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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Beating the Oligarchy
Ideas for moving forward. This is my current thinking, and I reserve the right to change it, completely, as I learn more.
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Erasing Race and Gender at the Naval Academy; Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
Update – the US Naval Academy released a list of books they pulled from the shelves because of this Trumpist anti-DEI purge. Here is that list. This is what the Trumpists fear: the truth about our country, about racial divisions, and gender divisions, that were part of the law, and utterly inimical to both individualistic…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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Government Takeover
Marxist State Theory of DOGE by David Calnitsky Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data Wells Fargo Is Plotting to Privatize the Post Office Blast from the Past: 2021: USPS Takeover Back in 2021, I wrote this letter to Congress, criticizing DeJoy. He was never removed. Dear ____: We…
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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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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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Explanation of Anti-Asian Racist Content
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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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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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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About This Blog
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Prompt Collection 1
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”