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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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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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The Mirror
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Justice for the Roques
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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AB715
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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1959
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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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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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ