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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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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Changing Emails is Hard
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Update for June 18, 2019
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Chili History
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Justice for the Roques
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Beach Cities IMC
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Computer Shopping
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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The End of Facebook
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Dodging
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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December 18, 2018 Update