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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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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
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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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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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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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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The End of Facebook
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Social Media
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM