how well it’s going. What’s migrating? Email Protonmail has built-in importers for Gmail and Outlook.com (the online email aka Hotmail, not the…
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Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous land.) Erasing History at the National…
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Mass Narcolepsy
These images were generated using Meta Imagine, and the prompt “mass narcolepsy at” and the location. The theme is many people falling asleep at inopportune moments. Relax, America.
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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The Mirror
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Prompt Collection 2
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Kare, Curry, anti-Imperialism, Colonization
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First COVID-19 Post
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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The End of Facebook
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Recent Mean and Hateful Comments on YouTube Anti-Gentrification March Video
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Beach Cities IMC
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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The New Cognitive Property
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Housing and Market Forces
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Computer Giveaway Market Numbers
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ChatGPT: Crying in H-Mart with Karl Marx on the Asian American Commodity Fetish
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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ChatGPT: The Ghost of Marx