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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
This person may have been a relative. It’s hard to know. My father had a letter sent to some government agency looking for him. Recent internet searches turned up photos, and this document, which is a record of the 1940 census. He boarded at a house at 305 E. 2nd St. in Los Angeles. This…
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
I got blocked from posting reviews, so I decided to start a review blog. I just like writing reviews. The blog is called product8reviews. After writing a few articles, it dawned on me that I had some Amazon reviews that I could copy over. It turns out I had around 120 reviews, and over 100,000…
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
I got a notification that someone on Twitter liked a statement by a rival in a troll-flame war. So I reviewed my tweets from mid-July, 2020. As I write this, in mid-September, 2020, I feel like saying “told you so.”
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
This first paper is exciting, because it’s about people working on a fishing boat, and being exposed to COVID-19. No, they were not forced onto a boat and exposed to it. They are just testing people going onto these boats, and when they all test negative, they embark. If an unfortunate person was incubating the…
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Selected Posts from June 2020
Every few months, I delete my posts from Facebook. I know FB already got some value from my activities, and want to limit what I give them. So, each month I pick some posts to preserve on this blog.
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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
Sometime around July 8 to 11, this article made the rounds. It is an article that just won’t vanish, and as it’s passed around, the claims about it get more extreme. They completely misread the paper, which does not compare cloth masks to “no masks”. They compare medical masks and cloth masks to standard practice,…
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
I try to delete posts regularly, and archive some in posts to my own blogs. I know this is destroying the archival aspects of replies, and I guess that sucks, but… I feel like it must be done.
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Marxist Feminism
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Prompt Collection 3
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Explanation of Anti-Asian Racist Content
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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February Links
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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The Western Gender Binary
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism