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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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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Beach Cities IMC
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Inventing Black and White
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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The Commodity Fetish
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Downshiftism
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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January 2018 Links
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Dodging
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images