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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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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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Libertarians on Immigration
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Inventing Black and White
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Marxist Feminism
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WordPress Custom HTML Block Strips the LINK and SCRIPT Tags; Workaround with WP-Coder
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Prompt Collection
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Beach Cities IMC
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
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Everyone Hates ICE