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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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Mid90s and Redlining
I don’t know the story behind Mid90s, but the trailer and description hint at some urban geography and class issues related to the relationship between the middle class neighborhoods of Cheviot Hills and working class neighborhoods of Culver City. Whenever something like this comes up, I like to look at the HOLC maps that…
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California Proposition 1, 2018
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics Source: California Proposition 1, Housing Programs and Veterans’ Loans Bond (2018) – Ballotpedia I’m leaning Yes on this. There is one problem, which is that there is no anti-displacement language in this law. $150,000,000 would go toward implementing transit oriented development, which mainly means bigger apartments near train stations,…
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February Links
This took a couple hours, but it was worth it. Many links from February’s facebook. I’m doing this as a part of a project to delete my posts from Facebook. Many of the links get copied, some text is copied, and it’s all saved into a regular blog post.
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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First COVID-19 Post
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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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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Taking Over “Public School”
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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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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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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The Commodity Fetish
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism