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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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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Western Gender Binary
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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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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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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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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Prompt Collection 2
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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The Return of Public Housing
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Columbusing: Eastside
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February Links
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Beauty Calculator Results
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Protected: RIP Mark
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming