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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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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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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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The Return of Public Housing
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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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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Chili History
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Columbusing: Eastside
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Directory Structure Checking Script
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020