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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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Downshiftism
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Facebook Memories
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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About This Blog
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Government Takeover
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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February Links
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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The Commodity Fetish
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Height Discrimination
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.