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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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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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1959
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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January 2018 Links
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Columbusing: Eastside
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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January 5, 2019 Update
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
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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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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Machine Learning Notes
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Marxist Feminism
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War