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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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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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January 2018 Links
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Downshiftism
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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1959
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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February Links
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Columbusing: Eastside
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District