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Brainwashing and Abuse
I’m watching this video. It’s interesting. The video is about Pavlov and coercive persuasion, in prisoner of war camps, and in cults. I wonder how much brainwashing happens to American people who somehow get associated with a wartime enemy. I’m thinking about the Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2, Muslim Americans and Arab Americans…
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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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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Plastic Tubing Leak Repair Lifehack
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Inventing Black and White
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Downshiftism
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Some Yelp Reviews
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM