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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization with her had been trying to post a book written by her. The impression I got was that people don’t know what copyright is. This article tries to address this.…
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible. I don’t know how this works, but they probably have a pay-to-comment scheme. I guess I’ll need to either pay up, or move some articles out to this blog. Oh…
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
Bought at a local estate sale, this yearbook is a look into history, into the East Los Angeles community. East Los Angeles was an unincorporated area east of the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Many of the residents there came from Boyle Heights, which was a “melting pot” of different cultures. According to the…
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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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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Chili History
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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The End of Facebook
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF