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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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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Justice for the Roques
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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The Western Gender Binary
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Chili History
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Social Media
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Dodging
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Marxist Feminism
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940