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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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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Beach Cities IMC
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Prompt Collection 2
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Prompt Collection 3
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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SpaceHey, Liker
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Letter to Congress about DeJoy
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Mid90s and Redlining
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Taking Over “Public School”
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The Western Gender Binary
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery