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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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Civil Rights Unionism
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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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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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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The Commodity Fetish
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Prompt Collection
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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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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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Inventing Black and White
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Some Yelp Reviews
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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About This Blog
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein