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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
Copied from The Print India: Citizens of Russia, friends, I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia. I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries,…
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
Safety Walks wrote an opinion piece about a recent killing, where an unhoused person with mental illness pushed a woman, Michell Go, in front of a subway train, killing her. He turned himself in. The news stories noted, repeatedly, that he was mentally ill. SW says: 61-year-old homeless attacker, Martial Simon is identified as a…
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
These are videos from April 2020. I’m writing this in January 2022. We’re still in this pandemic. That dude had diabetes and a load of snacks. That’s going to make his blood thicker, which impedes the ability of blood to deliver oxygen to the fingertips and toes. That’s why diabetics lose their toes. He thinks…
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Beach Cities IMC
I was in a South Bay group and got a message about a cop there who painted swastikas on cars, and it reminded me of “Beach Cities IMC”. This was a fake Indymedia site that posted a lot of right wing crap. (For that matter, the current IMC is being spammed by crap posts… so…
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
This mural no longer exists. I thought it was one of the best ones in Los Angeles, because it was so postmodern, but also specific to its location and time. I didn’t realize, until I did research, that it was created in 1993, a long time ago. It was created not long after the term…
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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The Mirror
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Chili History
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?