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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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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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The Western Gender Binary
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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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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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Computer Shopping
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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February Links
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump