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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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Changing Emails is Hard
I’ve had my old address, johnk@riceball.com, for more than 20 years. I think. I don’t remember when I first established email for my own domain. I remember picking the domain out around 1998, when the first domain land rush happened. I probably set up the email on the Cyberjava servers. I don’t remember anymore. Later,…
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January 2018 Links
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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AB715
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Height Discrimination
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Justice for the Roques
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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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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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Prompt Collection
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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February Links
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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The Return of Public Housing
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Civil Comment about the Civil War