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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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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
These are posts from March 2020. I remove posts from Facebook periodically. To preserve the old posts, I copy some of them to this blog.
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Computer Shopping
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Justice for the Roques
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Downshiftism
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Mass Narcolepsy
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Beach Cities IMC
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower