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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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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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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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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Taking Over “Public School”
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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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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Dodging
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence