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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Propaganda of the Deed was an ideology promoted by Mikhail Bakunin, during the mid to late 19th century, when labor…
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
Generally, the law of supply and demand operates. Supply of something goes up, and there’s downward pressure on the price of it. However, ask any real estate agent about what determines value, and many will say “location, location, location”. Location obviously matters. Beverly Hills apartments will cost more than East LA apartments, because the location…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and Cryptpad.fr. This document describes how well it’s going. What’s migrating? Email Protonmail has built-in importers for Gmail and Outlook.com (the online email aka Hotmail, not the…
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Mass Narcolepsy
These images were generated using Meta Imagine, and the prompt “mass narcolepsy at” and the location. The theme is many people falling asleep at inopportune moments. Relax, America.
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
(Before digging into this, I’m not going to pretend I’m not an ignorant Orientalist. I have been for most of my life, and I’m listening and reading to overcome this racism. Just because I’m “an Oriental” doesn’t mean I am not Orientalist. -jk) Monterey Park Library Announces Kawaii Kitty Art Contest – Rafu Shimpo One…
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Dodging
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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The Mirror
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The Western Gender Binary
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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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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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Social Media
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)