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John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois Book Club
This is a book club that reads “John Brown” by W.E.B. DuBois. Project Page: https://www.publicintellectuals.org/forum/topic/book-club-john-brown-by-web-dubois-starting-up/ The schedule and links to resources, including a copy of the book, are on that page.
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Reading Project Problems
I started a blog, softnews33, trying to read more full-length articles, and share the best, to try and break away from Facebook. It’s been hard, because I’m still hooked on Facebook. I also posted too much. The news flood coming in, turned into a “firehose” of news coming out. So, what I’ve done is get…
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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
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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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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About that shocking video of hundreds of homeless people in Orange County
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Reading Group Notes
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Chat GPT recommends some books, writes some stories
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Protected: RIP Mark
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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The Upstairs Apartment Got Flooded
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Application of Hegelian Dialectical Method to a Reading Group Discussion
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Justice for the Roques
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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February Links