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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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Mid90s and Redlining
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Erasing Race and Gender at the Naval Academy; Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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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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First COVID-19 Post
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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ChatGPT: compare trotsky’s book on fascism with dimitrov’s book on fascism
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Prompt Collection 3
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM