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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 Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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The Western Gender Binary
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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January 2018 Links
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Columbusing: Eastside
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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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