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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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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Civil Rights Unionism
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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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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LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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February Links