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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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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
If you have hard water, your toilet bowl will develop ugly mineral scale deposits. When these are brown, they’re called “rust” stains, but it’s not rust. These three techniques to clean out the bowl are easy, and two of them are pretty safe. The last is dangerous, but fast. For all these methods, you need…
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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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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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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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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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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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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)
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LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
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The Western Gender Binary
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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The Mirror
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI