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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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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
The Civilian Space Program and NASA were Fronts for the Nuclear Missile Program. The NSA is Spying On Us, Scanning Our Public Posts for Keywords. The Real Estate Agent is Telling You Not to Move to Some Neighborhood Because they Want to Keep the Area White. The Cops are in the KKK. Drug Laws about…
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
I tried to get a racist meme removed from Instagram, but they said it didn’t violate community standards. Here’s the meme: The poster agreed, it’s racist. It’s a racist meme that’s been tagged to help it get some views. Instagram didn’t seem to be able to figure this out.
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1959
Hello, neighbor to my dead family. A photo on a headstone, a teenage boy, his hair in a pompadour, collar rumpled, smiling, facing the sun, one of the neighborhood guys. Dead at age 18, in the 1950s, buried in the neighborhood. Tono, the only name on the grave. Japanese headstones stand at attention, waiting for…
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
This meme’s been bugging me a lot, on a couple different levels. There’s a technical annoyance, which I’ll get to later, but there’s also this lack of history. The election system is broken on purpose to disenfranchise some people more than others, and it’s always been a fight to get voting rights for Black people…
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
I was reading this clickbait post and decided to summarize, so I’d internalize the info a bit more. The format is: Job – reason why it’s in decline. Mortgage Brokers – replaced by online services. Bookkeeper – article calls it AI, but it’s really backend integration between busineseses and tax software. Lawyer – case research…
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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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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ChatGPT: The Ghost of Marx
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Prompt Collection 2
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Taking Over “Public School”
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Everyone Hates ICE
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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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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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The Western Gender Binary
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists