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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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Civil Rights Unionism
Jacobin has published a good article about the organizing of Local 22 at the Reynold’s tobacco company, and how the union had originated and combined the civil rights struggle for African Americans with the union, and with the participation by the Communist party organization. Civil Rights Unionism by Robert Korstad
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
Things are looking pretty rough for Antonio Villaraigosa. Here are the latest polls. These are from Real Clear Politics. I have to wonder, if the voters for Chiang and Eastin were to choose Villaraigosa as their second choice, and the polls used “ranked choice voting”, what would the numbers look like? Ranked choice voting allows …
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Downshiftism
This came across the LA Indymedia newswire. I’m interested in the reduction of consumption and production, but not so sure about the three postulates… but will consider them. Downshiftism – a philosophy established on the theoretical bases of the economic decrease. According to Jean-François Jaudon, this contemporary philosophy is defined by the three following postulates:…
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
Most narratives about HOLC/FHA redlining focus on the redlined areas. The narrative goes something like this: redlined communities were created, and Black people were forced to live there. While that’s generally accurate, it ignores all the other groups that suffered from the HOLC grading of communities. This post excerpts some of the Los Angeles County…
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Return of Public Housing
Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
Mr. Mayor: Thank you for finally doing something to help house the homeless people around the Plaza. It’s gone out of control, with rents rising, and whatnot. People don’t think it’s a big deal to live out of a tent or their car, anymore. That’s where we’re at, as a city and country, and I…
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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The Independent Progressive Party
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January 2018 Links
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Changing Emails is Hard
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The Commodity Fetish
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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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Directory Structure Checking Script
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Marxist Feminism
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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December 18, 2018 Update
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard