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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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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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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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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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The Return of Public Housing
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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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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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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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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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Height Discrimination
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020