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Pee Commerce
This is based on a blog post from March 3, 2009. I got into a discussion about fertilizing with human manure, and defended the practice, mainly because my grandmother did it.
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January 2018 Links
I’ve been using a tool to delete most of my past history on Facebook, and it’s working well. The problem is that the links to interesting articles are lost. So, I’m going to archive some of the links I like before I delete them. http://www.rafu.com/2017/12/supporters-of-800-traction-artists-discuss-next-steps/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/suburban-poverty-and-recession/549350/ https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7o41rf/the_fcc_is_preparing_to_weaken_the_definition_of/ds6w3aw/ Text on the plaque about the Chinese Massacre…
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The Commodity Fetish
I’ve been thinking about an explanation of the Commodity Fetish, an idea Marx often used, on Wikipedia, and not finding it.
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Everyone Hates ICE
A part of ICE wants to leave ICE behind and get a new agency with a different three-letter-acroynm, because everyone hates ICE. People in Huntington Park called the cops on ICE. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-conflict-20180630-story.html
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
Trump has indicated that he will be signing an Executive Order today to stop separating families when they initially cross the border. While this is movement in the right direction, DO NOT BE FOOLED by what this Order does. Here are the facts thus far:
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Taking Over “Public School”
As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
I’m glad that Alice Johnson is out of prison. I don’t like the way the press are saying she’s a “first time nonviolent drug offender”. Please. She was operating up a the executive level. She wasn’t some lady selling small bags of coke to friends.
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
This article starts out about Dianne Feinstein, but gets into California economic demographics and history. Source: Why California Hasn’t Moved On From Dianne Feinstein
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
I didn’t know about this law, but I think Los Angeles folks should learn about it. It’s called Proposition Q, and it was passed in 2016. The law prohibits tents on public property.
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Ethnic and Unhoused
I’m not sure if people still believe this, but there used to be a bit of “common wisdom” or racial stereotyping that said there aren’t Asian or Latino homeless.
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The End of Facebook
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Height Discrimination
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Changing Emails is Hard
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Prompt Collection 2
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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The Commodity Fetish
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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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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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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First COVID-19 Post