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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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Housing as an Investment in People
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Your own Twitter virtual troll army
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zilensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Computer Giveaway Market Numbers
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Corned Beef
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Letter to Congress about DeJoy
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Pasadena and Altadena: Justice Vigil for Chris Ballew Jan. 4, Comment Jan. 5
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Prompt Collection 2
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Changing Emails is Hard
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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The Flooded Apartment Saga
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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The Return of Public Housing
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Skyscraper Ad 1
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Dodging
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ChatGPT: Crying in H-Mart with Karl Marx on the Asian American Commodity Fetish
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Government Takeover
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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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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Recommending Feminism
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Beauty Calculator Results
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM