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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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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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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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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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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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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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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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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Get in Touch
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Downshiftism
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Beach Cities IMC
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta