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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.
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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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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Update for April 29, 2019
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Rabbit Hole – trans wmaf fetish fascism and str8 wmaf fetish fascism
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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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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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Machine Learning Notes
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Watching COVID-19: The OC