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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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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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About This Blog
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Update for April 29, 2019
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Marxist Feminism
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January 2018 Links
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images