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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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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Downshiftism
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Taking Over “Public School”
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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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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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Get in Touch
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Civil Rights Unionism
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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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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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models