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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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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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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Beauty Calculator Results
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I’m a Trollaholic
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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 Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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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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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Justice for the Roques
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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The Commodity Fetish
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Chili History
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists