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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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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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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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1959
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Lifehacks Here
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Downshiftism
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Workstyles and Productivity
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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The Commodity Fetish
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech