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Inventing Black and White
Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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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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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Social Media
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1959
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Dodging
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The Western Gender Binary
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Computer Shopping
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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React Practice
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Libertarians on Immigration
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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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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Python Data Science Study
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Update for June 18, 2019
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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February Links
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Columbusing: Eastside