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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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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson
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The Commodity Fetish
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Inventing Black and White
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Beach Cities IMC
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Facebook Memories
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The Return of Public Housing
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Height Discrimination
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Justice for the Roques
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AB715
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?