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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
I took my friend to county general hospital because she had covid-19 symptoms. It looked like covid-19, but they would not give a test. She already had an appointment to get tested at a center tomorrow. They’re rationing tests, saving them for more serious cases. What the fuck? Imagine if someone walked in and was…
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
Gin and Tonic is a great drink, and if you look into the history, you can see hints of the current fascination with hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug (and also a lupus drug). The gin was used to make the tonic, quinine, more palatable. It was invented by the British East India Company, one of the…
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
In the next “normal”, we’ll have fewer plastic and steel surfaces. That’s my prediction. Coronavirus can live a long time, upwards of five days, on these smooth surfaces, but loses viability over one or two days when it’s landed on a cardboard or copper surface. It’s been shown that wooden cutting boards can kill bacteria.…
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
This paper has influenced me during this COVID-19 pandemic. It breaks past the idea of looking at epidemic policy narrowly, through the lens of science and government, but with a broader view that includes “natural, social and economic factors.” Smallpox and the Epidemiological Heritage of Modern Japan: Towards a Total History https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3143877/ The TL;DR: in…
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First COVID-19 Post
I’ve been obsessed with it for over a month. I’ll be copying things from my Facebook feed here, and going back in time to find early posts. This document shows some plots of the daily numbers coming out of Los Angeles County. (Comment on Sept 2024: When I wrote this in 2020, in the early…
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I’m a Trollaholic
I sometimes get onto these threads with a few comments, and end up writing a screed. This was with this person, Ras Lyon, who I suppose is a rasta-capitalist. @Mr. Ras Lyon Here’s what you said: “Investors and owners don’t live off of the employees, they live off of the return on the investment they…
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
I wrote this for Quora: There’s two separate groups here. You can even say three groups. International students aren’t all good at college, but the ones from poorer countries are likely to be excellent. The reason is simple: nobody who sucks at school would go overseas to a far more expensive place to attend school.…
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
I was reading Quora and it showed me an awesome article about the history of money, or more correctly, the development of debt, and the ideology of private property, and how “barter” is an ideological myth promoted by capitalists. How did the concept of money actually emerge from the “barter system”? TL;DR: the original “money”…
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
A mega-thread on City Data about the issue. Some people are arguing that these policies weren’t racist. Let’s just say there’s some denial going on. http://www.city-data.com/forum/urban-planning/2123740-racist-housing-policy-made-your-neighborhood.html
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
Art Spiegelman in The Guardian: Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviours who could combat the Nazi threat. They speak to the dark politics of our times Source: Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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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
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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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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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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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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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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The Return of Public Housing
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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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)
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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AB715
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Height Discrimination
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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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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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin