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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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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
This is shocking to me: Why Ditching Processed Foods Won’t Be Easy — Barriers To Cooking From Scratch The worst part is at the end. During the survey, one of the participants became homeless. Back when I was a child, the processed foods cost more, and the fresh foods cost less. That’s because we had a…
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
A work in progress – how to reupholster a chair seat for cheap or free, with scrap fabric and recycled stuffing. These pictures show some of the progress. This chair’s seat had torn, and the foam was coming out. I wanted to reupholster it, but for as little money as possible. I watched a few…
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
I stumbled across and ad for an old Japanese doll, and wanted to get an idea of what’s out there, so I went to eBay and found out. On there, I saw listings for “Ichimatsu” dolls, which I’d never heard of before. A little research turned up some info, but the most interesting story was…
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
Bernie got into a bit of controversy over his position, that prisoners should have the vote. He called it a fundamental aspect of democracy. It’s also the policy in two states, Vermont and Maine. Personally, I’m not 100% comfortable with having prisoners vote, but so many arguments come out about how prisoners lose their rights,…
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
I enjoy reading about alternative currencies (and laughing at them, for the most part) so Yang’s “Human Centered Capitalism” was an eye opener – a presidential candidate pushing an alternative digital currency for social good works. Well, here’s a rebuttal from the Wrench in the Gears blog, “Social capital” scrip? Fin-tech experiments with new forms…
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization with her had been trying to post a book written by her. The impression I got was that people don’t know what copyright is. This article tries to address this.…
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible. I don’t know how this works, but they probably have a pay-to-comment scheme. I guess I’ll need to either pay up, or move some articles out to this blog. Oh…
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
Bought at a local estate sale, this yearbook is a look into history, into the East Los Angeles community. East Los Angeles was an unincorporated area east of the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Many of the residents there came from Boyle Heights, which was a “melting pot” of different cultures. According to the…
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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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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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Inventing Black and White
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January 2018 Links
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Beach Cities IMC
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA