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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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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Protected: RIP Mark
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Inventing Black and White
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Dodging
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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The Return of Public Housing
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Height Discrimination
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Marxist Feminism
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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January 2018 Links
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Pee Commerce
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Libertarians on Immigration
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First COVID-19 Post
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Chili History
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?