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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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The Western Gender Binary
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Get in Touch
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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The End of Facebook
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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January 2018 Links
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?